Author: Leif Johnson

After months of waiting and mere speculation, a leaked image of what could be Logitech’s long-awaited gamepad for the iPhone surfaced today on the @evleaks Twitter account. As TechCrunch reports, @evleaks has a good record when it comes to presenting l…

Last week we reported that Personal Pickeup for the iPhone 5s would resume today, and while that’s technically true, you shouldn’t expect to be able to waltz into any Apple retail store and be able to leave with one if you ordered one online. The optio…

iOS 7 is still suffering from a few bugs since going live, but it’s likely that none have proven so annoying as the one that’s affecting users of iMessage lately. In most cases, you’ll type out an iMessage and click send, but it’ll get stuck in the pro…

In an earlier article we reported that customers in China seem particularly attracted to the gold iPhone, but that attraction may go much deeper than we originally thought. As reported by the Wall Street Journal (via 9to5 Mac), denizens of the world’s …

Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, discussed the new device’s camera during today’s media event, which has a five-element lens with f/2.2 aperture that was designed by Apple. The result is an active sensor area that’s …

And so the rumors are true: Apple’s new high-end phone really is called the “iPhone 5S,” which Phil Schiller calls “most forward-thinking phone we’ve ever created.” Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, and then presented a vi…

Following Tim Cook’s opening words about iOS 7, he moved on to Apple’s productivity suite, iWork. According to Cook, the combination of iWork. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers now consitutes the “best selling mobile productivity app on any platform.” Cook w…

Tim Cook kicked off today’s Apple press event by talking about the iTunes Music Festival, which is now in its seventh year. The event, held in London, features thirty nights of performances featuring artists like Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Elton Joh…

One of the strangest common threads among all the leaks we’ve seen of the iPhone 5S so far is that none have featured the fingerprint sensor we’ve heard so much about. Yet with some leaked photos from French site Nowhereelse.fr, that may have changed. …

If you’ve been wondering if all these rumors we’ve been throwing your way over the last few months have any truth to them, you’ll be happy to know that at least one does. As Jim Dalrymple of The Loop relates, Apple just sent out media invitations for a…

Nothing like a dubious rumor to close out Friday’s news shift, but here goes: If Star Wars fan site JediNews.co.uk is correct, a Star Wars app could be coming to Apple TV as early as this holiday season. Naturally, the news comes from an “unnamed sourc…

One of the big questions surrounding the so-called iPhone 5C has focused on how Apple plans to keep the device from cannibalizing its high-end smartphones, and the discussion’s traditionally centered on speculation that the Cupertino company will limit…

In a sobering reminder of how quickly circumstances can change in the technology world, executives at BlackBerry today announced that they were putting the once-venerable smartphone maker up for sale. According to the Wall Street Journal, though, few c…

Yelp is occasionally a godsend when you’re on the road and you’re looking for neighborhood eats, but until now its iOS incarnation has been severely hampered by an inability to write full reviews straight from your iPhone. That all changes today, as Ye…

Been looking forward to the release of the highly anticipated iPad mini with Retina display? According to Bloomberg, you won’t have to wait much longer, and if you find that size truly matters, you’ll be happy to know we might be seeing the launch of t…

We’re slowly approaching the days when our smartphones can perform just as well as any “normal” digital camera on the market, but there are still many of us that prefer the options that we can get with more specialized models. Fortunately, it appears t…