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Next iPhone May Have a Battery Hog


The next iPhone may not look like previous models, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be familiar — at least in a bad way. According to 9to5Mac, a “reliable parts source,” the next iPhone will include a battery that is only slightly different than the one on the iPhone 4S/4. In other words, the next iPhone could be a battery hog.
In five variations, the iPhone has often been plagued with battery issues, some of which seemed to had gone away on their own, while others needed a software fix to resolve.
Last fall, for example, there were more than 275 pages of complaints from angry customers about the 4S battery on Apple’s support forum.
Regrettably, the latest rumor suggests the next iPhone will be no better in the battery department. According to the report, the sixth-generation will feature battery packs with a capacity of 1440 mAh. This compares to 1430 mAH for the iPhone 4S, and 1420 mAh for the iPhone 4.
Saturday, 8 September 2012 by Unknown · 0 comments

Apple Has Sold $50 Billion of iPhones in U.S.


The Apple-Samsung trial has forced both companies to open the books on their sales in more detail than they ever have before. Within the filings, we can now see just how big a success story the iPhone has been for Apple.
AllThingsD posted the mobile sales figures for both companies this morning. Although we’ve already seen how the iPhone has affected Apple’s bottom line in the company’s quarterly earnings reports, it’s informative to see just how much it’s grown in Apple’s home country, the U.S.A.

Since its release in June 2007, people in the U.S. have bought 85 million iPhones — almost one iPhone for every third person in the country, according to the most recent census data. Those sales have generated a total $50 billion in revenue for Apple.
 
The year that saw the most growth in U.S. iPhone sales was actually 2011, when sales jumped to 32.4 million units over 14.123 million in 2010. The reasons for the spike are fairly clear: 2011 was the year Apple finally brought the iPhone to carriers besides AT&T in the U.S., plus it waited an extra four months beyond its usual launch date for that year’s model, the iPhone 4S, leading to unprecedented sales numbers when it finally debuted.
The Samsung numbers don’t go back as far as Apple’s, but they show Samsung sold a total of 21.3 million phones between June 2010 and June 2012, generating $7.5 billion in revenue. In that same period, Apple sold 60.1 million iPhones for $36.7 billion.
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Zynga Launches Gems


Zynga is expanding the “With Friends” franchise Thursday with the launch of its newest title: Gems With Friends.
The game consists of three rounds in which players combine three or more numbered gems together to create a higher-numbered gem. For instance, combining together three gems with a 1 on them will create a single 2 gem. Combine four gems, and you’ve got a 5.

The higher-numbered gem will always appear where you dropped the last piece, allowing players to create chain combos by strategically placing the last piece. Each round lasts only two minutes.  “One of the things I’m most excited about is that this game combines things that people already enjoy.”
Players receive points for each gem they place on the board, and earn more points for combining higher-numbered gems. Power gems bring in additional features into the game, and can provide a competitive advantage.
After each round your score is tabulated and sent to your opponent, who then attempts to best your score on an identical board.
Gems With Friends is available today in Canada (where Zynga often beta-tests its games), and will be rolling out soon to other areas.
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If a Google Employee Dies, Spouse Gets Half Pay for 10 Years


It’s been long reported that Google treats its employees well, from offering them Free food and fitness clasess to laundry service and car washes. But according to a recent report, Google recently rolled out death benefits to employees, including a generous offer to pay the spouse or partner of a deceased staffer half of their salary for a decade.

The news of these death benefits — which was first reported by Forbes— also comes with “no tenure requirement,” but it covers only U.S. employees right now. It was put into place earlier this year.
 The surviving spouse or partner of a deceased employee will also acquire vested stock benefits, and children will receive $1,000 a month until the age of 19. The timeline can be extended if the child is in school full time.
Google said it is taking this approach because it is the right thing to do, ensuring that each employee’s family is taken care of if an unforeseeable event were to occur — even if there is no direct benefit to the business.
Although it might attract more candidates to apply for a position, Google said that is not the reason why it implemented the benefits — more potential hires would just be a side effect.
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Sunday, 2 September 2012 by Unknown · 0 comments

Siri Rival Google Voice Search Coming to the iPad


Watch out Siri, Google is bringing its Voice Search app to the iPhone and iPad.
As with the Android version, the app taps into Google’s Knowledge Graph function to consider the user’s location and the context of what is being searched.
This means that the app can suggest films at nearby cinemas when users ask
“What movies are playing this weekend?” or understand that a search for ‘Rio’ could mean a city, movie or casino.
Comparisons with Apple’s Siri are bound to be made — not least because both apps can respond to direct questions — but in reality Google Voice Search is someway off its Apple rival. After all, Siri is able to search and carry out other functions across the Internet, apps, calendar entries and messages.
The free Google Voice Search app is currently available for Android on the Google Play store but will come to Apple’s App Store in the coming weeks.
This article originally published at TabTimes here.


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Sunday, 26 August 2012 by Unknown · 0 comments

The Queen’s Stunt Double Drop-Tests an iPhone From 1,000 Feet [VIDEO]


Who is Gary Connery? He’s the skydiver who doubled for the Queen of England in the awesome stunt that kicked off the 2012 Olympic Games. But he’s also the star of this video, shown gliding in a wingsuit and then dropping an iPhone from 1,000 feet.
Just one day before his Olympic stunt, Connery joined a couple of other base jumpers to launch themselves off the Eiger mountain in Switzerland. During the descent, they dropped the iPhone and kept the camera active, recording its entire free fall.

 
The iPhone survived, but with a little help in the form of a smartphone case made by G-Form. G-Form builds cases from the same RPT (reactive protection technology) material that it uses to create protective suits, which the jumpers in the video happen to be wearing, too.
Yes, this whole thing just might be a publicity stunt, but with such a huge emphasis on “stunt,” we have to give kudos. If you want one of those fancy cases for yourself (called the Extreme X), it’ll set you back about $40.

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