Apple puts finger on iPhone 5S Touch ID privacy concerns, flaws

Apple puts its finger in the dyke When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S yesterday, the standout feature was undoubtedly its Touch ID fingerprint sensor that unlocked the smartphone through biometrics. That immediately led to privacy-concerned individuals to start pointing fingers in the company's direction, and not in order to test out the smartphone's innovative...

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O2 customers face wait for 4G on iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C

Is Apple still to approve O2s 4G network? When announcing its new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C handsets on Tuesday, Apple confirmed that both would be compatible with EE and Vodafone's 4G networks, but strangely there was zero mention O2. Shortly thereafter the bubbly network eased the panic by assuring customers the new iPhones would work on its newly-launched...

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Windows Phone 8.1 leak hints at notification centre, multi-tile select tool

Updates, updates, updates Pictures claiming to show a leaked build of the as-yet-unreleased Windows Phone 8.1 update have appeared online, bringing word of potential new features. The shots, posted by WindowsPhone.pl show a Notifications Live Tile on the homescreen of a Windows Phone handset, suggesting an Apple-style Notifications Centre is in the works....

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Innovation is one thing, but how about some openness from Apple?

You seem like a cool dude, Tim. Why can't your company be? Apple's inflated ego shown bright yesterday, brighter than the gold iPhone 5S. The company's new iPhone and iPhone 5C announcement was as boring and uninspired as they come. Even Jony Ive didn't show up, not that he ever does, instead videoing in his droning commentary about unapologetic plastic....

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HTC One Max rumored to get large and in charge at Sprint

Sprinting toward an exclusive? Despite continued fiscal troubles at the corporate level, almost everyone seems to agree the HTC One is a fine handset - so could an even bigger model win the hearts and minds of Sprint customers in the U.S.? That seem to be the case, judging from a Twitter post on Monday from the @evleaks account, a frequent source of solid...

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Motorola pushing 100k Moto X smartphones each week

The Motorola Moto X is now selling by the thousands - one hundred thousand that is, per week. The information comes courtesy of Reuters rather than from Motorola itself, but we're sure we'll get some solid official numbers eventually. While that may sound like a lot, putting the numbers in perspective tells a different story. Apple got 5 million iPhone 5's...

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Three names 46 cities in line for 4G LTE roll-out by end of 2014

Free 4G for Three customers in 46 cities Three has served up a few more details regarding its impending 4G network launch, adding a new city for 2013 and listing 42 more it plans to add before the end of next year The network, which is the last of the major UK networks to go live with the next-gen speeds, has revealed a launch in Manchester, London and Birmingham...

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Meizu: Software update to enable true-octa core on all Exynos 5s

Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa chipsets available now on the market can't actually utilize all eight cores at the same time. Both 5410 and 5420 chips can use either the four Cortex-A7 cores or the four Cortex-A15 at a time. Samsung has decided to fix this and yesterday the manufacturer announced its latest revision of the Exynos platform will support simultaneous operation...

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evleaks backtracks: LG D820 might still be the LG Nexus 5

Here is an interesting turn of events. First we got lots of rumors LG will be once again manufacturing the next Google smartphone - the Nexus 5. Then we get to see the LG D820 leaking through the FCC, so many people decided this is indeed the Nexus 5. Unfortunately, the usually very reliable evleaks tweeted the LG D820 is in fact just the CDMA version of the LG G2 falgship,...

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Asus PadFone Infinity to take off on September 17

Self-ejecting rocket mechanism not guaranteed Asus sure loves to confuse us all with its naming schemes, but fans of the PadFone Infinity are in for a treat with the company announcing that the phone-cum-tablet is getting an update next week. In Taipei on Tuesday Asus will make the new PadFone Infinity official, it announced today, and we're expecting the...

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Tizen 3.0 spotted running on a Samsung Galaxy S III

It seems like it will take forever for Samsung to announce an actual smartphone running its Tizen platform. However, this doesn't stop the company from making new versions of its home brewed mobile operating system, as screenshots of the new Tizen 3.0 OS appear in the wild. The new batch of screenshots don't show any drastic changes to the user interface. Samsung...

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Innovation's back at Apple and it's about bloody time

Wakey wakey innovation team! Innovation. Once upon a time you couldn't utter the word without making a connection to a certain fruit-based company. But ever since it decided that "resolutionary" was a word (it's really not, okay?) it's gone down hill in the innovation department and Apple seems to have past its best before date. The last big innovative...

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7 things you'll hate about the iPhone 5S

Touch ID is all well and good, but what about the Fingerprint Thieves? Some people believe that the iPhone 5S is the best iPhone that Apple - or for that matter, anybody - has ever made. They may well be right, but that doesn't mean it's perfect, and it certainly doesn't mean that Apple's latest i-device is flaw-free or beyond criticism. There are plenty...

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Touch ID: is your finger the key to the future?

Touch me, tease me, please me Apple's latest and greatest iPhone 5S comes with an integrated fingerprint scanner to prevent unauthorised access and make it easier to get into the iTunes Store - is it another game-changer from the Cupertino company or a needless gimmick? We take a look at the history of fingerprint scanners, the tech underpinning Apple's...

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Apple iPhone 5s to cost more than its predecessor in Europe

Apple finally announced its next-generation iPhone along with the iPhone 5c at yesterday's event. Back at the event, the Cupertino guys announced the subsidized pricing of its newest smartphones in the United States, but didn't say anything about unlocked pricing for other regions. Well, the pricing details of the iPhone 5s for the European market are no longer a mystery,...

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iPhone through the ages: just how much has it changed?

From one metal back to another... how the iPhone has changed It was January 2007 when Steve Jobs took to the stage of the Moscone Center San Francisco to announce the arrival of the iPhone, which went on sale worldwide later that year. If you find it difficult to remember that far back, Leona Lewis was number one in the UK with A Moment Like This and Brits...

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ASUS to launch its updated PadFone Infinity on Sep 17

ASUS has started sending out media invites for a press event in Taipei. The Taiwanese manufacturer is expected to announce its updated PadFone Infinity there. The company's CEO Jerry Shen will be hosting the event to personally take the wraps off the high-profile device. We already know that the upcoming PadFone Infinity will sport a design that is identical...

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iPhone 5S release date: where can I get it?

Who's stocking Apple's latest offering? The anticipation is over - Apple has unveiled the iPhone 5S to the world and announced it will be available September 20. But now we're onto the next question: where can we actually pick one of these up and which 4G networks is it compatible with? Well, we have the inside information on who will be stocking the new...

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