Despite pictures indicating otherwise, KGI analyst Mingchi Kuo says that the Apple iPad 5 will not launch with the Touch ID fingerprint scanner; a picture that we showed you on Saturday morning that included the next iteration of Apple's 9.7 inch slate, revealed the feature on the tablet. In addition, Kuo, who is said to have inside contacts at Apple, forecasts that the iPad mini 2 will be equipped with a Retina display...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Kuo-Expect-the-Apple-iPad-5-to-launch-sans-Touch-ID-and-a-Retina-display-on-the-Apple-iPad-mini-2_id48473
Sunrise means a brand new day for U.S. smartphone owners to interact with their phone; a new survey shows that 84% of Americans head straight for an app to use first thing in the morning. Which apps are in demand when the sun rises? The data has been broken down even more by app type. 67% of smartphone users check their email first thing when they get up...
A patent issued to Google could reveal the Android phone of the future; according to the patent the phone's user will be able to navigate the phone by squeezing, shearing or splaying the device. Squeezing is obvious, but shearing to the right means sliding up the left side of the phone while sliding down the right side. Shearing to the left requires you to slide down the left side and slide up the right side...
According to a published report on Saturday, Twitter has already decided to kill off its #Music app after just 6 months. Twitter #Music got off to a great start when it launched as the music app jumped to number 6 on the App Store's list of free apps; since then, it has been a long way down in the rankings for the service. As of August, analytics firm Onavo had Twitter #Music as the 1672th ranked app in the App Store...
Just which smartphone is the fastest? According to Which magazines independent speed test, the Apple iPhone 5s beat out rivals like the Samsung Galaxy S4 to earn the title as the world's fastest smartphone using the Geekbench benchmark tests; in single-core testing, the full-featured iPhone had a huge margin over the LG G2, the second place finisher. The Samsung Galaxy S4 was third...
When we first showed you pictures of some of the parts used in the gold Apple iPhone 5s, we called it a champagne color; it seems that Apple actually had a more interesting name for the handset, the "Kardashian phone". This interesting information comes by way of a report in the New York Times, not the National Enquirer. The name was used by Apple employees during the entire design process...