iPhone 4S coming to Vietnam

Two months ago newspapers In Vietnam reported about the upcoming release of iPhone 4S in this South East Asian country. And now, Vietnamese language daily Thanh Nien News has confirmed these rumors, as Apple is indeed planing to launch iPhone 4S in Vietnam by the end of the week. Both major Vietnamese network carriers have announced the iPhone 4S earlier this week.

Same as in similar cases, user will have to pay much higher price for their devices than what it costs users in US. Users will have to pay as much as $740 for iPhone 4S with VinaPhone, and the price for the same device on Viettel will be $780.

Apple shares images of the Grand Central store and their enthusiastic new employees

Many great images of Apple’s latest majestic store in New York’s Grand Central Terminal have already being seen, but Apple has now released their own photos posted on their official website. You can now also enjoy in unique images about the whole opening, as well as images about the whole setup of the store.

For starter we can say that the whole scene looks quite impressive, just as Cupertino company has promised. Apple store fits nicely in the background of Grand Central Terminal, and with addition of some expertly arranged lighting sources, the whole scene looks fabulously, especially in night times.

iMac becoming the new iTV?

Forbes has recently featured a story based on a research by Brian Blair of Wedge Partners, which claims that iMac will soon include a number of TV like functions. Blair predicts Apple will make iMacs with larger screensizes, which could become a successful, new Apple branded television set. This new device would be integrated in Apple’s ecosystem through iCloud and other Apple services, thus becoming a combination of a personal computer and a TV set.

iPod and iPhone fingerprint scanners for law enforcement

US government agencies including Federal Bureau of Investigation are testing Apple’s iPhone and iPod for mobile fingerprint scanning needs. FBI is using a device called FbF mobile one which is then connected with an iPhone or iPod Touch with a cable, allowing the device to be added and removed quickly as needed during routine checks and other law enforcement actions.

iPhone 5 battery drain bug still not solved with iOS 5.0.1

Apple is working really hard to clear out the problem which is known as the iOS 5 battery drain bug. The bug is causing unexplainable levels of energy loss in iPhonećs running on iOS 5. As a quick antidote, Cupertino has seeded iOS 5.0.1 which should have cleared out this problem. But after only a day or two it became clear that Apple still didn’t squash this bug. So Apple’s problems are continuing and they have now released the beta version of iOS 5.1 to certified Apple developers, which offered a number of new solutions which should prevent the fast battery drain. Unfortunately, it seems that the whole embarrassing situation is repeating itself. No matter the upgraded iOS version,developers are reporting that iPhone batteries are still being drained at an unacceptable level.

iPhone 4S launch in Russia imminent

Apple will launch iPhone 4S in Russia on December 16th. With the pre orders already available for Russian customers at some retail stores. Siri is at the time not available for Russian language but nonetheless, Russians who speak some other language like English,German or French will be able to use Siri at their will as soon as they get their new devices. And Apple has already promised to make Siri available in other languages, so we wont be too much surprised if Russian becomes one of the next Siri supported languages.

Samsung mocks iPhone 4S in a new ad

Samsung is continuing its ad campaign against Apple and their latest device iPhone 4S. In the ad, a person goes near a long line of iPhone 4S fans waiting to get their new devices, and explains them that Samsung already offers better, 4G capable devices. At the same time Apple fans in the line worry about the 4G issue on their new devices. It seems that Samsung is having good time with such adds, no matter that latest researches clearly show that iPhone 4S is the most popular smartphone device ever. Is Samsung really challenging Apple or is the South Korean company just displaying their hidden insecurity?

Network carriers running spyware on Android, iOS and other smartphones

Security expert Trevor Eckhart has just published his findings about Carrier IQ, which can be defined as a malicious spyware which was preinstalled on your device by carriers and even by some vendors. Originally this package was described as a benign type of quality control and according to carriers was installed only to gather informations about the quality of customer experience which should later be used to improve the networks services. According to this earlier statement, this software cant be used for gathering private informations from users like their photos, text messages, emails and so on.

iOS 5.1 deletes shortcuts from your Springboard

Apple has seeded iOS 5.1 beta only a couple of days ago and developers are busy figuring out ins and outs of this new iOS version. It seems that Apple has for some reason removed home screen shortcuts which you have perhaps added there. It seems that this small issue has attracted a lot of attention in the iOS developers community. When somebody discovered that it is possible to access device settings if you use URL type address for this, many devs tried to make use of this in a number of apps. This URL address can later be saved as a simple bookmark icon on your home screen , enabling you to adjust your device settings like Bluetooth, Wi-fi and others with one tap only.

Tethering app appears in Apple’s App Store

Today we heard a quite interesting bit of news from the Apple Store. It appears that Apple had somehow allowed a genuine tethering app into their App Store. This app will allow you to tether your devices through your iPhone without needing to jailbreak and use some Cydia app or using the usual way of getting a tethering package from your local network carrier. We are still not sure how did this happen actually. Is this simply a mistake by Apple’s censors, or is Apple sending a message to network carriers?