Ion Audio, makers of the iCade game controller for the iPad that enables arcade-style gaming with iPad, revealed three new models at CES 2012. One is a “core” version of the current model, but two are designed specifically for iPhones and iPod Touches. Check out the video after the break!
While the iCade first debuted on ThinkGeek as an April Fool’s joke, it has become one of the top gaming accessories for the
. It has a fairly
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At CES this (more…)

(and maybe even iPhone 4 users) that we had reported couple of months back.
In the last two months, the
on Apple ‘s website that was opened on the issue has gone from 36 pages to a whopping 110 pages, indicating that the issue is affecting many iPhone users.
One user on the forum, who initiated the thread complaints:
Picked up a Verizon iPhone 4S – 32GB and on about 1 in 10 calls I get no outbound audio when dialing.  Call shows the timer (more…)

Apple has just released iTunes 10.5.2.
According to the release notes, iTunes 10.5.2 includes several improvements for iTunes Match and fixes an audio distortion problem when playing or importing certain CDs.
iTunes in the Cloud. 
iTunes now stores your music and TV purchases in iCloud and makes them available on your devices anywhere, any time, at no additional cost.
Automatic Downloads. 
Purchase music from any device or computer and (more…)

. The
, the iPhone 4S had
outages. Now it seems a number of iPhone 4S users are facing an audio issue where they can not hear the person on the other end of the phone.
issue, a
on Apple ‘s website has been opened with 36 pages of comments from users. One user on the forum, who initiated the thread says:
Picked up a Verizon iPhone 4S – 32GB and on about 1 in 10 calls I get no outbound audio when dialing.  Call shows the timer counting as (more…)

Few days back,
users are reporting problems with echo on the new iPhone when used with a headset.
on Apple ‘s support forum with more than 245 replies at the time of writing this post also suggests that the issue is affecting quite a few users.
I’m having an issue with my 32 gb iPhone 4s with Rogers.  When using the Apple hands free headset with the phone during a call, I get an echo problem. It does not occur immediately. It can very from 30 (more…)

,
ahead of the much awaited launch.
reports that iPhone parts supplier TVC Mall has posted few new purported iPhone 5 parts, including the battery, back camera lens and headphone/earphone audio jack flex cable.
parts, but they haven’t revealed anything interesting about the changes or improvements we can expect in Apple ‘s new iPhone .
The purported iPhone 5 battery is the same shape as the iPhone 4 battery. The specification printed on (more…)

at the WWDC 2011 Keynote event earlier this week, it
,
,
etc. out of more than 200 features.
The fun part is to discover features that Apple didn’t mention. It looks like
has discovered one of those new features.
reports that iOS 5 supports Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.3 or 1.4, a Bluetooth standard that gives iOS devices the ability to send metadata information on the track such as artist, album and track name to Bluetooth (more…)

Here are some of the new features and changes in iBooks 1.1.1:
Double-tap an image within a book to view it in greater detail.
Experience books that include audio and video.
Enjoy substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs.
Look-up definitions to English words inside books without a specified language.
Addresses an issue that may have caused some book downloads to not complete.
In case you haven’t downloaded iBooks, you can (more…)

This is nevertheless an interesting development considering that Amazon has brought the technology to the iPad ahead of its introduction to the Kindle e-reader. As folks at
point out, this makes the iPad Kindle app ”
” than the Kindle e-reader. However, as Amazon has often noted in the past, the company is in the business of selling books and hence does not differentiate between Kindle and third party platforms like the
.
The roll-out of multimedia (more…)

According to folks at Tidbits, USB headphone/headset will work on the iPad through the connection kit. They have tested making Skype phone calls and “the quality was just terrific”.
Erica Sadun of TUAW reports that users can also connect and use a USB keyboard to the iPad through the connection kit.
iLounge reports that the iPad emails pictures out at 2048×1536 resolution rather than chopping JPEG pictures down to 800×600 as is done with iPhone (more…)