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Pics Reveal White iPhone 4 to Sell on April 27 in Europe?
More white iPhone 4 news coming your way (oh yeah!). According to pictures sent to Engadget, a 16GB white iPhone 4 has landed into the hands of a customer via Vodafone UK: As the story goes, the salesperson rang it up as a black iPhone to help facilitate the transaction, and shortly after the sale...
[Update] iPhone 5: Larger Screen, Home Button, Thinner Design?
Update 2: MacRumors has received a tip from a reliable source that says this story is not true (I think we all could've figured that out by now). Update 1: Here's a better mock up provided by Corey Daniels (@CDugD), with a more unibody look: Joshua Topolsky, the former editor from Engadget claims sources have provided...
OpenFeint Acquired By Japanese Gaming Firm GREE For $104 Million
OpenFeint, the iOS (and Android) social gaming platform, has announced that the company has been purchased by Japanese gaming firm GREE for $104 million. GREE, Japan's leading mobile social gaming platform, today announced its entrance into the global market with the acquisition of OpenFeint's outstanding securities for US $104 million, plus additional capital for accelerated...
[Update] Apple Cloud Music Service Set to Launch Ahead of Google
Update 1: According to ATD, Apple has already signed deals with two of the major record labels (unlike Amazon): And sources tell me that Apple has already procured deals from at least two of the big four labels (Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony and EMI) within the last two months. One source tells...
Apple Surpasses Nokia as World’s Largest Handset Maker By Revenue
With yesterday's Q2 2011 earnings call by Apple, another milestone has been reached by the surging California-based company. Apple is now the world's largest handset maker by revenue. Apple’s revenues from the iPhone: $11.9 billion for the quarter Nokia's revenues from all phones: $9.4 billion for the quarter Apple iPhones shipped: 18.6 million Nokia's handsets...
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Apple Providing High-Level Game Devs With A5-Based iPhone 4?
9To5Mac has an interesting report today which reveals that some high-level iOS game developers may be receiving iPhone 4 devices with an A5 chipset to test games. The devices reportedly look exactly like an iPhone 4 from the outside and have been provided to select developers to test their games on next-generation A5 hardware instead...
Verizon: The Next iPhone Will be a ‘Global Device’
During today's earnings call by Verizon, it was revealed by their CFO that the next generation iPhone will be a world-capable phone, as in working with both GSM and CDMA networks. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo: The fluctuation, I believe, will come when a new device from Apple is launched, whenever that may be, and that...
Gruber: iOS Location Storing is a Bug, Will Be Fixed in an Update
Yesterday news broke that our iPhones have been saving our location info secretly since iOS 4, unencrypted. A temporary fix is available via Cydia, but we're all still waiting to hear from Apple. John Gruber's sources tell him that this tracking is in fact a "bug" and will be fixed in an update: The big...
White iPhone 4 Placeholder Shows Up On Fido
We have received an internal screen shot of what appears to be a Fido iPhone 4 product page that features the white iPhone 4. With all of the white iPhone 4 rumors floating around, is Fido set to launch the mystical white device? The screenshot below reveals the Fido designations for the white iPhone 4...
Wordfeud Word Puzzle Now Available On iPhone
One of the most popular word puzzle games on the Android platform, Wordfeud, is now available for iOS devices. Wordfeud is a multiplayer word game, featuring push notifications, similar to the popular Words With Friends app. The word game matches up players to compete on a 15 by 15 tile board and gain points for...
[Update] Apple Q2 2011 Earnings: Over $24 Billion in Revenue
Update 1: Here are some more details from the conference call, via the WSJ: On iPhone sales: "We saw stunning iPhone sales," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer On how the disaster in Japan: "Apple employees have literally been working around the clock with our supplier partners in Japan and have been able to...