Sony, the manufacturer of camera units that are used in Apple’s iPhone 4S, has introduced an image sensor that will allow iPhones having lesser thickness than the current ones. These tiny image sensors (announced yesterday) are made up of Complementary metal oxide semiconductor and have a back illuminated system that enables a user to snap high quality images of compact size.   You may be wondering what camera has to do with the thickness of a device! Well, in the…

  A biographer named Walter Isaacson says about Steve Job: “he had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, the textbooks and photography.” Well, considering the first dream, we already have heard that Apple is planning on releasing a television set that will be way far advanced with a support for iPhone 4S’s voice assistant feature Siri. Talking of the second part that covers reinventing textbooks, Apple has released iBooks 2 and iBooks Author last week, hence freeing…

With the whole world waiting for iPhone 5 to go live on the circuit next year, here is something else worth mentioning too. How would it feel if you could own an iPhone that can go on and on for weeks without charging? Hmm… I know. IBTIMES reported in media about Apple’s another noteworthy patent application related to fuel cell batteries. It is being speculated Apple might be trying to develop a technology that can allow future iPhones, iPads and…

UPDATE: Appleinsider was contacted by Samsung and it clarified that Apple has filed lawsuits that involve external look of gadgets, and not the accessories as being reported. Samsung states “We would like to clarify that the additional claims filed by Apple in Australia do not relate to protective case accessories, as has been indicated in some media reports. In fact, the intellectual property asserted are patents related to the utility of mobile devices and design rights related to the external…

Love gaming? If yes, then here comes the perfect news you can read today! One of the epic games named Grand Theft Auto III has finally hit iPhones and iPads. This game was released in 2001 for the very first time, and was the first 3D game of the entire series. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of game’s release, Rock Star Games has introduced iOS version of Grand Theft Auto III, that will be supported by both iPhone 4S…

  It’s cool to have an iPhone. You can’t deny that. On top of it, how about making it cooler by filling it with incredibly cool Apps! Uber-cool han? Well, this one is sure to pass on its feel gud to you. Before you start wondering what those 10 features are that can take you to the ninth cloud let me do the favor. Here we go… 1. Evernote Updated January 12, 2011 for free   Hey biggie elephant there….

As we previously reported Apple investigating iPhone 4S Battery Drain Issues , several iPhone 4S users are facing troubles due to early discharge of its battery, the reasons of which are still to be identified by Apple. But now, I guess this mystery has been solved to some extent. The Guardian newspaper of the United Kingdom now reports that one of the location based features of the iPhone 4S is the main reason for earlier-than-expected discharge of its batteries. This…

After so many exposures, finally researchers have found the presence of software that extensively logs its users’ movement on the network. Trevor Eckhart has confirmed the existence of IQRD on many Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones. PCWorld has recorded the extent of logging maintained by the program and posted a summary of its findings, “After connecting his HTC device to his computer, Trevor found that IQRD is secretly logging every single button that he taps on the phone–even on the…

In a shocking incident, iPhone 4 got combusted spontaneously aboard a flight to Australia. The Register tipped about the accident quoting the press release from Regional Express (REX) airlines, country’s largest independent regional airlines. The spot happened when a passenger’s iPhone started to emit a red glow and progressively smoke on a flight from Lismore to Sydney. Thankfully the smoke was extinguished on time by a flight attendant and no one got injured. Also the flight had just landed when…

It is not the first time we are hearing about Siri being ported to older devices. However, this time, things are a little different! A technique to bring Siri to iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 4G has been publicly released by a developer, Eric Day. A jailbreak package, which is available via Cydia repository and named Siri0us, has been introduced on Internet by the developer. According to him, this breakthrough is the “Siri dictation for your iOS 5…