by sahil on May 19, 2012 ·
The biggest highlight of the upcoming WWDC 2012 being held in June is expected to be the unveiling of the Revamped Macbook Pro range and Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Apple is apparently putting finishing touches on its new Macbook Pros which is the result of years of research and development in ultra thin design and high-res display. The new Macbook Pros are currently undergoing tests production rounds and are expected to host an ultra-thin chassis , USB 3.0 and Retina Display.
The New Design Language
There have been many rumors that the new Macbook will follow the design language of Macbook Air. But sources close to production put them aside. According to them they are ultrathin design of the current model. This mean that there won’t be any tapering like the Airs. The new design apparently solves the problem Apple faced with the hinge in the cancelled ultrathin 15-in Macbook for late 2010.
Apple has sacrificed the optical drive to reach their new standard of notebook thinness. Apple claims that professionals can use the Mac App Store to download their software making an optical drive redundant. But Apple still will continue to provide USB Superdrives. [click to continue…]
by monis on May 19, 2012 ·
If you have been waiting for an untethered JailBreak for iDevices which are on a firmware version greater than iOS 5.0.1, you must already know that Pod2G has been working really hard to make it a success. Fortunately, with the help of some other iOS hackers, iOS 5.1.1 untethered JailBreak is now supported by almost all iDevices. However, there’s still some testing needed for some of them.
Pod2G has mentioned the list of iOS devices which would be supported in his upcoming untethered JailBreak for iOS 5.1.1. Few days ago, he informed that his exploit was not functional on certain devices which included iPhone 3GS and iPod 3G. Today, even that hurdle has been surpassed. When iOS 5.1.1 untethered JailBreak would be released, we would have support for iPhone 3GS and iPod 3G as well. [click to continue…]
Among the many facts, figures and dreams of Steve Jobs that have been steadily cropping up after Job’ death in October 2011, something interesting has come up once again. And this time apparently, Jobs wanted to launch a car under the banner of Apple before he died.
CEO and Founder of J. Crew, and current Apple board member Mickey Drexler revealed in an interview in the Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored Conference this week, that one of the Apple founder’s dreams was to roll out an innovative iCar. “Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar and I think it would’ve been probably 50% of the market. He never did design it,” said Drexler.
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“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.”
-Steve Jobs, on the release on the Apple iPhone on 9 January, 2007
Looks like the dream of Apple to make the iPhone ‘change everything’ has happened in the cellphone scene. It has been announced by research firm Gartner, that the Apple iPhone now contributes for 7.9% of the worldwide mobile phone sales, ranking it as the third largest cellphone manufacturer. The announcement has been made for the first quarter of 2012. Apple sold nearly 33.1 million iPhones in this period, according to Gartner.
The data issued represents not shipments, but worldwide cellphone sales to customers. [click to continue…]
In yet another case of its kind, Apple has pulled guns on Samsung, accusing the Korean electronics giant of destroying evidence. The motion, filed by Apple Inc. on May 1, 2012, in the Northern District of California for “spoilation of evidence” by Samsung Electronics Co. in the ongoing lawsuit of patent infringement. The motion implied that Samsung had been accused on the basis of spoilating “vast quantities of relevant evidence in blatant disregard of its duty to preserve all such evidence”.
Also, in an attempt to supplement the allegations it has made, Apple has very cleverly used the fact that a situation like this is not new for Samsung, and that it has earlier been involved in similar evidence destroying cases with other companies too, most recent being Mosaid Technologies, where Samsung allegedly had an ongoing policy of automatically deleting emails from custodian computers every two weeks. [click to continue…]
by Ankur on May 16, 2012 ·
So far we have seen a lot of rumors, arguments for and against an iPhone with a larger screen. Back in 2007 when the first iPhone was introduced, Steve Jobs remarked that is a full touchscreen with a giant screen. Back then, it sure was and that too with an awesome capacitive touch-screen. Fast forward to 2012, the iPhone rules the smartphone industry and the 5th generation of the god phone is on sale.
Will Apple change the one spec that has always been static, a 3.5″ full touch-screen?
Apple’s competitors are selling every variety ranging from a 3″ to 5.2″ and given the sales of Galaxy Note, there sure is a demand for a larger screen in the market. Apple supporters have argued that reaching the entire screen (all corners) with the thumb is difficult on a large touchscreen and while that’s true, there are more reasons for Apple to stay focussed on a 3.5″ display.
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A fresh controversy involving HTC and, not surprisingly, Apple Inc., has surfaced and this time round, it’s the new next-generation Android flagship HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE handsets that may be in for some trouble in US.
Shipments of the two models have reportedly been halted at US borders in compliance with an International Trade Council (ITC) exclusion order that was issued to Apple last year in a case of patent infringement. The lawsuit, initiated by Apple was over Apple’s concerns of patent infringement over HTC’s Android implementation. The particular feature under fire outlines a technology for automated detection of data such as phone numbers and email addresses, which converts them to links that give way to a series of options. HTC countered this by issuing a statement (no, not crying foul) that they would look into the matter and resolve any issue before releasing their handsets in the States. HTC has also worked to strengthen its patent portfolio by licensing patents from Microsoft. [click to continue…]
by Ankur on May 15, 2012 ·
The 2012 MacBook Pro line-up is yet to be unveiled and it is expected that they would be out at WWDC along with an OS X update. This WWDC would also be roughly two years since I got my first and only MacBook Pro. Since then I have edited and uploaded hundreds of videos, thousands of photos, wrote over a thousand blog posts and have browsed for endless hours. The 13.3″ MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo processor has been a strong companion, but it is aging and aging fast. At the same time there are several things that I didn’t see two years back but I see them as essential now. So here is my wish list from the 2012 MacBook Pro line-up:
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by monis on May 14, 2012 ·
From sometime, Apple had been facing accusation about misleading their customers about the branding of new iPad with Wifi + 4G LTE when 4G is supported in limited countries. Now, Apple has changed the branding all over the world, calling their new iPad Wifi + 4G as Wifi + Cellular. At first, the change was reflected at Apple Store in US, but then it also prevailed on the official Apple website.
In countries like India where 3G has not been completely rolled out, Apple has been branding their new iPad as Wifi + 4G. However, even the 4G which has recently been rolled out in cities like Kolkata doesn’t support the BaseBand. Hence, it can’t work on the new iPad. On the other hand, when you checkout the press release from Apple, it was clearly mentioned through the two stars (**) near the 4G symbol that 4G would be supported in countries where carriers provides the service. Otherwise, the new iPad is 3G ready on the existing micro-sim cards. [click to continue…]
by monis on May 14, 2012 ·
When DevTeam has released another update of Redsn0w which supports the downgrading process for iPad 2, iPad 3 and iPhone 4S for the saved SHSH Blobs of the lower firmwares, TinyUmbrella has been updated as well. With the help of TinyUmbrella, you could save SHSH Blobs on iOS 5.1.1 which is the latest firmware from Apple.
After a statement from @Pod2G on twitter that iOS 5.1.1 untethered JailBreak would be made public in weeks, it’s actually important to give it a shot right now. Once Apple has pushed iOS 5.1.2 or iOS 5.2, you wouldn’t be able to save the SHSH Blobs for the lower firmwares. This is because Apple would close the signing window within hours. [click to continue…]
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