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Why You Might Hold Off Buying Verizon iPhone
Why You Might Hold Off
Buying Verizon iPhone
opinion
Jan 11, 2011 3:30 PM CST

Why You Might Hold Off Buying Verizon iPhone

Slate columnist: People in big cities should be wary

(Newser) - Lots of people will be rushing out to buy the Verizon iPhone next month, but Farhad Manjoo offers reasons in Slate why it might make sense to wait:
  • Network overload: Verizon insists it's ready, but when scores of iPhone users rush its network, it may experience the same connectivity issues
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Finally! Verizon Announces iPhone
Finally!
Verizon Announces iPhone
Jan 11, 2011 10:42 AM CST

Finally! Verizon Announces iPhone

Will be available 'early next month'

(Newser) - After plenty of waiting and speculation, the Verizon iPhone is officially (almost) here. Verizon president Lowell McAdam made the announcement as anticipated today, telling the assembled press that "the iPhone 4 will be available early next month." The Wall Street Journal and Engadget live-blogged the event; both noted...

Verizon's Cherry on Top: Unlimited iPhone Data Plans

Execs feel confident network can handle it

(Newser) - The good news just keeps on coming for iPhone lovers who want to switch to Verizon: The network will offer unlimited data plans when it starts selling the iPhone, at least initially. AT&T stopped offering unlimited plans over the summer, and admitted it did not anticipate how much stress...

Verizon Will Unveil iPhone Deal on Tuesday

They'll probably go on sale in February

(Newser) - The drip-drip-drip of Verizon-is-getting-the-iPhone news will finally end on Tuesday. That's when the wireless carrier will formally announce that the rumors are true at an event in New York City, reports the Wall Street Journal . It will be the first time that iPhone users can go outside of AT&T,...

Verizon iPhone Launch: Feb. 3?
Verizon iPhone Launch:
Feb. 3?
Jan 7, 2011 12:43 PM CST

Verizon iPhone Launch: Feb. 3?

It appears so, based on a few clues

(Newser) - It’s the moment Apple fans and AT&T haters have been waiting for: The iPhone appears set to launch on Verizon Feb. 3. A source confirms that Apple has blacked out vacation requests for employees between Thursday, Feb. 3, and Sunday, Feb. 6; a similar four-day weekend was blacked...

Guy on Plane Decks Kid Who Wouldn't Turn Off Phone
Guy on Plane Decks Kid
Who Wouldn't Turn Off Phone
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jan 2, 2011 10:56 AM CST

Guy on Plane Decks Kid Who Wouldn't Turn Off Phone

The 68-year-old 'felt he was protecting the entire plane'

(Newser) - Next time the flight attendants ask you to turn off your cell phone before takeoff, you better do it … because if you don’t, the 68-year-old guy sitting next to you just might punch you. Russell Miller, accused of doing just that, was arrested upon landing last week and...

Happy New Year! iPhone Alarms Fail
Happy New Year!
iPhone Alarms Fail
Jan 1, 2011 11:34 AM CST

Happy New Year! iPhone Alarms Fail

Not a great way to start off 2011

(Newser) - If you use your iPhone as an alarm clock, 2011 might have gotten off to a late start for you this morning. One-time iOS alarms failed around the world, Macworld reports. Twitter rumblings were picked up by blogs like Engadget and TiPb , and Jason Snell confirmed the problem for Macworld,...

The Next 5 Apple Gadgets to Speculate About

Just in case you have nothing better to do

(Newser) - This was a bumper year for Apple, as it released the iPad, iPhone 4, new Macbook Air, and new Apple TV. Business Insider speculates on what Steve Jobs and company may have in store for the 2011.
  1. New iPad. iPad 2 will likely be faster, boast a higher-resolution screen, and
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New for Skype on iPhone: Video Calls

Service will be free for Skype-to-Skype users

(Newser) - As of today, Skype users are no longer limited to their computers when it’s time to make a free video call. The service added video chatting to its iPhone application, allowing users to make Skype-to-Skype video calls over the 3G network or WiFi for the first time, the New ...

Apple Sued for Letting Our Apps Track Us

iPhone, iPad contain identifiers that can't be blocked: suit

(Newser) - Apple allows iPhone and iPad apps to send users' personal info to advertising networks without consent, according to a lawsuit filed last week. The suit says the gadgets contain identifying devices that let these networks track users' app downloads and usage, Bloomberg reports. Some apps also sell information like users'...

Looking for Love? It's at the iPhone App Store

South Korean app is a virtual girlfriend who sends you messages

(Newser) - Are you a lonely South Korean with an iPhone and $2 to blow on a twisted facsimile of human intimacy? Then you should definitely run and download “Honey, It’s Me!”—an app that sends users recorded messages from a beautiful imaginary girlfriend named Mina. You’ll...

Apple Boots WikiLeaks App From Store

$1.99 app made it easier to view documents

(Newser) - Apple has apparently joined the ranks of corporations that want nothing to do with WikiLeaks—it removed an unofficial application related to the site from the App Store, TechCrunch reports. The $1.99 app allowed users to access documents released by WikiLeaks—essentially charging for the convenient delivery of the...

On Your iPhone, an App for Everything—Except Donating

Apple makes it hard for users to give to charity

(Newser) - Need directions to the store, a recipe for dinner, the latest tweets from all your friends, or a silly game to while away the hours? There’s an app for (all of) that. But one thing you can’t do on your iPhone is make charitable donations—at least, not...

Your Apps Are Tracking You
Your Apps Are
Tracking You
investigation
Dec 18, 2010 7:01 AM CST

Your Apps Are Tracking You

...and sending out your personal info

(Newser) - Big Brother may not be tracking you, but your smartphone is. A Wall Street Journal investigation examined 101 leading apps, and found that more than half were breaching users' privacy and leaking personal information to companies: 56 sent the phone's unique device ID, 47 conveyed the phone's location, and five...

Parents' Lament: App Is Free, but Smurfberries Are Pricey

Kids are unknowingly racking up big bills

(Newser) - Geez, Papa Smurf. The "Smurfs' Village" Apple app is a free download, but it's making big bucks for creator Capcom Entertainment. How so? It's those "in-app purchases" that allow players to buy smurfberries or whatever for real money. Which is all well and good, except that AP reports...

News Tops Celebs in 2010 Web Searches

BP, World Cup lead Yahoo! list

(Newser) - For the first time since Yahoo began releasing its annual “most-searched” list, news drew more queries than did celebrities, Reuters reports. The BP oil spill and the World Cup were the most searched items. Why? The spill “became an issue about so many things, such as the environment,...

Apple Yanks Anti-Gay Marriage iPhone App

'Manhattan Declaration' app offensive, Apple decides

(Newser) - An iPhone app that denounces "sexually immoral" gay relationships has been pulled after thousands of people signed a petition against it. Apple said the app—created by a Christian group and based on the " Manhattan Declaration" against gay marriage— "violates our developer guidelines by being offensive to...

iPhone App Gauges Your Happiness

And finds that daydreaming is tied to bad moods

(Newser) - Turns out the all-powerful iPhone can also moonlight as your personal therapist, by way of the "Track Your Happiness" app. The app pings users at random times during the day, asking how they're feeling and what they're doing. Researchers looked at the responses of 2,250 adults and found...

Why the iPad Stinks
 Why the iPad Stinks 
TECH REVIEW
Nov 8, 2010 5:04 PM CST

Why the iPad Stinks

It's heavy; it's dirty; it's hard to type on—but she's not returning it

(Newser) - Leigh Gallagher is "a lifelong Mac loyalist" who doesn't "even know how to use a PC"—but, she writes in Fortune , she hates her new iPad. As a longtime Blackberry user, she missed the mass migration to touch screens that accompanied the debut of the iPhone; when...

iPhone, iPod Can't Get Time Right, Either

End of Daylight Saving Time glitch stumps Apple gadgets

(Newser) - If you're having a hard time figuring out what time it is this morning, some iPhones and iPods are also stumped by the end of Daylight Saving Time. Seems the Apple gang has a glitch on their hands that makes some devices'—those running mobile iOS 4.1—repeating alarms...

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