After announcing the other week that it would extend FaceTime to all iPhone 5 owners, no matter their data plan, AT&T has started rolling out the video-chat service to even more customers, according to reports.
The iOS 6 upgrade that iPhone owners everywhere are downloading this afternoon didn't go so well for this The Atlantic Wire writer, and I may have lost all the data on my iPhone 4S.
Yesterday's iPhone 5 announcement was the third Apple event this year that elicited a "meh" reaction, making it the expectation for the company of late.
In anticipation of next month's rumored iPhone 5 unveiling, Apple wants to give you money in exchange for your old phone. But the company's phone-recycling program, now in full effect with a new product on the way, is far from the best deal out there.
Kind of like that Siri abortion scandal that happened a few months ago, Siri just happens to know nothing about the Tiananmen Square protests in China.
Though the straight numbers, at least according to this Cult of Mac breakdown, say that the new prepaid iPhone offerings from Cricket Wireless and Sprint Virgin Mobile are the way to go, it got us wondering what kind of hidden costs come with the too-good-to-be-true cheap option.
In our individuality obsessed culture, the only way to make one's iPhone hipper than the rest is to spend lots of money customizing the device.
When naming one's child there are two ways to go: The risky character-building route, or the safe, but possibly lame, classic name path. The same goes for phones.
Apple's big TV plans maybe might include Siri integration, but a recent survey suggests that bot-controlled television is not something people would want or use.
Frank M. Fazio has a beef with Siri. He claims that Apple has presented a "misleading and deceptive message" about the iPhone's voice-activated personal assistant in its ads.
This morning Verizon reported a fourth quarter loss of $2.02 billion, or 71 cents per share and even though it doubled iPhone sales over the holiday season to 4.2 million, the loss had a lot to do with those very sales
Apple has filed a patent for its iPhone bot, securing its ownership of the popular feature while revealing the company's lofty plans for Siri's future.
Apple has called a halt to all iPhone sales in China after huge crowds disrupted the launch of the iPhone 4S in Beijing. And now there's video.
Just like every precious finite resource in this world, data usage is relegated to the top one percent, with elite smartphone users consuming half of all the data.
Though Apple got around to fixing its battery drain issues, the iPhone maker has yet to address the phone's audio-mute problem, dubbed "audiogate."
In case you needed more evidence of the BlackBerry plummet from relevancy or that iPhones are winning the smartphone war, a thief has been mugging Columbia's students and has, sadly, been handing back their lame BlackBerrys.
The feature that wowed tech bloggers upon the iPhone 4S's debut, is no longer getting much praise.
Since Apple has come out and said that Siri's abortion non-answers are a glitch and thus not a conspiracy, it's time to dig into technical explanations for the seemingly political bot.
After the Internet freaked out over Siri's apparent pro-life bias, Apple has responded, but not apologized or fixed, the personal assistant's abortion "glitch."
When asked where to go for an abortion, Siri has been directing iPhoners to far-away, pro-life clinics. Does that make Apple's robot stupid, ill-informed or biased?
Dissatisfied with Siri's already impressive personal assistant skills, hackers have taken her to the next level, manipulating her technology to do more than just send text messages.
Replacing everything we used to carry around with us, smartphones are making purses obsolete.
Apple's software update for the iPhone 4S battery drain doesn't seem to fix the issue for all affected phones, meaning this might require more than a quick-fix from Apple.
Ashamed of its thieving, Apple has hidden some of its more blatant Android pilfers.
Facing its greatest technological non-crisis since the BlackBerry network outage of '11, America is currently grappling with an apparent Siri outage.
Apple has acknowledged that its iPhone 4S has some battery issues and says it is coming up with some fixes.
Siri is a pretty neat personal as is, but some have taken her to the next level, connecting the bot to other devices and making life just that much easier.
The iPhone's a big creeper. It has a bunch of fancy phone features that have wooed users, like Siri and its 8 megapixel camera. But the phone has a darker side.
After getting solid reviews hopeful iPhoners have flocked in record numbers to purchase the latest iGadget, but not even Apple's offerings are perfect.
Apple said the number is more than double for the sales of the original iPhone 4
Stores are attracting cheapskates jealous of the iPhone 4S
Once again, thousands are crowding the sidewalks outside of Apple Stores
Upgraders are encountering issues from slow updates to bricked phones
Ever since bloggers got their hands on the newest iPhone they've been pushing her limits
Gadget critics are now on the same page with consumers who are buying in record numbers
Apple took more than a million orders in the first 24 hours the iPhone 4S was available
Providers have started taking pre-orders and we're here to help
A garbage man camping out to buy the iPhone 4S may set the record at 240 hours
There's bad news and worse news after the underwhelming iPhone announcement
Let's see whose whispers were worth believing
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