According to Reuters, the Asian suppliers to Apple are gearing up to begin production of a new and cheaper iPhone 4 smartphone. The new smartphone can reportedly be sold for less money because it will use 8GB of storage. That storage chip is supposedly being made by a Korean firm. While flash storage and Korea immediately brings Samsung to mind, neither Apple nor Samsung have commented.
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iOS Assistant based on Siri tech, able to access contacts, calendars, and email
Apple's newest mobile operating system by the name of iOS 5 just keeps getting better and better it seems, today being sort of confirmed to be working with Siri technology, Siri being a company Apple purchased last year. Also in play is the fact that Nuance, a company that powers the voice-recognition aspect of Siri's current iPhone app, has recently released a separate app very similar to the current Siri app - this launching the idea that Apple's iOS 5 "Assistant" could be working completely on Nuance technology. We already know the two companies to be working together on one project: OS X Lion uses Nuance speech technology.
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iPhone 5 orders peak as Apple reportedly preps for 20m-strong Q4
Apple has reportedly significantly increased its iPhone orders for the second half of 2011, with claims that the order book has swollen by up to 13-percent including contracts for the fifth-gen iPhone 5. Over 56m units – consisting of iPhone 5, iPhone 4 in GSM and CDMA flavors, and iPhone 3GS – have been ordered, DigiTimes reports, with supply chain insiders claiming an estimated 25.5m to 26m will be the fifth-gen device expected to go on sale later in the year.
Apple Patent Seeks to do Away with Fingerprints
Take a look at the Fingerprint Portal here on SlashGear and you'll see quite plainly that when we review devices, the subject comes up often, especially when it comes to displays. Apple knows this, and with their new FCC filed plans they appear to be seeking to do away with them. Apple here is using an oleophobic coating to keep fingerprints out of mobile world, a direct liquid application called Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) and should it work the way they're describing it AND should it make its way to the real world, we may soon have a tougher time judging who has held a phone based on prints alone.
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Android Leads Mobile Sales as Symbian Takes a Dip Worldwide
There’s been a rather sizable increase in mobile units moved compared to last year, a 16.5 percent increase to be more specific, this being one of the more impressive statistics released in a Gartner study arriving today. This 16.5 percent is tied to the second quarter of this year, 2011, as compared to the second quarter sales from one year ago, this year’s total adding up to 428.7 million units. The leader of this pack of smartphones is Android, a very different situation compared to last year at this time when Symbian was still the very clear forerunner.
Samsung escapes Dutch injunction: Accuses Apple of design generalization
Samsung may not have had the opportunity to fight Apple’s European preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 – only finding out that Apple had filed after the ban on sales was applied - but the company has come out fighting in the Netherlands hearing today. Samsung demanded that the Dutch courts throw out the case as it was simply too complex for summary proceedings, Webwereld reports, pointing out that plenty of electronic devices are flat, rectangular and have rounded corners and large screens, and that – based on Apple’s standards – every digital photo frame is in fact an iPad.
Apple’s Samsung dependency: iPhone 4 is full of foe
The paradox of Apple suing one of its biggest suppliers has been well commented on, with the Cupertino lawyers pulling no punches while engineers reportedly specify even more Samsung components on the production line. The Economist crunched the numbers and mapped them out to show just how much of a hand Samsung has in the iPhone 4, figuring that $45.68 of the component costs for a 16GB GSM unit go to the Korean firm.
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Harvard Smartphone Study Turns Up Bunk
A so-called usability study has been performed by Professor Dennis Gallatta at the Harvard Human Factors in Design lab comparing one device from each of the following categories: BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android, and iPhone. A video accompanies this test and finds results on 3 “tasks” that users who have supposedly never used the phones at hand before. Watch with us as they fumble through making a call, adding a contact, and sending a text. What we will show in the following text is that this is, and I quote a colleague of mine here and agree, an unscientific half-baked study by morons.
iPhone 4 Theft Charges Dropped for Gizmodos Jason Chen
Remember back a few months ago when the folks at Gizmodo had a large opportunity in purchasing an iPhone 4 weeks before it was released to the public? Turns out they did indeed get in some rather large potential trouble for said incident, but that as of today, San Mateo County prosecutors will no longer be pursuing criminal charges against tech blogger Jason Chen (or any other Gizmodo employees), though the same can't be said about the man who sold the device TO Chen. March 2010 was the time, the Internet was the place, and the San Mateo County court in California is no longer the venue.
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Apple Becomes World’s Largest Company Today
Today Apple has passed Exxon Mobile in market value to become the world’s largest company. It’s a historic day for computing as a whole as Apple has officially become the largest company in the world based on market value. Exxon Mobile was the previous holder of said top spot but was just passed today by Apple making this the first time Apple has held such a spot and making Apple the clear forerunner for most successful computing manufacturer in the world this very moment.
RadioShack Discounts iPhone Again By $30 With $150 Trade-Ins
A sure sign that the next-gen iPhone is approaching fast is retailers eagerly dropping prices on current-gen models. RadioShack, which has just had a week-long sale on the iPhone 4, has now further cut prices for all iPhone models currently in stock.
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iPhone 5 and “simplified iPhone 4″ tipped for October Chinese launch
Apple's iPhone 5 could go on sale with China Telecom by the end of October, with local reports of a "preliminary agreement" between the Cupertino company and the carrier for not one but two new handsets. According to analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities, AppleInsider reports, a deal is "imminent" to supply China Telecom with both the fifth-gen iPhone and a "simplified iPhone 4" that would target the more affordable end of the market.
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