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Japanese blog Macotakara claims that it has received information about the next generation iPhone, unofficially dubbed iPhone 5S, the low-cost or the budget iPhone and iPad 5 from its sources.
Apple’s tight control over components resulting in high iPhone 5 repair costs [Report]
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Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 23, 2013 | Comment (1)
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When iFixit disassembled the iPhone 5 back in September, they found it easier to repair as it opened from front-to-back.
Unfortunately that hasn’t helped to bring down the costs of repairing an iPhone 5, according to a report on MarketWatch.
The iPhone is still the best mobile phone in America, but survey says it’s starting to slip
Posted by Stefan Constantinescu on May 22, 2013 | Comments (2)
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The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index for mobile phones has just come out, and of course Apple is on top, but they’ve fallen from 2012′s score of 83% of customers being satisfied with their products. This year they’re “just” 81%. How do the others compare? Samsung is at 76%, as is Nokia, and Motorola of all companies is at 77%. Both HTC and LG have slipped, down to 72% and 71% respectively.
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AT&T to allow FaceTime over cellular for all customers by end of the year
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 20, 2013 | Comments (4)
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When Apple introduced FaceTime over cellular feature in iOS 6 last September, AT&T only allowed customers with a Mobile Share plan to use the feature.
Since then it has been slowly expanding access to the feature to other customers.
Pentagon grants security clearance to Apple’s iPhone and iPad
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 17, 2013 | Comment (1)
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Few weeks back we told you that Apple’s iPhone and iPad and Samsung’s Android devices will be given security clearance by the Pentagon.
It’s official: The smartphone and tablet gaming market is bigger than dedicated mobile gaming
Posted by Stefan Constantinescu on May 17, 2013 | Comments (6)
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AllThingsD, citing a report published by IDC and App Annie, says that people are spending more money on games for their smartphones and tablets than are spending games on dedicated videogame consoles like the Nintendo DS or PlayStation Vita.
iOS, Android control more than 90 percent of worldwide smartphone market
New York attorney general puts pressure on Apple, Google and others to prevent smartphone thefts
Posted by Rounak Jain on May 14, 2013 | Comment (1)
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Smartphones are increasingly becoming common targets for theft, which has a lot of government reps worried. To tackle the thefts, New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has written to Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, enquiring about the technology they’re building to help make stolen phones useless.
T-Mobile Increases Price of iPhone By $50
Posted by iPhoneHacks on May 13, 2013 | Comments (2)
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T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest carrier in the U.S finally started offering Apple’s iPhone on April 12th.
As you probably know, customers could either pay the full price ($579.99/$679.99/$779.99) for the 16GB/32GB/64GB iPhone 5 up front or they can pay $99.99/$199.99/$299.99 up front plus $20 monthly instalments for 24 months.
