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Rogers debuted an exclusive service for its customers back in February called Rogers One Number, that allows users to make free calls, exchange pictures and text messages with other Rogers One Number users, all from a computer using their existing phone numbers. Today, Rogers has announced that the service is now compatible with any regular home phone as well as the...

Apple told us the 4-inch Retina display on the iPhone 5 has better colour saturation and contrast, but is it really true? Retinal neuroscientist Bryan Jones compares the iPhone 5 display with that of the iPhone 4 with a stereomicroscope on his blog. He place both screens on max brightness and then snapped pictures with...

iPhone 5's fast growing market demand is reportedly putting tremendous production pressure on Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), according to DigiTimes. The iPhone manufacturer is reported to be facing severe shortage in the labor area as it tries to keep up with the strong demand of iPhone 5, according to market watchers. The source claims...

Just days prior to the September 21st release date, we posted a virtual teardown of the iPhone 5. It revealed that each unit cost Apple $199 in components and an additional $8 for the labor. Whether those ballpark figures were correct, we will find out in this post. The Wall Street Journal found that component expenses...

Samsung's president of consumer electronics division Yoon Boo-keun was quoted a few weeks ago by Korean Times saying that we will innovate and "raise the quality of our products and services by pressing further for software, design and solutions", something that company has apparently learned following the great loss in patent dispute with Apple. Ironically, Samsung has just begun developing...

We have previously seen diffusion images of Apple's new dual core A6 processor, but now iFixit and Chipworks have teamed up to perform a much more thorough tear down of the new Apple-designed chip using an ion blaster, a process comparable to "sandblasting a chip to remove specific layers. Instead of sand, though, Ibe uses...

Apple consumers are mainly happy with the iPhone 5; from the taller display to even the faster hardware. But one of the largest complaints about the device is the two-toned anodized aluminium finish added to the back-plate. People are receiving the iPhone 5 and scratching the aluminium in their pocket, on the table, etc. Various...

It appears some TELUS customers may be receiving 32GB iPhone 5 units instead of 16GB models due to shortages, according to a note received by MobileSyrup: “Thanks for pre-ordering the iPhone 5 (16GB) with TELUS. This device has been so popular that there’s a very limited quantity across Canada and internationally. To help manage our...

Another week has flown by and Starbucks continues their 'Pick Of The Week' promotion, and this time around we have a song. The song choice is 'Live and Die' by The Avett Brothers. This is off their new album called 'The Carpenter,' released on September 11th, 2012. The album contains a mix of rock, folk,...

When the iPhone 5 was released, Steve Wozniak was waiting in-line as he typically does. The Apple co-founder probably could just walk into the Cupertino base and grab a device early, but he enjoys the experience, as he has said in the past. With the iPhone 5 also came his first impressions of the new...

Apple had released a press release yesterday morning stating that five million iPhone 5s had sold over the weekend.  Many people expected more out of the Cupertino giant, including myself, but they just broke another record, you can't ask for too much out of them. Then later on surfaced a report where analyst Gene Munster...

We speculated last week that a Google Maps application was in the books and waiting for Apple's verification. Well, that rumour was more than wrong as Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has revealed his thoughts on the iOS 6 Maps transition. Schmidt at the press conference via Reuters: "We think it would have been better if they had kept ours....