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Layar 5.0 for iPhone, Android launches with Facebook and Twitter sharing

by Syuzi on Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

Layar, the company behind the popular augmented reality app for the iPhone and Android smartphones, announced on Monday that Layar 5.0 is available. The latest iteration allows users to share screen shots — of anything they view through the application — through Facebook or Twitter. Layar 5.0 also provides new animation capabilities, which means some [...]

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iPhone 5 8MP camera tipped by Sony CEO

by GULLIVER on Apr 03, 2011 | No Comments

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has apparently let slip the camera hardware specifications of the iPhone 5, Apple’s fifth-generation smartphone. Speaking to Walt Mossberg this week, 9 to 5 Mac reports, Stringer discussed the impact of the Japanese earthquake on CMOS sensor production at the company’s Sendai plant. “Our best sensor technology is built in [...]

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HTC Thunderbolt outselling the iPhone 4

by GULLIVER on Apr 01, 2011 | No Comments

Verizon has kicked off 2011 with several hot, new handsets and analyst Walter Piecyk of BTIG Research canvassed 150 different Verizon Wireless stores to find out which handset is Verizon’s top selling model. Unsurprisingly, the top handsets in Verizon’ lineup are the iPhone 4 and the HTC Thunderbolt. Piecyk’s results show the two handsets are [...]

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iPhone 5 with 4-inch display, metal chassis may launch in Q3

by Syuzi on Mar 18, 2011 | No Comments

A report on Tuesday from Chinese financial paper China Times suggests that Apple’s next-generation smartphone has entered trial production and is scheduled for a third-quarter launch. Apple released the iPhone 4 late in the second quarter of 2010, however some speculate Apple may push its iPhone 5 launch back to July or even later in [...]

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Yahoo! fixes Windows Phone 7 and iPhone IMAP data leak issue

by Syuzi on Mar 14, 2011 | No Comments

Yahoo! has reportedly fixed an IMAP bug that caused the iPhone and Windows Phone devices to transmit loads of superfluous data over 3G. The bug worked like this: when a user went to check their email, the server would send more information to a user’s phone than was required to just check mail. This resulted [...]

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