Tag: 3g

4G smartphone customers unhappy with poor battery life

Add another point to Apple’s “This Is Why We Do Things Our Way” board. J.D. Power & Associates reports that owners of first-gen 4G smartphones...
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Retina-enabled iPad apps could be hampered by 3G download caps

As it stands, iOS currently puts a limit on the size of applications you can download over your device’s 3G connection. That limit was once...
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First of Samsung’s cases against Apple rejected by German court

The Regional Court in the city of Mannheim, Germany, just dismissed the first of Samsung’s seven copyright infringement claims in a lawsuit against Apple. The...
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Samsung shamelessly steals the iPhone 3G design, again

Today Samsung has announced the iPhone 3G Galaxy Ace Plus. The phone looks exactly like the iPhone 3G, and clearly illustrates Samsung’s game plan moving...
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Rumor: The next iPod touch could ship with 3G capabilities, not likely

The future of the iPod touch always seems to be a hot topic for debate leading up to iPhone announcements. Every year analysts and journalists...
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iPad 2 demand surpasses demand for first iPad

RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky has issued a report outlining his thoughts on the demand for iPad 2. Mac Rumors has some highlights.
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Would you buy a MacBook Air 3G edition? Apple’s asking.

What would it take for you to buy a MacBook Air 3G edition laptop? Would you even buy one? Apple’s asking customers those questions lately,...
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Three UK goes too far and blocks Cydia over 3G

I don’t personally jailbreak, like I mentioned yesterday in our GreenPois0n article, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t think people should have the right...
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Rumor: GSM iPhone users to get WiFi HotSpot access with iOS 4.3

Hours after Verizon announced the built in HotSpot functionality that would be available with the CDMA iPhone, a rumor started circulating the internet. According to iPhoneHellas.gr,...
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No 4G coming to iPhone 5

With all the independent verification going on about the new iPhone coming in January, there’s been very little mention about whether the iPhone 5 will...
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Will your next iOS device have Intel chips?

When you hear the word Intel, your first thought goes to desktops or laptops that use their processors.  What if the next time your hear...
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Apple’s iPhone 4 costs $187.51 to build

Outside of the original iPhone, the iPhone 4 is now the second most expensive iPhone to be created. Most of the additional costs are being...
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Have an iPad, MiFi, and a huge set of cojones? Check out this hack

There’re some things I’m just not willing to do and taking a $600.00 iPad and tearing it apart to install a MiFi inside of it...
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Skype finally lets us make calls over 3G—until August

It’s finally happened. US iPhone owners can now make Skype-to-Skype calls over the 3G network. I’d completely forgotten that we were waiting for this functionality....
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ABC to release a 3G-compatible update to their iPad App

When the ABC Player launched for the iPad, there was a severe limitation to the app: No 3G compatibility. Now that over 300,000 3G iPads...
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iPad 3G Won’t Ship Until May Creating Much Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth

Apple fans’ hearts were broken today when the Apple Store updated the shipping date for 3G iPads. Until today, the 3G iPad was showing “late April” as the ship date. That has been amended to “ships by May 7.”
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Sprint makes a smart move and starts shipping 4G iPad cases

What’s the one thing people are tired of hearing about lately? Data plans. Having to have multiple dataplans is probably the biggest thing that drives...
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Which iPad are you?

With about a month to go before the iPad is released, you might be asking yourself, which iPad am I?  Will you be waiting for...
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