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Taiwan-based Digitimes’ Jessie Shen is reporting that the Chinese-language Commercial Times last week quoted Dan Heyler, a semiconductor analyst with Merrill Lynch in Taipei suggesting that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has a good shot at securing some orders from Apple for its next-generation A6 iOS device processors in 2012, which would presumably indicate an iPhone 6 could arrive next year. Samsung Electronics in Korea currently manufactures Apple’s A4 iPhone 4 and iPad 1 processors and the A5 processors used in the iPad 2 and soon the iPhone 5 as well if events unfold as widely expected. However, with Apple suing Samsung over an unrelated matter, the two companies can be regarded as feuding frenemies at best, so it isn’t surprising that Apple might be seeking an alternate supplier for its iOS device processor silicon. Speaking of the iPhone 5, Digitimes Monica Chen and Joseph Tsai say Apple will split an early production this fall between Foxconn ...

SPEED: 1. HTC Desire: Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor 2. Apple iPhone 4: 1 GHz Apple A4 processor Navigation wise, both are equally fast. But for gaming, iPhone 4 is better because HTC Desire has no dedicated graphic engine. SCREEN & RESOLUTION: 1.HTC Desire: 3.7 inch, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16 millions color. 480 x 800 pixels. 2.Apple iPhone 4: 3.5 Inch, TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16 millions color and IPS technology. 640 x 960 pixels (Retina display – 4 times clearer than previous generations.) HTC Desire screen is simply beautiful but iPhone 4’s IPS and Retina Display are far superior to HTC Desire’s AMOLED CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING: 1.HTC Desire: 5 Megapixels, LED flash, face detection and auto focus. (with camera options) Recording at WVGA (800×480 pixels) for 15fps 2.Apple iPhone 4: 5 Megapixels, LED flash and auto focus. Recoding at 720p for 30fps. Clearly, iPhone 4 is far superior in Video Recoding and takes better photo quality. But rumors ...

The iPhone 4 is a dramatic redesign. It manages to pack a radically sharper screen; a second, front-facing camera; a larger battery; a better rear camera with flash; and a faster processor into a body that is 24% thinner, a bit narrower, and retains the same length and weight as its predecessor's. In fact, Apple claims that the iPhone 4 is the world's thinnest smartphone and sports the world's highest-resolution smartphone screen. With the front-facing camera, and clever new software called FaceTime, Apple has brought simple, high-quality video calling to mobile phones, albeit, for now, only over Wi-Fi and only among iPhone 4 owners. In multiple tests, this feature worked very well for me and is a classic example of the value of having one company do integrated hardware and software. In addition, the iPhone now includes an updated operating system—which also can be installed free on the prior model—that introduces catch-up software features such as limited multitasking (the...

Just three years ago, Apple wasn't in the mobile-phone business at all. Since then, its game-changing iPhone has become the most influential smartphone in the world. Now, on June 24, the company will roll out the fourth generation of the device, called the iPhone 4. While attractive, capable new smartphones emerge regularly from competitors, a new iPhone deserves special attention for two reasons. First, the device lies at the center of a huge ecosystem of 225,000 apps, plus popular related gadgets like Apple's iPod Touch connected media player and iPad tablet, which collectively are approaching 100 million units sold. Second, the iPhone's multitouch, gesture-based interface; elegant Web browser; sophisticated music and video playback; and other features have been emulated on many competing devices, so what Apple does affects the whole industry. I've been testing the iPhone 4 for more than a week. In both hardware and software, it is a major leap over its already-excell...

If you have been working all day with data for your office work, then the one must application that you must have is the Numbers application. Though initially it was designed for Mac, with the introduction of iPhone and iPad the application has been redesigned to provide the user the accessibility on their iPhone or iPad. Numbers review provides you an insight into the working of the application along with the most advanced features one can obtain. With the world waiting for more and smarter phones in the market, the applications market was found to register a tremendous growth. Numbers allows a person to use the spreadsheet just with a touch. You can now create different spreadsheets and graphs from the data that you have provided in the spreadsheet. With over 250 templates present in the application, you can now directly open up a particular template and start working on the data that is necessary for you to project the growth rate. Numbers review is available for a price and you are...

AppStart For iPad Review Free for a limited time only , AppStart for iPad is a terrific app by the folks over at  AppAdvice.com  that’s meant to serve as a starter guide for new iPad users and owners. The promotion is only available for a limited time as customers flock to pick up their iPad 2s this week. Whether you’ve had your iPad since launch day or you just picked one up, AppStart For iPad is a detailed and comprehensive guide for the most popular and useful ways to utilize your iPad in addition to recommending a few apps to get your feet wet. When you first open the app, the home screen is displayed in a clean grid of buttons for you to tap-in and find out everything there is to do with the iPad. Each grid-box allows you to open up a mini-guide for how you can use your iPad as an eReader, home theater, radio, nightstand, magazine, or social media hub. Within each mini-guide, the folks over at App-Advice also throw in their suggestions for both free and paid apps that re...

Terra Web Browser iPad App Review Take everything you can already do on the default Safari web browser, but add tabbed browsing, full screen mode, on-page text search, incognito browsing and offline page viewing and you have the  Terra Web Browser for iPad . Unlike Atomic Lite – another free browser alternative – Terra keeps your browser simple and clean without any extra clutter. Terra’s interface takes up very little of your screen real estate and Terra is absent of any annoying banner ads. The app tool bar remains simple and similar to the Safari browser only featuring a back/forward button, bookmarks bar, address bar, search (which you can change the default engine), settings and full screen button (not available in Safari). While the lack of browser tabs doesn’t bother me as much, I know many iPad users who just can’t adjust to a world without tabbed browsing. Well, anti-Safarians, Terra is here to save you. Terra integrates tabbed browsing into the browser and does...