All right, so one of the recent rumors about that alleged forthcoming iPhone 5s speaks of a gold-colored version. All right, I’m OK with more colors, though one hopes it won’t take months for them to show up in quantity. Let’s not forget the white iPhone 4 that never made it until the spring of […]

When the Control Center feature was first announced for iOS 7, you were reminded of the Android solution, which puts a number of system setting toggles in the Notification panel. The purpose was to ease the drudgery of dealing with such basic functions as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. You may want to turn them off, for […]

So the conventional wisdom, such as it is, has it that Apple is being forced kicking and screaming into building a lower cost iPhone. Although the top-of-the-line model is relatively inexpensive on a subsidized postpaid carrier contract (the one you pay when you get a bill), it’s a huge jump if you have to pay […]

So this past weekend, AllThingsD, a tech site owned by the publishers of the Wall Street Journal, posted a  report that Apple plans to hold a media event on Tuesday, September 10th. The purpose? Why to introduce a new iPhone of course. Now I normally do not give a whole lot of credence to speculation […]