Archive for August 29th, 2009
Exploding iPhones Version 2
Remember those exploding iPhones and iPods in Europe from yesterday? Well, according to a Tier 2 iPhone support agent only one or two calls out of every thousand are related to iPhone overheating. Should we understand from all this that just European iPhones and iPods have exploding problems? Here’s the full answer from that iPhone support agent: I’m a Tier 2 iPhone agent for Apple. I’d like to add that roughly one to two calls out of every thousand that I take deal with the battery “o
Pools of Blood Game App for the iPhone
Smashing orcs and dissolving them to a pool of blood. That is what this game is all about where you have to defend your tower with the use of your iPhone. Sounds dull? Don’t conclude just yet. Just like most games we see today, the musical score normally pumps up the adrenaline for gamers and keeps them playing. The key is to actually play the game. For now, we can say that it is a boring game to place on your iPhone or iPod Touch. But once you hear Karnivool’s “Set Fire to the Hive” musi
Apple Files Patent With Ideas for Adding Speech Input For iPhones and iPods
[This story is jointly posted on the Opus Research Home Page .]On August 27, the U.S. read more
Current iPod SKUs discontinued?
ArsTechnica is reporting that iPod supply sources are saying that all available iPod SKUs have been discontinued and supplies are drying up quickly . These reports lend credence to the rumor that Apple will hold an event on September 9th to announce updates to all of the iPod lines but there is no indication as to when the new iPods would arrive. Related posts: Leaked cases point to camera in next iPod Nano/Touch Rumor Next iPod nano to have a camera? iLounge is Toshiba “ra
Name Game: Why It’ll Keep The Kindle Above Anything Sony Has To Offer
Sony released their latest answer to Amazon’s Kindle last week, The Daily Edition, offering wireless 3G service, wireless syncing and a 7-inch touch screen - which the Kindle lacks. But it still might not be enough to trump Amazon’s highly popular Kindle device. And here’s why. Let’s use Apple’s iPod as an example. The iPod has now become synonymous with music and Mp3 players around the world. No matter who you ask, almost everyone knows what an iPod is over a Zune or any other Mp3 player
Current iPod SKUs are disappearing
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentFiled under: Retail, Rumors, iPod nano, iPod classic If you’re looking to own a current-generation iPod, you best buy one before they’re gone. Ars Technica notes that vendors inside Apple’s Authorized Reseller network are reporting that dwindling stocks aren’t being met with new shipments, lending further credence to the presumption that September’s press event will be about new iPods. Apple typically introduces new iPods in September,
Price Elasticity and iPods
Farhad Manjoo enjoins would-be Kindle competitors not to make the mistake the iPod’s rivals made: Lesson No. 1 : Beat the Kindle on features, not just price. One of the reasons the iPod managed to stay on top for so long was that Apple was constantly innovating. Its rivals would match its features—stylish design, unbeatable interface, ever-better capacity—but by the time they got there, Apple had invented some newer, better, smaller, sleeker iPod, and its old version was now passé. Eventua
How Sony can beat the Kindle, provided it can find its shoes and its glasses after it wakes up
Farhad Manjoo has a nice “what-if” story up on Slate about what Sony can do to beat the Kindle. Sadly, what Manjoo is doing here is akin to helping a little old crazy lady across the street - at best his advice will be ignore and and worst he’ll be cursed out. He basically writes: Anyone looking to beat the Kindle, then, should look to the iPod: Study everything that Apple’s rivals did, and do the opposite. Whoa, slow down there Zen Master. Sony had been spinning its wheels for half a d
Apple Results On Exploding iPhone Investigation
Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. After all the different reports about iPhones exploding, Apple started an investigation. The results are in and it seems it’s not the battery that’s causing these problems. It’s the external pressure on the device that caused the explosions.With 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods sold to date, Apple claims there are zero confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS and the nu
Exploding iPhone Investigation: Not Apples fault apparently
The overheating and exploding iPods and iPhones are not Apple’s fault, the company has been under scrutiny for devices overheating and shattering across Europe and the UK. The exploding iPhone and iPods are really not a laughing matter, the European Union have actually launched an inquiry last week following a teen in France who claimed his girlfriends iPhone screen exploded without warning shattering everywhere including a shard of glass into his eye. In another case a man was apparently