Apple Products and News

At TechHive, two writers share their perspective on what features the iPhone 5 must match to remain competitive.

Tossing water on long-spread but highly questionable rumors that Apple will begin pre-orders for the new iPhone immediately following the device’s introduction, MacRumors claims that pre-orders for the new iPhone may not start until Friday morning. …

Measuring roughly 15.25” x 5.2” x 1.5” at its largest points, the substantially matte black MicroKEY-25 is Korg’s smallest piano-style keyboard, occupying far less than half the volume of Samson’s Carbon 49—a choice that makes MicroKEY-25 …

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, has paid US$17 million for a house on San Francisco’s “Gold Coast,” reports “The Wall Street Journal” (http://macte.ch/h5Pwr…

Electronics manufacturer Foxconn has come under fire again, specifically in the Chinese factory that assembles Apple’s iPhones. The New York Times reports that the company has been accused of “compelling” students to work at its assembly plant, a …

Reports circulated last month, originally by iMore, about pre-orders for the next-generation iPhone allegedly starting immediately after the Sept. 12 media event, but MacRumors now contends pre-orders will not open until Sept. 14. Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S began the Friday after its unveiling, so MacRumors is subsequently pointing to a similar timeframe for this event: MacRumors is […]

A set of comparison photos on Flickr illustrates the size differences between the iPad, iPad mini, new iPhone, and iPhone 4S. In one photo, the iPhone 4S rests inside a pre-production case for the new iPhone, which is taller, but not wider, matching t…

Apple supplier Foxconn has denied forcing vocational school students in China to work at its factories.

 What will Apple reveal? Will it be a widescreen iPhone 5 with all the bells and whistles that rumor blogs have been speculating about? Will iOS 6 be everything we’ve hoped it to be? The answers to these questions and more will be revealed Wed…

David Lawee, vice president of corporate development, says some things that will likely sound familiar if you used the Internet at all during the Samsung v. Apple trial. Wake-up call, indeed. [Bloomberg (non-flash) via BI]

As Apple prepares to release its new iPhone model, new research from Parks Associates (www.ParkAssociates.com) shows the iPhone leads its rivals in customer satisfaction, with 75{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} of its owners …

Here’s a bit of shocking news: Google has released a new YouTube app today for the iPhone, but somehow it slipped their mind to do an iPad version. A similar thing happened with their Google+ app for iOS – it took over a year to see an iPad version. The release of the YouTube iPhone […]

Alongside the information we have already posted about the new iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle, we received possible code names for the devices. Like developer @chronic, we’re hearing that the new iPod touch has the internal codename of N78. We also understand that the iPod nano is codenamed N31 and that the iPod […]

Google’s released a brand new YouTube app for iPhone, so Lex Friedman and Dan Moren walk you through what the software brings.