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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Show 66 of FrequencyCast has just been released to a waiting world. Here’s a summary of what’s included in the show: News Updates: 3DS sales, changes at Sky, price drop at BT, and Apple’s bank account Focus: We’ve been to the Home Technology Event. Pete and Carl talk Home Automation Featured: Speedo Aquabeat and Kodak [...]
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Pete and Carl have just released a mid-month audio update for your listening pleasure. In this update, the guys talk about the new Apple updates, a look at some BBC radio changes, plus a new appointment to the YouView team. We also read out some of your feedback and play a couple of recent podline [...]
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Apple Mac users appear to be having fun with the new Mac App Store, which launched on the 6th of January 2011. The store offers over 1000 apps for Mac computers, following on from the success of the iTunes app store for iPhone and iPad devices. The new App Store reportedly clocked up over 1 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Got an iPhone? Get iOS 4. The new version of firmware for the iPhone has just been released to the waiting world. If you want to give your iPhone 3GS an update, hop to iTunes and upgrade from 3.1.3 to 4.0 There’s a bunch of new toys to play with, including: Multitasking – Run apps [...]
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In one of the worst-kept secrets, Apple today announced the next generation of iPhone, the iPhone 4. Speaking today at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced the slimmest smartphone ever. Here are the highlights: 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS (9.33mm) Front facing camera – video calling (called FaceTime), but initially [...]
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As a tech website, it would be remise of us not to mention that here in the UK, it’s National iPad Day. After some delays, the Apple iPad hit the UK market today, the 28th May 2010. Queues were let into the Apple Store in Central London this morning at 8am, with many camping out [...]
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It crashes our devices, it’s a security risk, it eats batteries, it’s slow, it’s closed to third-parties, it’s poor on touch-screen devices, and it’s not needed. That’s why iPhone users won’t be seeing Adobe’s Flash on their hardware any time soon, according to Apple. For months, there’s been some ping-ponging between Adobe and Apple about [...]
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Happy February people. The first of the month means a brand new installment of FrequencyCast… Here’s what we look at in Show 48: News Updates: Fast broadband from BT, SeeSaw goes beta, and some new thingie from Apple. Focus: Getting more from your TV – devices you can connect to get more Hands-on: A new [...]
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The iPad is out. We’ve been listening to a flaky audio stream live from Apple’s Keynote speech to find out what’s new, and here’s what we can report:
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Carl and Pete have completed another one of their audio updates looking at the latest tech news, plus your feedback on the last show – which was all about backups. Planned as a 15 minute quick update, this runs to nearly 26 minutes, and fans of Carl and Pete’s tech ramblings and rudeness should enjoy [...]
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Now that got your attention, didn’t it? Apple’s currently running a 12 Days of Christmas giveaway, with a different freebie available on iTunes each day until the 6th of January. Today’s giveaway is a free downloadable copy of Lesbian Vampire Killers, the British vampire comedy film. Those who’ve seen the film either love it or [...]
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Hot off the press, over 16 minutes of tech and TV news from the team at FrequencyCast. In this update we look at the merging of two mobile networks, what Apple’s been up to this month, Freeview HD testing, BT Vision updates, a Sky offer, the latest on iPhone sat nav applications, and a new [...]
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Woo-hoo! This has been a great week for those that like their phones shiny with a picture of an apple on. Two days ago, the new version of operating system OS 3 came out offering cut-and-paste, MMS and a lot of under-the-hood tweaks. Today, Friday the 19th of June 2009, the iPhone 3GS went on [...]
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We’ve just released a 7 minute emergency podcast. Lots to cover: Apple, Sony, Google, BT… and so little time left! You can listen to our update at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/latest.html, or better still, get us via iTunes. Share and Enjoy!
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