According to a report from TMO News, T-Mobile will start offering additional support to over one million unlocked iPhone users from 30th January onwards. It has obtained internal documents of the company that said that new offering would include “common procedures, information about feature and specifications and other basic device questions.”   iPhone website within the carrier’s community is also being updated (though not complete) so that it blends in with other device support pages and iPhone Scope of Support…

Apple has been charged of infringing patents once again! Seriously! What is up with it? Well, this time it isn’t Samsung that is bugging Apple, its Motorola Mobility! It added one more member to the series of unending legal battles between Apple and Android manufacturers yesterday. The filed lawsuit (in Southern District of Korea) includes six patents against Apple’s iPhone 4S and iCloud. To be noticed, all of these have been cited in Moto’s complaint against Apple in 2010 (in…

After spreading wings in 22 new countries two weeks back, Apple has finally decided to honor residents of Indonesia too. Major carriers in Indonesia, namely Telkomsel (best carrier having customer base of over 100 million) and XL (stands third with 46 million customers), will be launching iPhone 4S on 27th January along with a few more carriers in France and Costa Rica. Two operators Claro and Movistar would be joining Kolbi in Costa Rica on Friday. Though France was amongst…

Upcoming updates to Apple’s voice assistant feature Siri would enable users to purchase goods online easily. Appleinsider has discovered a new patent filed by Apple, which reveals the company’s interest in improving online shopping functionality. It is to be used in an “Intelligent Automated Assistant”, and the patent covers things that the current version of Siri does not perform. So, one way of looking at is that the patent points towards the future functionality of Siri!   With Wolfram Alpha…

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…

UPDATE: Some of the users are facing problems due to an error that says “Error establishing a database connection”. A simple way to curb this is to enable the VPN option found under Settings -> Network. Finally, jailbreaking your iDevice without having to reboot it while connecting to a gadget that executes commands on it has become possible. A hacker named p0sixninja says that the jailbreak community has posted an untethering jailbreak tool for devices running on iOS 5.0 and…

How about an iPhone 4S incapable of capturing images? Certainly, you won’t go for it! Well, for people employed in military, this can win the “best news of the day” award! Because of security issues in military camps, army personnel are not allowed to bring mobile phones with cameras incorporated in it. Because of this very reason, RIM has been offering camera-free BlackBerry handsets for a very long time now. So, follwing the trail, wireless carriers in Singapore are also…

iPhone 4S has been in trouble since its launch: Yellowish appearance of the screen, battery issues, sound quality issues and what not! Apple tried to curb most of these problems by releasing operating system updates, but whatsoever, these were never resolved completely. Lately, some of the iPhone 4S users are being bugged by an irregular yet persistent problem called Audiogate (well, as they call it), that mutes all sounds when the consumer makes a call. According to the latest reports,…

iPhone 4S is just in time for a jubilant Chinese New Year celebration. People Daily has reported that Apple received the compulsory certification it needed to bring iPhone 4S to the world’s most populated country China. The permit was granted on 22nd December from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China. It is called the China Compulsory Certification to allow launch of iPhone 4S in mainland China. After this Cupertino company is known to have met all…