Daily App (s): Apps for Steve Jobs
His demise knocked us off our Daily App routine for a while. Now we are back and it is only fair that we start off by looking at two apps about Steve Jobs. Of course, there are on the iPhone.
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Can We Talk Value for Money in the Premium Segment, Please?
Earlier this week, there was a heated debate amongst techies in India about a recent report by Bloomberg about the state of the iPhone 4 here in India. At the end of it, the talk veered to the niche “30k”…
iPhone 4S – Whats New?
After months of speculations, rumors and delay from its usual refresh cycle, Apple has went official with the 5th generation iPhone. The iPhone 4S is reality, and that is the only new iPhone Apple released. With the 4S, Apple has…
Quick Compare: iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4
Apple has retained the same design and retina display on the new iPhone, it is called the 4S. However, it seems that a lot has changed on the inside. Compared to the iPhone 4, the 4S has an all new…
No 4G Support on the New iPhone: Rumor
With just hours left for the next generation iPhone to be released, looks like we have the final set of rumors arriving before everything gets confirmed. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the new iPhone will NOT support 4g…
Six myths about the iPhone in India…busted!
It may be called the Godphone, but for many in India, it is an overpriced devil in disguise. But is it really? We take a look at six myths about the iPhone in India. And how they stack up against…
iPhone Sales Plateau in India; Has only 2% Smartphones Market Share
India sure is an unconventional market. While the rest of the world were reeling under depression back in 2008, this country still managed to showcase decent GDP growth rate figures. While India sure was a closed economy, until the 1990’s…
Daily App: Chomp for the iPhone
Searching for apps on the iTunes App Store just got a whole lot more fun, thanks to a totally revamped Chomp. We take a look at one of the iPhone’s most popular app search apps.
Wacky Sunday: Five Things We Will NOT See in iPhone 5
While everybody and their grandmothers are speculating about what the iPhone 5 will be like, we decided to check out what it is likely NOT to have.
iPhone 5 Announcement On October 4, Availability in Weeks?
Earlier, iPhone 5 was rumored to be launched in September, afterwards end of September, and now the date has shifted to October. According to AllThingsD sources who have previously claimed of an October launch told them that Apple is all…
iPhone 5 to Sport Larger 4 inch Display, Curvy iPad – like Rear?
There have been many iPhone 5 related rumors going around since the past few days. Some have said about the phone getting slimmer while others have hinted about the device getting a larger 4 inch display in lieu of the…
Hack: Get The Facebook App on iPad Now (Updated)
As we reported earlier about an Official Facebook application for iPad to be released soon, we have a hack for you to try it prior to availability in the App Store. According to Techcrunch, Facebook application for iPad is hidden…
App Store Clocking 12 Billion App Downloads A Year?
It’s been three years since Apple launched the App Store program for developers to sell their apps for iOS devices, and it was a runaway hit. At each Apple event, we sort of expect Steve Jobs to come out and…
iOS 5 Widgets Development: The Possibilities
Many of us felt disappointed when there were no widgets for iOS 5 announcements at WWDC. With the release of notification center in iOS 5, the possibilities of the widgets started emerging. Apple could have forgetten to point out the widgets…
iPhone 5 Launch Rumors : What We Know Till Now
After the entirely software oriented WWDC 2011, it’s high time that Apple shifts its focus towards the hardware. There is no doubt that iOS 5 had some of the most sought after features that an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad user…
Apple Gives US Unlocked iPhone 4, Why?
Apple today started to sell unlocked iPhone 4 in United States, thus ending a 4 year long stretch of locked phones in its biggest market. Apple announced the iOS 5 and iCloud at WWDC earlier this month, but didn’t announce…
Apple’s Lion / iCloud / iOS 5: Our Top Picks
Apple announced plenty yesterday with the upcoming iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud yesterday. Given the fact that it was a pure software event, no new hardware was announced, but a major release of Mac OS, iOS and…
Apple’s BBM Killer: iMessage
Amongst the ton of updates that Apple announced yesterday, one interesting communications update on iOS5 was iMessage. The closest we can relate an iMessage to is the Blackberry Messenger. BBM as it is popularly known, RIM has a ton of…
Airtel Launches Apple iPhone 4 in India Starting Today!
So finally the launch of Apple’s iPhone 4 has dawned upon India. Airtel has launched the iPhone 4 at the same price point as Aircel at Rs. 34,500 for 16GB and Rs. 40,900 for 32 GB models. Both the black…
Aircel To Launch iPhone 4 In India On 27th May
Speculations were rife about the launching date, after Aircel and Airtel confirmed the launch of iPhone4 in India. But as it turns out our prediction about the launch date being 27th May has come true though the prices are not…
White iPhone 4 To Hit The US Stores Tomorrow, India is Not On the List
It’s now official. Apple has announced that the hurdles in manufacturing the white iPhone 4 have been resolved. The white iPhone 4 will be available in Apple Stores starting from tomorrow. In addition to US, the white iPhone 4 would…
iOS 4.3 Reveals Details About iPhone 5
Now that iOS 4.3 is here the usual suspects are scourging the deep insides of the OS code to look for clues that may reveal features arriving on future Apple products – especially the iPhone 5. The latest find is…
Why I am fed up of Angry Birds!
As news comes of yet another update to Angry Birds (we hear that one is coming on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day), I am reminded of the deep disappointment I felt when I missed the first ever Angry Birds day…
Apple Working On Smaller, Cheaper iPhone Versions?
If we are to believe a Bloomberg report that surfaced a few hours ago, Apple is working on new versions of the iPhone. Of course you knew that all along, right? But no, the iPhone in question here is not…
Nokia, RIM lose ground as Samsung, HTC advance: IDC Q4 2010 report
In what seems to be yet another sign of the old order changing and giving way to new players in the mobile phone market, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker’s round-up of the fourth quarter of 2010, has shown Nokia…
The weather looks just fine…on Google on Android, iPhone
It might be sunny, cloudy, pitch dark at midnight, but the weather will always be just brilliant as long as you are checking it on Google on an Android device or an iPhone. Now, when you want to know the…
Toshiba pokes fun at iPad on its tablet site!
The tablet wars are well and truly on and the latest verbal salvo in these (after the mauling handed out to Android by Tim Cook) has been fired by the folks at Toshiba. Just head over to the new…
Review: Bubble Ball (iOS)
The past couple of days have seen the media buzzing about Bubble Ball, the game made by fourteen-year-old Robert Nay that has knocked Angry Birds Seasons off the top of the free apps charts of the App Store. We decided…
OneNote arrives in App Store, will MS Office follow?
Microsoft has released a version of its note-making application, OneNote, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The app which is part of the MS Office suite on computers and is being used by over 80 million people in the…
Devil May Cry coming to iPhone, iPod touch
The Sony PSP brigade and Nintendo DS fan club might disagree, but the iPhone and iPod touch are rapidly turning into full-fledged mobile gaming platforms, thanks to the rash of games available on the iTunes App Store. And the latest…
What Is The Verizon iPhone Up Against?
The Verizon iPhone 4 is out, and Apple has finally gone CDMA. Ideally it would have been expected from Apple to lean towards a future technology like LTE, but as Tim said on stage ‘Verizon wanted the iPhone NOW’. So…
Will The CDMA iPhone Come To India?
Now that the much speculated, discussed and deliberated upon CDMA iPhone has landed on Verizon we were wondering about the possibility of the device arriving in India sometime soon. In the not too distant past there were reports about the…
Verizon’s CDMA iPhone Announced: Arrives February 10
After months – sorry years of speculation, what was once thought to be unthinkable has happened. Verizon has just confirmed what was almost confirmed since the past week or so. The CDMA iPhone exists, and it’s coming to Verizon in…
Official Ashes mobile game released even as England win!
It definitely is a day for mobile cricket games, given the fact that we discovered that Stick Cricket had made its way to the App Store earlier today. In terms of timing, though, this would match the half-hearted slash by an Aussie tailender. With the…
Stick Cricket comes to the iPhone, and it’s free!
The prayers of millions of iPhone cricket gamers seem to have been finally heard. One of the most popular cricket games on the Internet and on cellphones, Stick Cricket (also marketed on some handsets as Ian Botham Stick Cricket) has…
The Logo Antenna – Apple’s New Antenna Design
The Apple iPhone 4’s antenna problems are now legendary and proved to be one of the major flaws of the iPhone 4. Well, here’s good news for Apple fans. While woeful fans were figuring out how else they could hold…
Hallelujah! Gameloft too cuts iPad/iPhone game prices for Christmas
Gamers on the iPhone and iPad can seldom have had a better Christmas. After EA reduced the price of several of its titles for the two platforms to 99 cents to celebrate Christmas, its great rival Gameloft has followed suit, albeit on a smaller level. The company has slashed the…
App Store gets its first 1GB game – Riven!
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time, Riven: The Sequel to Myst, is now available for download for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. The game had won widespread acclaim when it was released in 1997, a…
Fring For Android and iPhone Updated With Dynamic Video Quality Feature
Fring, the popular VoIP and IM Service provider has announced the launch of a new technology for the iPhone and Android versions of its app. Called Dynamic Video Quality (DVQ), this technology would help the app “adjust” itself according to the quality of data connectivity that both the users at either end…
Final Fantasy creators to come out with a cricket game for iPhone!
Yes, you read that heading right. Square Enix, the company that is best known for its legendary Final Fantasy RPG series for the PlayStation console, is now attempting to do what no one has done so far – come up…
