iPhone / iPad Category

Seasons greetings to all of our loyal listeners. As it’s December, we feel we’re able to mention Christmas safely, and that’s just what we do in our December show. For this show, we look at the future of the Internet – We were invited to attend a special session discussing broadband trends, Internet demand, and [...]

FrequencyCast Show 70: Future Of The Internet [ 30:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello everyone. The start of a new month means a brand new shiny episode of FrequencyCast, your TV and Tech podcast. As ever, you set the agenda for the show – what you’d like us to cover, and what questions you want us to answer. Here’s a summary of what’s covered in the latest installment [...]

FrequencyCast Show 69: iPhone 4S, Siri and Printing [ 30:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve had reports from users of the iPhone and iPad reporting problems with battery life since upgrading to the latest version of software, iOS 5. It seems that a significant number of  iOS 5 users have noticed a marked drop in battery life, and we’re getting reports that this may be due to a bug [...]

We’re just a few hours away from releasing Show Number 69 of the FrequencyCast podcast. As requested by our listeners, we’re talking about printers and all things printing. Not the most exciting topic, but we’ve tried to add a few things that might be of interest, plus a mystery object, and a special guest. In [...]

Here’s an interesting one. Our Pete tried to get an iPhone 4S today. Even though the local store had stock, they wouldn’t let him upgrade. Here’s Pete to explain more. To upgrade, or not to upgrade… that was my question. Looking at the spec of the iPhone 4S, there seemed to be no need to [...]

FrequencyCast Off The Record - o2, iPhone and Comet Whinge [ 9:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

OK… so the long-awaited iPhone 5 turned out to be the iPhone 4S at yesterday’s Apple announcement. Given the amount of hype that surrounds any Apple launch, we locked Pete and Carl in a room after they’d taken time to dissect what the new boss of Apple had to say. As a result, here’s a [...]

FrequencyCast Update - iPhone 4S Announcement 04 Oct 2011 [ 11:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s 6pm on Tuesday the 4th of October 2011. Tim Cook, the new boss of Apple is on-stage about to announce the new iPhone. We’re all patiently waiting for the news to filter in from the US – and we’ll be updating this post in real-time as we hear anything! We’re currently watching a live [...]

As has been widely reported (including by us in the last show), Apple has been storing information about where our iPhones wander to, The information has been recorded by Apple’s mobile operating system to allow faster access to our location by apps that need to know where we are. However, there have been a number [...]

Apple has just rolled out a series of updates: For iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch: iOS 4.3 Software Update The new update includes various tweaks and fixes, plus the following improvements: Personal Hotspot – Share iPhone 4 mobile data connection with up to 5 devices iTunes Home Sharing – Play music, films and TV shows [...]

A quick heads-up that there’s expected to be an announcement about the new iPad, the iPad 1.5 or iPad 2 (even the name’s a mystery), is set for Wednesday the 2nd of March 2011. Rumours are that we can expect a front-facing camera, a slimmer iPad and possibly a faster processor. As ever, it’s all [...]

Great news for those with an iPhone or iPad… at long last, the wait for the BBC iPlayer app is nearly over. According to insiders, we can expect the official release of the long-awaited BBC iPlayer mobile application in February 2011. Expect the app to hit silly download numbers when it becomes available, but remember, [...]

Top UK bank First Direct gets its own iPhone and iPad application. Customers of the highly-rated First Direct bank can now check balances, make electronic transfers and view the 20 most recent items for their accounts using a new iPhone or iPad application that’s just been released. Matt Colebrook, the CEO of the online and [...]

Regular listeners will know that our Pete is hooked on Waze, and he’s having even more fun than ever this week. When driving around, Pete runs two sat navs – a TomTom, for the hardcore navigation, and a smartphone running Waze, the social navigation application. Waze is a global project to create a free and [...]

Hot off the presses, an unexpected 10 minutes of Carl and Pete. We’ve just released a quick 10 minute update covering a few news snippets – the changes at Global Radio, a new TomTom sat nav, good news for T-Mobile and Orange users, plus new toys from Apple The 10 minute FrequencyCast Update is attached [...]

FrequencyCast Update 15 Sep 2010 [ 10:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

After being delayed by a BBC Trust review, the BBC News mobile application was released last week for the iPhone and iPad. The app allows you to scroll around stories in the main BBC News categories, and edit the layout of the screen to customise what stories you see first. Stories contain embedded video clips, [...]

The Apple press conference at 6pm UK time has wrapped up. Apple appears to have admitted that there is a problem with the iPhone 4′s reception, and that holding the handset in a certain way will impact signal strength. There won’t be a product recall, but Apple has gone some way to addressing the problem. [...]

Apple has just released a new version of operating system for the iPhone – iOs 4.01 is now available for download via iTunes The 580 megabyte download includes bug fixes and improvements, most notably: “iOs 4.01 Improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display”. The new OS appears to have [...]

The problem with signal strength (or lack thereof) on the new iPhone 4 just won’t go away, and Apple’s been forced to make a comprehensive statement. This will happen tomorrow, Friday the 16th of July, at 10am California time. The problem manifests itself when you hold the handset in a certain way – causing the [...]

FrequencyCast Show 53 was released a little earlier today. Here’s what this bumper show contains: News Updates: iPhone 4 has launched, and big changes for local radio. Focus: BT Vision reviewed. A cheaper alternative to Sky for TV and Sky Sports? Interview: Radio past and present discussed with a leading radio amateur Hands-on: An update [...]

FrequencyCast 53 - BT Vision and iPhone 4 [ 30:54 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The iPhone 4 is well and truly out. Released last week, the media is a buzzing with news and comment, and as with any launch, everywhere’s sold out. Our listeners have spoken – they want to hear Carl and Pete talking about the new Apple ShinyPhone, and want to know what we think of the [...]

FrequencyCast iPhone 4 Launch Special [ 17:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download