Customers Say: iOS 7 on iPhone 4 Is “Unusable,”

A number of iPhone 4 users are reporting a terrible experience with the new iOS 7, with some incurring an unacceptable lag when trying to use the virtual keyboard. Commenters responding to our June 11 article on the iPhone 4 experience with the early iOS 7 betas are revealing that nothing has changed since. With the final version of iOS 7 out and into end-users’ hands, the same issues are being reported by some, confirming out fears that the A4 chip inside the iPhone 4 is no match for the new software. “iOS 7 has basically ruined my iphone 4,” writes a reader identified as micwich. “There is at least a 5-15 second delay whenever I used the keyboard to type anything - pw to open phone, text, email, notes..... It is awful. I wish...

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BBM for Windows Phone? Not So Fast

BBM was supposed to arrive on both Android and iOS this weekend, but due to technical difficulties, BlackBerry decided to pause the global rollout of the app for the time being. While this is clearly bad news for those who wanted to at least try out BBM on their smartphones, it's also an indication that BlackBerry still has chances to get back on track. At some level, people are actually interested in its apps, hence the surprisingly big number of downloads that BBM for iOS experienced in the first hours on the market. The Canadian company claims that more than 1.1 million users registered to download BBM in the first 8 hours, even though the Android version wasn't yet available. As you can see, we're only talking about two different...

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Android 4.4 KitKat Screenshots Reveal SMS and Phone Apps

It's only been a day since the first screenshots revealing some of the visual changes in the Android 4.4 KitKat platform leaked online and now a new set of photos emerged. The folks over at 9to5google have just published four screenshots allegedly taken from the upcoming Android 4.4 KitKat operating system. They're showing the Phone and SMS applications, as well as the “About phone” and one of the home screens that features the Hangouts shortcut. The Phone app seems to have the same flat design recently adopted by Apple in iOS 7, though there are obvious differences. Some might like it, whereas other will surely hate it. According to the latest hearsay, Google is said to reveal more details on Android 4.4 KitKat platform next month,...

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