Good news for world travelers and the commitment phobic: Apple will sell the iPhone 4S unlocked in November. The bad news is that the unlocked iPhone won’t work on CDMA networks, which means Verizon and Sprint users are out of luck.
The unlocked, contract-free iPhone 4S costs $649 for a 16 GB model, $749 for 32 GB and $849 for 64 GB. …
In what sounds like a painfully frank admission, Steve Jobs told his official biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he “wasn’t always there for [his kids]” and that he “wanted [them] to know [him].” That’s from Isaacson’s final interview with Jobs at his home in Palo Alto, California, when Jobs was reportedly too weak to go up or down …
With three carriers now selling the iPhone, your options have gotten a bit more complex as far as monthly service plans go. We’ll take a look at which carrier’s plans are best for cheapskates, big talkers, big texters, and those who want it all—voice, data and text messaging.
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You’ll have to wait a little longer for Samsung’s Nexus Prime. Samsung just wiped its upcoming Samsung Unveiled 2011 mega-event off the map, canceling (with Google) the widely anticipated October 11 San Diego launch of the Nexus Prime, Samsung’s Android-based smartphone running the new Gingerbread/Honeycomb hybrid, Ice Cream …
Before Steve Jobs passed away, he lived to see the fifth incarnation of the iPhone unveiled. While Jobs may never see the legacy of the iPhone 4S and future versions play out, the iPhone 4S is now available for pre-order.
The device won’t actually ship out or go on sale in retail stores until a week from now on October 14. As we’ve
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TIME’s health blog, Healthland, has a very interesting piece on the pancreatic cancer Steve Jobs had been battling before he passed away.
According to the post:
“Pancreatic cancer is one of the faster spreading cancers; only about 4% of patients can expect to survive five years after their diagnosis. Each year, about 44,000 new cases
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire isn’t the only $200 tablet in town. Lenovo’s IdeaPad A1, a 7-inch Android slab, is up for pre-order, starting at $199. Lenovo expects these budget tablets to ship on October 27.
The IdeaPad A1 runs Android 2.3 and has a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, front- and rear-facing cameras and a 1024-by-600 display. The …
It’s been almost 24 hours since the first news of Steve Jobs’ death first rocked the Internet, and still Twitter users are pouring out lamentations 140 characters at a time.
By 12 a.m. ET Thursday morning, there had been 1.4 million tweets mentioning Jobs and 11,000 news articles written, according to All Things D.
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For everyone who gets a headache watching a 3D movie, it’s worth remembering that you’re far from alone. In fact, according to the American Optometric Association, it’s likely that your headaches mean that you’re one of somewhere between 3 million and 9 million people who have trouble with their binocular vision, meaning that you …
It’s sad but probably inevitable: When someone as recognizable and popular as Apple’s Steve Jobs passes away, cyber crooks and spam moguls turn up in droves.
So watch out, because the scams are already circulating, like one noticed by Kapersky Lab’s Dmitri Bestuzhev, who snapped pictures of a Jobs’-death-related shakedown.
“The …
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I wish I could tweet my support for this political decision, but I just can’t think of the right words to show my appreciation for this idea?” Is the notion of typing 140 characters to register your approval of a bill headed to Congress too daunting a task? If so, then help is at hand, as the …
Steve Jobs was many things, but if we’re being honest, a gamer wasn’t one of them. It was a running a joke in enthusiast gamer circles, that until the iPhone came along, the Mac was where games went to die. Oh, you can dredge up the odd games-related interview here and there, where some diehard Apple enthusiast managed to corner Jobs …
