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How the iPhone 5 Stacks Up to the Competition

The new iPhone is finally here. Yes, people would line up to buy it even if it was made of bottle-caps and dog-poo, but it isn’t. It’s predictably a very good phone. How good? Let’s see how it compares to the top competition. The following chart is a look at how these phones measure up…

iTunes 11 Arrives With a Streamlined Look and New Features

Just in time for the release of iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 comes iTunes 11, which has an even more streamlined appearance, “edge-to-edge” design, and more an overall more visual feel. But you’ll have to wait until late October for it. When viewing an album grid and you click an album, it will produce…

iOS 6 Will Arrive on September 19 With Better Siri, New Maps, Revamped iMessage and Passbook

We’ve seen and heard about many of the new features coming to iOS 6 already, but with the announcement of the iPhone 5, we now know exactly when it’s coming: September 19. https://gizmodo.com/ios-6-all-the-new-features-coming-soon-to-your-iphone-5917359 Little has been added in the way of functionality aside from what we saw at WWDC, but it will be compatible with…

The iPhone 5 Will Cost $200 and Release on September 21st, Pre-Orders Start September 14th

Apple just announced that the iPhone 5 is going to cost $200 and release on September 21st. Get ready because that’s about a week and a half from now. If you want to be smart and skip the line though, you can pre-order the new iPhone starting on September 14th. The iPhone 5 comes in…

Apple: No NFC for You! Come Back, One Year! Maybe!

When is an NFC antenna not an NFC antenna? When it’s reportedly attached to an iPhone 5. Contrary to recent speculation, Apple’s newest handset will not feature an NFC payment system. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-new-iphone-5-leaks-show-nfc-chip-maybe-sorta-5938123 While NFC, or Near Field Communications technology has recently gained traction in the marketplace—mobile payments worldwide are expected to top $170 billion by…

This Is the Ugly iPhone 5 Lightning Adapter You’ll Need For All Your Old Accessories

If you’re gung-ho on upgrading to the iPhone 5 and have a mountain of old accessories from previous generations of the iPhone and iPod, this is the ugly adapter you’ll need to buy for all of your deprecated gear. The iPhone 5 introduces a new, and considerably smaller, Lightning connector that’s incompatible with every single…

What’s Changed in Apple’s New 8-Pin Lightning Dock Connector

Here’s Apple’s new Lightning connector, the replacement for the old 30-pin, and the way you’ll be charging and syncing all your iPads, Pods, and Phones from now on. According to Apple, the Lightning connector is more durable, reversible (making it easier to use), and “adaptive”. It’s 80 percent smaller than the old 30-pin. The cable…

Apple’s New A6 Chip Is Smaller, Lighter, and Mightier

Apple announced it’s got a whole new chip for the iPhone 5. It’s called the A6, which is a semi-surprising upgrade to this year’s iPad’s A5X. No word on whether it’s quad core or not, but it’s 22 percent smaller than the old A5 and has twice the GPU and graphics power. The A5 to…

Apple iPhone 5: Everything You Need to Know

The new iPhone 5 is here. It’s thinner and faster than ever, with a new form factor that uses a gorgeous panoramic screen with more resolutions and less consumption. It also surfs the web much faster, thanks to its new LTE capabilities. And, just as we knew, it has a new smaller dock connector called…

The iPhone 5 Packs LTE: It’ll Be Fast as Hell

Yep, as pretty-much-confirmed this morning, the newest iPhone will be able to ride the fastest cellular data out there, meaning web, streaming video, and all of your downloads will be ten times as speedy—with 8 hours of battery. https://gizmodo.com/apple-leaks-iphone-5s-lte-powers-early-5942576 LTE access will be available on all three major US carriers (and others across Europe and…

Holy Jesus’ underpants! Apple sold more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold of their entire PC line. 84 million units!

New iPod Nanos Look Like Gorgeous Tiny iPhones

Brand new iPod Nanos also joined Apple’s iPhone 5 party at the Moscone Center today. The totally redesigned junior MP3 players have a larger display, and come in seven beautiful candy-hued colors. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-5-everything-you-need-to-know-5942588 The new iPods also have Bluetooth for the first time as well as the brand new lightning connector and the longest battery…

Alleged Photos of Final iPhone 5 Leak Just Before the Event

French site Nowhereelse claims to have found photos of what seems to be a complete, final version of the iPhone 5. It sure looks like a shiny iPhone 5 fresh out of the factory. The photos were just posted in a Chinese forum web site. The black version’s rim seems quite a lot darker than…

iPhone 5: The Complete Rumor Roundup

There’s been so much rumor-hawking and speculation the past few weeks that whether you’re ready or not, we’re squarely in the middle of iPhone season. So here’s a quick rundown of everything we think we know about Apple’s next iPhone. Appearance We think we have a pretty good idea of what the new iPhone will…

Apple Leaks iPhone 5’s LTE Powers Early

Using the same method of URL guesswork on Apple.com, you can find evidence that the iPhone 5 will be LTE-powered. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-iphone-will-be-called-the-iphone-5-update-new-5942567 This was expected, but we thought we’d at least have to wait until today’s keynote speech to get confirmation. This does the trick. We will have to wait and see what the carrier plan…

The New iPhone Will Be Called the iPhone 5 (Update: New iPods Leak Too!)

Looks like we were wrong! It still doesn’t really make sense, but leaked search results directly from Apple.com all but confirm that the New iPhone will be named the iPhone 5. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-iphone-wont-be-the-iphone-5-5930068 First pointed out by 9to5Mac, the internal disclosure is easy to reproduce on your own. Just type “iPhone 5” into Apple’s own website…

Our iPhone 5 Mega-Meta Liveblog Bonanza Kicks Off Right Now

This afternoon, Apple will finally lift the veil on its latest iPhone, lock in the goodies iOS 6 has in store, and maybe intro a new iPod or two. And we’ll be covering it all right here. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 While you may think you know what the iPhone 5 looks like by now, nothing’s official until…

The Apple Store Is Down WHAT COULD IT MEAN EVERYBODY FREAK OUT

Either Apple has been forcibly taken over by a multilingual cartel, or it’s updating its online store like it always does when it’s about to announce a major new product. Come on guys, we’ve been doing this for how many years now? https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 In fact, we weren’t even going to post this at all when…

Last-Minute Apple Leaks: Lightning Connectors, Earpod Headphones and 2 GB iPod Shuffles

9to5mac is reporting some last-minute leaks ahead of the Apple event later today. Chief amongst them are that the iPod’s new connection will be named “Lightning”—presumably to complement Thunderbolt—and a reaffirmation that the company will launch a new set of headphones to be known as “Earpods”. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-iphones-rumored-foolproof-dock-connector-5935305 There are no new speculative details about the…

The Undercover Story of How Someone Infiltrated Foxconn to See How They Make the iPhone 5

A reporter from the Shanghai Evening Post pretended to be a new worker at the Foxconn Tai Yuan factory to get an insider’s look at how the factory is going to make the next iPhone 5. He spent a total of 10 days inside and spilled the undercover story of what goes on in the…