The promise is seductive. Two of the biggest technology companies on the planet are combining forces to give their adoring fans free iPads and iPhones? Yes! And all you have to do is give up all your personal information for that chance.

That’s what spam scammers are hoping you will do once you see the quasi-personal letter from everyone’s favorite friend networker, Mark Zuckerberg. The e-mail will come (more…)

, which advertises its network as being the only one to offer a 
unlimited data plan, throttles the data speeds of smartphone users that consume excessive data on its partner networks while roaming.
 ”For those that want to abuse it, we can knock them off,” Hesse said at an investor conference Thursday. He said Sprint pares back data use for about 1% of users, a practice known as throttling.
. The two companies throttle data speeds for top (more…)

Japanese blog – Macotakara reports that according to their Chinese sources, Pegatron and Foxconn – Apple ‘s manufacturing partners have started assembling the
for an early-March launch.
Macotakara reports that Pegatron has got the bulk of the order and will be assembling almost 85% of the new iPads, while Foxconn will assemble the remaining 15%.
Accelerated schedule is made possible by earlier Chinese New Year festival, 23rd-28th January.
This (more…)

If you’ve family and friends who have recently switched to an Android (we hope you tried your best to convince them against it) then here’s a tip that you might want to give them.
It looks like iPhone users who switched to an Android based smartphone (or any other mobile phone) may not be getting text messages from an iPhone user.
Due to a iMessage bug when an iPhone user tries to send a SMS to an ex-iPhone user, the Messages app tries to send (more…)

for your shiny new iOS device so that you make the most of it.
Facebook for iPhone lets you stay connected and share with friends on the go. Start a chat, keep up with friends’ photos and status updates, look up a phone number, upload photos to Facebook and more—right from your iPhone .
($2.99)
Tweetbot is a full-featured iPhone (and iPod touch) Twitter client with a lot of personality. Whether it’s the meticulously-crafted interface, sounds (more…)

devices. These docks got the “docking” part right, however un-docking was a task that took more than five seconds and couldn’t be done with just one hand.
The Elevation Dock, a new Kickstarter project, aims to solve this by not only make the un-docking process a lot smoother, but also making the dock compatible with all cases.
Simple to use, quick undocking, and it works with or without a case. We didn’t stop there – It’s beautifully precision (more…)

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reports that Apple is not planning to bring Siri to older iOS devices.
When a developer asked Apple about the chances of Siri coming to older non-iPhone 4S devices, he received the following response:
Engineering has provided the following feedback regarding this issue: Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices.
and iPad.
As we’ve stated earlier, if Apple added support for Siri to non-iPhone (more…)

, which in addition to bringing multitouch features to iPad 1 and fixing the
also included a number of bugs that was affecting battery life for some users.
Based on comments from some of our readers it looks like the iOS software update hasn’t resolved the battery issues for all the users.
reports that Apple has also acknowledged that though iOS 5.0.1 fixes many of the iPhone battery issues, there may still be a few problems that need troubleshooting.
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(Credit:
Nielsen)

Smartphones continue to capture more mobile users, especially those less than 44 years old, according to a new third-quarter study from Nielsen.

Only 43 percent of all mobile users own a smartphone, noted Nielsen. That figure covers everyone the company surveyed from 13 to over 65 years old. But ownership has hit more than 50 percent among some specific age groups under 44.

A majority (more…)

 lines have started with less than 24 hours to go for official launch.
, with
, one way to get your hands on Apple ‘s new iPhone 4S is to stand in line outside the Apple Store.
The lines outside Apple Stores in Japan are already quite long, which will be the first to open for iPhone 4S in a few hours from now. Guillaume Erard 
eports that there were over 100 people in line at Apple ‘s Shibuya retail store in Tokyo. He has also posted the (more…)