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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Are These The First iPhone 6 Spyshots or Just a Horrible joke?

It's insane how fast the iPhone 6 rumors, concepts and leaks are comming in. The newest leaked shots show an iPhone similar to the concept we wrote about earlier this week. But this images make this morning a little overall a little sweeter.

A set of images of an alleged iPhone 6 hit twitter last afternoon, originating from an obscure account but have since then been picked up by Sonny Dickson, the infamous leaker who revealed the iPhone 5 as well as a number of other Apple products.

The images show a Gold and Space Grey iPhone models, both rocking an edge-to-edge display and a thinner profile. The rear casing is all metal reminding a lot of iPad Air and iPad mini design giving us an idea that Apple might ditch the glass on the back that was famous since the iPhone 4. This also suggests that Apple might finally implement LiquidMetal technology fo the antenna system.

We still can't confirm that these images are genuine, but they give you a pretty good idea how big and beautiful a bigger screen iPhone will be.

Take a look:

Source: Cult of Mac

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Massive Twitter Stream Update Makes It Look Like Facebook Timeline

I started to use Twitter about a year ago and now I can't get rid of it. I'm in love with that one stream which is an endless scrolling list on information I want to read. But some recent leaks show that this may soon change the update was spotted earlier this week by a member of Mashable. Even though this update is still testing if it goes through Twitter may look a really similar (almost identical) to Facebook. Not really sure how to feel about this one.

If you look at the screenshots, you can see that the user profile picture is located on the top left of the user page, just under the header-picture (we've not seen that before) and it even includes a short bio under the photo. Your tweet timeline lives to the right just as your Facebook timeline. Tweets are in massive cubes which I don't like that much. It takes a second to read a tweet and now I will have to scroll endlessly. But the thing we don't see on this pictures is whether this is applyed to only the user profile or the entire timeline. Why would Twitter do this?

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Our best guess is to drive additional revenue. The company still didn’t report a profit in its first earnings report since going public, and it needs to continue to find new ways to make money. With a massive area to display content, Twitter opens up plenty of opportunities to serve sponsored posts and other advertisements. We fear that may mean big photo and video ads, though we hope Twitter has some restraint in that regard.

At the time this service is only available to a few selected users, though it seems serious enoguh to be a drastic change that Twitter is considering a roll-out. We won't complain if there is a way to switch between views, but that doesn't appear to be an option in the test screenshots.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

An Amazing iPhone 6 Concept Video Leaves us Speechless

We still have to wait a few good months before Apple unveils their newest iPhone but till then there are a few (pretty) good smartphone renders and concept art to feast our eyes on. We stumbled on one that left us completely stunned. The video is showing a new and fresh iPhone 6 courtesy of ConceptsiPhone which takes a more conservative approach to imagining a new device.

Yet, all of the latest rumors for the iPhone 6 are implemented into the concept. A larger screen of 5.1-inches, by almost completely removing the side bezels the iPhone doesn't get much on its size. The concept also shows off a new and improved 10-megapixel rear camera which can shot 4K resolution video, and also a new ''Retina Two'' screen, solar charging screen, stereo speakers and a Lightning 2 port.

The design of the phone in the concept stays classic Apple, but the phone rocks a much thinner profile than the latest iPhone 5S. Also this concept isn't far fetched and stays most consistant to everything Apple has done. It's the only concept that keeps the fingerscanning home button that was first introduced in the iPhone 5S.

As we said there are still a few good moths to go untill Apple officialy unveils their new iPhone model. Till then stay tuned to our blog for latest news, rumors and concepts.

Monday, February 10, 2014

WSJ confirms existence of Nokia Normandy. Device to be revealed at MWC 2014

The rumor mill is still spinning on the codenamed Nokia Normandy device also know as the Nokia X device. This device wouldn't be special at all if it wasn't allegedly running on Android 4.4 KitKat. The phone is supposed to run a stripped down version of KitKat with a UI similar to Windows Phone tile user interface and it would replace the current Nokia Asha range of phones.

It's a little weird that Nokia would do that when they sold its mobile production to Microsoft. Maybe it will be the last device Nokia pushes out while still not under Microsofts rule.

If the rumors are to be trusted the phone should have a 4-inch screen with a 480 x 800 pixel resolution and be power by a dual-core, 1GHz Snapdragon processor eith 512MB of RAM. Pretty good if comared to other low end Android and Asha phones.

The list continues with 4 GB of internal memory, MicroSD card slot, 5-megapixel camera, and a 1500mAh battery. A dual-SIM variant may also be launched available for certain markets.

Many have been waiting for a Android running Nokia but this probably is not the device they had in mind. Even the UI looks nothing like Android at all. With most of the UI looking like the tile interface on Windows Phone. The only thing they could take advantage of are the apps found at the Google Play store.

As seen on the leaked pictures and confirmed by sources very close to Nokia the Normandy device should be available in 6 colors.

This whole situation stil seems a little odd but Wall Street Journal stated that it has confirmed this rumors by a source very close to Nokia and that the Nokia Normandy device is going to be revealed at Mobile World Congress 2014.