New iPhone Firmware 3 1 2

Well it’s mostly bug fixing, so we will see, I actually experienced some bugs reported, so cross fingers now…

Official information about it:

“iPhone OS 3.1.2 Software Update

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not
wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular
network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during
video streaming

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3GS

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphone

For more information about iPhone, go to:
http://www.apple.com/iphone

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone

This update contains security content originally included in previous iPhone Software Updates. For more information, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222″

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AT T Reports Big Gains in New TV Subscribers but wireless drives AT Ts Q4

AT&T Technology

AT&T now serves roughly 3 million TV subscribers. In the fourth quarter, AT&T’s revenues from U-Verse services such as TV, high-speed Internet and VoIP totaled $1.3 billion.  

In the fourth quarter, more than 90 percent of AT&T’s U-Verse TV subscribers also purchased high-speed Internet service and 60 percent of the customers also subscribed to U-Verse Voice, the company’s VoIP service. Meanwhile, AT&T said it added 400,000 retail wireless subscribers. Wireless service revenues rose 9.6 percent to $13.8 billion. Net income attributable to the company was $1.1 billion, or $0.18 per diluted share. 

About 90 percent of U-verse TV customers also take U-verse broadband, and about 60 percent take VoIP. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in the companys earnings call that more than 90 percent of the companys iPhone subscribers are under contract, but warned that "it may be rocky in the beginning of the year, volatile and hard to predict" after Verizon Wireless begins selling the iPhone on Feb. 10. 

AT&T activated 4.1 million iPhones in the fourth quarter and 3.3 million other "integrated devices" – cell phones with qwerty keyboards or touchscreens, bringing the companys total integrated device sales to 7.4 million. The net adds included 400,000 postpaid customers, 307,000 prepaid customers, 1.5 million connected devices and 595,000 new customers from resellers.

Data usage drove the eighth consecutive quarter of growth for AT&Ts postpaid ARPU growth, which reached $62.88 in the fourth quarter. Postpaid data ARPU grew nearly 18 percent to $22.64. Wireless data revenue rose 27 percent to $4.9 billion. The company expects sales to increase over the next year.

By. AT&T Technology

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New iPhone 4S Commercials Feature Samuel L Jackson and Zooey Deschanel

Apple has released two notable iPhone 4S commercials that feature popular celebrities using Siri. The first TV ad shows Samuel L Jackson planning a special evening with his wife thanks to the help of Siri, and the second commercial shows Zooey Deschanel using Siri to manage a lazy rainy day. Both commercials can be viewed embedded below.

Samuel L Jackson “Date Night” iPhone ad:

Zooey Deschanel “Rainy Day” iPhone 4S ad:

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New Apple iPad 4th generation launched

Apple have just unveiled the new iPad 4th generation a completely updated version of the iPad 3 by offering new LTE compatability and a Lightning port which was first seen on the iPhone 5.

Specs have remained pretty similar to that of the previous generation release just 6-months ago however there have been some big changes, most notably in the processing department.

The iPad 4th generation has a completely new A6X chip which is 2x faster than the A5 processor and will now beat even the iPhone 5 on processing grunt which has the A6 processor.

Elsewhere the iPads Retina Display remains unchanged however there have been big changes for wireless performance with the 4th generation iPad now featuring LTE support which will almost certainly result in users being able to get the iPad 4th generation through the EE 4G network.

WiFi has been upgraded with the iPad with Retina Display now offering twice as fast WiFi speeds making it even more capable to deal with the new spectrums.

The iPad with Retina Display will be available to pre-order from October 26 alongside the new iPad Mini with the release date being November 2 and will start at £399.

via:T3

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Samsung Galaxy S4 to sport new camera features

With the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 just a few months away the rumour mill has been heating up with leaks including case images and now new software features

The Samsung Galaxy S4 could feature a new camera mode called Samsung Orb which would allow users to stitch together a completely 360-degree image, similar to Googles own Photo Sphere feature found on Android Jelly Bean.

The leak comes from Android Geeks who claim to have been contacted by a software engineer working on the Galaxy SIV. The engineer claims that Samsung Orb will be better than Photo Sphere due to the Galaxy S4s rumoured 13MP camera.

Facebook integration has also been suggested with users able to upload their Samsung Orb pictures onto the social network allowing others to click on the image and then look around inside the 360-degree photo.

The Galaxy S4 is yet to be confirmed however several companies have already started releasing videos of Galaxy S4 cases which have revealed that the smartphone will be around the same size as the Galaxy S3 but will sport a completely new design.

Other reports have claimed that the S4 will be Samsungs most powerful smartphone yet featuring a huge 1.8GHz eight-core chip called the Exynos 5 Octa chip.

While this directly contradicts SamMobile which believes Samsungs new superphone will come with a 2.0GHz quad-core processor, either would still make it the most powerful smartphone available trumping HTCs newly announced HTC One and wiping the floor of Apples iPhone 5.

With Samsung set to unveil budget and mid-range smartphones such as the Galaxy Star at MWC 2013, users will have to wait until after the conference to find out what the Galaxy S4 will look like with rumours pointing to a mid-March release date.

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