Are you an iPhone user suffering from 4G envy? Well FreedomPop is looking to change that with its new 4G iPhone sleeve. The add-on will allow you to use your Apple-branded handset to browse the internet at "top speeds."
But what's really interesting about FreedomPop's accessory is the fact that it will include somewhere in the neighborhood of 500MB of monthly bandwidth. Yeah, they're giving away free internet with every purchase...
I'm a big fan of Instapaper. I've come to rely on both the bookmarklet and the iOS app for my daily blogging and research, as well as general reading needs.
I've been also using Instapaper to catch up on my previously saved stories while on the go, using my iPhone or iPad.
Today, Marco Arment pushed another update that brought a couple new features in addition to a cosmetic change I've been clamoring for: iBooks-style animations.
I know that some other apps replicate the wonderful page curl seen in Apple's iBooks app, namely Google's Play Books. But whereas other programs fall short because of the sluggishness and jaginess exhibited when flipping through the pages, Instapaper 4.2 delivers.
I've been comparing page curls in iBooks and Instapaper for like an hour now and walked away convinced that Instapaper pretty much beats iBooks with its gorgeous, smooth and pixel-perfect page turns...
Remember Apple's '1994' corporate video with Jobs impersonating Franklin Delano Roosevelt we told you about last week? Apparently, not everyone liked it so here's a different one from the depths of the web archives, also sporting brief Jobs cameo appearance.
Just like the '1994' clip, it's aimed squarely at Apple's arch-enemy in the early days, the almighty IBM. Dubbed 'Blue Busters' and dating back to 1984, this four-minute footage was shown at the same worldwide sales staff meeting in Hawaii in October 1984 like the '1994' clip...
iMore is out with a new report today, claiming that it has learned from a reliable source that Apple will be going forward with plans to release a 7-inch iPad this fall. The tablet will launch in October, alongside the new iPhone, and cost less than $250.
While it's easy to chalk this up to just another "iPad mini" rumor — we know, there's been a lot of them — it's worth noting that iMore has been fairly accurate in the past with Apple info, most recently nailing the new iPad event date last March...
The search giant Google is reportedly looking to replicate Apple's Game Center with a native Android app of its own.
Despite the ongoing patent war waged between Apple and a bunch of Android backers over the look and feel of iOS software, Google is reportedly looking to simply copy Game Center.
The search firm needs own social gaming service so Android gamers have a central place to connect with each other, check out leaderboards, scores and challenge friends.
And if their other products are anything to go by, Google's thing is likely to feature deep integration with Google+, their another social thing...
Macotakara, the pretty reliable Japanese blog, relayed a MM Research Institute study today which pegged Apple's iPhone sales in Japan for the fiscal year 2011 at 7.25 million units. According to Apple's Q1 2012 earnings, the company shipped 35.1 million iPhones worldwide.
Unfortunately, Apple doesn't divulge iPhone unit sales on a per-country basis and only breaks down sales by region such as Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe and so forth...
Confirming the latest rumor asserting a possible settlement, Apple has reportedly offered Proview just $16 million for the rights to use the iPad moniker in China.
That's a far cry from a whopping $400 million the cash-strapped display maker is allegedly seeking in order to settle the trademark dispute and appease its creditors.
At the same time, Apple too is in a hurry to settle this dispute as the company looks to launch its new iPad in the all too important 1.33 billion people market, without risking a country-wide sales ban...
Apple is going to spend an unknown portion of its $110+ billion cash hoard toward improving labor conditions in manufacturing facilities run by its contract manufacturer Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry.
This has been confirmed by Terry Gou, the CEO who runs Taipei, Taiwan-based Foxconn which assembles Apple products alongside Pegatron Technology, another Asian contract manufacturer...
This is kind of cool: Cadillac just announced that all models of its 2013 Cadillac XTS will come standard with a new iPad. The news comes from the car-maker's head of customer experience Mark Harland, speaking at the CTIA Wireless show.
It appears that Cadillac will be loading up the tablet with all kinds of customized software, including OnStar RemoteLink, MyCadillac, and other vehicle-specific apps...
As Sprint, the nation's third-largest carrier, begins its long-overdue nationwide 4G LTE rollout, those keeping their fingers crossed for some crazy fast download speeds on a next-generation 4G LTE iPhone will be in for an unpleasant surprise.
While the carrier will keep unlimited data, whether or not the next iPhone has LTE (and we know the Now Network will be eligible for a 4G LTE iPhone), the handset will theoretically achieve much greater downloads speeds on rival AT&T's and Verizon's networks.
Here's why...
In the last decade, Apple has grown from a computer-maker with fractional marketshare to a consumer electronics powerhouse. It's popular iPhone and iPad lines, and even its retail stores are constantly setting records.
We've mentioned a lot of these impressive statistics on iDB in the past, but we all know that pictures are much more effective. So we thought we'd share this cool infographic with you from the folks over at Sortable.
Here's Apple by the Numbers...
Disney CEO Bob Iger, who got named to Apple's board last year, shares some interesting tidbits with Fortune concerning life at Disney and his management style.
He apparently runs the Mickey Mouse house a lot like late Apple CEO Steve Jobs had used to lead the consumer electronics powerhouse he co-founded.
Iger also let us in on how he'd persuaded Disney's board of directors to greenlight a risky acquisition of Jobs-owned animation studio Pixar, even though the board was unsure whether Pixar was for sale at the time...