US wireless provider AT&T is set to smash its own quarterly sales record after announcing that it has sold roughly 6 million smartphones in the first two months of the fourth quarter.
That mammoth result means that the carrier needs to sell just 100,000 smartphones during the last month of this quarter in order to match its current record, which was set during the third quarter of last year.
The reason for AT&T having such a great quarter? The iPhone 4S, of course...
We've known that Rockstar is bringing Grand Theft Auto III to iOS and select Android devices for some time now, but we never knew when exactly we would be able to get our hands on it. That changed today, and we're all getting a little over-excited at the prospect of playing a game we already loved playing ten years ago.
As Rockstar announced today, (deep breath) Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Edition will go on sale on December 15th. That's just 9 short days away!
The developers also announced the final list of compatible devices across both iOS and Android, with things being decidedly simpler on the side of Apple's hardware...
When Apple decided to bring the iPad to market it came to the conclusion that a 9.7-inch screen was the way to go after testing various different sizes and dimension ratios. Steve Jobs later famously declared that a 7-inch form factor was simply too small to be usable, but that didn't stop the likes of Samsung and RIM from releasing tablets with a screen that size.
Amazon has recently joined the group of companies to release a tablet, and it also went for the smaller form factor for the Kindle Fire. Was that a wise decision?
According to usability fiend Jakob Nielson, Amazon's tablet is simply too small to be truly useful, lending credence to what Jobs and Apple have been saying for the last two years...
When we told you all about a new jailbreak app claiming to bring Siri to non-4S iDevices yesterday, we were deeply skeptical about its authenticity. We later received confirmation that, yes, the H1Siri app did use some of Apple's own code and thus was indeed illegal.
As Pete "Plamoni" Lamonica shows in his latest video, questionable legality isn't the only reason that you shouldn't be using H1Siri – it could potentially give a third-party control over your iDevice, and with relative ease on their part.
As we warned yesterday, using H1Siri means that you are sending all kinds of personal data through someone else's servers, meaning that they can either eavesdrop on what is going on with your iDevice, or even take control of it as shown in Pete's video...
A new survey carried about by comScore claims that only 1 out of 10 American mobile subscribers own an iPhone, with Apple's handset reaching the 10.8% mark as of October 2011.
The survey also suggests that Samsung is currently the top OEM in the country, with their phones currently in the hands of a quarter of all cellphone owners.
In fact, of the top five OEMs in comScore's chart, Apple sits fourth, behind Samsung (25.5%), LG (20.6%) and Motorola (13.6%). Canadian firm Research In Motion takes fifth place with an ever-decreasing share of the market. Not great times for BlackBerry fans at all...
If you've ever wondered what Apple called its various releases of iOS when building them internally, then you're in luck. Developer and general internet fiend Steve Troughton-Smith has shared the internal code names Apple gave to all of its iOS version, starting way back at iOS 1.0.
While these names may not have the sugary goodness that Google's Android builds posses, it is still interesting to see the code names out in the wild, while also perhaps getting an answer as to why Apple gave iOS the default login password all jailbreakers have come to rely on...
Despite selling iPhones like they're going out of fashion, it's not been all unicorns and rainbows for Apple's big releases recently. Some of the company's top software outings have suffered a bloody nose as of late, with iCloud and iOS experiencing more than a few hiccups.
Released alongside the iPhone 4S, iOS 5 has taken an aging mobile operating system and added some much needed bells and whistles. The software also fixes some of the long-standing issues that iPhone owners have been complaining about for far too long.
One thing that iOS 5 has introduced is not entirely welcome, and that's a very real battery life problem...
Anyone of a certain age will no doubt remember playing Tetris on the original GameBoy in all its multi-green-colored glory. That's right kids, we played games without color!
Today the owners of the cash cow that is Tetris, Electronic Arts, has stealthily released a new version of the ever popular game for the iPhone. Thankfully, this "re-imagined" release of the classic Tetris game does sport some color, and from our early testing, there's lots of it! Think two neon-colored children throwing neon-colored paint at funny shaped blocks. Got it? Right...
Patent applications aren't always a sign that something is definitely going to make its way to market, but they can often be a good indication of the kinds of things companies are looking at adding to products.
That said, we have another patent application from the boffins at Apple, and this time it appears to be a new way of sending and receiving data between two devices. The system will use the devices' cameras as a way of establishing a secure connection...
We love Robin Williams here at iDB. He's just one of those comedians who clicks with us, and with a quick wit like his it's hard not to laugh, especially when he's working completely off the cuff.
We also like Siri, so when you have one of your favorite comedians using Apple's digital assistant in a gag, it's always going to be something to spark our interest.
Normally, something going by the name of "iStation" would make us cringe, but this time around we're going to make an exception. This particular iStation takes us back to our youth, and we love it!
This iStation is an iPad stand that also doubles as a home for speakers and a Bluetooth keyboard, both of which are included in the $140 asking price. Once everything is hooked up and switched on, the whole thing gives the effect of an old-school computer, just like we used to have when we were kids. (Stop laughing in the back there, we're not that old!)
Call us crazy, but there is just something appealing about taking a state-of-the-art tablet and making it look like an old PC. No, really...
Apple's iPhone 4S just keeps on rocking. After garnering stellar sales worldwide and being met with great reviews, a new survey suggests that the people who spend their own money on an iPhone 4S are also pretty happy.
The survey, conducted by ChangeWave, took in the views of 215 iPhone 4S owners between November 2nd and 9th, with 96% of those questioned saying that they were satisfied with their new smartphone.
The news gets better, with 77% of those surveyed saying that they are "very satisfied" with the iPhone 4S. When combined with the 19% who were simply "somewhat satisfied," they make the iPhone 4S the most loved iPhone ever...