The iPhone game of the moment is so addictive that it's impossible to even talk about how addictive it is to play the color-coded connect-the-dots game without stopping to play another round — or 25.
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.
This afternoon at 1 p.m. EST Apple will release its updated operating system, iOS 6, but despite all the new bells and whistles we're a little anxious about immediately upgrading.
Never mind all that talk about the boring new phone, iPhone 5 pre-orders, which began at 12:00 a.m. PST this morning, sold out in less than 60 minutes, with Apple bumping back the ship date a whole week for anyone who has put in an order since.
Apple's done announcing the iPhone 5 we already knew a lot about, so let's see how well the rumor mill operated this time around.
Finally, Apple has confirmed what we already knew, introducing us to the iOS6 equipped iPhone 5, a thinner, lighter version of its phone, with a bigger 4-inch screen.
After almost an entire year of iPhone rumors, the tech whisperers have told us what to expect from today's event, which we think gives us a pretty good idea of what Apple will deliver.
With the iPhone 5 about to come out, the predictors have taken their magic calculator machines out to guess how many phones Apple will sell following the release.
In addition to the subsidies carriers have tacked on to upgrades, the wireless carriers are hoping that the faster 4G LTE, which many expect the iPhone to run on, will make them more money, too.
Though the Federal Aviation Administrated is now looking into allowing gadgets during take-off and landing, flyers shouldn't get their hopes up.
Foxconn has defended itself against charges that the company is forcing teenagers to assemble iPhones, saying it's okay to have underage workers put in 12-hour days because they can leave if they want.
This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place?
Apple has sent out invitations confirming its rumored iPhone (and maybe iPad) event this month with two telling numbers on it: 12 and 5.
This is a mess you don't want to be a part of: Hacker group AntiSec claims it has gotten a hold of FBI data that contained over 12 million Apple ID numbers linked with other personal information.
Following their $1 billion legal settlement, Apple listed eight Samsung products they want taken off the market. Now, still unsatisfied, Apple's adding two of Samsung's biggest products to their kill list.
The next version of the App Store, that will come with Apple's next iOS update, includes a fix that could change the way we shop.
Apple has for the third—and what looks like the final—time rejected an app that would send alerts every time a U.S. military drone made a kill.
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.
Is your smartphone in danger of being taken off the market? You can find out now as Apple has listed the Samsung devices it wants banned from the U.S. market following its sweeping legal victory over the South Korean electronics manufacturer.
Yesterday there were rumors swirling that Apple was planning on hosting not one, but two (!) events this fall. Now we know it's true, and why. We're getting an iPad mini.
The court has reached a verdict in the Apple Samsung patent trial after just one day of deliberation.
There is a rumor going around that Apple will have not one, but two events for the release of the rumored upcoming iPhone and iPad based on the idea that these two products are too big to share a spotlight. We won't know it's true until Apple says so.
One year ago today Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple anointing Tim Cook king of the iKingdom and by many metrics he has done a good job as leader of the gadgeteers.
While talking up its mobile strategy world domination plans to the outside world, Facebook has been pushing its employees to shift focus from big to little screen.
Facebooks says its Facebook iOS app update makes the notoriously slow iPhone version of the social network "twice as fast as the previous version when launching the app, scrolling through News Feed and opening photos in feed," per an announcement on their website. But is it fast enough?
Following allegations that its just announced FaceTime payment plan violates FCC guidelines, AT&T has responded with a statement calling the outrage a "knee jerk reaction," the kind of explanation that makes angry consumers even angrier.
Newly appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is giving her entire staff new iPhones, which has to burn her former Google colleagues a little.
With a market cap of $621 billion Apple is now the most valuable American company of all time, beating a record formerly held by Microsoft during the dot-com bubble, according to The Associated Press' Peter Svensson.
The next iPhone will include FaceTime over not just wireless but data networks too, and for AT&T subscribers at least, that will come with no extra charge—kind of.
The genius of the new Mitt Romney VP app is a lot like the genius of an addictive, yet simple, Zynga game, but instead of tapping for corn on your FarmVille, you tap to get a politician's name.
You can stop worrying now, because we know you were so concerned that you stopped doing work all day and stared a gymnastics GIFs to make yourself feel better, but you can stop that now: New York Times's gadget reviewer David Pogue's iPhone has been found.
If you look at the amount of time between iPhone releases in the past, you get an average of 298 days, according to numbers complied by MacRumors. Well, we hit that landmark. It has now been 301 days since the release of the iPhone 4S. It is now okay to whine.
Following last quarter's blockbuster numbers — 35.1 million iPhones sold and $39.2 billion in revenue — Apple's financial report for this quarter looked rather meek: 26 million iPhone and $35 billion.
For some more than others, the Apple unboxing experience -- a moment Apple puts a lot of thought into, as we discussed yesterday -- creates a special bond that lasts beyond the unwrapping experience.
The latest out of Apple rumor-ville says that we can expect a thinner iPhone screen by about half a millimeter, an improvement on its own that doesn't get us too excited.
Today the iPhone turns the big 5 and like any birthday, the best part is presents. You probably totally forgot today was the iPhone's birthday and therefore also totally forgot to get it a gift. But that's okay! We have some ideas all ready for the taking.
Delighted Chrome fans, don't get over-excited about Google's announcement that it will offer a Chrome app for the iPhone.
If it seems odd that a federal regulator was scooped by a sleep-deprived student, get used to it, because the federal government is often the last to know about digital invasions of your privacy.
The way the gadget review system works nowadays, tech experts get their hands on a device as soon as possible and churn out a review in time for its release, giving consumers a pretty narrow view of the latest thing if they actually need it.
Video chatting, one of the few data features of a smartphone that involves talking, doesn't look so appealing in the coming data-centric future.
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.
After failing to rally the masses to his cause back in December, The New York Times' Nick Bilton is at it again, whining about the Federal Aviation Administration's electronics on airplane rules.
People who own iPhones are "in a cult." Android users have "slightly larger than average heads." These were some of the assumptions explored by Queena Kim in a segment that aired Monday on American Public Media's Marketplace.
The latest front in the great Google-Apple war is to provide 3D maps on Smartphones, which at first sounds like a chest-thumping battle of techno-corporate pride, but after a bit of investigation might actually benefit people who are stuck with plain old 2D.
Without Steve Jobs here to defend himself, we're seeing a lot of talk about the visionary's last wishes -- the final visions in that brain that the Apple founder never saw to completion.
Apple's fears of jailbreaking -- i.e. making their gadgets work outside of Apple's software controls -- have trickled down to the iTunes store in a way that just doesn't make any sense.
Discovered: The horrible earth ruining effects of spilled milk, a reason to keep on breast feeding, an iPhone that runs on you, and a new bionic body part.
Yesterday we discussed how photo sharing apps have gotten all tricked out to compete with the now-Facebook-owned Instagram, but the real, next big thing in apps is video sharing.
We knew well before Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars that people really liked photo apps on their iPhones and Androids.
It's always exciting when someone stands up to a bully—unless that results in jacking up of the price of the hottest phone even higher than it already is.
The latest Barnes and Noble ad campaign for the new Nook Simple Touch with Glowlite speaks to that special, intimate relationship in our lives.
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