Nokia ad touts colorful phones over iPhones black or white

Hopping on the don’t buy an iPhone bandwagon with Samsung, Nokia has posted an advertisement this evening touting its Lumia line’s slew of colors — trying to pull customers away from the iPhone’s white or black options. It’s like the other manufacturers can’t even make an advertisement showing off their phone — they simply just bash Apple […]

Apple jumps to #2 on Interbrand’s 2012 Best Global Brands Report

While still behind Coca-Cola, which retained its #1 spot from last year’s report, Apple is one of Interbrand’s top risers as the #2 brand in its 2012 Best Global Brands Report. Apple sits just above IBM, Google, and Microsoft with a brand value of 76, 568 million, up 129{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} from last year’s study. You can […]

45 Percent of iPad Users Already Running iOS 6

iOS 6 was released on September 19, just days before the release of Apple’s newest iPhone. Apple has always done exceptionally well rolling out updates to its operating system, but iOS 6 was an unprecedented success in terms of adoption rates. Just 48 hours after release, iOS 6 was on 25 percent of total Apple […]

New Purported iPad Mini Images Show Nano-SIM Tray

That iPad mini rumor mill is really going strong this week. Today, Apple Insider uncovered more supposed images of the smaller sized tablet from a Russian-language blog site that appears to show evidence of a nano-SIM tray(3), as well as the Lightning dock connector (4), a top-side headphone jack (1), a cellular antenna cover (2) […]

Finger Your Way Through Math With This Gesture-Controlled Calculator [Review]

Adding up goes this way, and taking away goes that waySums is a gesture-based calculator for iOS, and whether you like it will, I suspect, largely depend on how much you’re already accustomed to using traditional calculators. Numbers are entered using a keypad, as you’d expect. But doing anything with those numbers means using gestures. They’re not hard to learn, but a little learning is […]

Sony Updates Its Bass-Fanatic XB Headphones Line With Three New Models

There isn’t anyone with a model catalog quite like Sony (how the hell do they keep track of these things?). The company has just refreshed their line of midpriced, bass-heavy MDR-XB headphones with three new models, replacing four previous ones. The three new models, the XB800 ($150), XB600 ($100) and XB400 ($60), all follow Sony’s […]

Developer Claims Apple Stole Passbook Idea, Files Patent Lawsuit

People are always trying to claim that Apple stole their idea. Sometimes, the evidence at hand makes it difficult not to believe the accuser. Recently, Apple has been targeted for supposedly stealing Passbook technology from a marketing software development company. According to court documents filed by Ameranth, the company is claiming that Apple knowingly infringed […]

Lockitron Wants To Replace Your House Keys With Your iPhone 5

lockitronThere really aren’t that many home automation products that blow my mind, but Lockitron has got me drooling. I want to live in the future. A place where my cellphone is the only thing I need to carry with me. I hate carrying keys, and Lockitron just might help me ditch them completely with its simple […]

Apple Awarded Patent for Universal Wireless Adapter

In case you weren’t aware, the iPhone 5, the fifth-generation iPod touch and seventh-generation iPod nano’s connector port design is now nine pins instead of the traditional 30 pins that previous iOS devices have. Presumably, the company plans to phase out the 30-pin connector in lieu of the smaller, faster “Lightning” connector. Unfortunately, this causes […]