KitGuru's often find themselves on the move with various gadgets including laptops, smartphones and MP3 players and usually have to carry around a small mountain of chargers to accompany these devices. Today we are going to look at the Innergie mCube Mini which Innergie claim to be the worlds smallest …
Read More »Apple finally meeting iPad demand – LG step up production
KitGuru spoke with sources in Taipei yesterday and we were told that LG Display, the company responsible for the screen in the iPad are finally catching up to the demand from Apple. Apple are reflecting this improvement on their store with wait times now down from ten days to five …
Read More »UK police raid global iPhone crime syndicate
City Of London police have arrested nine suspected members of a crime conspiracy ring involving thousands of stolen iPhones and millions of pounds worth of fraudulent phone charges. Police performed a series of raids on Wednesday and seized many phones, fake passports, SIM cards and noted a sophisicated network of …
Read More »John Carmack showcases 60fps ‘Rage’ engine for iPhone 4
Legendary ID co founder John Carmack showcased the new Rage ID tech 5 gaming engine running at 60 fps on the iPhone 4. His Quakecon presentation has press across the world dribbling over their phones this morning. His demonstration keynote speech which was covered in a live blog by Kotaku …
Read More »Papermaster leaves Apple due to ‘Cultural Incompatibility’
KitGuru reported over the weekend that Apple executive Mark Papermaster, who was in charge of iPhone engineering left the company. The Wall Street Journal have said that his departure was due to “broader cultural incompatibility” rather than a direct link to the iPhone 4's antenna issues as reason for his …
Read More »Apple exec responsible for troubled antenna design quits
News has just filtered into KitGuru that the Apple executive who was in charge of iPhone engineering and therefore responsible for the antenna design on the iPhone 4 has left the company. Many people are filing in the blanks however and are assuming that Mark Papermasters departure from Apple may …
Read More »Facetime 3G video conferencing on jailbroken iPhone 4
Yesterday KitGuru reported on a web based Jailbreaking software interface for your iPhone and today we have found out that there is a very cool feature set available to those who have a hacked iPhone – FaceTime video conferencing over 3G. 9 to 5 Mac have reported on it and …
Read More »iPhone 4 jailbreaking software released – direct web based
A few days ago the Library of Congress has said that jailbreaking is legal with their appended Digital Millenium Copyrights Act (DMCA) and since then hackers have introduced a new web browser based iPhone 4 unlocking software package. This software is available on jailbreakme.com which allows the iPhone to be …
Read More »Apple remove competitor Antenna performance from website
Apple have changed the antenna performance page on their website removing references to the performance of competitors smartphones compared directly to the iPhone 4. Apple originally launched this page after the iPhone 4 press conference to demonstrate how a number of other phones see signal attenuation when gripped tightly in …
Read More »Apple make progress with ‘white’ iPhone 4
While many people have been focusing on the ‘antennagate' ordeal with the troubled iPhone 4, Apple have been quietly dealing with issues with the release of the white version of the phone. “As has been suggested before, one of the main dilemmas is argued to have been getting the right …
Read More »Apple start delivering refunds for iPhone 4 bumpers
The Apple iPhone 4 antenna issues have been dominating press reports for weeks now and Apple stated a while ago that they were going to give away bumper cases for nothing and to offer refunds to customers. They have stuck to their word and have begun processing refunds for the …
Read More »Apple – are they really an arrogant company?
Even if you tried really hard, it would have been almost impossible to avoid the iPhone 4 antenna issues which have been dominating the news on almost every publication for the last two weeks. We look today at recent press coverage and ask ourselves, are Apple really an arrogant company? …
Read More »Apple Knew of iPhone Antenna Risks
The Wall Street Journal have a rather damning article up today, which if its true is going to cause a lot of problems for Apple. According to a report internal concerns about the reception issues were already known before public release. Today there is a conference at Apple's HQ in …
Read More »Microsoft say that Apple’s iPhone ‘might be their Vista’
Microsoft seem to be rather happy about the recent iPhone 4 issues and they have gone public with a rather damning statement about Apple's new product. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner was recently giving a keynote speak at the WorldWide Partner Conference and he said “It looks like the iPhone might …
Read More »Hacker unlocks iPhone 4 software
It was only a matter of time before someone hacked the iPhone 4 software and the iPhone Dev Team have demonstrated a software unlock for Apples new phone. The iPhone Dev Team have broken every software release that Apple have put on the market and it appears that the newest …
Read More »Apple to hold surprise press conference Friday
Apple are holding a surprise press conference on Friday as they continue to deal with disgruntled customers complaining about iPhone 4 reception issues. Steve Dowling, a spokesperson for Apple said that they would hold the conference on Friday at 10am from their HQ in Cupertino, California. He has yet to …
Read More »Will Apple recall the iPhone 4?
The iPhone 4 launch has been a financial success for Apple, however when we come to talk about the actual hardware, the launch has been far from idyllic. Unless you have been offline and locked in your house for the last 2 months, we are sure you will have heard …
Read More »Apple admit iPhone bars show wrong reading
While the Apple iPhone 4 sales have been even stronger than Apple themselves expected, the launch has not been without a list of issues. Many people have been reporting signal problems since the Phone was released and Apple initially said it was down to' how people were holding the phone'. …
Read More »Nokia take a swipe at Apple – hold our phones however you like
Nokia have been one of the leaders in the cell phone industry for a very long time and they have had a pretty fiery relationship with Apple, it seems new legal action is taken weekly for patents. What we found slightly amusing however was a recent blog they wrote explaining …
Read More »Apple sell over 1.7 million iPhone 4’s – in 3 days
Seems to be Apple are making all the news today and their latest reports show a staggering 1.7 million iPhone 4s have been sold in the first 3 days. The iPhone 4 has been in the news recently, and not for all the right reasons as people have been complaining …
Read More »iPad to get iOS 4 in November
According to a report relating to advertisers plans with the new iAd program – iPad users will be getting iOS 4 in November. This means while iPhone users get to play with the multitasking operating system iPad users still have many months to wait. iAds is going live on iOS applications …
Read More »Daily Mail fooled by ‘fake’ iPhone 4 recall on twitter
The Daily Mail have published a story saying that Steve Jobs is recalling the iPhone 4. Unfortunately this story is based on a ‘fake' Steve Jobs twitter account and has led to massive confusion with the buying public. It appears that Daily Mail researchers didn't investigate properly as this is …
Read More »Apple iPhone 4 Upgrade Madness
‘The Emperor's New Clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen, is the story of a pair of conmen promising to create the most spectacular clothes, which will be invisible to people who are not intelligent enough to see them in all their glory. Pics from a major London shopping centre have arrived …
Read More »Apple publicly confirm ‘call’ issues: solution? buy a case
KitGuru reported yesterday on the issues that many people were experiencing with the iPhone 4. Today Apple have confirmed that there are indeed problems with the phone which can cause call related problems, linked to pickup reception. The problems occur when the user touches two seams of the antenna band …
Read More »Apple iPhone 4 – hardware issues already
KitGuru has been reporting on the phenomenal iPhone 4 sales recently and yesterday we trawled the net for reviews – which were incredibly positive. Today the iPhone is released in the United Kingdom however there have been calls of complaint regarding screen issues and call performance related problems – it …
Read More »iPhone 4 reviews hit the web – reviewers fall in love.
The first reviews of the iPhone 4 have hit the internet in the last few days and for fans of Apple phone technology you will be pleased to hear that the overall view is positive. Most of the reviews I have read all seem very positive with most of them …
Read More »Apple shift 600,000 iPhone 4’s in 24 hours
I thought this article title might catch your attention. Is there anything these guys can't sell right now? Yesterday we published an article on the sales fiasco that surrounded the Iphone 4 launchday, however it seems to have made absolutely no difference as Apple have broken all records, yet again …
Read More »Apple success story continues – iPhone 4 sells out
It seems the Apple juggernaut continues to steamroll everything in its path as latest reports in from Boy Genius and Engadget confirm that the iPhone 4 has sold out. Apple's market value has already surpassed Microsoft's, into hundreds of billions of dollars. AT&T confirmed to Engadget that “as of Tuesday …
Read More »Apple offer refunds and upgrades for iPhone 3GS customers
Apple made recent announcements regarding their iPhone 4 last week and they have since placed price cuts on the 3GS model to clear stocks for release. The good news is if you bought a 3GS in the last couple of weeks, the company are now price matching and are offering …
Read More »Adobe Flash proven to ruin Google Android 2.2 performance
It has been hard to escape the recent news coverage detailing Apples contempt for Flash on mobile devices. Many enthusiasts have stated that Steve Jobs has been very unfair with his dismissal of Adobes media software within the mobile platform. Jobs has said it destroys battery life, reduces security and …
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