were previous iPhone models. The market of used iPhones  makes a significant positive impact on Apple and its carriers.
For many users, smartphones are not anything new. A sizable number of upgraders are moving to the second, third, or even fourth smartphone. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has found, for example, that 53% of those who upgraded to the
introduced their old phones into a “secondary market,” where used phones are bought, (more…)

Change Wave Research surveyed 4,000 North American consumers in December 2011, asking them about their current smartphone, and future purchases, if any.
, the survey found that, one in every two people planning to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days, have their eyes set on an
. Compare that to only 13 percent who want to buy a Samsung device, and 7 percent who say they’ll buy a Motorola smartphone.
The trend is a bit more interesting. Although (more…)

Panasonic showed off a prototype of its new 20.4″ IPS LCD panel, with a staggering resolution of 3840 x 2160 at CES 2012.
. Panasonic seems to be working towards a similar goal, if their newest display is anything to go off of.
Panasonic showed off a 20.4″ IPS LCD panel at CES this year. It has a 4K2K resolution – more specifically, it’s 3840×2160, or quadruple the 1920×1080 standard of today’s HDTVs. For those of you who are counting, that’s (more…)

The number of tweaks and hacks Siri has given rise to is really impressive, right from
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He takes out his iPhone . Using its Siri voice software, he asks it when tomorrow’s first appointment begins. After a few seconds the computerized voice says 11 a.m. “Imagine if this was three times as fast or truly understood my intent,” Ek says. “It’s probably the biggest threat to Google; it’s a whole new way of interacting.”
Does (more…)

initial customer satisfaction survey.
Just like last year, the surveys reveals some interesting results, especially when you take into account the negative publicity 
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77% of iPhone 4S users are very satisfied and 19% are somewhat satisfied with their shiny new device, while only 2% said they were not satisfied with their new iPhone . This is much better than
, where 72% of iPhone 4 users were very satisfied and 21% of iPhone 4 users (more…)

, we have seen developers figure out interesting way to use Siri using it such as
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The proxy server allows developers to create custom plugins that can intercept voice commands and perform any action that is programmable, scriptable etc.
Now an Icelandic developer and hacker named Hjalti Jakobsson has created a custom plugin for Plex. Plex is a partially open-sourced software that can play local and online media.
As you can see in the video (more…)

Surfing the mobile Web is faster with iOS 5 than with iOS 4. At least, those are the findings from a recent test conducted by New Relic.

The company, which monitors and measures the performance of Web-based applications, conducted two separate tests, one out in the wild and one in the labs. The results of both tests discovered that mobile Web pages loaded quicker on an iPhone with Apple ‘s latest OS than with iOS (more…)

has published photos, which they claim are of the cheaper 8GB
event.
The purported 8GB iPhone 4 is marked with codename N90A, whereas the internal codename of the current generation iPhone 4 is N90, which suggests that the 8GB iPhone 4 will come with only minor modifications.
reports that they got these photos from Foxconn’s factory in Brazil.
The [devices] are basically ready to be delivered, as shown in these photos obtained exclusively. (more…)

, new iPhone models have already started showing up in Apple ‘s inventory system.
Yesterday, revised models of the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch appeared in
reports that according to their source, a new iPhone model codenamed N94 has showed up in Apple ‘s inventory system.
Today, though, comes the big news: the next-generation iPhone has made its way into Apple ’s inventory system. This new iPhone is the N94 device that we found in the iOS (more…)

– a cheaper entry-level iPhone model that looks like iPhone 4, which has been dubbed 
.
Engadget has published a screenshot from AT&T’s internal system, which indicates that AT&T is at least preparing for the iPhone 4S launch.
Judging from the clandestine screenshot you see above, it most certainly seems like that’s the case. A helpful tipster sent us this tasty morsel, from AT&T’s internal system, listing the “iPhone 4s White” beneath a (more…)