Select Walmart stores are offering a major discount on the iPhone 4S, perhaps just in time for a nice Mother's Day present. Earlier this morning, Cult of Mac reported that a Walmart location in Edmond, Oklahoma had listed the 16GB iPhone 4S for only $114. The Verge then found that another Walmart location in Austin, Texas was also offering the same deal.
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Galaxy S III S-Voice vs iPhone’s Siri Hands-on
Now that Samsung has brought the fight to the mobile world with the Galaxy S III, it’s time to focus on its voice-response abilities in S-Voice up against Apple’s Siri. This is a battle that shall be waged right out of the gate, with Samsung’s S-Voice capabilities starting out with a bang with the ability to open applications with Apple’s Siri is already a tried-and-true cool feature to be sure. Is this going to be your deciding feature when choosing the iPhone or the Galaxy S III this summer?
Echoer goes global: Mobile social hands-on
A brand new social network has just been launched in app form, based entirely in the mobile world, and we’ve gone hands-on right here in the Twin Cities and New York to show you how it’ll change your life. This app environment is called Echoer, and it’s tagline “thoughts that count” is the basis for its real-time thought and “echo” engine that’ll have you exploring your world in a relatively brand new way right out of the box. This app has been in Beta in Canada for a couple of months already, now it’s ready for prime time the world over.
Apple Q2 earnings top entire history
This week Apple has reported that they’ve topped every quarter in their entire history with a record amount of revenue of $46.33 billion, and quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion. This quarter includes everything from the iPad 2 to the iPhone 4S and shows that Apple’s mobile sectors are more than successful with their computer sales staying strong – with 128 percent unit growth for smartphones from a year ago in smartphones and tablets and a 26 percent upward trend since last year in desktop computing.
iPhone dominates AT&T Q1 2012
AT&T sold 5.5m smartphones at the start of the year and saw data revenues surge almost a fifth year-on-year, the carrier revealed in its Q1 2012 financial results today, with revenues and income both up. The company saw $31.8 billion in consolidated revenues, up $575 million from last year, and with wireless revenues up 5.4-percent year-on-year to $16.1bn; wireless data revenues contributed $6.1bn of that, climbing a full billion from Q1 2011. Meanwhile 4.3m iPhones were activated in the quarter.
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iPhone 5 set to bounce
Back in 2010, Apple attained the IP rights to a technology which it may very well be using in a unibody design for its next generation iPhone 5. This new smartphone, code-named iPhone 5 for now due to legacy naming conventions and the fact that no Apple product is really real until they themselves announce it, has been tipped by several sources this week as having parts made with Liquidmetal technology. What could this mean for the iPhone 5 and its ability to take on the rest of the high-end smartphone world this year?
Verizon: We sold more iPhones in Q1 than all LTE phones
Verizon has spilled the beans on iPhone sales, announcing during the carrier's Q1 2012 financial results call that it has sold 3.2m of Apple's smartphones. The news means a dip in iPhone sales from Q4 2011, where Verizon announced it had sold 4.2m of the handsets, though a rise year-on-year. Back in Q1 2011, the carrier sold 2.2m of the CDMA iPhone 4. In fact, Apple sales continue to overshadow 4G LTE adoption.
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Apple airing new Siri commercials with various celebrities
Apple has begun airing new commercials in the United States prompting the iPhone 4S and Siri using actors Samuel L Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. Both commercials show the actors using Siri to manage their daily lives, including creating appointments, searching for restaurants, and pulling down conversions from Wolfram Alpha. Carrier logos from Verizon and AT&T are also attached at the end.
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Element Case Vapor Dock for iPhone Review
There’s no lack of iPhone docks in the world, but not all of them are as fabulously high quality as the Element Case Vapor Dock. This dock is made of heavy metal – CNC Machined aluminum, in fact, with precision drilled holes and a weight that’ll keep you grounded. The bulk of this device contains no technology at all, relying instead on a standard Apple iPhone/iPod cord to power your device up – that said, is it worth the cash?
Stride adds pattern unlock to iPhone
iPhone owners bored of punching in a PIN and looking enviously across at Android's pattern unlock system finally have an alternative, thanks to a newly released tweak for the iOS smartphone. Adam Bell's new app Stride adds pattern unlock to jailbroken iPhones, going several stages further than Android's simple join-the-dots system and allowing users to train their handset to recognize pretty much any gesture.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: April 6, 2012
Happy Friday, everyone. Before you start preparing for the holiday weekend, coloring eggs, and all that, let's check in on what made news today. For starters, PlayStation Orbis processing specs leak. Of course, the Orbis (or PS4) is still a ways away, kind of like Google's augmented reality glasses. Yeah, Google Project Glass is still years away. Here's a Google thing that isn't off in the horizon, though - Google's Floor Plan Marker app to crowdsource indoor mapping.
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HTC One S vs iPhone 4S Hands-on Part 1
This week we’ve had ample time to show you everything there is to know about the Android-based HTC One series in the HTC One X and the unit we’re looking at today vs the iPhone 4S: the HTC One S. The HTC One S is much more comparable to the iPhone 4S than the X is because of several simple factors: the screen size at 4.3-inches is much closer to the iPhone 4S’s 3.5-inches than the X’s massive 4.7-inches, the S has a dual-core processor like the Apple-made iPhone 4S rather than the X’s quad-core, and their overall chassis size is much more similar to one another than the X. That said, let’s have a peek at how these two kings of their own mobile OS’s fair against one another.
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