8/27/2012

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T-Mobile to start offering 4G micro SIM kits for unlocked iPhones

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:44 PM PDT

Last week, T-Mobile announced that it was going to begin offering truly unlimited data plans on September 5th. It says the plans will work in conjunction with 4G data speeds, and promises that users will never be throttled.

Well, good news today for current or potential iPhone customers on the network. According to a new report, the carrier is about to start offering 4G micro SIM kits, compatible with its unlimited plans, for unlocked iPhone users…(...)
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These are the 8 Samsung devices Apple wants to ban in the US

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Last week, a jury found several of Samsung’s devices to be guilty of infringement on Apple’s patents. The damages awarded thus far total around $1 billion dollars, but Apple is seeking much more than that.

The Cupertino company has filed a notice with the court today identifying which of Samsung’s infringing products that it would like banned from US sales, including several Galaxy S and SII models…(...)
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NASA builds Android-based satellite

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:50 AM PDT

If Google wants to find somewhere not dominated by Apple’s iPhone, they’ll have to leave planet Earth — which is exactly what’s being planned. NASA will launch the Android-powered Nexus One smartphone this fall as the brains of a tiny nano-satellite.

The Android phone will be at the heart of PhoneSat, a 4-inch cube space agency engineers are building using off-the-shelf parts with a $3,500 budget. Turns out, the Android phone has all of the basic features to power what NASA hopes will be an orbiting ring of tiny satellites. Along with the Android operating system, the Nexus One has a fast processor, communications gear and a nifty camera with which to snap photos of Earth from space.(...)
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AT&T denies rumors of employee vacation blackout

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:28 AM PDT

Over the weekend, it was reported that AT&T employees were seeing a blackout on vacation dates in late September, likely due to the new iPhone launch. Apple is widely expected to roll out the handset on September 21.

The information seemed spot-on, considering the timeframe matched up with both Verizon blackout dates and previous reports. But it looks like, for whatever reason, AT&T is denying the employee blackout rumors…(...)
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China is fastest-growing iOS and Android market

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:49 AM PDT

China has the big mo when it comes to smartphones. Although the US still leads with 165 million active iOS and Android devices, China is the fastest-growing market, according to analytics firm Flurry. Demand for smart devices in China grew 400 percent between July 2012 and the same period last year.

The nation far outpaced other countries, with Chile in second place at 279 percent year-over-year smart device growth. Brazil ranked next with 220 percent as Russia registered 179 percent growth and India’s smart device growth rose by 171 percent.(...)
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Claimed iPhone 5 parts reveal possible NFC chip

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:23 AM PDT

Surprise, surprise, another purported iPhone 5 component was leaked over the weekend. Late last night, an assembled front panel with Home button and FaceTime camera surfaced on the web.

But unlike the claimed parts we’ve been seeing as of late, this one might actually give us some worth-while insight. It houses an unknown square sensor, which some folks believe to be an NFC chip…(...)
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Samsung hopes ‘strict firewall’ keeps Apple a customer

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:09 AM PDT

In one of the most bizarre moments following its loss to Apple, Samsung executives met this weekend to discuss ways to keep its largest customer: Apple. At the heart of their strategy, the South Korean firm reportedly will rely on a “strict internal firewall” keeping separate its handset and chip units.

The Sunday meeting included Samsung’s vice chair Coi Gee-sung and mobile chief JK Shin, Reuters reported. Left out of the discussion was Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyon, who oversees the component side of the company…(...)
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Question of the week: Was the Samsung vs Apple verdict fair?

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:39 AM PDT

Guilty. That was the verdict handed down by the court in the recent Apple vs Samsung legal battle. Samsung was accused of unabashedly copying Apple’s design over the years, and the jurors agreed.

Samsung now has to pay over one billion dollars in damages to Apple, along with the threat that some of their products may be banned.

Obviously, this is music to the ears of many Apple fans, but the question stands to be asked — was it fair? What do you think?(...)
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Status Bar Switcher forces the status bar to stay in place

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:16 AM PDT

Just a bit ago, I reviewed App Switcher Status Bar — a jailbreak tweak that places the iPhone’s status bar inside of the app switcher.

The purpose of that tweak is to make the status bar available while the app switcher is open, since it normally disappears when doing so.

App Switcher Status Bar is an interesting take on the solution, but it stands to be asked: Why not just make the status bar stay in its normal place when opening the app switcher? And that’s likely how Status Bar Switcher was born…(...)
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Samsung posts memo to employees, vows to keep fighting Apple

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:41 AM PDT

And the fallout from last week’s Apple vs. Samsung verdict continues. Apple’s stock opened this morning at an all-time high of $680 per share, with a market cap of $637 billion, and Samsung is down more than 7%.

But the Korean smartphone-maker says it isn’t worried. After releasing a public statement over the weekend, Samsung posted a memo to its employees online vowing to continue to fight Apple’s charges…(...)
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