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Good news: The iPhone 5 doesn’t just feel light in your hand, it will also feel light in your electric bill. The energy-consumption researchers at Opower on Thursday released a study showing that Apple’s newest smartphone costs just $0.41 per year to charge, or $0.12 less than the Samsung Galaxy S III. In fact, Opower Continue Reading →

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered an apology over the iOS Maps quality and took things a bit farther by plugging other apps from Bing, MapQuest, Waze and Web services from Google and Nokia. That’s a fair dose of humility for Cook and Apple that will probably win it some goodwill against disgruntled customers, who incidentally Continue Reading →

Angry Birds developer Rovio has gone and turned the tables on us, allowing us to play from the perspective of those evil green pigs. Bad Piggies just landed on the Google Play store, the Mac App Store, and the iOS App Store. The Android version free, while the iPhone edition costs $0.99 and the HD Continue Reading →

In a piece detailing Apple’s troubles with its new Maps app, The New York Times’ David Pogue outs that Google is bringing Street View to its mobile web app. The sharp eyes of Christian Zibreg at iDownloadblog picked this detail out of the article. The revelation comes in a passage about Google’s mobile app, which Continue Reading →

Heidi Steffen and her husband used to treat themselves most weeks to steak at Sodak Shores, a restaurant overlooking a lake near their hometown of Milbank, S.D. Then they each got an iPhone, and the rib-eyes started making fewer appearances. “Every weekend, we’d do something,” said Ms. Steffen, a registered nurse whose husband works at Continue Reading →

We’ve just learned that the iPhone 5 camera may be faulty, showing a purple haze (yep, I said it) in certain lighting conditions. If you take a picture with the iPhone 5, and there’s a bright light that’s outside of the frame, you’ll see a purple tint come across the image. This is possibly due Continue Reading →

A new report suggests that Apple might be working on a next-generation iPad with a widescreen display, something that it would inherit from the new iPhone 5. The claim, from L.A.-based tech consumer tech industry analyst Paul Mueller talking to the Examiner, suggests that there are iPad prototypes being worked on at Apple that have Continue Reading →

It appears iPhone 5 users looking to pick up a spare Lightning cable will have no choice but to pony up the $19 for one made by Apple. Unlike the old 30-pin connector, it has been discovered by Double Helix Cables and AppleInsider that Apple’s new smaller cable has a special authentication chip embedded inside Continue Reading →

Apple’s new iPhone 5 is the fastest-selling smartphone of all time thanks in part to pent-up demand for a sleek new design. The new iPhone also ships with iOS 6, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, and packs more than 200 new features compared to the previous version of iOS. Among those features Continue Reading →

Days after sending Community Affairs officers to Apple stores for the iPhone 5 launch, the NYPD is emphasizing how iPhones, iPads and various Apple iProducts are incredibly tempting to thieves. The police department revealed that thefts involving Apple products have increased 40% over the same period last year—resulting in a 4% increase in overall crime. Continue Reading →