Displaying items by tag: iPhone 5S

Optus has begun selling an iPhone 6 adaptor for the Thuraya SatSleeve smartphone-to-satphone accessory.

Running out of space on your iPhone or iPad? SanDisk's iXpand provides up to 64GB of external storage.

Are there really five 4G smartphones that are cheaper than Kogan's Agora 4G?

Tech powerhouse Apple has announced a long-awaited agreement with the world's largest telco, China Mobile, to offer the iPhone from next month.

Apple may be struggling to market its new iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S models in Russia, according to a new report.

If you can't beat em, join em, right? Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined Twitter and fired off his first tweet amid much speculation and fanfare around his new iPhones.

Never shy to beat its own drum, Apple naturally felt compelled to tell the world through press release that it sold 9 million new iPhone 5s, beating all analyst expectations.  However, should we have expected any less given the pent up demand from a vast iPhone user base needing an upgrade?

Last week millions of iPhone 4 users received a message from Apple suggesting that they upgrade to iOS 7. If you are one such user, you should ignore this suggestion – unless you want to degrade the performance of your phone and be forced into an unnecessary upgrade.

One of the biggest unknowns around the new iPhone 5s was how long it would take for the fingerprint scanner to be hacked. Well, as it turns out, not long at all, if new reports are accurate.

Apple’s iPhone 5S M[agical] 7 co-processor has been deconstructed and guess what – M stands for Marketing [hype].

It's the photo that says it all. Queues were well down for Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c launch last week, despite Apple adding new colours, a better battery and a fingerprint sensor.

In 1951, science fiction writer C M Kornbluth, wrote a novel about a dystopic future where Earth is populated by 5 billion morons with an average IQ of 45.  Watching the long queues outside Apple stores last Friday, one could be forgiven for wondering whether the late Cyril Kornbluth was in fact a clairvoyant.

Facebook has released a major update to its iOS apps, just in time for the release of the new iPhones and iOS 7.

Good news, iPhone 5s fans, your fingers are safe. It's been revealed that severed fingers won't work with the new iPhone's fingerprint reader, according to a biometrics expert.

Apple has confirmed that the iPhone 5s and 5c will go on sale in Australia this Friday.

Optus has taken to the tennis courts to launch its 4G network in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. It too now claims the best 4G network.

Apple's announcement of the iPhone 5S and 5C is expected to lead to a huge number of old unwanted mobile phones lying around in the drawers of Australian consumers, with the number of unused phones now outnumbering people.

Apple’s new iPhone 5S comes in Silver (aluminium), gold, and space grey (needs a better name than that!). How much better it is than the iPhone 5 it replaces?

Apple's new iPhones, intended to save the company from its falling share price, have done the exact opposite, with investors declaring the announcement a disappointment.

Its 3am in Australia so forgive the brevity, but iTWire will analyse the announcements on the new verions of the iPhone later today once we receive official communications from Apple.