First, I think I should start off this article with a disclaimer. Despite what you may think, since I do write for an Apple-centric website, and I do own an iPhone 5, I would not consider myself an Apple fanboy (although some on Twitter would disagree with this statement). In fact, prior to my iPhone 5, I was an Android user for a few years. However, I...
We're getting to that time once again, where we will listen in on Apple's quarterly earnings call, listen to stats about sales and performance, and hear the cries from investors that "Apple is doomed!" Yes, Apple has announced that their earnings call for the second quarter of 2014 will be held on Wednesday, April 23rd. While the call itself is...
When it was announced late last year that Apple would be partnering with China Mobile to sell the iPhone, it was great news for both companies, as China Mobile would be getting one of the most popular smartphones ever, and Apple would get a chance to sell its device on the largest carrier in the world. However, one issue encountered was that China Mobile's...
Being lumbered with multiple passwords and then forgetting them is common for the 21st century human being, though it can be easily fixed with the 1Password mobile app. In terms of a features breakdown, the app provides you with the ability to set, store, manage, and fill unique passwords for every visited website and service. It'll even work with...
Siri is far from useless. It's very useful. I can use it to open any app, call anyone on my contacts list, navigate to a location, book a table, check stats, do some quick sums and much much more. But it's hardly vital. In fact, if it wasn't there, I don't think I'd notice and that mostly to do with the way it's been implemented. If Apple wants us to...
Just last week, Microsoft launched its Office suite of apps for iPad. It’s almost four years to the day since the original iPad hit shelves and the Redmond, WA, company has finally gotten around to putting out versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the Apple tablet. Previously, Microsoft had ignored the iPad, despite millions of sales in the...
We've not had a shortage of iPhone 6 leaks this past week. We saw a collection of sketchy schematics showing a brand new design with rounded edges, and a much thinner chassis. Today's images seem to go along with those sketches, but this time, they claim to show an actual rear shell being worked on at a Foxconn plant. Photos were originally posted on...
For the second year running, HTC has opted out of the megapixel race, choosing instead to keep just 4 million pixels in its "UltraPixel" sensor. Reason: To let in more light. Apple opted for a similar set up with the 8MP snapper built in to its iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s. It's double the number of pixels, but it's widely touted as being one of the best cameras...
Last year, one jailbreak tweak got more attention than all the others: Auxo. It started off as a conceptual idea, showing the ideal method of multitasking in iOS. It was so far above iOS 6's method, we thought we'd never see it in real-life. And then it became a tweak. And - for the first time - I jailbroke my iPhone and kept it jailbroken. It was...
iPhone 5s can film in 1080p at up to 60 frames per second (or 720p at 120fps). Or so Apple' official stats would have you believe. Truth is, the actual camera sensor itself is 8 megapixels measuring 3264 x 2448 pixels. That's some distance more than the 1920 x 1080 full HD standard quoted by Apple. So the capability is there for much more, it's just a...
Its existence has been rumored for years, and in many ways you could say it took too long to become a reality. In its absence, many solid third party options have popped up in the App Store, but nothing could truly beat the authentic Office experience. Pages is a very good app, but it’s missing the X factor that Word has. Now that Microsoft has...
I see it all the time: The plastic snap-on shell made from two materials (one hard, one soft/flexible). And there are some great options out there from companies like Incipio, Otterbox, Cygnett and many, many others. But there's something about the Urban Armor Gear case for iPhone 5/5s. If I think objectively, it's more than likely the way it's combined...
According to Crittercism, a performance monitoring service, Apple's latest iOS version, 7.1, has been found to be the most stable build to date, with a crash rate of just under 1.6 per cent.This stat has been compared to the previous iOS build, which apparently received a higher crash rate at over 2 per cent, which goes to show that Apple's constantly...
