Apple may not wish to extend its mobile processor contract production with Samsung next year, due to the increased animosity between the two. Apple may require 200 million processors next year and among major chip makers, only TSMC has the capacity can provide that. Previously Morris Chang, TSMC’s CEO, indicated that his company will dedicate two entire manufacturing plants towards …
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Some iOS devices updated to iOS 6.0.1 are still experiencing WiFi problems and it is not easy to understand why seven weeks after the problem was discovered, Apple still failed to fix this nagging issue. Users are reporting that the WiFi option is still grayed out and inaccessible. As before, the WiFi problem tend to strike users of iPhone 4S. …
A woman from Texas was fooled into thinking that a mirror is the new iPad. Salonta Freeman was reported to pay $200 for a fake tablet. A stranger offered the women some units of iPad and laptop with ridiculous discounts and agreed to relinquish his iPad for only $200 or a fourth the official retail price. This wasn’t the first …
Apple has deployed a minor update of its iOS platform, version 6.0.1 for iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone. Like any minor update, it’s intended to address a number of glitches that annoyed consumers since the official release of iOS 6.0. The new build includes fixes for camera flash the occasionally refuses to go off, horizontal lines displayed on some iOS …
Many of us are not familiar with GooPhones yet and they come from a company with the same name that “brilliantly” clones Apple’s designs. The company releases its products before the Apple and GooPhone tries to sue the giant manufacturer every time it releases a new product. Very recently, Goophone announced a new tablet that’s called GooPad mini. As always, …
Loyal BlackBerry users may increasingly find it hard to stay hip. These smartphones were once considered as savvy, elegant accessory; a sign that you are a serious businessperson. But, this doesn’t apply anymore. Many consumers now consider BlackBerry devices as objects of shame. They habitually hide the BlackBerry handset in their pocket to avoid scornful looks from iPhone and Android …
According to recent survey, it appears that the new iOS 6 doesn’t do Apple any favor in user satisfaction category. The survey gathered data from 16,000 iPhone users in the United States and it appears, they are more satisfied with the iOS 5. While the drop is small, this is still noteworthy as new Apple’s releases are often wildly accepted. …
More details on Apple’s A6 processor have come to light and it was revealed recently that the chip is dual-core with triple-core GPU. More detailed examinations performed by iFixit and Chipworks revealed an interesting fact that the processor could be designed manually by hand. Modern processors are highly complicated and manual design works could prove to be time-consuming. Chipworks removed …
Apple’s ambition to deliver a thinner and sleeker iPhone may have backfired due to manufacturing issues. For the first time, an iPhone handset uses the advanced display technology called in-cell screen that allows physical integration between the touch sensor and the display panel. iPhone 5’s svelte design has contributed directly to millions of units sold in a very short span …
Instead of an ARM-15 based processor like previously reported, it’s now known that the A6 processor is actually Apple’s first attempt to custom design a processor. The A6 is claimed to have twice the computing and graphics processing power compared to the previous A5 processor. Apple is known as among a few licensees that are vested with the legal permission …