Apple today announced it would start selling the iPhone 4S in mainland China a week from this Friday — Jan. 13.
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Let’s face it: Not everyone is happy with the battery life on their iPhone. New York’s Douglas Tam thinks he may be able to help not just keep your iPhone alive, but to keep it green: The Monster Watts Hybrid Solar Battery Case not only keeps your iPhone safe in a durable case, but it also charges its battery (which is used to charge your phone) using solar power.
Using the power of the sun (hence the word “solar”, which you probably didn’t need me to explain), this case with an extraordinarily long name claims to nearly double battery life. It also boasts a thinner profile than a lot of other cases, including those with batteries inside, and even a little style with a bumper you can exchange for other colors as you like.
Here’s a bit of what it has to offer:
Don’t go looking for the Monster Watts Hybrid Solar Battery Case just yet; it’s a Kickstarter project that’s looking for $15,000 by January 19 and, to date, has only $162 in pledges. Those who support this project through Kickstarter will get a discount on the final product (as well as extra bumpers), so this might be a good initiative to back with a few extra bucks.
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Just hear those sleigh bells
ringing and jing ting tingaling too
Come on its lovely weather for
an iPhone purchase for you!
Christmas is sneaking up this year and you better be prepared. The iPhone 4S is still in short supply at all three of the US’ wireless carriers. Verizon is suffering the worst with immediate shipping only available on two variations. Your best bet, that is if you need an iPhone as soon as possible, is ironically at the iPhone’s original carrier: AT&T. Good ol’ reliable seemingly has the best on-hand inventory of Apple’s latest smartphone.
The iPhone 4S is incredibly popular at Verizon. It’s the most sought after product for sure, said a retail assistant sales manager I spoke to this afternoon. And the carriers estimated shipping date for the iPhone 4S backs up his statement. Only the black version of the 16GB and 64GB models are available for two-day shipping. There is a relatively substantial delay for the rest. The 64GB white is slated for shipping next Friday while the 16GB white isn’t until the following Monday, December 12th. The 32GB black ships on December 16th while the white flavor isn’t available until the Friday before Christmas, December 23rd.
Sprint and AT&T are faring a bit better with on-hand inventory than Verizon. Per the Sprint website, both the 16GB white and black model are delayed but only by a week. Both versions of the 32GB and 64GB are apparently available for immediate shipping. Then AT&T buyers only need to wait for the 64GB which ships in seven to 14 days.
Oh, and you can forget about circumventing the delays by going directly to Apple. Apple.com shows more of the same. In fact all iPhone 4S incarnations are backordered 1-2 weeks.
The delay’s might not be indicative of a sales leader. AT&T did manage to activate more 2.7 million iPhones to Verizon’s 2.0 million. However, AT&T also offered the lower-priced iPhone 3GS where Verizon only had the iPhone 4.
Apple announced the iPhone 4S in early October and the handset immediately broke records and faced delays. Just days after pre-orders started Verizon and Sprint put up sold-out signs where AT&T simply pushed ship dates to 3-4 weeks. Apple previously stated that the iPhone 4S is the company’s fastest selling iPhone and the delays partly show the demand hasn’t slowed down.
With Christmas quickly approaching, don’t expect the estimated shipping dates to decrease. If you’re planning on gifting an iPhone 4S this year, get your carrier of choice on the horn to reserve yours as soon as possible. Or you could make a papercraft iPhone 4S and place that under the tree. Your call.
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iPhone users can turn off the Carrier IQ software that’s raised a ruckus among consumers, bloggers and privacy advocates with just four taps.
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I gave my love a red, red rose but she actually wanted an iPhone 4S and now you, too, can hand over one of these exciting products to your loved ones thanks to Rebtel. This weekend’s TC Gadgets giveaway is a fresh-in-box iPhone 4S (your carrier choice) and $100 worth of calling through Rebtel’s VOIP solution. Got your attention? Good.
The contest will run until noon Eastern on Monday, November 14. I will contact the winner then and update the post next week. To enter, comment below describing, in poem form, why you deserve an iPhone 4S. Limericks will be accepted but they must involve the man from Nantucket. Free or concrete verse is encouraged.
Enter only once. I’ll pick one winner at random and laugh at your entries on my own time. I reserve the right to sell your poems in a chapbook on the subway, calling them my collection of “urban folk poetry” and “prayers to the muse of poesy.”
Special thanks to Rebtel for the great prize.
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Samsung launched another volley in its global legal battle with Apple on Monday, filing claims to block the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia and Japan.
The Korean electronics manufacturer said it had also filed to immediately block sales of the older iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in Japan. The legal attack is the latest in a series between the two companies around their competing tablets and smartphones, which has seen Apple win several early victories.
“We will no longer stand idly by, and will steadfastly protect our intellectual property,” Samsung said in a press release.
Samsung said it had filed a legal injunction in the Tokyo District Court based on one patent related to High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and three user interface patents. The Australian motion was filed in the New South Wales Registry on three patents related to Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) and HSPA.
The user interface patents Samsung said were violated in Japan include the small airplane icon that appears when an iPhone is in “flight mode,” a patent for customizing a phone’s home screen and a layout for browsing applications on sale via a phone.
Last week, Apple won an interim injunction to prevent the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, and then Samsung had its parent infringement claims rejected at a district court in the Hague.
Apple stopped Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany in October, and in August a court in the Hague banned the shipments of three Samsung smartphones in Europe, though the Korean company came up with an update that circumvents the patent in question.
Japan was one of the first countries in the world to sell Apple’s iPhone 4S. At the launch Friday morning, hundreds lined up in the streets throughout Tokyo to buy the phone, and the heavy demand took down registration servers at a major carrier for several hours.
Apple just announced that it sold four million iPhone 4S handsets over the last weekend. The phone hit stores on October 14th and it took just three days to move the massive lot. Incredible.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of Worlwide Product Markteting notes, “iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days.”
Moreover, Apple just announced that 25 million are already using iOS 5 and over 20 million have signed up for iCloud.
The iPhone 4s will hit even more countries in the coming weeks. It will be available in more than 22 countries after October 28 and more than 70 by the end of the year. Apple previously noted that it was prepared for a massive launch and it seems as if the company delivered. After the busy first weekend, the phone is still on backorder at most carriers and retailers with the Apple Store indicating a 1-2 week shipping delay.
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Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007.
Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with…
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KDDI, which runs Japan’s second-largest mobile carrier, will offer the iPhone 5 from early 2012, ending Softbank’s monopoly of the device in Japan, the country’s largest business newspaper reported Thursday.
The iPhone 5 is to go on sale globally in October, but more time is required to prepare the phone for KDDI’s network, the Nikkei newspaper said. KDDI had been in negotiations with Apple and reached an agreement by this summer.
A KDDI spokeswoman said the company had not made any official announcement regarding sales of the iPhone, declining to comment further.
Softbank, operator of Japan’s third-largest carrier, has combined its exclusive offering of Apple’s iPhone and iPad with aggressive pricing plans and a quirky but popular advertising campaign. The company bought Vodafone’s struggling Japanese business in 2006 for around US$15 billion and transformed it into a strong competitor that is steadily gaining market share.
KDDI, through its “au” brand, currently offers smartphones that run Android, including one with a user interface developed in house, and Windows mobile operating system. The company is also a major shareholder in Japan’s main provider of WiMax, a high-speed, long-range wireless Internet technology, and is increasingly offering phones and devices that tether into the network for data services.
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