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  • iPhone 5 suffering from quick scrolling issue

    Apple may be all set to sell a record number of iPhone 5 but it doesn’t change the fact that the launch has been far from ideal. Initially right after release reports started coming in about iPhone 5 that were either too easy to scratch or were scratched out of the box. Then there was the camera issue and no one can forget the Apple Maps. Now if that wasn’t enough another issue has popped up. This quick scrolling issue is now reported confirmed.

    What is this quick scrolling issue? Rapidly swipe back and forth diagonally. On an iPhone 4S the screen will scroll/respond accordingly. On the iPhone 5 however it will eventually stop registering touch input, or will intermittently drop touch inputs. This is easy to check in the Mail app.

    While under normal use there won’t be a situation that will cause a user to scroll in this manner, but games like Fruit Ninja work entirely on this principal. It’s not known whether the quick scrolling issue is a software one or hardware. It is however present in iOS 6, 6.0.1 and 6.1 beta 1. Apple needs to respond to this as soon as possible and they better hope this is not a hardware issue.

  • Apple reportedly paid $21M to use Swiss Railway clock design

    In the wake of all patent infringement cases it’s impossible to keep track. Even more so if it involves Apple. One such case was regarding the new clock app in the iOS 6 update for iPads. This new app had a clock that closely resembles a famous Swiss Railway clock design. Back then we heard that Apple and SBB have come to a licensing agreement that will allow Apple to continue to use the Swiss Railway clock design and SBB will ignore it from there on.

    It was never revealed what the terms of agreement were and how much was Apple going to pay SBB, if they were going to pay at all. Today the amount is unveiled. Apple has reportedly agreed to pay a lump sum of $21 million to SBB for rights to use the clock design on iOS 6 on the iPad.

    $21 million sounds a lot for a simple clock design, especially when Apple could have just changed the design. But in the spirits of the overall aesthetics of the clock app Apple might have deemed the $21 million necessary. Not every day you see such sums being paid out for minor designs. But then again, you rarely ever see two companies reaching agreement amicably.

  • Apple Fusion Drive benchmarks show impressive results

    When Apple announced the iPad Mini and iPad 4, one announcement went fairly unnoticed. It was the brand new iMac. Apple brought its A game when designing this beautiful all in one. Naturally it comes with the most up to date hardware as well. Apart from the usual CPU and GPU based hardware, Apple added a little bit of its own home made magic. It’s the fusion drive.

    Techfast Lunch&Dinner got their hands on the new Mac Mini and took the fusion drive for a spin. How did this hybrid hard drive + SSD storage work? Extremely impressive.  Their tests found the Fusion Drive Mac mini started in just 15.7 seconds, while the 2012 Mac mini with a traditional hard drive took 34.1 seconds to start. Fusion Drive can also achieve write speeds of more than 300 MB/s, and write speeds of 400 MB/s. In comparison, the Mac mini with 5400-rpm drive fails to exceed exceed 100 MB/s on either the read or write test.

    This fusion drive is found on both the upcoming iMac and the new Mac Mini. It features 128 gigabytes of flash storage paired with either a 1-terabyte or 3-terabyte 5400-rpm hard drive. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion operating system calculates which files and applications are used the most and automatically places them on the faster solid-state drive

  • YouTube Will Be Powering Black Ops 2′s Streaming Service

    After the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer trailer went live Activision and Treyarch announced plans for a dedicated stream service for the game. Little was know about the service then but Activision announced today that YouTube will be powering it.

    So its official, you’ll be able to stream matches directly to YouTube via your Xbox 360 or PS3. Its not known if the PC and Wii U versions will support the feature too.

    black ops 2 villain 570x292 YouTube Will Be Powering Black Ops 2s Streaming Service

    Studio head at Treyarch said the following about the announcement:

    With our competitive play and eSports initiatives, we wanted to deliver live streaming capabilities built right into Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, because Call of Duty is not only fun and exciting to play, but we believe it will be just as exciting to watch,

    By making the capability of live streaming as accessible as possible to our fans, straight from a player’s console without the need for any additional hardware or sophisticated setups, we are empowering our fans to share their multiplayer experiences.

    YouTube’s head of game partnerships, Sang Kim followed:

    Our partners are using YouTube Live to bring entertainment, must-see moments and more to millions of people around the world. With Call of Duty: Black Ops II, people can live stream their gameplay directly from the game or watch the best players live on YouTube, which is an awesome next step for the eSports community.

    Activision also announced that you’ll be needing a verified YouTube account to stream and that “additional live stream destinations will be announced in the future.”

     

  • Apple brings Passbook and Siri support to iOS Apple Store app

    The online Apple Store is one of the best places to purchase any Apple products at OEM rates. Of course Apple also has an iOS Apple Store app for its iDevices in case you want to purchase the latest and greatest Apple hardware right from the comfort of your smartphone.

    appstore Apple brings Passbook and Siri support to iOS Apple Store app

    Apple has now updated the iOS App Store app and has brought in some important and much awaited changes. For starters the new app now has Siri support. If you ask Siri for any Apple product, it will open the app and give you the relevant details. For example, the question, “How much is an iPhone 5″ opens the app directly to the dedicated iPhone page. The app also supports the new Passbook feature introduced in iOS 6. According to the change log, users will be able to purchase gift cards and email them to friends and family directly from the Apple Store app. And if you happen to receive a gift card as an email, you can store it in the Passbook app and use it in one of Apple’s retail stores.

    The new iOS Apple Store app is available on the App Store for free. It weighs in at 6.0MB.

  • Apple publishes Samsung apology in UK newspaper

    If you’ve been following the Apple vs. Samsung saga, that does not seem to have an end in sight, then you’d be aware of a rather interesting development that took place a few months back. The UK court ordered Apple to run advertisements/apology on its website and newspapers citing clearly that Samsung products do not infringe its products. This was the result of an infringement case that involved the Galaxy Tab lineup of Samsung tablets.

    court Apple publishes Samsung apology in UK newspaper

    Apple chose not to appeal and went ahead with the decision. Their attempt at an online apology was a disaster, for which the UK court gave them a 48 hour deadline to rewrite it. Today the newspaper part of that apology is out. The picture above is from The Guardian on Friday. It’s the advertisement Apple was ordered to run. The advertisement provides readers with a link where they can read the full judgement, not that anyone will actually be typing that long URL.

    Whether Apple has done a better job this time around still remains to be seen. It is still an advert full of cryptic looking numbers and figures that the general public will probably have no idea about. Let’s wait and see if the UK court agrees or not.

  • Apple shipping software update for new version of iPhone 4?

    With all the excitement of iPhone 5 and a potential iPad Mini, it’s easy to forget that Apple has other products in its lineup. Products that are old but still supported via software updates. One such device is the venerable iPhone 4. You’d think that by now Apple would be close to discontinuing such an old phone, but this log from a software update shows a new version of iPhone 4.

    iphone Apple shipping software update for new version of iPhone 4?

    This new version of iPhone 4 is marked iPhone 3,2. Just for comparison’s sake iPhone 3,3 is the Verizon version of iPhone 4. It’s hard to guess what this particular new version of iPhone 4 is. We can however make a few educated guesses. Apple could be updating the CPU to a low powered version. We’ve seen them do that with the iPad 2,4 which came with a more power efficient A5 chipset. Another possibility is the updating of baseband to support China Mobile. China is a huge market and providing them with a low cost iPhone 4 could be a way for Apple to make great bucks.

    For now though very little is known about this. Perhaps in a week or two we get more information, but don’t expect a big upgrade on such an old phone.

  • Final Fantasy XIV Has Ended, Witness The End Of An Era In This Brand New Trailer

    As you may know by now, Final Fantasy XIV is now finished, Final Fantasy XIV 2.0 or Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be released early 2013 for both the PS3 and PC. So to finish the original and welcome its successor Square Enix has released a brand new CGI trailer by Square’s own Visual Works studio on their YouTube channel titled “End of an era”, check it out below:

    Featuring Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn’s Main Theme “Answers” with vocals by Susan Calloway and music by of course the legendary Nobuo Uematsu the End of an era trailer sure is awesome. What do you think about the trailer? Are you looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn? Let us know in the comments below.

  • Update Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7500 to XWLPD Android 4.0.4 official firmware

    Galaxy Tab 10.1 is one of the very first Android based tablets that Samsung released last year. Even though its quite old it still packs in a punch with a decent Tegra 2 chipset by nVidia. Back then it was launched with the (buggy) Honeycomb OS, but Samsung has now updated it to a much better Android 4.0.4 XWLPD official firmware. Just in case for whatever reason you didn’t get this update, the steps below will guide you how to.

    Android 4.0.4 XWLPD Firmware Details:

    PDA: P7500XWLPD
    CSC: P7500DBTLP3
    Version: 2.3.6
    Date: 2012-10-30
    Regions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

    This is an official firmware which means installing it will un-root your tablet. Make sure you backup your data and charge your tablet battery.

    Step1- Download the XWLPD firmware

    Step 2- Download ODIN

    Step 3- Boot your tablet into download mode. Do this by switching it off and then pressing and holding the Volume Down + Home buttons together, and then pressing the Power button. You’ll see a triangle and an Android logo. Press the power button to enter download mode

    Step 4- Open ODIN on your PC. Make sure USB drivers for the tablet are installed. Upon successful connection one of the ID:COM boxes will turn yellow with the COM port number.

    Step 5- Select all files you downloaded in step 1.

    • Click the PDA button. Select the file which has CODE in its name
    • Click the Phone button and select the file which has MODEM in its name
    • Click on the CSC button and select the file which has CSC in its name
    • Click the PIT button and select the .pit file

    Step 6- In ODIN select Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options. Select repartition only if your selected the PIT file

    Step 7- Click the start button. Installation process will take a few minutes. After that your tablet will reboot with XWLPD Android 4.0.4 official firmware

  • Update Galaxy Ace S5830 to Android 2.3.6 XWKTS official firmware

    Not everyone wants or can afford top tiered smartphones. For those people smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 is the idea choice. But just because you have a low end phone doesn’t mean you don’t deserve the latest official firmware. Today we will guide you on how to update your Galaxy Ace S5830 to Android 2.3.6 XWKTS official firmware.

    Android 2.3.6 XWKTS Firmware Details:

    PDA: S5830XWKTS
    CSC: S5830ITVKT2
    Version: 2.3.6
    Date: 2012-10-24
    Regions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

    Note that this being an official firmware, you will loose root privileges after its installed. Make sure to backup all your data and have your phone fully charged.

    Step1- Download the XWKTS firmware

    Step 2- Download ODIN

    Step 3- Boot your phone into download mode. Do this by switching it off and then pressing and holding the Volume Down + Home buttons together, and then pressing the Power button. You’ll see a triangle and an Android logo. Press the power button to enter download mode

    Step 4- Open ODIN on your PC. Make sure USB drivers for the phone are installed. Upon successful connection one of the ID:COM boxes will turn yellow with the COM port number.

    Step 5- Select all files you downloaded in step 1.

    • Click the PDA button. Select the file which has CODE in its name
    • Click the Phone button and select the file which has MODEM in its name
    • Click on the CSC button and select the file which has CSC in its name
    • Click the PIT button and select the .pit file

    Step 6- In ODIN select Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time options. Select repartition only if your selected the PIT file

    Step 7- Click the start button. Installation process will take a few minutes. After that your phone will reboot with Android 2.3.6 XWKTS official firmware