Just moments ago, Grant Paul, (@chpwn) has tweeted a photo showing his jailbroken iPhone 5's screen with Cydia icon on it. The image is clearly taken from the new taller iPhone with 1136 x 640 resolution. Check it out! (Click image to enlarge) Here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/chpwn/status/249249128926806016 He further confirmed his successful iPhone 5 jailbreak to famous...
Earlier this week, folks over at AnandTech revealed that iPhone 5's A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design whose cores are purely Apple's own creation. While hesitating to predict more details about the S0C's specs earlier, the same source has now revealed that the A6 S0c has a 3-core GPU. First diffusion...
Today marks the official launch of the iPhone 5 in 9 different countries around the world and while some are busy carrying out drop tests and scratch tests with Apple's latest gadget, some have decided to troll the fine people of Amsterdam by gluing it to the pavement at a busy square in the city. Find...
Our own Kris Meador (@meadorsmusings) in Edmonton got his iPhone 5 nice and early. So of course the natural thing to do would be to film an unboxing video for those still on the fence. Check out his unlocked 64GB White iPhone 5 unboxing video below: Meador doesn't mess around when it comes to Apple....
Starbucks tweeted over an hour ago their update for Passbook support will be coming at the end of the month. Apple first showed off Starbucks as one of the partners for Passbook at WWDC this June, but we haven't seen it officially supported yet in iOS 6. https://twitter.com/Starbucks/statuses/249202870891728896 Developers are quickly updating their apps for...
With iPhone 5 going on sale around the globe today, Apple is looking to sell its newest hardware in quantities double than what the previous generation iPhone sold on its first weekend. Looking at the growing excitement of robust iPhone 5 buyers around the world, analyst Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank is predicting that Apple stock (AAPL) should soon be...
The iPhone 5 has officially launched in Canada today and around the world in the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Here in Canada the iPhone 5 is available from Rogers, Telus, Bell, Fido, Virgin Mobile and Koodo (with SaskTel and MTS soon to come), with prices starting at $179.95...
According to AppleInsider, analyst Gene Munster and the Piper Jaffray team scouted out Apple Store lines at three major U.S. locations this morning. The New York, Boston, and Minneapolis locations had an average of 83 percent longer lines than what the 4S had created. That has led Munster to believe that Apple will sell 8 million units; double the...
Apple's official iPhone 5 user guide is now available as a free download in .pdf format, as pointed out by folks at iDB. As the iPhone 5 went on sale today, Apple has published a comprehensive guide detailing every bit of its latest smartphone. So while you wait for yours to arrive, we suggest you...
While lines for the iPhone 5 formed around the world, a group of Japanese thieves couldn't wait any longer to grab a unit of their own. At around 3:00 AM in the morning in Osaka, burglars robbed two carrier stores, including Softbank and KDDI. When police arrived at the locations there was in-total 191 units stolen. The...
The iPhone 5's anodized aluminum edges may be slightly more prone to daily wear but the real test of time would be how well the device's chassis holds up against every day drops, in comparison to its biggest market competitor, the Samsung Galaxy S3. Looks like the folks over at Android Authority already have the answer...
When I first saw Apple's iPhone 5 demo video, no doubt I was extremely impressed with the kind of engineering techniques they have used to achieve those shiny edges on the new iPhone. However, the thing that instantly came to mind after watching that video was the scratch prone nature of the new anodized aluminum....
