I hooked my iPhone 4S up to iTunes last night and, lo and behold, a box popped up to inform me iOS 6 was available. Ten minutes and a reboot or two of my phone later and I had…pretty much the same phone. This had me wondering, exactly what features were installed with this upgrade? [...]
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App Turns iPhone Photos into Polaroids
It may be hard for younger generations to remember, but there was a time when seeing your photos immediately was a novel idea. In those days, people took pictures blindly, only seeing the results of their efforts days, even weeks, later when the photos came in at the drugstore. In all of that waiting came [...]
Apple Passbook Makes First Move toward Digital Wallet
We’ve all heard plenty about the concept of the digital wallet—I’ve written about it here more than a few times. But Apple’s announcement about a new app that will be part of the new iPhone 5 iOS makes it official. Your wallet will soon be coming out of your back pocket and depositing itself squarely [...]
Apple May Be Able to Disable iPhones
Valuable bootlegging blocker…or potential danger to the freedom of speech? That’s the first question that came to my mind when I read about a patent for technology that could deliberately turn off cell phones at certain events. If you’ve been to a concert in the past few years, you’ve probably noticed people tend to watch [...]
Will the iPhone 3GS Become Obsolete?
While each of us try to decide whether or not to upgrade to the new iPhone, those who still have the iPhone 3GS may have that decision made for them. The latest rumor going around the web is that with the new iPhone, an old iPhone will fall—namely the iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 3G was [...]
Wal-Mart Tests Automated Shopping
We’ve all heard stories about near-field communication and how it will eventually change the way we pay for items at checkout. But a new app will allow you to scan your items while you shop, then pay once you get to the self-checkout counter, letting you skip long waits at registers and shorten each shopping [...]
Could your iPhone Have Spyware?
So far, most of us have been pretty comfortable downloading things to our iPhones. While we are sometimes overly cautious about what we download while surfing the Internet, we’ll put any app that looks interesting on our phones without a second thought. After all, you can’t get a virus on an iPhone, right? As a [...]
Facebook Update Still Missing One Key Element
These days, most of us check Facebook on our phones more than online. I’m one of those people. I just don’t think about getting on Facebook unless I’m bored somewhere, looking for something to kill time. But, like other users, I’ve noticed Facebook has always been excruciatingly sluggish on the iPhone, especially when I’m not [...]
Gazelle Makes Great Offer to Upgrading iPhone Owners
As the release of the new iPhone looms, many current iPhone owners are at a crossroads. They know now is the best time to sell their current iPhone, but if they sell it they’ll be left without a phone until the new one comes out. Since none of us really want to wait in line [...]
Apple May Introduce Fingerprint Sensing Technology
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed or not, but it seems the media watches every activity of Apple with close scrutiny, speculating at great depth on every purchase and patent. Sometimes the media is right, sometimes not, but it’s interesting to watch the media go. One of the latest things that has the [...]
