Showing posts with label smartphones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smartphones. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 June 2014

iPhone 5S iOS 8 - Hey Siri Feature Review


iPhone 6 Rumour Round-Up: Solar Powered Screen; Better Battery and Double Launch

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It's been a busy week for Apple but an even busier week for the blogs, gossip columns and rumour mills that feed off the scraps of speculation that fall from the table of the tech giant.
The company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) launched on Monday, bringing with it a fresh petri dish from which to spawn all manner of rumours regarding its latest iPhone.
Here at IBTimes UK, we've gathered the best and boldest claims from around the web.
Better battery life

One of the biggest announcements at WWDC was that of Apple's next mobile operating system iOS 8. Key features included HealthKit, QuickType and iCloud Photo Library, but it was talk of a power saving function that might be the most exciting for those fed up with having to constantly plug in their devices.
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iOS 8: HealthKit, iCloud Drive, Quicktype... better battery life?Apple
The next-generation software is to include a feature that allows users to monitor battery use for individual apps. By displaying which apps are sucking up the most power, users will finally be able to learn how best to conserve power.

Solar-powered display

A couple of weeks ago we reported that a cache of Apple patents suggested that the Cupertino company could be looking towards solar energy to power its next smartphone.
Solar Cell Tech iPhone
Today, fresh rumours emerged from Patently Apple that hint at the integration of "solar cell ambient light sensors" into the device.
Such a feature would reduce bezel sizes and allow for a greater display surface area on the phone, meaning it could potentially wrap right around. At the same time it would be providing a trickle of charge to the iPhone's battery.

Double launch

While the release of two iPhone 6 models has been widely expected, it has previously been thought that the launch of the 5.5in model would come several months after that of the 4.7in version.
Now Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White has told BGR that he believes both iPhones will be made available on the same day.
White said: "Based on today's research, we believe the timing of the 5.5in iPhone 6 launch appears to be in sync with our expectation around the unveiling of the 4.7in iPhone 6."
If last week's rumour round-up is anything to go by, that launch date looks likely to be September 19.

Friday, 6 June 2014

Apple Store Iphone 4


iOS 8 vs Windows Phone 8.1: The Best Bits Of Both Explored



Apple and Microsoft have got some serious updates in the pipeline for 2014. Here we look at the best bits of Windows Phone 8.1 and iOS 8

Both Apple and Microsoft have big mobile operating system releases coming up in the next several months. Apple’s iOS 8 beta was unveiled at this week’s WWDC while Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8.1 has been in beta for several months. Both operating systems have a host of new features. We look at the best aspects of each to see how the two compare on the innovation front. 
A comparison is especially apt this year as both mobile OS updates aren’t total revamps of the respective operating systems (like iOS 6 to iOS 7 was). Windows Phone 8.1 is a nice evolution of Windows Phone 8 and iOS 8 is a further evolution of iOS 7. And though neither OS builds itself up from scratch, it’s these refinements that make them the best they can be.

Best Windows Phone 8.1 Features

Without a doubt the biggest new feature of Windows Phone 8.1 is Cortana, Microsoft’s personal digital assistant intended to take on Google Now and Apple’s Siri. Cortana is named after the AI construct from the Halo video game series.
Cortana can currently do most of the things any virtual assistant should be capable of, including placing phone calls, sending text messages, adding calendar appointments, setting reminders and alarms, creating notes, and performing searches. 
One clever thing Microsoft built into Cortana is its “Notebook” feature. This is the personal digital assistant’s notebook that contains notes about you; what you like to do; your family; your favorite places to eat – yadda, yadda, yadda. Cortana then uses this information to give you more accurate results. But though it’s Cortana’s notebook, you’re the one who can curate it. So if you don’t want Cortana knowing something about you, you can simply delete that information from her Notebook.
Cortana’s Notebook feature is something I wish Apple would “borrow” for Siri.
After Cortana, the biggest new feature of Windows Phone 8.1 is probably Action Center. This is comparable to iOS’s Control Center combined with its Notification Center. The awkwardly named Action Center allows you quick access to some of your most frequently used settings such as Wi-FiBluetooth, Rotation lock, and Airplane mode. You access Action Center by swiping down from the top of any screen. 
In addition to quick access to settings, the Action Center also shows you your notifications, such as emails received, texts, and other push notifications. I like that Microsoft decided to combine the features of iOS’s Notification Center and Control Center into one, but Microsoft still needs to work on its design as Action Center looks quite plain right now.
Another great feature of Windows Phone 8.1 is its Word Flow keyboard. Word Flow is the equivalent of the popular Swype keyboard on Android. It allows users to leave their fingers on the screen and just drag the tip of their digit from one letter to the next. Windows Phone’s Word Flow keyboard can guess the word you are typing by the short pause and change in direction as you drag your finger from one letter on the keyboard to the next. Until this week I would have said Word Flow is much better than the keyboard on iOS, but since Apple has now enabled third-party keyboard support (more on that in a bit) users on iOS can now use virtually any type of keyboard they want. 
Besides the above features, Windows Phone 8.1 sports several other refinements like skin-able Live Tiles, so you can set a picture was the wallpaper that falls across all the Live Tiles on your home screen, and improved multitasking so you simply drag an app down on the multitasking screen to close it.
It’s also got some new apps like Battery Saver and Storage Sense that make it easier than ever to manage files on your phone and get the best battery life possible.

Best iOS 8 Features

The star of this year’s WWDC was no doubt OS X and Apple’s developer tools (namely its new programming language, Swift). But iOS 8 still saw several massive feature improvements that are sure to delight fans everywhere, as well as make some Android users jump ship since a lot of the features were clearly “borrowed” from Android. 
Perhaps the best new feature is Extensibility. This one was ripped right from the pages of Android. Extensibility allows third-party apps to talk to one another and share data instead of being sandboxed off from one another as in previous iOS releases. 
For example, a pedometer app could share your calories burned with a food tracking app you also use, or as demoed on stage at WWDC, a third-party photo app could make its filters available to the Photos app in iOS (or other photos apps) so users can use that app’s filters anywhere. 
Extensibility derives its name from “extensions” which we are all familiar with in our desktop web browsers. In that regard Extensibility will also allow for third-party apps to install extensions in iOS’s Safari so you could, for example, see a Bing Translate button in Safari’s share sheet which will allow you to instantly translate a web page. 
Another major new feature is the Health app and HealthKit API. “HealthKit” and is a developer API that allows health app developers to pipe a user’s health data through to a single app called “Health” in iOS that shows a user all his or her health stats, meaning users can now launch one app and see all their health data in one place, while still using third-party apps to collect that data. 
You know how I mentioned the new Word Flow keyboard in Windows Phone 8.1? We’ll Apple has one-upped Microsoft by adding support for custom keyboards throughout iOS. Now apps can have their own custom keyboards and if a user likes that keyboard enough he can chose to propagate it out to the entire system, making it the default keyboard in iOS.
Custom keyboards have been a mainstay on Android for eons, so this is a feature that will have broad appeal. Swype and other keyboard makers are already porting their wares for iOS 8. And Apple’s default keyboard in iOS 8 now supports predictive text that suggests the next words based on the context of your sentence.
Besides these big features, iOS 8 features hundreds of little ones. For example Touch ID has now been opened up to third-party developers so their apps can now use your fingerprint to unlock or secure them. Apple has also fixed the whole iCloud mess by creating iCloud Drive, which is basically a Dropbox clone. Another thing Apple took from Android is third party widgets, which can now be installed by apps and displayed in the Notification Center.

So Which OS is Best? 

Before iOS 8 I would have said Apple was losing out in the innovation department to Windows Phone, but after iOS 8 it is clear that Apple still has something of a jump on Windows Phone – for now. 
Apple took several huge leaps forward by releasing truly innovative features like HealthKit, third-party Touch ID support, and more. It also made the platform more open and Android-like by borrowing its best features like open communication between apps, custom keyboards, and iCloud Drive. 

Thursday, 5 June 2014

Asia Pacific's 2 billion extra smartphones

The action for smartphone vendors is particularly focused on this part of the world — Asia Pacific. According to data in this week's Ericsson Mobile Data Report, half the smartphones in the world are in our region. And between 2013 and 2019 an extra 2 billion smartphones will be connected.
Compare that to just 150 million new smartphone connections in Western Europe, and 11 million in North America, and you can see why vendors are salivating at the revenue potential from this part of the world. As Warren Chaisatien, Ericsson's ANZ head of marketing puts it, "through to 2019 more than one in two new mobile subscriptions globally will come from the region".
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(Image: Phil Dobbie/ZDNet)
The opportunity is all to do with timing. Smartphones and tablets already account for more than three quarters of connections in the US and Canada, whereas more than half in Asia Pacific are still using basic or feature phones. There's also fewer people in North America, of course.
Beyond 2019, whilst equipment vendors in North America will work hard to flog replacement devices, the opportunity in Asia Pacific will continue to grow. Close to a third of the market will still be struggling on basic feature phones, with LTE penetration about the same percentage, leaving the way open for another 1.4 billion people to make the switch to the iPhone 11, or whatever is fashionable then.
It's not just the handset manufacturers that will benefit from the growth in Asia; smartphones change behaviour, pushing up demand for data, making LTE the technology of choice. That's good news for network vendors — so Ericsson are smiling after all.
The Mobile Data Report shows that 4.4 percent of devices on Asia Pacific mobile networks this year will be using LTE. In North America it'll be up to 43 percent. Fast forward to 2019 and almost a third of devices in Asia Pacific will be on LTE, and the US and Canada will be close to saturation at 85 percent. Western Europe, bizarrely, will be dragging its heels, with less than 50 percent of devices using LTE.
Naturally, it's data growth that will be pushing this demand, and video in particular. In Asia Pacific, Ericsson reckons data traffic will rise sevenfold from this year's usage to reach 9,000 Petabytes by 2019 — practically half of the world's total.
Network operators will be hoping tablets and dongles don't increase their share of devices too much — worldwide this year, they will account for 5 percent of subscriptions but 39 percent of data traffic. By 2019 those ratios won't have changed much, except in Asia Pacific where 6 percent of subscriptions will be on tablets and dongles, but accounting for just 35 percent of traffic.
For vendors, operators, and phone providers, Asia is the perfect trifecta — lots of demand for devices, and the need to build new networks, but thankfully, slightly less hunger for data per user than some of the established markets. With its impending golden NBN handshake and its expertise in building one of the world's fastest mobile networks, this all stacks up as a massive opportunity for a cashed-up Telstra, surely. In five years Australia should be nothing more than a branch office.

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Wednesday, 4 June 2014

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World's first Tizen OS -powered Samsung Z smartphone launched

World's first Tizen OS -powered Samsung Z smartphone launched

Seoul: Samsung on Tuesday unwrapped its new smartphone using the Tizen platform, a move aimed at breaking away from Google`s Android and staking a claim to the "Internet of Things”.

The South Korean consumer electronics colossus showed off the Samsung Z, its first Tizen-powered smartphone, in a break from the majority of its devices which use the ubiquitous Android operating system.

Samsung touted Tizen as a platform not just for phones, but for a range of connected devices from home appliances to door locks and watches which may communicate with one another in the future.

The unveiling came a day after Apple -- a few blocks away in San Francisco -- unveiled a coming new version of its iOS mobile operating system with capabilities that could have iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices vying for that same spot in the middle of a what is billed as the booming Internet-of-Things.

The world`s biggest smartphone maker made its pitch at the Tizen Developer Conference, a forum that aims to help the platform become a rival to Android and Apple`s iOS.

Samsung showed off a line of Tizen-powered devices ranging from Tizen-Android cameras to its freshly announced smartphone powered entirely by the South Korean technology firm`s open-source operating system.Samsung even teased a prototype smart television that connects to rich online content using Tizen.

Along with being enticed with contests offering cash prizes for winning applications, the approximately 1,000 developers at the keynote presentation were urged to check out an Open Smart Home project for "monitoring and controlling devices in the home or on the body all together" whether from one`s living room or from half a world away.

"The goal of this project is to have it evolve into services for the entire Internet-of-Things," Samsung executive vice president and Tizen technical steering committee co-chair Jong-Deok Choi said during an on-stage presentation.

"We plan to have this project implemented through Tizen."

Samsung announced Monday the launch of a new smartphone based on its own operating system, in a step towards independence from the Google Android platform that dominates its popular handsets.

The Samsung Z, which has been specially developed to run on the Tizen platform, will go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of this year before reaching other markets.

The vast majority of Samsung`s devices, including its flagship Galaxy S smartphones, use the Android operating system. 

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

iOS 8 Best Features to Kill Android 4.4.2 KitKat and Windows Phone 8.1 Perks




iOS 8 is now official that features new changes and improvements for iPhones, iPad and iPod devices. Know the killer features of iOS 8 against Android 4.4.2 KitKat and Windows Phone 8.1.
Handoff - OS X Yosemite Interaction
The feature is an expansion of AirDrop which allows sharing of tasks and data of iOS 8 running devices with OS X Yosemite such as phone calls, messages, data files and more.
Android KitKat: Google Drive represents similar functionality but limited to certain files only such as documents and media files. Some users will need to use third-party apps such as AirDroid in order to share phone records and messaging in real-time with computers.
Windows Phone 8.1: Microsoft's OneDrive only allow certain files and most of them are concentrated on data and multimedia files, viewable across all devices.
iCloud Drive
In addition to sharing feature with OS X Yosemite, iOS 8 exclusively features the iCloud Drive that allows syncing of applications across all of your devices running the latest iOS version. It is considered a unified storage which acts similar with Google Drive and OneDrive.
Android KitKat: No two Android devices can sync the exact apps at the same time. As per trick, you can install apps manually using the Play Store having the same Google account. Due to different manufacturers, a Samsung Galaxy smartphone cannot have certain apps from a Sony Xperia handset due to exclusivity.
Windows Phone 8.1: Microsoft's latest mobile OS is still limited on the application ecosystem and users may need to manually set the syncing via downloads using the same account. Certain restrictions on apps may also be applied depending on the territory.
More Interactive Action Centre
Apple revamped the Action Centre and now it is more interactive than previous iOS versions. You can now reply to text messages on the small pop-up on the top of the display instead of doing several steps and you don't have to leave the app where you're in.
Android KitKat: Certain Android devices can reply directly from the notifications bar but it may function as opening the messaging app instead of generating a pop-up. Third-party messaging apps feature such advantage.
Windows Phone 8.1: Microsoft improved other aspects of the Messaging Hub instead of delivering any pop-up features for Windows Phone 8.1.
Intuitive Keyboard
iOS 8 features a more intuitive keyboard that predict words efficiently and can even recognise which app you are using. It can tell if you are creating an email or simpy sending out a text message. Additionally, users can now install third-party keyboard apps that may allow usage of SwiftKey and Swype soon.
Android KitKat: By default, Android features a basic predictive input system which has been improved by brand manufacturers by installing their add-ons and user interface on top of it.
Windows Phone 8.1: Word Flow keyboard is so far the fastest and most intuitive in typing that allows completion of sentences using gliding and suggestive input. It is yet to be tested against iOS 8.
The Health Kit
Track down your activities everyday such as heart rate, fitness, workout and more. iOS 8 can monitor the data using tracking apps and accessories. Apple teamed up with popular health suites such as Nike and Mayo Clinic.
Android KitKat: Health monitoring is not a default feature of Android KitKat. Users will need to download apps or purchase compatible accessories or install Samsung's exclusive apps to use it.
Windows Phone 8.1: It is not yet found on the latest Microsoft mobile OS at this time. Third-party apps and accessories may allow the feature to be enabled.
New Messaging Prowess
iMessage on iOS 8 gained a major revamped and will become a competitor to the likes of WhatsApp and WeChat. It can now send audio and video messages without requiring third-party applications.
Android KitKat: You need to use Hangouts to get the similar advantage. If not, audio and video messages are considered MMS or you download WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat or KakaoTalk.
Windows Phone 8.1: Skype is the primary application offering the feature on all Windows Phone OS devices. However, you need to access it via the Dialler app or using Skype itself.
Photos and Gallery
iOS 8 running devices can now edit images and apply specific changes which will be stored across all devices using the iCloud Drive. If you edit pictures later on, they will be saved as well to all of your devices.
Android KitKat: You can set your Gallery app for automatic syncing to all your devices by modifying the Google account.
Windows Phone 8.1: Multimedia files for Windows Phone 8.1 are also synced across multiple devices such as phones, tablets and computers.
iOS 8 is still in beta stage which means there are more features to be added later on. Android 4.5 is not yet out and may contend to what Apple boasts now. Windows Phone 8.1 is also developing and encourages more developers to make their apps compatible with the new mobile OS.

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Monday, 2 June 2014

HTC W8 Windows Phone 8.1


Motorola’s new Moto E smartphone has nice price, but lacks features


Lots of cellphone users here and abroad still haven’t switched to smartphones, and Motorola hopes to lure them over.
Last month, the company unveiled the Moto E, the latest in its Moto series of phones. The device looks a lot like the flagship Moto X, but it’s smaller — and cheaper.
The Moto E costs just $130. That’s it. That’s not the subsidized price and not what you pay if you sign a two-year contract.
You can find smartphones for less. But they’re typically older models, used or manufactured by third-tier brands or they run relatively unpopular operating systems like BlackBerry 10 or Windows Phone 8. None of that applies to the Moto E. This is a brand-new model running the latest version of Android.
There are more things to like about the Moto E than just its price. For one, it’s well-built. Its plastic case is rounded in the back and feels solid and comfortable in the hand. Users can personalize phones by choosing from among nine different colors for the back cover.
Another plus is the Moto E’s bright and colorful display. Its resolution doesn’t match that of most flagship Android devices, but it’s still sharp. And while the phone is about the same size as Apple’s iPhone 5c, which costs hundreds of dollars more without a contract, its screen is a bit larger.
For a device of this size, the Moto E includes a large and powerful battery. With average usage, Motorola says, the battery should last about 24 hours before needing to be recharged. With intermittent usage, it lasted several days in my tests.
As with other Motorola phones, the version of Android running on the Moto E is the stock version. You won’t find any custom interfaces or annoying pre-loaded widgets.
One way Motorola is able to offer such a low-priced phone is by using a relatively underpowered processor. The Moto E has a 1.2-GHz dual-core chip from Qualcomm; by contrast, many of the latest Android phones have much faster quad-core chips.
For most tasks, you’re not likely to notice much difference. You can navigate through the interface without noticeable lag. Programs and Web pages load quickly, and you can play a wide variety of games.
But make no mistake about it: This is an entry-level phone. Motorola cut numerous corners to bring down the price. And many of those cost-saving choices diminish the user experience compared with other smartphones.
The Moto E doesn’t have a front camera, so you can’t easily use it to make video calls. Its rear camera has just a 5-megapixel resolution, which is much lower than what you’ll find on higher-end devices. The problem is not so much the resolution as the quality; it shoots crummy pictures. Some of the indoor shots I took look so blurry that they could have been painted with watercolors. The outdoor pictures I took are somewhat sharper, but the colors are washed out.
While many smartphones today can access the carriers’ high-speed LTE networks, the Moto E, in another cost-saving move, can access only the older 3G networks. The result is that Web pages and other data load relatively slowly when you are away from Wi-Fi hotspots.
They load faster when you are on Wi-Fi — but not as fast as on other devices. The Moto E’s Wi-Fi radio supports only the often-congested frequency band used by older versions of Wi-Fi and not the less-used — and thus faster — band used in newer versions.
Also, you’ll almost certainly want to buy an external memory card for the Moto E. It comes with only 4 gigabytes of built-in storage, of which only about 2.2 actually are available. Just one or two high-quality games or a two-week’s vacation worth of photos can easily exceed that amount.
And when it comes to convincing the holdouts to become smartphone users, there’s one big problem the Moto E doesn’t solve. What you pay for the device itself is only one part of owning a smartphone. What makes the devices so costly is the data plans you have to attach to them, which can easily bump up your monthly charges by $20 to $50. Over the course of time you own the phone, that difference is going to matter a lot more than the initial cost of the device.
If you can swallow the cost of a smartphone plan, you should probably look at buying a phone with more up-to-date features than the Moto E. It’s not a bad phone, but gadgets moderately more expensive will likely be more satisfying to use for a longer period of time.

Saturday, 31 May 2014

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Microsoft makes Windows Phone 8.1 file manager available

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Microsoft made available for download its promised file-manager app for Windows Phone 8.1 on May 30.

The new free app, called Files, is available for download now from the Windows Phone Store.Microsoft officials said at the start of May that the company was going to provide a Microsoft-developed file manager hopefully by the end of the month.
Windows Phone 8.1 is currently available in developer preview form, as well as preloaded on a few brand-new handsets like the Lumia 630. Anyone can get the operating system preview bits for their Windows Phone 8 devices by signing up as a developer (whether s/he intend to develop apps or not).
Files provides users with access to files stored on their phones and SD cards. With the app, users can browse, search and launch files; share one file or multiple files; create folder for organizing files; and copy, move, rename and delete files.

Friday, 30 May 2014

Amazing Smartphone Portable Battery


iPad 2 and iPhone 4 will not get iOS 8 update



iPhone 4 and iPad 2 are some of the Apple devices that may no longer receive the iOS 8 update when it rolls out early next month.
Apple is planning to announce the next generation of its mobile and desktop operating system – iOS 8 and Mac OS X 10.10, on its annual WorldWide Developers' Conference on June 2 to 6, 2014. During the release of new iOS, iPhone users were concerned whether their devices will receive the update or they will be forced to upgrade their unit.
Based on previous Apple releases, every time the company upgrades its mobile software, Apple no longer supports one or two previous models. This year, Apple still has not confirmed which of its devices will make the cut.
The rumored iPhone 6, iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 will come pre-installed with iOS 8. According to MacWorld, iOS 8 will support iPhone 4S as well as the newer models of iPhones. As for the iPad line, the iPad 3 onwards will be supported by iOS 8 leaving iPad 2 behind. The fifth generation of Apple's iPod will definitely be supported by the next iOS 8.
Aside from iOS 8 and Mac OS X 10.10, BGR cited Financial Times claiming that Apple will introduce another "a new software platform" at the WWDC 2014 event that will allow Apple users to control the lights, appliances and security systems in their homes, making it a smart home. The report also added that the new platform from Apple will give it an advantage over Google and Samsung.
The new smart home software platform will pack common automation features that are found in similar platforms or software. However, it is unspecified if Apple's iBeacon technology will be used in this new platform. The Cupertino-based company is reportedly working with various manufacturers of appliances, which will offer devices and accessories for the company's new smart home platform.

Thursday, 29 May 2014

Neon Beat iOS Android Mobile Game 2014


iPhone 7 Release Date Rumors: Is A 2014 Release Date Possible? New iPhone Boasts Of Better Battery Life And A Built-In Projector

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iPhone 7 release date rumors suggest a 2014 launch. 
Rumor has it that there might be a possibility of Apple releasing two new iPhones this year.  This assumption has been made after Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty implied that Apple now has devised a way for multiple product launches in a year.  Her statement was timely released after a meeting with Apple CEO Time Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer.
Her statement along with the fact that Apple has released two iPhones in 2013- the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c- made the rumor even more convincing.  According to Huberty, this development which can be likened to the quick release of the iPad 3 and 4, might also up the ante in iPhone updates and releases.
Despite the promising statement, Huberty has not confirmed any specific plan for the iPhone line, including the highly-awaited iPhone 7 release date.
Despite unofficial iPhone 7 release date rumors, fanatics of the Apple smartphone are still looking forward to the new iPhone 7 which boasts of better battery life and possibly even a built-in projector.
According to the blog iPhone7update.com, the iPhone 7 battery will be using organic materials to replace traditional Li-On batteries.  This new battery technology promises to give extended hours of battery life.
It has also been said that Apple has been working on built-in projector technology for future iPhones and iPads.  The projector will enable users to automatically project presentations or movies without having to connect their phones to a separate equipment.  If this would prove to be successful, the iPhone 7 might be the first Apple product to debut the technology. 
The release of Apple products has been one of the most highly anticipated events globally.  Even with Apple releasing new ground-breaking products annually, users and fans still look forward to what the innovation giant has to offer.

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

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Demands for ransom as iPhones are hacked

People with iPhones in the UK and Australia have reported their smartphones being hacked, and a ransom demanded in order to unlock them

People with iPhones in the UK and Australia have reported their smartphones being hacked, and a ransom demanded in order to unlock them

People with iPhones in the UK and Australia have reported their smartphones being hacked, and a ransom demanded in order to unlock them.

Users have taken to the official support forums on the Apple website to complain about the issue, with iPhone owners reporting that a message appears onscreen saying they have been hacked, and must pay between AU$50 and $100 (£55) in order to get their device unlocked.
According to analysts, the hacker, who identifies themselves as 'Oleg Pliss', is using the Find My iPhone app to send the messages and lock devices.
Apple is yet to offer any official comment on the hack, but an Australian government website has told users to change the password of their Apple ID, used to log-in on Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad, in order secure their device.
The Find My iPhone app has a remote access feature that enables users to remotely lock and wipe their device should it be stolen or lost. Experts believe it is this feature that has been exploited in order to carry out the hack.