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AT&T subscribers complain of delayed, canceled iPhone 4S pre-orders

By: |Oct 14th, 2011 at 04:35PM
Filed Under: Mobile
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Apple’s iPhone 4S became available to the general public today, and the launch appears to have been an overwhelming success. Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe believes Apple could close out the weekend having sold as many as 4 million new iPhones. We’ve been hearing from proud new iPhone owners across the country all day — and we’ve also been hearing about all the crazy things they’ve been asking poor Siri — but we’ve also heard from an unhappy minority that seems to have fallen...

Samsung phones still having problems with first Windows Phone 7 update

By: |Mar 4th, 2011 at 11:51PM
Filed Under: Software
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It’s not the update you’ve been waiting for, rather it’s the update the will allow you to get the update you’ve been waiting for. Of course we’re talking about Windows Phone 7, and the small, quirky code bundle Microsoft has been attempting to rollout for the past two weeks. After halting the update to Samsung handsets back on February 23rd, the company resumed sending the software to users’ devices this week. And unfortunately, it looks like Windows Phone users with Samsun...

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Apple confirms MacBook Air bugs internally

By: |Nov 4th, 2010 at 08:00AM
Filed Under: Exclusive
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The sleek new MacBook Air models unveiled late last month are the slimmest computers Apple has ever produced — but the manufacturer still managed to find the space to pack in a few troublesome bugs. Early MacBook Air adopters have taken to various forums as they voice complaints surrounding Apple’s new MacBook Air (Late 2010) models. While Apple has yet to address any of the reported issues publicly, a source informed BGR that the manufacturer is investigating several of them internally. Included amon...

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Exclusive: Conversation with Steve Jobs on the iPhone 4 antenna problems

By: |Jul 1st, 2010 at 09:05AM
Filed Under: Exclusive, Favorites, Featured
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One of our readers has a pretty interesting story to share. It is one that involves his passion for Apple products, an Apple engineer, Steve Jobs, and reported problems with the iPhone 4′s antenna placement. Let’s call the person talking to Apple and Steve Jobs “Tom”… Tom recorded a video which he posted on YouTube. That video demonstrated the iPhone 4′s now well known issue of signal degration when being held mostly on the left lower side of the phone. Apparently, Apple no...

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic NAM units being returned to Flagship stores?

By: |Feb 27th, 2009 at 01:52PM
Filed Under: BG's Corner
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We’ve got a lot of tips on this over the course of the morning but wanted to double check them to be safe. In short, we’re told that many, many new Nokia 5800 NAM owners are returning their units to the Flapship points of purchase, due to an issue with the handset not properly connecting to the internet. Now, our unit got 3G/3.5G signal fine in NYC over AT&T’s network, but we’re told many other units don’t pick up signal at all in a lot of locations. Literally another Nokia n...

Latest Xbox 360 update killing audio via HDMI?

By: |Feb 1st, 2009 at 10:45AM
Filed Under: Gaming, Software
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It looks like Sony isn’t the only company with woes on the gaming console front these days. Sure, Xbox 360 owners might not be forced to sit back and watch as their console manufacturer of choice posts record losses and sees gaming labs begin to snub their platform, but what difference does it make if their consoles becomes unusable? In an Xbox Forums thread currently spanning 23 pages, hundreds of Xbox 360 owners are reporting that recent updates are causing big problems. In a system that currently sit...

The top 10 things we hate about the BlackBerry

By: |Jan 20th, 2009 at 07:17PM
Filed Under: General
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We gave you our iPhone list, and while this probably has many more minor annoyances than actual feature omissions, we still thought it would be fun to put a list of our gripes together. Some of these might be device-specific, but you’ll get a general feel for the direction we’re going and why these things piss us off to no end.1. The ridiculous limit on file sizes when downloading from the browser. Look, if I want to download a friggin’ video file, let me.2. Attachments are pretty bad and it...

The top 10 things we hate about the iPhone

By: |Jan 20th, 2009 at 12:54PM
Filed Under: General
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Look, we love our iPhones as much as the person, but at this late point in the game, there are some things that are just inexcusable. Here’s our top 10 things we hate about the iPhone, and we’ll post up our top 10 things we hate about the Bold later on. Feel free to chime in with your own! Also note that we’re talking about the iPhone in its default state, not a jailbreaked unit. Here’s our list in no particular order:1. You can’t use custom sounds for email notifications, SMS, e...