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Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of worldwide marketing, cooled down the rumours of a cheaper iPhone in an official interview (verified by The Next Web) with the Shanghai Evening News, saying that a cheap iPhone will never be the future of Apple's products. (more…)

Hot on the heels of the WSJ reporting on Apple releasing a cheaper iPhone this year, Bloomberg is jumping into the mix with their sources claiming a price point of $99-$149 for a cheaper phone, according to sources: Apple, which had been working on a more affordable smartphone since at least February 2011, is weighing...

The Wall Street Journal reports Apple is working on a cheaper, lower end iPhone: Apple is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing and...

Tired of listening to Siri try to pronounce those difficult names, and failing miserably? While one may give her an "E" for "Effort", it may quickly become annoying. Here's a tip that some of you may not know. For each entry in the Contacts app, iOS allows you to enter fields called "Phonetic First Name"...

A spot of humour for today: In a video that went viral, a Thai elephant expressed its thoughts about the most sought-after gadget in the world, Apple's iPhone -- well, sort of. Since the elephant couldn't speak English, it used sign language. It swallowed a Chinese visitor's iPhone while she was immortalizing how her friend...

If Apple decides to definitely stop sending Samsung processor orders, the South Korean manufacturer isn't likely to be affected, a Digitimes Research estimation shows. Horace Dediu of Asymco was quick to take the numbers under his loop, only to find that the transition would end in 2014. (more…)

The wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, says Apple gadgets are forbidden fruit for her children. During a radio show she guest-edited today, Mrs. Gates was asked whether their children had asked for an iPod or iPhone. The answer is pretty obvious: of course. (more…)

The number of iOS and Android device activations spikes on Christmas Day compared to any other day of the year, and this year was no exception. How many mobile devices have been activated during this Christmas? Flurry's Peter Farago has the numbers. (more…)

When iOS users craved a really great Gmail experience on the iPhone, they received in the form of Sparrow, which Google eventually acquired. In terms of maximizing your Gmail experience on the iPhone, the latest Gmail iOS update was actually decent. But in the new year, a new app called Mailbox looks to change the...

Bloomberg News dropped a bombshell today on Twitter, saying a US court has found that Apple's iPhone infringes three MobileMedia patents related to automatic screen rotation. (more…)

Before you commit to that big iPhone upgrade, you may want to consider what happens when you're withered, old, and gray. Or so says Scott Hannah, the executive director of Credit Counselling Society, a Vancouver-based firm. He is asking Canadians the question: are we spending too much of our income on technology? Spending that is...

The stock price of the most valuable US company went down more than 6% on Wednesday, as more than 17 million shares changed hands. This pushed the company's trade volume beyond the average of 21 million shares recorded during the past 50 days, Reuters reports. (more…)