As promised at the iPhone 5 announcement event, Apple has made the device available for pre-order from its website today. USA Verzion and AT&T also have the smartphone available directly. Initially, only users from US, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, France, and Germany will be able to make a pre-order, but many other countries are to follow once...
Apple is notorious for keeping development and production costs low, while doing the “impossible” to ensure just enough innovations in their new iPhones to make it all worth. Now Apple’s 5 has been measured, weighed and its cost revealed. Techinsights have come up with a preliminary bill of materials and concluded that the iPhone5 cost $168 to build. Too ‘preliminary’...
The manufacturing techniques process for the creating of the iPhone 5 Apple iPhone 5 has appeared to be not that much different in anything and everything when compared to its predecessor 4S, yet it is obviously taller, slimmer, smarter with its new iOS, et. etc. In our reviews below you can read all about the new stuff Apple’s 5 has...
Having just released their iPhone 5, Apple can be but only delighted with the first forecasts for its market performance. The sales of the new smartphone are expected to reach 8 to 10 million units this month alone, which is impressive considering that today is the very first day of pre-order, while stores start selling it on September 21st. The...
As it turns out, the iPhone 5 won’t be able to do simultaneous voice and LTE data on CDMA networks. There are other phones that are perfectly capable of doing the job, however Apple have chosen to go with a single chip and singe radio for voice and data, and not to use yet a third antenna. This allowed reducing...
Unlike previous iPhones, which had all the wireless bands in a single device, the new iPhone 5 has two distinct models, with actually three different sets of wireless network bands supported. The numbers of these two models are A1428 and A1429. The 1428 model is a GSM/UMTS device with LTE support in bands 4 and 17. The 1429 model supports...
Apple’s today grand event dedicated to their newest gadget – iPhone 5 hit even CNN, so don’t tell me you haven’t heard about it! Put it this way, if the iPhone 5 isn’t announced today there will be shockwaves within the tech industry! The Apple event however is to begin later today, and if you don’t want to miss a...
Shall they ever stop and find a solution to their argumens? Seems almost impossible! After losing the latest lawsuit and having paid Apple a “delicious” compensation, Samsung has now found a reason to return the “favour” and, according to Korea Times, citing an unnamed Samsung official, the company is gearing up a lawsuit against Apple over LTE patents, and is...
Many smartphones users would prefer to own a device that isn’t locked to an individual carrier, which unfortunately can often be only available at a premium price. This shall certainly be the faith of the owners of the newest Apple’s iPhone5-s, too. However, US AT&T carrier has now made the ‘unlock’ option easier – owners of a ‘locked’ iPhone can...
Burning with anticipation, just 2 days from the big Apple event dedicated to the most spoken of iPhone5, are we not! Apple have started preparing the venue for the grand event, and have already hung the banner for the upcoming gala. Playing ‘hide-and-seek’ with the millions of fans, they have offered almost no clues on this banner – just a...
