If you live in the greatest city in the world, this can only help. Per the Wall Street Journal, the Metropolitan Transit Authority on Friday released an iOS app that will let riders of seven train lines plan their trips to the minute, a first for the largest subway system in the U.S. The official […]
Tag: Sensors
Your iPhone might get a bit quieter soon. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office and AppleInsider, Apple is investigating ways to make the iPhone’s “silent mode” truly silent by monitoring audible sound levels generated by a phone’s vibrator and adjusting the mechanism if it becomes too loud. Since the earliest days of portable […]
Look at it this way: sonar’s been around for a while. And it’s always been nifty. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an Apple patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday describes a system that may one day replace the infrared proximity sensors deployed in current iPhones with […]
A newly released patent application shows that Apple has interest in improving its multi-touch iPod nano with a camera and support for new software such as games. Per AppleInsider, potential features of a future touchscreen iPod nano were revealed this week in a new patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office entitled […]
Ok, the white iPhone 4 was delayed for 9 months and now you’re possibly standing in line at an Apple Store holding a cruel, edged medieval weapon while hoping to snag yours. There’s a reason why all this happened. Per All Things Digital, the white iPhone 4 was delayed for nine months because of a […]