Though the biggest gripe for most iPhone 4S users has been an abnormally short battery life, an issue that could prove to be just as frustrating is gaining vocal ground in support forums across the Web.

These iPhone 4S owners are experiencing random muting during phone calls, an issue that has reportedly been ignored in the forthcoming iOS 5.1 update.

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(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…)

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The newly released AT&T Call International for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone might be an awesome VoIP app for making calls overseas. Note the word might.

According to AT&T, the Call International app lets you use a Wi-Fi connection to place international phone calls from their supported AT&T phones, to anywhere and from anywhere in the world–for a fee, of course. Just sign up for a Call (more…)

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During the Q3 2011 financial results conference call, Apple ‘s COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed some interesting information.
Apple has maintained its position of being the most profitable technology company with profits of more than $7 billion. Growth of 125% Year over Year
222 million iOS devices have been sold till date. Of course how many of them are active is still a question.
collectively represent two thirds of Apple ‘s (more…)

Based on the latest survey by market research firm – ChangeWave Research,
users are observing fewer dropped calls than AT&T’s iPhone 4 users.
was launched in February provides some interesting statistics. The sample size of the survey was about 4,068 consumers.
As you can see below, the percentage of dropped calls experienced by Verizon iPhone 4 users is only 1.8% compared to 4.8% experienced by AT&T iPhone 4 users.
In March 2011, the percentage (more…)

, Apple had fixed the
users just after it was launched. The ”
” proximity sensor on iPhone 4 was causing calls to be unintentionally dialled, hung up or muted without user consent.
Based on feedback from our readers, it appeared that
did not fix the issue for all the users. If you are still facing the proximity sensor problem on your iPhone 4 then you should checkout
CallLock.
that locks your iPhone when an incoming or outgoing call gets (more…)

Close on the heels of that report, CNET has in arecent post reportedthat Verizon is also hiring call center staff “by the hundreds” through third party hiring companies like Teleperformance and Ryla – both of which have previous experience of supporting Verizon customers.
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A Teleperformance call center in Augusta, Georgia is looking to double its employees “
for a major wireless company that we have secured a new line of business, (more…)

If you are wondering if you will consume your carrier minutes while making video calls using FaceTime then the answer is “no” as you are making the call over Wi-Fi.
Apple has clarified that video calling using FaceTime will not consume the user's carrier minutes. In response to an enquiry from
Dan Frommer, Apple responded:
“The voice call ends as soon as the FaceTime call connects. The FaceTime call is over Wi-Fi so does not use carrier (more…)

, the
is likely to find greater appeal among the non-techie regular users while the more tech-savvy audience may find more value from a laptop. Pogue opines that while the iPad may not be the best platform for ”
“, it makes content consumption ”
” easier. Pogue claims that the iPad exceeded advertised battery life by playing videos for over 12 hours in his test.
concurs with Pogue on the iPad's excellent battery life. Mossberg claims that (more…)

Louie Sulcer, who is 70-year old, a father of three and grandfather of nine is the winner of Apple 's
; a contest that Apple announced earlier this month to celebrate the download of 10 billion songs over iTunes since the media platform was launched over seven years back.
” song and stands to win a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Recalling his conversation with Steve Jobs, Sulcer says in an interview with
that he was unaware of the contest till (more…)