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Samsung’s New Superfast Chips Could Fuel Your Future iPhone

Samsung has just announced some superfast new chips and they might one day power an iPhone. The company claims the Pro Class 1500 line is the Usain Bolt of flash memory cards—four times speedier than predecessors, and possibly the fastest chips around. They can read data at 140 MB per second and write it at…

What’s Apple Doing With This Mystery Building?

North Carolina: home of BBQ, beaches, and Apple’s gi-freaking-normous data center. It’s where iCloud lives, and maybe Siri! And now the company is putting the finishing touches on a new center. Why? Nobody really knows. So Wired checked it out. From above, Wired was able to spot some interesting physical details of the 20,000 square…

The iPad’s Smart Cover Could Someday Be a Second Display

Apple is trying to patent a Smart Cover for the iPad that has an embedded secondary display. Or in other words: Eat it, Surface. The cover would use a connector on the side of the iPad that would supply data and power to the cover. Here’s Apple’s description from the application: [The] accessory device comprising:…

No, the next iPhone won’t cost $800. Unless it’s unlocked. Please stop being dumb, Twitter. [Buzzfeed]

Why Apple TV Just Became Apple’s Most Important Product

There are coincidences in this world, and it’s important not to read too much into them. Pandora playing the song stuck in your head doesn’t make you psychic. But then there are coincidences you can’t help but think might mean a little bit more. Like, say, three heavy hitter holdouts all hopping on Apple TV…

Apple Ditched Curved Glass iPhone Because it Was Too Expensive

The information about Apple’s early iPhone prototypes and concepts just keeps coming. According to a court filing, Apple considered building a phone with shaped glass, but it never happened because it would have cost too much cash money. Look at those images above. Trippy concept, right? Network World discovered the deposition of former Apple designer…

Sharp: We’re Shipping New iPhone Displays This Month

The next iPhone is on the way, and a handful of rumors point to a launch on September 12th. Now, Sharp has announced that it’s shipping screens for the new device this month—so it looks like those dates could be believable. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 Sharp’s new president, Takashi Okuda, said that “shipments will start in August” at…

Wolfram Cat Breeds Reference App: You Can Haz Cat Factz

The internet has done a lot for the rise of cats. With the deluge of feline videos and gifs, you’d think the four-legged furballs actually ran the world wide web. But what are cats really like? Answer all your burning questions with Wolfram Alpha’s Cat Breeds Reference App. What does it do? Gives you every…

How to Keep One Ear Open When Using Headphones

We often think of listening to music with headphones as creating “a soundtrack for our lives.” But when you think about it, the music in films usually plays in the background to enhance the setting, not drown it out. Unless you live in a persistent montage scene (where the music comes to the fore) or…

You Can Now Configure Your MacBook Pro Retina In Any Way You Want

This is great news! Instead of having to deal with Apple pre-configured MacBook Pro Retina options, now you can freely configure your machine in any way you want. Processor, memory and storage, you can combine them all for your optimal performance/price point ratio. For example, you can select top speed in the processor without having…

Would You Buy This iPhone Prototype?

We’ve seen plenty of iPhone and iPad prototypes as this legal battle against Samsung unfolds. But most of them were left prototypes for a reason—visually speaking. However, this latest one unearthed by the Verge caught my eye in a different way. https://gizmodo.com/earliest-iphone-4-and-ipad-prototypes-look-pretty-ridic-5929433 Apple revealed the tidbit yesterday that the iPhone was birthed from a 2003…

The Man Responsible for the iPhone and iPad CPU Just Left Apple for AMD

Apple’s homegrown processors in their iOS devices are pretty awesome, able to outperform—and in some cases, blow away—other mobile chipsets. Jim Keller, one of the men largely responsible for that feat, is leaving. Where is he going? AMD. Ouch. https://gizmodo.com/inside-apples-a5x-chipset-dual-core-cpu-quad-core-gpu-5891159 According to 9to5mac, Keller was an employee at PA Semi when the company was acquired…

Samsung Throws a Temper Tantrum in Court Battle Against Apple and Leaks Dismissed Evidence to the Press

When a judge decides to dismiss evidence you feel would make your case in a patent lawsuit, you have one of two options: a) You can sit back and deal with it like a timid little tktkt or b) you can fire back and choose another public-facing channel to disseminate your information. Samsung chose the…

The Portable iPhone Turntable Setup For Nomadic DJs

Pushing the limits of what can be considered an iPod/iPhone dock, Philips’ FWP3200D is like an all-in-one DJ stage show with a pair of 5.25-inch subwoofers that glow and pulse to your music—and a set of digital turntables letting you mix and scratch your beats. The rig can access music from two iPhones or iPods…

Amazon Instant Video Lands on iPad As Prime Members Weep With Joy

The fact that Amazon’s Instant Video service—which, while no Netflix, is starting to catch up—is just thrown in as an add-on to the already wonderful Amazon Prime is a little astonishing, when you think about it. And now, with iPad compatibility that some of us thought would never get here, it’s gotten dangerously close to…

The New Essential Apps July 2012

iPhones. iPads. Android. We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: iPhone | Android | iPad The Best iPhone…

Are You Having Problems With iMessage and iCloud?

Reports are circulating that iCloud and iMessage are suffering from technical difficulties, some of which have been confirmed by Apple (namely the whole iCloud not loading messages sent prior to yesterday part). But the iMessage thing has gone unacknowledged, leading some to believe that the company might be tinkering with the system behind the scenes.…

There’s Never Been a Worse Time to Buy an iPhone Accessory

Whatever you do in the next six weeks, don’t spend any money on iPhone accessories. No matter how enticing the sales are, no matter how frayed your case is. There are significant changes coming to Apple’s marquee handset—and soon—that will render them nearly obsolete. Over the past several update cycles, Apple owners have been lulled…

The iPhone’s Future Predictive Keyboard Makes Certain Keys Larger Without You Ever Noticing (Updated)

Apple has been granted a patent for a predictive text keyboard on mobile devices that will automatically increase the size of touch targets without actually doing so visually. Although this patent, which Apple Insider dug up, is bit confusing in concept, it’s execution makes sense. In fact, the idea of implementing this idea without visual…

Gmail for iOS Gets Mercifully Smoother Scrolling and Handy Image Saves

Google has rolled out a minor update to Gmail for iOS. Version 1.3 includes faster scrolling and animation (thankfully) on the iPhone and iPod touch. Additionally, now you can save photo attachments to your library the same way you save images from Facebook on your phone, by simply touching and holding. Google has also mended…