Apple Delays China iPhone Sales – Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai have delayed the release of the iPhone 4S after a scene outside a Beijing store turned ugly early Jan. 13, with angry crowds fighting and throwing eggs at one of the buildings. Crowds of hundreds, according to the Associated Press, waited outside overnight [...]
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iPhone 4S Battery Bug – A flaw in Apple’s location services system in its new iOS 5 software is increasingly suspected of being the cause of rapid battery drain for some owners of the iPhone 4S. A growing number of people have found that the “Setting Time Zone” element of the Systems Services within the [...]
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Sony Finally Buys Ericsson – The deal to buy out its Swedish partner gives Sony ownership of certain handset patents held by Ericsson and will enable it to integrate the joint venture’s output with its own range of products and content. “We can more rapidly and more widely offer consumers smartphones, laptops, tablets and televisions [...]
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Nokia’s First ‘Real’ Windows Phone – With price tags of $560 and $360, the Lumia 800 and 710 are based on Microsoft’s operating system and come eight months after Nokia and the computing giant said they were hitching up. “Lumia is reasonably good … but it’s not an iPhone killer or a Samsung killer,” Neil [...]
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Optus 4G Network Rollout – The trial will be the first in Australia that offers 4G services on spectrum previously used for analogue TV. Optus chief executive Paul O’Sullivan said in Sydney today that the company would start offering 4G mobile services in Newcastle in April 2012, rolling out to Sydney, Melbourne and Perth later [...]
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