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iPhone and the myth of a 2-year contract with AT&T

Windows Phone 7.5 (‘Mango’) is now available to all customers, a remarkably quick and smooth update this time around. The Windows Phone team has proved it’s learning how to handle updates and work with the number of Windows Phone device manufacturers – Acer, HTC, and Samsung to name a few, and carriers across the world. […]

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iPhone 4 Issues: Proximity Sensor, Dropped Calls, And The Free Bumper

I continue to live with the self-induced inconvenience of carrying an iPhone 4, and the resulting dropped calls. In fact, over time the dropped calls issue seems to be getting worse, and combined with the proximity sensor issue it seems to make the iPhone 4 virtually unusable about half the time. Photo courtesy Gizmodo Most […]

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Jailbreaking is for fugitives: US Govt sanctions unlocking of cell phones

The U.S. government has ruled to defeat what many of us thought of as the high-handedness of Apple and its wireless carrier of choice, AT&T — you can now legally unlock your iPhones! More than a million users have unlocked their iPhones, a practice that’s commonly known as jailbreaking. However, jailbreaking has negative connotations. One […]

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iOS 4.0.1 Includes Exchange ActiveSync fix

Image courtesy Engadget: The iOS 4 issue wit Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) which resulted in iPhone 4 and other iOS devices running the OS not being able to sync with Exchange Server (see Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync), has been fixed in iOS 4.0.1. Earlier Apple released a configuration profile to change […]

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Jobs Knew: Form over function decision resulted in antenna mess

Unfortunately, the obsession with magical industrial design and good looks trumped over engineering and functionality. Another day when form defeated function. Or as some would say, beauty lorded over brains. And the rest is history. With all the brouhaha surrounding the iPhone 4 antenna issue, you can’t be blamed for thinking why the brilliant engineers […]

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Consumer Reports confirms iPhone 4 design flaw: Will Apple admit?

The influential Consumer Reports magazine confirms the iPhone 4’s design flaw after its engineers test the phone in a Radio Frequency isolation chamber. Consumer Reports recommends customers wanting to buy an iPhone consider buying the older iPhone 3GS instead. Watch the iPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed video below. Of course, given the craze for anything […]

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History bites back: Apple iPhone 4’s “Grip of Death”

Photo courtesy Gizmodo Ironically, the iPhone 4’s antenna design flaw is increasingly being labeled the “Grip of Death”— a play on the proverbial term “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), used for the blue screen generated when Windows operating systems from a few generations ago crashed. (Yes, those ancient BSODs — when was the last time […]

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The Curious Case of iPhone 4 Antenna and Reception Issues

Quick Summary Apple’s new iPhone 4 causes a furore due to dropped calls and demonstrated lowering of signal strength when held from the lower left-hand side Apple CEO Steve Jobs responds to iPhone 4 customer complaint with “Just avoid holding it in that way.” Law firm files class action law suit against Apple for dropped […]

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Microsoft confirms iOS 4 ActiveSync Issues, helping Apple resolve them

Microsoft is working with Apple to help it resolve issues with iOS 4, Apple’s latest update to the iPhone OS, and Exchange ActiveSync. Earlier this week Apple released an update to fix some of these issues. See iOS 4 And Exchange ActiveSync on the Exchange team blog. Google and Exchange ActiveSync Last year, Google licensed […]

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Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync

Users of Apple’s new iPhone 4 phones or iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPod Touch users who upgraded to iOS 4 have been reporting issues synchronizing to Exchange Server using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). The issue with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, also results in additional load on Exchange Server, which may cause performance issues […]

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