That FaceTime-related class action lawsuit is getting serious, as Apple fails to win over judge in attempt to relinquish all accusations of wrongdoing.
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Yet another class action lawsuit alleges intentional Apple damage of FaceTime functionality on iOS 6 a few years back to force iOS 7 updates.
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Encrypted messaging app WhatsApp first announced its big move on the last day of February. We now know that the move will not fully take place before the last of the year as originally promised.
The Facebook-owned company has updated its original post that announced the end of WhatsApp support on several older mobile software platforms.
But if you have a Nokia S40, a Symbian S60 or a BlackBerry OS (including BB10) device, fret a little less — WhatsApp announced it will continue support for your device through June 30, 2017.
Those of you who have smartphones running any version of Android earlier than 2.3 Gingerbread will still be locked out at the end of the year — and even then, good luck firing up the Google Play Store. Windows Phone 7 and iOS 6 users will also find the same to happen to you. The company is advising that you upgrade your phone.
With over a billion users, WhatsApp is turning the page on millions of them — beginning in just days.
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I’ve always been a huge fan of the Matrix Trilogy, and I’m sure many of you are as well. There’s one thing I always remember the Oracle telling Neo when things began to get rough, and it was: “Everything that has a beginning must have an end”. And it’s true, regardless of where you heard the phrase, it’s a fact of life that what goes up, must come down at some point. It happened to Apple in the early 80s, to IBM early last decade, to HP just a couple of years ago, to Palm in that same time period, Nokia, you name it. It’s hard to determine ...
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You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, and you don’t have to analyze and compare these two phones too much, to realize that a mini phone, the HTC One mini, is larger than Apple’s flagship, the iPhone 5. If we want to be fair and honest, we’d say that the iPhone 5 is the mini phone among the two. The difference between the iPhone 5 and the HTC One Mini is bigger than the difference between the One Mini and the One. To draw a conclusion is more difficult than one would think. Aside from the eternal iOS vs Android debate, these two phones are different, and behave differently. Check ...
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There are lots of rumors and reports on the upcoming iPhone(s) and parts are leaking left and right. Whether they’re the real deal or not is yet unknown, but today, we’re seeing some more purported internals of the soon-to-land Apple flagship phone. Whether it will be the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6, these images, above and below, claim to depict the motherboard inside the next iPhone. Although similar to the motherboard of the iPhone 5, there are a couple of differences though. Whether there will ...
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More and more, smartphones are becoming our primary tools to communicate. While we’ll still make the occasional voice call or participate in a video chat, for a lot of us, communication via smartphone is all about text. As such, it can be an incredibly dangerous assault on free speech when one of the companies behind our phones takes it upon itself to censor our language. We were just complaining about Microsoft’s censorship practices last month, but today our focus turns to Apple and iOS, upon the publication of a ...
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Apple’s iOS 7 sure seems to be instilling some love-it-or-hate-it feelings in users, either praising the overall redesign or worrying that the platform’s losing some of its Apple charm in the process. Ultimately, we’re going to have to wait until it goes public, and Apple’s millions of users have the chance to upgrade their phones and get some hands-on experiences before we can truly say how well it’s received, but there are some early indications that suggest iOS 7 might be surprisingly popular. Since Apple’s ...
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Plenty of us use the WiFi hotspot capabilities of our smartphones on a daily basis, helping us get online with laptops, gaming systems, or other devices without their own cellular radios. Like setting up any WiFi network, part of using hotspots involves setting up a password, keeping your little impromptu network secure. Unfortunately, it seems that the default password generation behavior in iOS has some serious flaws, and as currently implemented in iOS 6 (presumably, this is still an issue ...
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The Xperia Tablet Z is the thinnest, lightest, most beautiful 10-inch Android tablet we’ve ever come across – but it’s still a 10-inch Android tablet, and thus still at a disadvantage in terms of a tablet app ecosystem. That said, we’ve given Sony’s latest slate the full review treatment and found it to be pretty impressive. Between its portability, vibrant display, ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Apple’s release of iOS 6.1.4 and why nobody is excited about it. Then we go through HTC’s Q1 results, which prove to be extremely bad for the company. Microsoft is next as we’ve got credible reports that a second-generation Surface tablet will be smaller and launched in June. Nokia is next as a new patent points to smartphone cameras with adjustable aperture. We end today’s show talking about a Google Smartwatch patent that brings a touch-sensitive wristband. It’s still hard to tell if any of these patents ...
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With WWDC ready to get underway in the near future, a lot of our iOS attention has been focused on the development of iOS 7 – what’s changing, what’s staying the same, and when will we finally be able to get our hands on it? Still, it looks like iOS 6 has some life in it yet, and today Apple keeps that ball rolling with the release of iOS 6.1.4. The 6.1.4 update is a mere 11.5MB in size, which should clue you in that this one is seriously minor. The only change ...
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Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week’s podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate “manufacturers” well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we’re not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren’t of the ...
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Since the iPhone 4, iPhones in general are regarded as having some of the best, if not the best, smartphone cameras around. Sure, the Lumia 920 from Nokia has optical image stabilization, so it performs better in low-light. And some newer phones have 13-megapixel sensors, meaning they produce larger images. But the iPhone has a way of almost always capturing great, balanced photos. But some photos simply need some touching-up, some post-processing to turn an okay photo into something much more dramatic or moving. The built-in ...
Stuff comes up, folks. Sometimes you’ve got a pressing appointment in Romania, or a meeting scheduled in Media, PA. Sometimes you’re at the day job, other times you’re off the grid somewhere in the country. Other times you’re buying a car. These things happen. Fortunately for us, these things don’t usually happen all at once, which means the Pocketnow Weekly podcast usually features more than two people on the air. But today, listeners, Lady Luck was not with us. Today, Sam the Scheduler was out sick, because every member of the Pocketnow team was otherwise ...