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According to Digitimes, Pegatron Technology has received an order for 15 million units of the iPhone 5 from Apple, slated to ship in September: Due to its cooperation with Apple for iPhone 4, Pegatron, in 2010, significantly expanded its plants, human power and equipment aiming satisfy the orders for 10 million CDMA iPhone 4s; however,...

Justin Luey and I are back to discuss the latest iOS news on Episode 42 of The iPhone Podcast. It's the Canada Day/Independence Day weekend episode! We're currently featured under "What's Hot" in the Gadgets category in iTunes: Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers You can follow and comment on all the news we...

Update 5: The auction has been taken down, as expected. But it looks like more have popped up on eBay, but this time in white. (via CoM) Update 4 (July 4, 12:12AM PST): Looks like the auction has been brought back down to $101,600, after some fake bidders got it to one million. Update 3:...

The saga continues with Apple and Samsung. The South Korean company filed a trade complaint recently to block iPhone imports based on allegations Apple infringed on their patents. The latest update is Samsung has decided to drop their countersuit, and filed a voluntary dismissal. This action is believed to enable Samsung to concentrate on the...

You might have heard about Nortel's (RIP, our dear old Canadian friend) patent portfolio being sold to the highest bidders, with approximately $4.5 billion spent by a consortium of companies that consisted of RIM, Ericsson, Microsoft, Sony, and Apple. According to Reuters, Google made strange bid amounts of 'pi' and lost. Robert Cringely notes the...

The iPhone 5 is rumoured for a September launch and we've seen iPhone 5 concepts before that were pretty awesome. Here's another concept that's totally different from the previous design. As noted by Gizmodo, it's from the imagination of French designer Antoine Brieux. Brieux's iPhone 5 concept is built upon a single magnesium alloy casing,...

According to a new DigiTimes report, Apple's upstream suppliers have been given orders to begin preparation for the production of next iPhone. The rumored and upcoming device is expected in September/October 2011. Taiwan-based companies included in the supply chain for iPhone 5 and iPad 3 have begun to prepare materials for the production of the...

  Happy Canada Day and Bonne Fête du Canada to all! All across the country, celebrators will be donning red and white to celebrate the anniversary of forming Canada - click here if you want more of this history lesson. Those who scored 0/20 and above on the 'How Canadian Are You, Eh?' app quiz...

Today is not a good day for RIM on the web. Earlier today, a senior RIM executive sent in a letter to BGR pleading for change and essentially outlining what the company has to do to stay competitive. It was a blunt, detailed and critical analysis of what RIM's top management has resisted and failed...

During the WWDC 2011 keynote, we heard Scott Forstall tell us 'the numbers' update. Here they are again, as a refresher: iOS by the Numbers - 44% of the mobile operating system market (Comscore numbers) - 200 million iOS devices sold (25m iPads in 14 months) - 15 billion songs sold in iTunes, #1 retailer of...

Yes, you read that title correctly - you can now charge your iPhone using the Hatsuden-Nabe Pan Charger over a campfire. We've talked about other charging and battery solutions but never a boiling pot of water. [I think it's more of a pot rather than pan, but the website calls it a pan.] A company...

What's a name really all about? I've noticed, you probably have too, that there is some hype over the name of what the newest generation of the iPhone is going to be. Some suggestions that have cropped up are the iPhone 4G, iPhone lite, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 (obviously). Why do we care so much? Reason one:...