3 reasons Google-Motorola Deal is an Android Nightmare

[This post was published in August 2011 when Google intended to buy Motorola Mobility, it is now retouched in context of final approval of Google-Motorola deal.] Google has just got the final approval from China to acquire Motorola’s handset division for a whooping $12.5 billion in order to win a patent war over Apple-Microsoft alliance. [...]

Apple iTV outed by Foxconn CEO during press conference

Rumors of an Apple-branded HDTV have been flying around for over a year, with no kind of official announcement from Cupertino. That’s not really unusual, as there’s no shortage of rumor about what Apple is going to do next. Common thinking is that Apple will be producing a smart TV to rival challengers, like Google, [...]

Apple Sets a Date for WWDC 2012

Apple fans and developers, the big news you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Apple has announced the date for their annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Mark the dates of June 11th to the 15th, and get your reservations ready. Just a couple of weeks before Google IO, and a week after the E3 expo, we’ll [...]

Chinese iPhones smell like pineapple, peach, mango and apple

Did you ever smell your iPhone when it’s charging? Try now and you may smell pineapple or possibly peach, mango or Apple. Lots of Chinese iPhone owners claim the headphone jacks on their iPhones smell like pineapple when charging. This is a popular discussion topic on China’s most popular microblogging platform SINA weibo and has [...]

iOS 5.1 Untethered Jailbreak Update

Not long ago, we saw the release of the iPad 3/New iPad, and with it came a firmware update to iOS 5.1. Many users jumped on the update, only to lose their jailbreak, unfortunately. While the minds behind the jailbreaks are still pushing forward, an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1 is still unavailable. You can [...]

How to Unlock Your iPhone with AT&T While Keeping Your Jailbreak

Very recently, AT&T began unlocking iPhones for use overseas or on another carrier. There was much rejoicing among stock iOS users, but the jailbreak community was slightly less ecstatic. Unlocking the device required an update to the latest firmware, which would render your jailbreak inoperable. Fortunately, there’s Redsnow, and the developers behind the jailbreaks have [...]

An Inside Look at How iPads are Made at Foxconn [Video]

Foxconn has been getting a lot of hard looks in the last couple of years. As the manufacturing partner for the bulk of Apple iPad production, the Chinese factories that produce these tablets have been under intense scrutiny from several labor organizations, but also the curious users of those devices. Very few people, though, are [...]

New iPhone with A5X, 1GB of RAM in Testing, Report Says

With summer drawing ever closer, and the New iPad behind us, we can now focus our rumor-gathering powers on the next Apple product. As Apple loves to foil rumor around future naming conventions, we’re not really sure that the next iPhone will indeed be called the iPhone 5, but we’re still leaning that way. Unfortunately, [...]

An Interview With Rob Shoesmith: The Man Who Camped Out For the iPhone 5

We first heard about Robert Shoesmith back in August of 2011. At the time, rumors were still all we had about Apple’s next iPhone, and across the web we were still calling it the iPhone 5. Shoesmith, a former trash collector, or bin man, was now an employee of MEDLMobile. He has a flair for [...]

New iPad 3 Untethered Jailbreak On iOS 5.1 Demoed On Video

Just a day after its release, the New iPad’s untethered jailbreak is already up and running. At least, in tests. Well-known iOS hackster i0nic has been working through the night to get this jailbreak up and running. This is a big departure from last year’s iPad 2, which took several months to see an untethered jailbreak [...]

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