Apple is currently the undisputed champion of both the smartphone and tablet arena. However, when investors buy Apple’s stock, they keep a keen eye on the potential growth. In those terms, Apple’s sales have substantially declined over recent months. Not surprisingly, this has dipped down Apple’s stock to a six-months-low of $430.
It’s rumors that never ends. Right now, a new rumor is swirling around that tech giant Apple has plans to launch an iPhone 5S along with a much low-cost iPhone in August of this year.
For long, Apple had shied away from the mini-tablet arena, holding on to Steve Jobs’ vision that a tablet smaller than 9.7-inches wouldn’t be ideal. Eventually, Apple succumbed to the changing market dynamics and launched an iPad mini. Now, it seems that iPad mini is all set to overtake the iPad sales during 2013.
A number of rumors have surfaced regarding the upcoming iPhone offerings from Apple. Some claim that a larger iPhone is on its way while others speculate that Apple may finally be planning to release an iPhone mini. Now, a fresh report from Japan suggests that Apple is readying two distinct iPhone models, one of them featuring a polycarbonate body.
A number of users have started reporting that Apple is currently weeding out any such iCloud emails that contain the term ‘barely legal teen.’ The scope of this mass-cleansing operation extends to both the emails sent and received by iCloud users.
Samsung has lifted the wraps from its new mobile app, Samsung Wallet. The new app essentially serves the same functionality as is offered by Apple in Passbook. Putting aside the similarities in their features, the new app also seems to have borrowed a lot of its look and feel from Passbook.
With the rise of mobile devices, cameras have become very popular and are essentially available to every other person. However, this has raised the critical question of individual privacy at public places. Interestingly, Apple has now filed a patent which speaks about a camera with built-in privacy filter.
The jailbreak tool for iPhone 5 and other iOS 6.1 devices was recently released by the team of hackers named evad3rs. In the tool, called evasi0n, the team essentially used some of the exploits present in iOS 6.1. In the latest beta release of its updated firmware, Apple seems to have patched at least some of these exploits.