iPhone

First released on a key chain back in 1996, the Tamagotchi quickly became a sensation with kids around the world. You could pet it, clean up its poop, feed it… and that's about it. But it was awesome, for 1996. Now Bandai, the company behind the original creation, is re-releasing …

We are now living in the last days of the USA being the biggest power on Earth. Buried under a tremendous amount of debt and a continuing struggle to understand which direction to take in order to stimulate growth, American companies are now looking at the ‘East' for solutions. KitGuru …

Under Steve Jobs, Apple was aimed fair and square at the ‘aspirational' side of town. Forget how much you had, this is the product you want – why don't you save up or borrow to get it? That thinking appeared to fail Apple the first time around and, eventually, Jobs …

The latest industry rumors claim that Apple are working on a big change in corporate strategy. According to the Wall Street Journal some people briefed on the change have ‘slipped‘ out the information. This isn't the first time we have heard this news although the latest news would suggest that …

New Years, the night where many of us drink ourselves into a start where we really do not wish to be woken too early the following morning by various notification spam. Fortunately (or perhaps not) a bug has arose in iOS 6 where the recently introduced Do Not Disturb mode …

If you are shopping for a new smartphone today, the chances are that you are looking at either an Android or iOS handset. That is the feedback we are getting from many of the UK retail stores before Christmas. Both of these platforms account for almost 90 percent of all …

Apple have stunned analysts worldwide by announcing that they have sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China, a new record for the company. Tim Cook, Apple CEO has said that the sales has been ‘the best first weekend sales ever in China'. His statement can be read …

A bizarre story hit the net yesterday, when the police used a taser on a woman after she tried to buy too many iPhones at a local mall. The woman's daughter Jiao Jay said her mother bought two iPhones last Friday and was told that she wasn't allowed to buy …

While Apple itself is not sure about apps that run outside of the Jobs-o-sphere, companies like iGotYa were doing such good trade outside the OSX law, that their software seems to be getting installed more and more. What does it do? Simple. It photographs people that attempt to use your …

Market research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech have said that iOS is now the top selling smartphone operating system in America, pushing Android phones into second place. Kantar said yesterday that iPhones now hold a 48.1% share of the U.S. smartphone market, compared against 46.7% for Android. The iPhone 4S outsold …

The Apple iPhone 5 has already proven to be a big seller, which won't come as a shock to many. Shipments of the iPhone 5 in Q4 is said to hit around 40 million according to sources in Taipei. We heard a couple of hours ago that the shipments from …

While ‘wee-tee-kah-wah-tee' won't mean a great deal to most of you, over 40 million people across the world have a fair chance of knowing that it means, “Sing me a song”. To put that number in perspective, it's around the same as the number of people on the planet who …

With more than 5 million iPhone 5 units shipping in the first few days after launch, someone, somewhere in the world, needs to load boxes into a van, drive them to an airport or ship loading bay and help them on their DHL/UPS way across the world. KitGuru wonders if …

Just days after the launch of the iPhone 5 last month, early adopters found that the anodised aluminium rear casing of the device was prone to getting scratched rather easily. Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller later tried to downplay it all by saying that what was occurring was perfectly normal. Yeah …

There's a buzz of excitement around the KitGuru offices. While everyone seemed to agree that ‘WAP is crap' when the mobile web first bumbled into life, and we all seem OK with the world of 3G – the promise of a ‘4G tomorrow' has us positively grinning with anticipation. But, …

Thousands of workers at a Foxconn factory went on strike this weekend to protest over working conditions on the iPhone 5 production lines. The report comes from an independent workers rights organisation. New York based China Labor Watch works closely with sources in China. The Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, China …

Apple have acknowledged that the iPhone 5 can experience imaging issues of a ‘purplish or other colored flare, haze, or spot'. They add that the problems can occur in ‘[m]ost small cameras, including those in every generation of iPhone.' Some publications reported on this issue over the last couple of …

I have been reading iFixit for many years, and love their content. They published a really interesting article this week which details a breakdown on a range of mobile phones, and just what exactly they contain, on a chemical level. These high tech devices may look sharp and ‘clean' but …

It's a well known fact by now that more than a few iOS 6 users are hunting Apple down for replacing Google Maps with their own solution. Problems have ranged from graphical glitches to locations appearing kilometres from reality. Here is the full letter from the Apple CEO, with the …

Netflix have updated their iOS application to support the newest iPhone 5 screen as well as offering support for iOS6. The company claim that improvements have also been made to browsing, viewing and searching. The update will be welcomed by the millions of people who have already parted with money …

With a growing number of devices being used all day long, even the most stellar batteries can't hope to provide all the juice we need all the time we need it. To get around this solution, we need to be able to charge up on the go. But most cars …

Over the weekend it was revealed that Apple's latest iPhone is rather prone to scratches and scuffs. The anodised aluminium rear casing of the iPhone 5 was found to be easily scratched or scuffed by keys, a probable everyday occurance. Some early adopters even found that scuffs arrived out of the box. …

From memory, Apple has never had a truly clean iPhone launch in recent years. With the iPhone 4 there was the Applegate situation while both the 4 and 4S faced some degree of yellow-tinted displays. While these problems were somewhat rectified by offering everyone a free case or waiting for …

Apple have sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 handsets in the first 24 hours, but they are now apparently struggling to meet the demand and have set back the pre-order delivery times in both the USA and UK. We all knew the demand would be high, but Apple are …

We all knew it would happen, but the Apple hype machine has ensured record sales of the iPhone 5, across a 24 hour time period. The new smartphone has doubled the sales of its predecessor in the first day. Apple are currently offering the 16Gb model for $199, 32GB for …

The Apple hype machine is rolling across our landscape and information has been published by GeekBench which shows the iPhone 5 A6 processor is a performance monster. Whether they are completely accurate or not, remains to be seen. The results published show a score of 1,601 points, which hammers the …

The iPhone 5 is due to be released very soon in every major part of the world and the first shipments are on their way from China. AppleInsider published the shipment news a few hours ago, highlighting a UPS order leaving ZhengZhou, China. The packages are not scheduled to be …

Following yesterday's launch of Apple iPhone 5 which offers a very slightly tweaked design and a larger 4 inch, 1136×640 resolution IPS display, an American late night TV host, Jimmy Kemmel has passed some basic tests onto the uninformed public. In it, he tells them that the device he has …

The Apple store has been taken down in preparation for the bombardment from customers who want to pre-order the new iPhone 5. Apple expect that demand will be high and are working behind the scenes to ensure their infrastructure can cope with the Apple fanatics pounding their network of servers …

As the Foo Fighters closed out Apple's expansive iPhone 5 launch event in California yesterday, opinions about the new phone raged across social networking sites like Facebook. Those who loved the idea of 28 mega pixel photos of their wonderful home city, went straight onto Google to find out how …