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Thursday 26 January 2012

iPhone 5 Going Into Production Soon [ 26-01-2012 21:45 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: 9to5Mac Translation by: Paul Smith

9to5Mac has been having words with an employee at Foxconn, Apple's Chinese parts supplier. The employee alledges that production of the much anticipated iPhone 5 is about to start and that several prototype handsets are in existence. These prototypes are said to all be different to one another, not an uncommon occurrence for Apple prototypes, but each has certain features in common. For example, they all apparently have a screen that is at least 4 inches, and possible larger. There is also a different form factor than the current iPhone 4/4S model, leading to speculation of longer and wider iPhones. If production is about to start it would hold to the pattern established by the iPhone 4S, which was manufactured beginning in late spring of 2011. Of course that meant the device was launched in the autumn rather than the more traditional summer date so it could be that the iPhone 5 will be introduced around the same time this year.

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RIM 2012 Roadmap [ 26-01-2012 19:08 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

A few days ago BGR reported on RIM's product strategy for the year ahead. It wasn't too impressive to be blunt, with the products either feeling lacklustre or an age away. Well today BGR have posted up a table showing the various products and their potential release dates. Of particular interest is London, scheduled to be RIM's first BlackBerry 10 device. That device is tentatively looking at a September release, but there is the possibility of it being pushed into October. To be frank neither date is soon enough, especially when you look at the products RIM has up its sleeve leading up to London's release. None of those seem to have much oomph to them to keep RIM's already teetering momentum going.

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Jailbreak Hack Gets Siri Translating [ 26-01-2012 18:52 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: The Verge Translation by: Paul Smith

Hackers and modders often bring out the best in apps and hardware and it's no different for Siri. Apple's locked down version is all very well and good and generally works pretty well at what Apple has set it to do. However, a jailbreak hack for Siri turns it into a translation service. It's pretty much what you would imagine; ask Siri to translate a word or phrase, name the target language and watch as Siri gives you the translation. The hack uses Microsoft's Bing Translate API, which has support for 30 languages. Unfortunately Siri doesn't actually speak the translation, but even so this is a pretty cool mod, and one that might actually be geneuinely useful.

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Nokia Q4 Figures: Profits Down, More Than 1 Million Lumias Sold [ 26-01-2012 18:46 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: Nokia Translation by: Paul Smith

Some interesting numbers from Nokia today as they released their Q4 earnings report. Top of the table is the sale of over a million Lumia handsets, or as Nokia put it 'well over' a million. That's the good news, but unfortunately it's mostly downhill from there. For starters sales in Q4 totaled 10 billion euros, which represents an 11% increase from Q3, but is still 21% lower than back in 2010. Profit too took a nose dive year on year; 90% up from Q3, but a massive 56% down year on year. Indeed this meant that Nokia suffered an operating loss of almost a billion euros. Liquid assets dropped by 1.4 billion euros, a 20% decline.

It's not all doom and gloom though. Even though the figures are down year on year, and hugely in some cases, they do, in general, show an upswing from the previous quarter. Some of that will no doubt be because of the Christmas period, which is always a big driver of sales, but Nokia can at least take some comfort in that bounce.

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