The iPhone 5 Was Scrapped at the Last Minute - Source

As it turns out, Apple was planning to launch a radically redesigned iPhone this year, but Steve Jobs didn’t like the screen size so they cancelled it a few months before the iPhone 4S announcement, according to person with inside knowledge. The device, boasting a complete redesign and a 10 megapixel camera, should be on Apple’s roadmap still. An industry source who has been accurate on Apple matters in the past is telling Business Insider that the “iPhone 5” was “real and it was scrapped only months before the iPhone 4S was announced.” The source alleges that Apple’s prototype iPhone 5 had some killer specs, including an aluminum back with a tapered design, a 4-inch (diagonal) screen, the previously rumored touch-based home button, a 10...

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Intel Core i7-3960X Review Published by Chinese Website

Chinese websites have made a habit of not respecting anyone's NDA's so it doesn't come as a huge surprise to see that the first Sandy Bridge-E review is already out. Published on the Inpai website, the review is the real deal as it includes a wide range of benchmarks scores, power consumption figures as well as other info about the upcoming Core i7-3960X. Just as expected, most of the tests run show Intel's new chip to surpass anything in its path, including the Core i7-2600K based on the “regular” Sandy Bridge Core. Take a look at some of the results achieved by this processor in the gallery enclosed after this port, or check the original Chinese website to see even more benchmarks. Also, if you want to find out more about Sandy Bridge-E,...

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Nokia to Deliver Camera Improvements for N9 and Lumia 800

Nokia's MeeGo-based Nokia N9 and the new Windows Phone-powered Lumia 800 share the same design, and also pack similar hardware, which makes them similar in many aspects.  However, there are some who consider the camera on Lumia 800 to be inferior to the one in N9, and it seems that Nokia is already taking steps in this direction. Some early reports on various issues with the camera on Lumia 800 already emerged, and it seems that they might actually be only software related, and that the fix for them is near. Furthermore, the company is also considering improving the camera on Nokia N9, something that would occur courtesy of software updates it plans for the device. “Working on sw updates to both to improve performance, no further details...

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Apple iPhone 4S Might Be Banned After All

Samsung and Apple have been smashing heads together for a while now and, after several victories for the latter, the former is gaining the upper hand. Samsung may, in fact, succeed in proving that Apple's iPhone 4S infringes at least one of its 3G patents. An account of the of the hearing, from Florian Mueller, reveals how two of Samsung's patents were deemed valid as motives to ban some of Apple's products, especially the iPhone 4S. January 20 and January 27, 2012, are the dates when those two patents will be discussed again. Until then, Apple will have to put everything it has into improving its own case, after failing to convince the judge to take into account 'narrowed' definitions of Samsung's patents. That's about as intelligible as...

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RIM Releases Updated BBM Music Application

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the release of a new application and service for its BlackBerry users only a few days ago, namely BBM Music, and the company has already released the first update for the mobile client.  Unfortunately, RIM did not offer specific info on what was updated in the new application release, but some users suggest that the new flavor of the software does not deliver the “region not supported” error message anymore. The new application iteration, namely BBM Music 1.0.0.134, is available for download via the BlackBerry App World here, and is available for all devices that run under the BlackBerry OS 5.0.0 or newer. For those out of the loop, we should note that BBM Music, the service that...

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ASUS Transformer Prime Gets Put Through Its Paces Already

The ASUS Transformer Prime tablet isn't something people would expect to see tested already, but the device, or at least an early engineering sample, did, in fact, get an early hands-on test.  The Prime is already turning out to be one of the few products of 2011 that succeeds in living up to its hype. Already it is getting praised for its audio and performance, even while still as an engineering sample. Like pretty much everyone else, we didn't really expect such a fast hands-on test, even one like this one, which wasn't overly in-depth. After all, NVIDIA's mighty Kal-El Tegra 3 platform only showed up a few days ago. Nevertheless, Mr. Henrique Martin form ZTOP got the prime somehow and, besides making the video above, also wrote a few things about the test her...

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