Foxconn assembles the iPhone and iPads for Apple as we all know. The company is adding an additional inspection point to its line to keep quality up. Foxconn is said to be adding X-Ray inspection to its assembly lines. A person claiming to have knowledge of the new edition claims that the company is purchasing machines in unprecedented quantities. It’s not clear right now this is good or bad, Foxconn may be trying to produce the iOS devices with less defects. Foxconn could also be reducing workers by automating some inspections. The machines will inspect printed circuit boards and soldered joints. A new report is claiming that iOS is three times faster in HTML 5 performance than Android. The tip comes from a company called Spaceport . Different platforms were tested by the company using its PerfMarks report. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was able to show 100 objects on the screen at once. The iPhone 4S is able to show 200 objects at once in the iPad 2 showed 300 at once.

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Apple has announced that it is now passed 25 billion downloads from the App Store. Whoever the lucky person was that downloaded that 25 billionth app will get a $10,000 App Store gift card. Apple has been bragging that it has created 514,000 jobs within the United States. The announcement comes after Apple has been taking heat for sending too many jobs outside the country. An interesting new app has landed on the App Store that is a daily deal app for apps called Iddicition . The app is sort of like an app of the day model that looks for the best apps around him.

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25 billion App Store downloads, Apple creates 514K US jobs, Iddiction app

AT&T has been catching a lot of heat recently over the throttling of data speeds for consumers that go over a certain bandwidth allowance each month. This is despite the fact that some studies have shown throttling does nothing to alleviate congestion on networks. AT&T has now announced that it will make adjustments to the data throttling policy for customers that have legacy unlimited plans. Under the new plan consumers now have higher data caps before their speed is throttled. HSPA+ plans now have a 3 GB per month cap with LTE plans getting 5 GB. Some customers on unlimited data plans have claimed previously that they were throttled after 2 GB of data was used. Square has offered an accessory for accepting mobile payments for the iPhone and iPad for a while now. Square has now announced that you’ll soon be able to pay for taxi rides using an iPad running the Square app inside the cab. Presumably, taxies could use an iPhone and the accessory as well. Passengers will even be able to use the iPad to surf the web during the ride.

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The iPhone and Android smartphones are constantly battling on the smartphone market. Motorola has been pushing its own Voice Actions feature on some of its new smartphones against Siri on the iPhone in a comparison video , which you think is better? Apple could possibly ban the Evi app from the App Store for being so similar to Siri. Apple has been known to do that in the past, it remains to be seen what happens in this case. AT&T has revealed plans to launch a new service that will allow mobile app developers the option of paying for the data used by the app subscribers. The plan is a way for the developers to position an app along the lines of an 800 phone number where they will pay for data rather than it coming off the users plan.

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Retro Racing was featured in our recent rundown of forthcoming interesting retro games , and comes from the same developer as Qwak , the excellent iOS platform game that still impresses today. While Qwak was an Amiga conversion,…

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iPhone/iPad App Review – Retro Racing

Panasonic has debuted a new AirPlay speaker for the iPhone and other devices in Japan today. The speakers called the SC-AP01 and it has a very thin 59 mm profile. The profile makes the speaker easy to place anywhere you want in a room. It also has technology to provide a 3-D soundscape for better audio quality anywhere in the room. It has 10 w of power and different equalizer settings. The speakers use bamboo fibers for crisp sound. Panasonic also offers a remote control app that provides full control of the speaker via the iPhone. T-Mobile has been seeing subscribers jump ship as people move to the iPhone 4S on other carriers. The company has admitted to not having iPhone led to contract deactivations in Q4 2011. The carrier plans to fight some those deactivations by adding LTE service in 2013 and I would bet it would be looking to get the next version of the iPhone on the network as well. I feel sure the next iPhone will be available on almost all carriers in the United States.

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Last night ABC’s news program Nightline aired its tour of the Foxconn facilities for the iPad and iPhone are built. Apparently, the competition for positions at the factory is fierce and iPhone takes 141 construction steps. One Safari user has filed suit against Google over alleged privacy violations. The suit stems from recent report that Google was bypassing Safari privacy settings and tracking users. Facebook has announced improvements to make it easier for iOS app integration. The change allows native iPhone and iPad applications to get traffic from Facebook.

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If you’re a fan of the videogame Skyrim, open up your App Store account because you want this app. The official Skyrim interactive world map has launched at no cost with a bunch of in-app purchase options for more details. The iPhone 4S is set to hit China Telecom on March 9. The device will be free will select contracts and this is the second carrier in China to start taking reservations. The new rumor is making the rounds the iPhone 5 announcement will be made in September . The source of this rumor is said to be “Asian reliable sources.”

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If you’re the sort of guy or gal that does a lot of outdoor sports where the iPhone could get wet, a new Kickstarter project has turned up that is just for you. The project is for case called the Aqua Tek S that has a solar panel and is waterproof to keep your iPhone powered up and safe. UK bank Barclays has unveiled a new mobile payment system for the iPhone and other devices called Pingit . To start with UK users will need a Barclays account, but before long that will be usable for anyone on using other banks. Apple has made changes to privacy that could force developers to update thousands of apps. The update comes after a lot of coverage concerning apps that are taking contact book contents without user permission.

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If you#8217;ve not already sampled the retro delights of Battle Squadron, and want to give it a try without buying the full version, Cope-Com has been thinking about you, and has come up with a great universal iPhone/iPad Lite version of the game. Unless it#8217;s a freemium game, Lite versions can be handled like the poor pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fG-uft-5nxHSGi9tlFRPWD0fy5E/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fG-uft-5nxHSGi9tlFRPWD0fy5E/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fG-uft-5nxHSGi9tlFRPWD0fy5E/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/fG-uft-5nxHSGi9tlFRPWD0fy5E/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?a=-Z23HgM_zrI:-_gzXG8O36w:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iphone-freak/~4/-Z23HgM_zrI” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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