Apple is going the Google Nexus One way with the iPhone 4, but after having sold it through carriers. Yes, you’ve heard right: the latest iPhone now goes for $649 unlocked directly from Apple. No carrier association is present and you can find the product on the US Apple online store. The thing with this unit is that it allows you to make calls...
Japan is certainly the world’s most advanced nation when it comes to mobile/telecom technology, especially since they have over 100 different handsets launched each year. Well, Gfk Japan, a famous market research company found that the best sold phone model in the January – March 2011 time frame is the iPhone 4. The top 10 of cellphone...
Although the iPhone 4 won’t survive an episode of Will It Blend, it might stand a chance when it drops from an Air Force plane, as proved by a recent incident. US Air Force Combat Controller Ron Walker is the one with the scoop, saying that he dropped his iPhone 4 from a speeding plane that was 1,000 feet in the air. The aircraft had a speed...
AT&T has an incredible offer for the post-Christmas shopping season: a refurbished iPhone 4 unit (16GB) for $99. You’ll find it on the carrier’s website, that also displayed a $79 version with minor aesthetic defects, but that disappeared from the site. There’s also the 32GB iPhone 4 for $199 or $179, with the “cosmetic...
Consumer Reports is having a tricky month, since at first they rushed to praise the iPhone 4, then learned about its problems and retracted all praise. Even now, when Apple promised to give people cash back or free bumpers to solve the signal issue, they still can’t recommend the phone. A recent comment coming from Consumer Reports says that...
After finding out Apple’s temporary solution for solving the iPhone 4′s antenna and signal issue, we can check out a comparison video between the latest Cupertino-made handset and Motorola Droid X. Here’s the video duel we were talking about: It all starts with a software confrontation, as Droid X running Android 2.1 with MOTOBLUR...
After a not so long wait, the iPhone 4 finally got jailbroken and unlocked, but if you don’t believe us, have a look at the following image. This means that you’ll be both able to install third party apps on the handset via an alternative App Store and use the phone on other networks than the default one. While Geohot was claiming a couple...
The famous hacker GeoHot has managed to jailbreak the iPhone 4 (yay!), but, as he claims in his comments, he can’t deliver a solution to the general public yet. This means that you’ll eventually get the software you want, but you won’t be able to unlock the iPhone 4 just yet. Known as limera1n, this hack was also called pwned4life...
Apple is not ready to admit that the new iPhone has a hardware problem and now it blames the dropped calls and signal issues on the formula used to calculate signal strength, shown as bars. Apparently, Apple’s formula mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a certain signal strength. Due to this error, sometimes the phone will display...
As if the antenna problems and yellow spots/bands on the iPhone 4′s screen weren’t enough, here comes another issue plaguing Apple’s new toy: slow or non-existent 3G connectivity. Several reports on Apple’s support forums are claiming such problems exist, even in areas where 3G signal is present. This is not an AT&T problem,...
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