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As if the iPhone 5 pre-orders from Apple haven't gained enough attention in the past 15 hours or so, Apple has now chimed in with their thoughts to AllThingsD: “Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible,” Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris told AllThingsD. “We’ve been completely blown away by the customer response.” Yesterday's midnight (PDT) rush for...

The iPhone 5 supports HD Voice, which essentially makes your voice calls sound clearer than before. Here's how it is described by Bell, as they introduced HD Voice in January on their network and Virgin Mobile too: On an HD Voice call, you can expect: Richer sound quality – words are clearer and easier to...

Canadian Competition Bureau has concluded its 5 month investigation today regarding misleading advertisements from carriers who claim to be offering “premium texting services” and has announced that is suing Rogers, Telus and Bell, along with the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association over it for $31 million (via Mobile Syrup). The Competition Bureau is suing the three carriers...

If you've seen the iPhone 5 intro video on Apple's website, you must have got a pretty good idea about the engineering and materials used to achieve the product's extraordinary build. While a research firm has already estimated iPhone 5's manufacturing cost to be higher than any of its past iterations, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster...

Apple's newly released iPhone 5 is estimated to cost the Cupertino company more than any of its predecessors, reports CNET. According to an estimate from research firm UBM TechInsights, Apple could be spending $167.50 to make each entry-level 16GB iPhone 5, which the company is offering at $199 on a two year contract. The research firm has broken down...

The iPhone continues to dominate in Canada, although it's still a tight race when it comes to iOS vs Android. According to June 2012 comScore stats revealed at Canadian Wireless Trade Show (via MobileSyrup), the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S take the top two spots as the top devices from Rogers, Bell and Telus--look at...

If you managed to place your iPhone 5 pre-order from Apple during the first wave, you order will have a shipping estimate that notes: “Delivers 9/21 - 9/25”. Orders placed outside the first hour quickly moved to a delayed 'ships in two weeks' window. Once again, following the estimated delivery map they also used for...

Fido kicked off their iPhone 5 pre-orders this morning, but their customers were in for a bit of a surprise. Only 16GB models were available, much to the disappointment of their customers (screenshot via @i0livier): According to this Fido forums thread, customer service agents explain their "reasoning" for the shortfall of model availability: "Apple is...

UPDATE 1: Looks like existing Bell customer are unable to pre-order the iPhone 5 through their website at this moment. We've received word from a Bell customer via twitter that only new customers can order the iPhone 5 online, while existing Bell customers need to call their helpline or visit in-store to pre-order an iPhone...

What happens when you put Apple and Samsung’s newest smartphones side-by-side? We will find that out today as I thoroughly compare the specs of each phone. The Samsung Galaxy S3 hit the Northern-American market on July 11th of 2012. Its predecessor was Samsung's flagship phone, so the S3 sure had some huge shoes to fill....

I'm absolutely loving these comedy sketches and iPhone pranks lately. We showed you a video yesterday of Jimmy Kimmel fooling many city-walkers into believing the iPhone 4S was the iPhone 5. Now competing talk show 'Conan' has a funny sketch they previewed on their Youtube channel. Watch the video below, we don't want to ruin the surprise: The talk-show even...

With official word that the iPhone 5 has upgraded to a 4-inch display Wednesday, application developers are scrambling to prepare a larger version of their application by the iPhone launch next Friday. One application that jumped the gun is Flipboard; CEO Mike McCue stated at the event to Mashable that they would have a 4-inch version...