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LifeProof Offers Optional Water Protection Insurance for iPhone

Stanley Goodner — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:22:47 +0000

LifeProof announced this past Tuesday that they’re offering a Total Water Protection Program for the Apple iPhone and iPad to anyone who purchases a LifeProof case from their website. This optional program takes the protection of these devices to an entirely new level by offering a one-time repair or replacement of the device if it sustains accidental water [...]

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When’s the Best Time to Buy an Apple Product? (Infographic)

Matthew Marchesano — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:25:47 +0000

When is the best time to purchase a new Apple device? Is there a best time? We’re fully aware of how sporadic and paltry the big Apple can be when it comes to offering customers discounts on their products. Usually feeling like you’ve earned a ‘deal’ from an Apple retail store or from their online [...]

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Perdrix TXT e-reading app (review)

Juli Monroe — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:03:40 +0000

Have you ever run across a solution looking for a problem? Unfortunately, that’s my reaction to Perdrix TXT, a new e-reading app for iPhone and iPad. The developer contacted me over the weekend and gave me a promo code for a free review copy, and I gave it a look. Here’s what they say about [...]

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Don’t upgrade your Kindle for iOS app!

Juli Monroe — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:00:26 +0000

If you’re like me, you keep a close eye on your app updates on your iDevice. This morning, as I was leaving the house for an early morning meeting, I noticed an app update available. Good thing I always check what’s new before updating. This was the first time I’ve ever seen this message: Note: [...]

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Readmill Launches New E-Book Experience for iPhone

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:00:56 +0000

Yesterday, we filled you in on the fact that the Berlin-based digital reading platform known as Readmill was very close to releasing an e-reading app for the iPhone, and as it happens … the app was officially released today. (Quite a coincidence, no?) According to the company, the newly-released app (appropriately enough, it’s called Readmill for [...]

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A Readmill iPhone app is on the way

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:00:27 +0000

We’ve written a bit about the Berlin-based startup Readmill in the past; here’s a Q&A-style interview we ran back in August 2012 with Henrik Berggren, the company’s über-ambitious founder. As we wrote in the introduction to that interview: The easiest way to understand exactly what Readmill is and what exactly it can do for you is [...]

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Apple iPhone 5 pre-order demand has exceeded the initial supply

a TeleRead Contributor — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:52:14 +0000

Following up on the recent “blown away” comment from Apple, we finally have have some solid sales numbers. We’ve also got some potentially bad news: Apple has announced that the iPhone 5 pre-orders have topped two million. And just to clarify that point, that was more than two million in the first 24 hours. Incidentally, this tops [...]

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iPhone 5 cases, round 2

a TeleRead Contributor — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:41:18 +0000

By Kirk Hiner | for Apple Tell Almost immediately after Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 at last week’s press event, iPhone case manufacturers were bombarding us with new designs and updates to previous models. Seems they trust the rumor sites more than we do. Since then, even more cases have been announced, and we want to make [...]

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Apple’s Media Event Today: What can we expect?

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:46:21 +0000

By Jonathan Pena | for Apple Tell Apple has been highlighting features of the forthcoming iOS 6 for many months now, and today, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, many journalists and consumers are waiting to see what Apple will unveil. Tons of leaked pictures of the rumored iPhone 5 cases, [...]

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AllThingsD: New iPad Mini Confirmed

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:16:59 +0000

We tend to find reporter John Paczkowski‘s anonymous source reports to be overwhelmingly reliable, which is why we’d like to bring your attention to a brief article he posted on AllThingsD earlier this morning. Here are the first three paragraphs of the story: “Apple’s next generation iPhone and its so-called “iPad mini” will debut at two separate [...]

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In Apple-Samsung Case, the Cool Kid Wins

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:34:13 +0000

“The smartphone in your hand is a marvel of innovation, packing sophisticated computing and communications technologies into a sleek digital device,” writes Steve Lohr, in an article posted on the New York Times‘ website earlier today. “It is also a litigation magnet.” The many specific and detailed aspects of the Apple-Samsung case, in which a [...]

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Will Apple devices will soon project holograms?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:40:20 +0000

A few days ago on the Bloomberg Businessweek website, a fascinating and well-argued Ben Kunz article was published that suggested Apple devices will soon be projecting holograms, and über-realistic ones at that. Sounds ridiculous, right? Well … maybe not. According to Kunz, who runs a media planning and Internet strategy firm, “In November 2010, Apple patented a three-dimensional display system [...]

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Can smartphone game Tip or Skip entice ‘showroomers’ to buy goods in physical locations?

Chris Meadows — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:34:48 +0000

“Showrooming.” While I can’t say I’d heard the specific term before, it’s easy to understand what it’s talking about—the practice of using a physical store as a “showroom” where you can examine something and then go buy it online. This is one of the trends many pro-agency pricing comment submitters noted in their comments to [...]

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4” iPhone, iPod Touch, 8” iPad Mini possibly expected in September

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:06:00 +0000

As the new hardware refresh comes ever closer, the Apple iDevice rumors grow ever thicker. Here’s a couple of choice ones with e-reading implications. MacRumors has a report suggesting that the iPod Touch will get an update to a new 4” design right along with the iPhone. (The picture at left is a mock-up of [...]

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iPhone turns five today

Chris Meadows — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:06:20 +0000

Five years ago today, a nifty little gadget appeared on the scene—a palm-sized color tablet with cell phone connectivity. Owing a lot to the design of the old Palm Pilot (before Palm went all QWERTY thumb-boardy), the iPhone quickly became one of Apple’s most popular products. (Of course, Apple had announced it months earlier so [...]

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