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Friday, September 28, 2012

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Future iPad to have display with built-in speakers?

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:35 AM PDT

The innovation never stops at Apple and if you look at the company's patents, they can be a good indicator as to what the company’s plans are for the future. A new patent by Apple, published today, refers to a flexible display that can be equipped with a bunch of interesting features.
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Torchlight 2 for Mac is still a few months away

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:26 AM PDT

Last week Runic Games officially released Torchlight 2 for Windows. But sadly Mac OS gamers will have to wait at least a little while longer. Runic Games' CEO, Max Schaefer has revealed that the Mac OS version of Torchlight 2 is on the way, but it is still a couple of months away from being completed.
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Verizon FiOS TV Media Server Expected To Launch Very Soon

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:54 AM PDT

It has been revealed this week that Verizon is nearing the end of development for a new product to its range in the form of a media server.  Which has been designed to enable users to enjoy using multiple third-party devices simultaneously via their home network to view and control FiOS TV services.

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Rovios Bad Piggies Hits The Top Spot In US App Store In Just Three Hours

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:50 AM PDT

It looks like Rovio Mobile’s latest game, Bad Piggies is already a hit, as the game is now top of the charts in the US app store, and it took Bad Piggies just three hours to hit the top of the charts.

We also just checked the UK app store, and Rovio’s Bad Piggies is also in the number one spot, we wonder if it has hit top of the charts in more countries around the world.

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iOS 6 Users Reporting Problems With WiFi On iPhone And iPad

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:41 AM PDT

Apple launched iOS 6 last week, and now it would appear that a number of iOS device owners are having problems with WiFi since they have upgraded to iOS 6.

The problems seem to be affecting the iPhone 4S and the iPad 3, and a number of users are having problems with their WiFi being disabled and the option to connect to WiFi ‘grayed out’, it also looks like Bluetooth connectivity is having similar problems for a number of users.

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Mujjo iPhone 5 Wallet And Sleeve, Created From Natural Materials

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:34 AM PDT

As more time passes after the launch of the iPhone 5 you can expect to see a mass of iPhone 5 cases arriving on the market joining the mass thats already available, some even before its launch.

However if you are looking for something a little more unique, not made from metal or plastic as most iPhone 5 cases are, you might be interested in the new iPhone 5 wallet and sleeve created by Mujjo.

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SwingTIP Uses Bluetooth to Record Details on Your Golf Swing

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:23 AM PDT

If you’re an avid golfer looking to improve your game a new technology device is available to monitor your swing called SwingTIP Golf Swing Analyzer. The device is a Bluetooth-enabled 3-D motion sensor that you attach to your golf club. It records data about your swing and can send details to a special website or apps running on iOS or Android devices.

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ADATA Shows off Crazy Thin DashDrive Elite HE720

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT

ADATA has unveiled a new external hard drive that claims to be the world’s slimmest USB 3.0 external storage device. The drive is called the DashDrive Elite HE720 is only 8.9 mm thick. The drive uses USB 3.0 connectivity for faster data access.

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Google To Launch $99 Nexus Tablet Later This Year (Rumor)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:09 AM PDT

Google’s current Nexus 7 tablet retails for $199 and $249, but if a recent report from Digitimes is correct, Google intends to launch an even cheaper android tablet before the end of the year.

According to the report Google and Asus are working on a new Nexus 7 tablet and there will apparently be two models available, one which retails for $199 and one which retails for $99.

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Android YouTube App Update Brings Pre-loading To Froyo And Gingerbread And More

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:07 AM PDT

Google has today rolled out a new update for its YouTube for Android application, which has brought with it a number of new features, tweaks and performance enhancements.

One of the biggest additions in this update is support for pre-loading which has now been added for devices running Froyo and Gingerbread Android operating systems.

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Samsung ATIV Tab Windows RT Tablets Up For Pre-order In The UK, Launches Next Month

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Some of our readers will remember the Samsung ATIV Tab Windows RT tablet that was announced at the end of August, this new Windows RT tablet is now available to pre-order and will go on sale in the UK at the end of October.

UK retailer Clove are now taking pre-orders on the Samsung ATIV Tab, and this new Windows RT tablet will retail for £549 including taxes when it hits the UK next month.

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Steam For Linux Entering Private Beta In October

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT

Linux users who are looking forward to the arrival of Valve’s Steam gaming network on to the Linux platform. Might be pleased to learn that Valve is going to start a closed Linux beta development stage next month that will see a 1,000 users put the new software through its paces.

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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive Supercar Unveiled (0-62mph in 3.9 Seconds)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:44 AM PDT

A production ready Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive supercar has been unveiled this week at the Paris Automative Show 2012, and is described as the world’s most powerful series production electric car.

The newly unveiled SLS AMG Electric Drive supercar created by Mercedes-Benz might be the most powerful electric production car but it also sports a massive $500,000 price tag to match.

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Google’s Eric Schmidt Talks About Apple’s Patent Lawsuits

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:38 AM PDT

Google’s Eric Schmidt has talked about what he thinks on the various lawsuits between Apple and Android manufacturers, like Samsung and HTC, at a press conference for the launch of the Nexus 7 in Korea.

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Sony Xperia T Now Available From Three UK

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:26 AM PDT

UK mobile carrier Three is now offering the new Sony Xperia T on their network in the UK, the handset is available fro £29 up front on a range of monthly contracts with prices starting at £34 per month.

There are also offering the Xperia T on their pre-paid paid as you go contracts, this option will set you back £399 for the handset, although you are not signed up to a lengthy contract.

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BlueStacks AMD Partnership Brings 500,000 Android Apps To Windows Systems Via AppZone (video)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:20 AM PDT

BlueStacks the awesome program that allows you to run Android application on Mac OS X and Windows systems has today announced a partnership it has struck with AMD.

Enabling Bluestacks to bring over 500,000 Android applications to Windows systems and now specifically optimised for AMD GPUs and APUs. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the BlueStacks software.

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Bad Piggies For iPhone Hands On (Photos)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:06 AM PDT

Rovio Mobile just released their sequel to Angry Birds, called bad Piggies you play as one of the green pigs instead of the Angry Birds, and the game play is quite a bit different than Angry Birds.

In Bad Piggies the idea of the game is to build transport for the green pigs out of various parts, and you then have to move the pigs around using your newly created vehicle.

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Google Takeout Now Supports Re-Downloading Of Original YouTube Videos

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:04 AM PDT

Google on their 14th Birthday has rolled out a new feature to their Google Takeout service, which now allows YouTube users to re-download their original videos in the format they originally up-loaded them to YouTube in.

Previously Google’s YouTube has allowed users to download individual transcoded videos from your YouTube Video Manager.

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Nokia Lumia 920 And 820 Prices And Launch Date Announced For Europe

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:48 AM PDT

Nokia has today announced European SIM-free pricing for its new Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 smartphones, which will be arriving in Italy and Germany in November.

Both the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 will be arriving on the Vodafone cellular network in Germany and in Italy on TIM, 3 Italy, Vodafone and Wind, with the Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 flagship being priced at €649 or $836 approximately, while the Nokia Lumia 820 will be priced at €499 or $643.

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Apple Files A Patent For Siri

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:36 AM PDT

Apple’s voice activated virtual assistant Siri, is now on a number of Apple devices, which include the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and the new iPad, and now Apple has filed a patent with the USPTO for an ‘intelligent Automated Assistant’, that would be Siri then.

You can see a small extract from the patent filing below, and the patent was originally filed back on the 9th of June of this year, although it has only been revealed today.

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Sennheiser U 320 Multi-Platform Gaming Headset Unveiled

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:34 AM PDT

Audio specialist Sennheiser has today unveiled a new addition to its range of gaming headsets with the launch of its new Sennheiser U 320.

Sennheiser has put their 65 years worth of audio experience in designing the U 320 to be an all round multi-platform headset for gamers.

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Qualcomm Annouces Snapdragon S4 Play Processors

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:28 AM PDT

Qualcomm has announced the launch of two new processors designed to be used in smartphones , the two new processors are called the Snapdragon S4 processors.

The two new chipsets are MSM8225Q and MSM8625Q and are designed to be used in entry level smartphones, and there will be dual core and quad core versions available.

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LG Display Files Patent Lawsuit Against Samsung

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:03 AM PDT

It looks like Apple is not the only company suing Samsung, as now LG Display has filed a patent lawsuit against Samsung relating to the OLED technology used in some of Samsung’s Galaxy devices.

Samsung devices which have been listed in the lawsuit include the new Galaxy S III smartphone, the Galaxy Note and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet.

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Google Celebrates Its 14th Birthday

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:54 AM PDT

Today the search engine giant Google celebrates its 14th Birthday, and to celebrate Google has created its very own animated Google doodle which transforms from a chocolate cake into the Google logo, which is underneath the cake and fourteen candles, as it virtually gets eaten.

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Rovio’s Bad Piggies Lands On Android, iOS And The Mac App Store

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:46 AM PDT

Rovio mobile has just announced that their latest game, Bad Piggies is now available to download from the Google Play Store, Apple’s iOS app store and also the Mac App store.

They have also announced that it will be headed to Windows Phone in the future and also the PC, the game is a sequel to the massively popular Angry Birds, although this time you play as the green pigs instead of the Angry birds.

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Facebook Partners With DropBox For Easier File Sharing

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:40 AM PDT

Dropbox has announced this week that it has partnered with Facebook to provide an easier way to share Dropbox files and documents, with Facebook Groups.

The new features now allows Facebook users to share files from Dropbox directly inside Facebook Groups, in a simpler way to creating other posts within Facebook.

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Sony Xperia Ion On AT&T Gets Android ICS Update

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:29 AM PDT

Sony and US mobile carrier AT&T have announced that they have now released the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Sony Xperia Ion, and the update should be available for your device as of now.

The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Sony Xperia Ion on AT&T is not being released as an OTA update, to get it you will have to connect your handset to your computer and use Sony’s PC update software.

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Nokia Lumia 920 And Lumia 820 Go Up For Pre-order In Russia

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:19 AM PDT

It looks like Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 smartphones have gone up for pre-order in Russia, both the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Nokia Lumia 820 are now available to pre-order from Nokia’s website.

The Nokia Lumia 920 is priced at 24,990 rubles which works out at around $401 at today’s exchange rate, and the Nokia Lumia 820 is priced at 19,900 rubles, which works out at around $640.

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Facebook Deleting Thousands Of Fake Accounts And Page Likes

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:14 AM PDT

In an attempt to clean up its membership and weed out false accounts Facebook has started to delete thousands of fake accounts from its system.

Starting this week Facebook started purging the fake accounts and removing false Page Likes from accounts, following on from the site integrity improvements Facebook rolled out last month.

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Huawei Ascend P1 LTE Headed To EE In The UK

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:10 AM PDT

Huawei has announced that their new LTE smartphone, the Huawei Ascend P1 LTE is headed to the UK’s first 4G LTE capable network EE, the device will be available exclusively through EE in the UK at launch.

Huawei has also said that the Ascend P1 LTE will be available in other markets as well, although they did not give a launch date for the UK and also did not reveal any pricing.

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Libratone Zipp Mobile AirPlay Speaker Launches For $399

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Libratone has this week unveiled a new addition to its range in the form of the Libratone Zipp Mobile AirPlay speaker, which can be wrapped in a colourful woollen cover of your choice.

The Zipp speakersupports direct AirPlay connections using Libratone's own PlayDirect WiFi technology, and doesn’t require a wireless network to connect to your iPhone or iPad tablet.

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HTC One X+ For T-Mobile Photo Leaked

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:49 AM PDT

We have been hearing rumors about a new HTC One X+ smartphone for a while, and now a photo of what is reported to be the T-Mobile version of the HTC One X+ has appeared online.

The HTC One X+ photo which you can see below was posted to Twitter by @evleaks, who has posted a number of other devices over the last few months that have turned out to be the real deal.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Extended Zombie Trailer And Modes Revealed (video)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:45 AM PDT

Following on from the shorter Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombie trailer released by Treyarch last week. The company has this week released a longer 2 minute version of the trailer that reveals a little more of what you can expect from the game and the Zombie horde.

As well as releasing the new Zombie trailer Treyarch has also unveiled lots of details about the Zombie modes within Black Ops 2. That will include multiple modes, called Tranzit, Survival and Grief which caters for up to 8 players.

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HackBerry A10 Android Mini PC Developer Board Now Shipping For $65

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:23 AM PDT

At the beginning of August some of our readers might remember the launch of a new developer board called the HackBerry A10, which would be soon available for around $60.

Well those of you anxiously waiting to get your hands on one, will be pleased to know that the HackBerry A10 has now started shipping for $65

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New Zealand PM Apologies To Kim Dotcom For Spying On Him

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:14 AM PDT

New Zealand’s Prime Minister has issued a public apology to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, after it was discovered that a New Zealand security agency spied on Kim Dotcom illegally.

The security agency is not allowed to spy on New Zealand citizens, and Kim Dotcom was a New Zealand citizen when the spying took place, it happened before the raid on Dotcom’s New Zealand residence as part of an FBI investigation into Megaupload.

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Asus Transformer Pad Infinity And Prime Receiving Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update This Week

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:10 AM PDT

Yesterday Asus rolled out a new update to its Transformer Pad Infinity And Prime tablets providing them with Google’s latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system.

Now Asus representative Gary Key explained on the XDA forums that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system update will also be rolling out to the US and Canada anytime. Read the full announcement after the jump.

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Full Wii U Launch Day Games Line-Up Revealed

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Nintendo has today published a press released which has listed all the games that will be available for their Wii U games console when it launches later this year on November 18th 2012.

Unfortunately it was also officially confirmed by Nintendo UK earlier this week that the Wii U will be region locked, making it impossible to play games from Japan and the US on a European Wi U console, without modification.

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LG Optimus Vu 2 Gets Official

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:53 AM PDT

On Monday we saw some leaked specifications on LG’s new Optimus Vu 2 smartphone, and now the device is official and we have details on the handsets full specifications.

The LG Optimus Vu 2 comes with a 5 inch touchscreen display with a 4:3 aspect ratio and a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, processing is provided by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 MSM8960 processor.

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Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Developer Kits Now Available To Pre-Order (video)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:50 AM PDT

After a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $2,437,429 after only requiring a funding of just $250,00 the new awesome Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is now available to pre-order, with shipping starting in January.

The new Oculus Rift developer kits are now available to pre-order from the Oculus website for $300 or for $345 with international shipping included.

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Jaguar F-Type Announced At Paris Auto Show

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:40 AM PDT

Jaguar has announced their latest sports car at this years Paris Auto Show, the Jaguar F-Type, which is the first tw0-seater sports car that Jaguar has announced since the E-Type 50 years ago.

The Jaguar F-Type features a 3.0 litre V6 supercharged engine with 340 horsepower and 339 pound-feet of torque, plus an F-Type S features 380 horsepower, and there will also be a F-Type V8 S model that comes with 495 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque from a supercharged 5.0-liter V-8, have a look at the photos below.

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FORM 1 Affordable High Resolution 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter (video)

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:34 AM PDT

A new affordable professional 3D printer called FORM 1 has started its journey on Kickstarter this week, and has already raised 5 times what it required to build in just the first days of launching it campaign.

The FORM 1 3d Printer has been designed and developed by Formlabs, and has been created to provide professional creators with an affordable high-resolution 3D printer. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the FORM 1 3D Printer project and see it in action.

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Google Maps Street View Arriving Via iOS Mobile Safari Browser Within Weeks

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:23 AM PDT

Since Apple released its new iOS 6 mobile operating system, and replaced the original Google Maps iOS application with their own Maps app, which is currently a “work in progress”.

Many iOS users have started to miss the awesome Google Maps application which they took for granted on their iOS devices, and even though Google is currently working on a standalone Google Maps application for iOS, its still a few months from release.

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Samsung Galaxy Camera Up For Pre-Order In The UK

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 12:25 AM PDT

Samsung recently announced their first Android powered camera, the Samsung Galaxy Camera, which comes with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and now the device is available to pre-order in the UK.

UK retailer Clove has just put the Samsung Galaxy Camera up for pre-order, and the device will retail for £399 including taxes, although an exact launch date has not been given.

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Android Remote Data Wipe Flaw May Affect Other Android Devices

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:44 PM PDT

We have been hearing quite a bit about a remote data wipe flaw that was discovered to affect Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones, Samsung quickly patched the flaw, but now it would appear that other Android devices could be susceptible to the flaw.

According Dylan Reeve, the remote data wipe security flaw can also affect other Android devices from other manufacturers and he has managed to replicate the same issue on other handsets.

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Intel Denies CEO Said Windows 8 Is Being Released Before It Is Ready

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:34 PM PDT

Yesterday there was a rumor that Intel CEO Paul Otellini had told employees that Microsoft are releasing Windows 8 before their new OS was finished, and now Intel has denied the claims that their CEO had said that Windows 8 was not ready for release.

Intel has now released an official press release denying the claims, with a quote from their CEO on how good Windows 8 is for Intel.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Headed To MetroPCS Next Month

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:19 PM PDT

It looks like Samsung’s flagship Android smartphone is headed to another carrier, MetroPCS, as the device is now listed on their website with a launch date of October.

MetroPCS have not listed any pricing on their website for the Samsung Galaxy S III and have also not given an exact date in October on when the handset will be available on their network.

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iPhone 5′s A6 Processor Clocked At Close To 1.3GHz According To GeekBench

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:11 PM PDT

Apple’s new iPhone 5 comes with a new Apple designed A6 processor, the processor is dual core and was previously thought to have a clock speed of around 1GHz, although some new Geekbench tests have revealed it may have a higher clock speed closer to 1.3GHz.

Geekbench have just released a new version of their App for iOS, and according to Geekbench the latest version of the app “features a dramatically improved processor frequency detection algorithm, which consistently reports the A6′s frequency as 1.3GHz.”.

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Why Apple Switched From Google Maps To iOS 6 Maps

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:02 PM PDT

We heard yesterday that Apple still had around a year left on their maps contract with Google, and there has been a lot of speculation on why Apple changed from Google Maps to their own Maps app so quickly.

According to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, Apple’s contract with Google would have run out around June of next year, meaning they would have had to release their Maps App without a major release of iOS, the next major version , iOS 7, will probably land around September or October of next year.

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