A British iPhone user was shocked to find he was being billed $30,000 for Internet use. Apparently he had no idea what was happening until service was cut off by his carrier, which apparently didn't conclude that something was out of whack with his usage.
The Samsung Galaxy S III, for the first time, is the top-selling smartphone in the world, beating out both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, according to Strategy Analytics data for the third quarter of 2012.
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Apple unveiled the latest iPhone 5 this morning in San Francisco, although weeks of leaked images and videos meant there were really no surprises in the feature set.
Apple's iPhone 5 is due to be unveiled on 12 September, according to posts on three separate news or rumour websites. The new phone will be released before the end of the month, they say.
Perhaps the next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honor of the new spate of rumors that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.
Big companies, even those with demanding <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> needs, are nonetheless allowing employees to use personally owned <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> and tablets for work, according to a new survey. And increasingly, it is employees and not the companies that are bearing the costs -- for the devices, and cellular data plans.
A report in The Wall Street Journal today has now sparked speculation that Sprint could be the exclusive carrier for the <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 5.
For months, rumours and speculation have been obsessed with the next iPhone's hardware including the screen size, a processor upgrade, more memory, the shape of the case and even the material used for the case. But Tuesday's announcement at Apple's California headquarters is more likely to show the company's conviction that hardware is in a sense simply an "enabler" for software.
The iPhone 5 was briefly listed on the Vodafone website this weekend, only to disappear as quickly and mysteriously as it had appeared.
Apple’s iPhone 5 has been the subject of scads of rumours, with some focused on a bigger screen, others on fewer buttons and still others on facial recognition. But the one thing all the rumourmongers seemed to agree on of late was that the next great smartphone would emerge in September.
With the celebration of the summer solstice having passed, the iOSsphere is heating up with new and newly recycled <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 5 rumours.
Here's the weekly roundup of iPhone 5 rumors from around the Web, and they range from the latest on everything from more white models to wireless charging to the coming of iOS 5.
Unknown to most iPhone users, their handsets have been collecting a highly detailed history of their movements, apparently via cellphone triangulation. The data is then stored, usually in the clear, on their Mac computer whenever the two devices synchronize.
Coders plunged into the iOS 4.3 firmware Apple has released ahead of its iPad 2 launch Friday and found clues that the iPhone 5 will sport the same dual-core A5 processor as the new Apple tablet computer.
The latest Apple iPhone 5 rumor centers on the anticipated smartphone featuring a 4-inch screen, about 14% bigger than the standard 3.5-inch display of current iPhones and more in line with what Google Android phone makers have been offering.