iPhone 5 will have a bigger screen and a smaller dock connector, Microsoft strikes another licensing deal and Apple Vs Samsung getting more heated.
- Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 display, shows possible next-generation device (aka iPhone 5) - The latest version of the iOS 6 Beta was seeded to devs yesterday and contained in it was a rather interesting piece of information. When a display of 640X1136 is selected using the iOS 6 Simulator from the dev tools package the screen displays 5 rows of apps on the homescreeen. Previously in iOS 5 and earlier it would just show a stretched row of icons. The internet is of course taking this as proof that the iPhone 5 will indeed sport a new 4″ display when it is shown off later in the year.
- iOS 6 points to new 9-pin connector: is this the new, smaller dock port? – The self same iOS 6 Beta also alludes to a new dock connector for the iDevice faithful. While the debate rages on between all of the so called ‘sources in the know’ a new line of code has been found with the phrase ’9Pin’. Could this be the new dock connector for the iPhone 5 we have all been promised.
- Microsoft and Sharp strike licensing deal for use of exFAT technology in Android-based devices – Sharp may not be the big cheese in the Android world but in Android Japan it owns nearly 20% of the market share. Now Microsoft is set to get paid a royalty from yet another Android manufacturer this time it’s for the exFAT file system that Sharp wants to use on its future handsets.
- Samsung’s 132-page internal report on why the Galaxy should be more like the iPhone – A potentially damning piece of evidence against Samsung has been spotted in the evidence logs of their trial against Apple. The 132 pg report literally read like a ‘How can we be more like the iPhone?’ manual. Even the designer of the original Apple icons sys that she can barely tell the difference between the 2 phones. Susan Kare (designer of the Happy Mac logo of the 80′s) said she once mistakenly picked up a Samsung device while aiming to pick up an iPhone when meeting with lawyers before the trial. ”I think of myself as someone who’s pretty granular about looking at graphics, and I mistook one for the other”.