According to a report from AppleInsider, oil field services provider Halliburton has decided to drop Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple ‘s iOS for its workforce.
An internal newsletter outlined the plan for the nearly 70,000 employees who work for Halliburton in more than 70 countries. “Over the next year, we will begin expanding the use of our mobile technology by transitioning from the BlackBerry (more…)
The G-Form iPhone case will retail for $39.99, but no word yet on when it will be available (click to enlarge).
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G-Form)
G-Form, the company behind those videos showing an iPad surviving a drop from a plane inside a G-Form ultrarugged protective sleeve, is finally going small: yes, there’s now a G-Form iPhone case, and it looks like it means business.
No word on when this will actually be available, (more…)
devices from cracking when dropped.
devices, and subsequently takes action to protect the glass screen. Apple uses the
, to protect hard drives from damage arising due to drops.
The patent filing details the use of a “tunable shock mount” which would reside between the glass and the body of the device. When free fall is detected, the mount would instantly inflate, thus preventing damage to the glass. The images below illustrate the process:
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comes with a glass back panel like iPhone 4. The glass panels are made of aluminosilicate glass, which is the same type of material used in the windshields of helicopters and high speed trains.
Though these panels are said to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, which makes the glass virtually unbreakable and scratch-proof, we know that they are prone to damage.
Folks at UnitediPhoneRepair, an online repair shop for iPhones have (more…)
Couple of days back, we had reported that
from CAD$159.95 with a 3-year plan ahead of the
.
reports that Canadian Carriers Bell and Virgin Mobile have also followed Telus’ footsteps and slashed the price of the 16GB iPhone to CAD$$99.95 and CAD$99 respectively.
According to recent reports, Apple is planning to launch the much awaited
and start taking pre-orders on September 28th or September 29th.
So it is not surprising to see (more…)
to $150.99 from $199.
This is based on a purported image posted by Verizon focussed blog – VZBuzz of upcoming summer deals from Verizon.
Perhaps the iPhone 4 is your phone of choice so how about a possible sale price of $150.99 which is an unheard of price break courtesy of Big Red. Apple is known for their fair pricing model which usually only providers retailers with a window of around $10 or so to discount devices. A $49.99 price break is almost (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…)
It is imperative to remove the iPhone out of the water ASAP. Once the iPhone is out of the water, you want to make sure it is powered off.
If you get a white pinwheel on the screen and it won’t turn of, you hold down the power button and home button until it turns off. In the video we failed to record it powering back on after we powered it off. We simply repeated the ‘power off process’ and moved on to the next important step; remove the (more…)
We've have known for a little while now that iPhone 4 bumpers do not offer all of the protection needed because customers have called in an told us. Although it does not take a video by iFixyouri to inform you that dropping your new iPhone 4 on concrete is a bad idea, hopefully this video squashed any doubts as to the bumpers effectiveness.
4 drop test with and without a bumper from a height where you would betypicallyholding the phone in front (more…)
As part of the quarterly results announced yesterday, AT&T claimed that their network had seen significantly improvements in performance over the past ninety days and there was also tangible proof for the same. Speaking specifically about dropped calls, Ma Bell says the percentage of dropped calls throughout the network has fallen from 1.41% to 1.05% between December '08 and December '09.
” in key areas like San Francisco and New York, the (more…)
