iPhone5 and the iPad3 may make their first appearance behind closed doors

Now everyone knew that the lawsuit between Apple and Samsung would produce some big explosions and demanding to see Apple’s new treats is probably one of them. Just this Friday Samsung filed a monition which asks Apple to willingly turn over their new iPad 3 and iPhone 5 as their discovery process.

How to modify the original iPad and use it for calling and texting

If for some reason you need to use your iPad instead of your iPhone you can do that too. Of course you will first have to jailbreak your iPad. An developers group called iPhoneIslam, has developed a way for using iPad as an over-sized iPhone with this jailbreak app. This new app enables users to call, send text messages and use FaceTime for any iPad 3G.

Will The New iOS5 Bring A New Notification System Along With Widgets?

Now While Apple is denying that its encouragement to members of the international press to come and attend their World Wide Developers Conference also known as WWDC has nothing to do with the launch of the new iPhone there are rumors that suggest it’s going to be something monumental. Apple simply denies that a new iPhone will be launched during the event but stopping short of saying that both the launch of the new iOS5 and the latest Mac OS X Lion are both big deals. Apple may probably be trying to stay in the media spotlight by encouraging members of the press to attend and not postpone because the new iPhone will not be launched.

Will Google Maps be a part of the latest iOS5 release?

Apple has been hinting that Google Maps wouldn’t be with it for very long primarily because it purchased two mapping companies over the past few years i.e. Placebase and Poly9. When iOS5 was announced many people assumed that Apple would finally be making its switch to something which was more ‘Apple like’ so to speak. This speculation was then later backed up by a number of job posts on Apple’s official website, plus an Apple executive promised a few under the hoot tweaks to its maps system for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad.

Apple Aims For Even Bigger Market Share!

On Friday May 27^th , both iPhone and Samsung, two fierce competitors, will launch into a huge market, India, with over 1.2 billion people. This launch will provide the two competitors with an opportunity to go head to head to try and win the business of a new group of consumers. Indian carrier Aircel will be carrying the iPhone, with a big-ticket price of 34,500 Indian rupees, which translates into approximately $760 US dollars for the 16G model. The 32G model commands an even higher price tag, 40,900 rupees or $900.00 US. Aircel will be offering the opportunity for customers to receive 100% of the purchase price back in monthly airtime credits. This incentive will make the iPhone somewhat more accessible for the greater population in India, where nearly half (42%) of the population lives below the international poverty level of $1.25 dollars a day.

Apple’s patented music streaming service has a key advantage over others

Streaming media is definitely the future and you would probably agree with me if you have used services such as Grooveshark, Netflix etc. However Apple recently announced that it was getting into the music streaming realm of things with its recently patented application which is all set to offer people something slightly different from what they are generally used to

iPod nano watch conversion kit

Here is another interesting approach for enhancing wonderful Apple gadgets. This time a user and designer has created an interesting approach to the iPod nano watch idea, coming from a New Jersey college student Kunal Sheth. His idea of an iPod nano was showcased on the Kickstarter crowdsourcing website and it features an conversion kit named Paradox which changes your iPod nano into sharp looking wristwatch. Focusing on style and design,Mr. Sheth’s conversion kit consists of a protective case which completely embeds your iPod nano. The device is held in the housing with custom made silicon rubber straps. Each case has a special flap which gives access to 30 pin docking connector. Your iPod nano is in this way completely protected from dirt and dust.

Google Unveils New ‘Tap To Pay’ System

At a press conference in New York, New York, this Thursday, Google unveiled its new ‘single tap to pay’ smart phone payment system, known as “The Wallet”. In a race that has been run by many other payment companies in the bid to offer Smartphone payment platforms, Google Inc. appears to be the first out of the gate with its trial of a single tap payment system.

Google Inc will be launching the trial run of the payment system in San Francisco and New York. MasterCard and Citibank are working in cooperation with Google and hope to open the system to consumers by this summer, and plan on expanding across the country shortly thereafter.

Foxconn: iPad 2 production on time

Beside the tragic loss of human lives after the explosion in Foxconn’s iPad 2 assembling plants, there were some speculations about the possible impact of this accident on the production of Apple’s iPad 2 devices.

Apple’s iPhone testing security measures

According to latest rumors Verizon staff received a number of CDMA iPhones only two weeks before its launch on the network. The security was so tight that the personal which received the device for testing purposes weren’t allowed to call it iPhone, instead they were instructed to use a code name: ACME device. Even more, Apple’s security protocols required that the position of every single device was known in every moment during the day all the time during these tests.