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iPhone 5 News

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

It’s amazing seeing the amount of broken iPhones coming into our facility day in and day out, in particular the iPhone 4S.  It shouldn’t be considering how ubiquitous the iPhone has become.  As I discussed in a previous blog, the iPhone is simply dominating market share.  Apple is one of those types of companies that when it releases a new device people line up for hours, and sometimes days to get their hands on one.  Apple does that to people.  Not many companies in the world have this kind of die-hard following.  And with more and more people becoming familiar with Apple products for the first time, mostly through the “gateway drug” called the iPhone, Apple is gaining new devotees each day.

This all brings me to the point of this article: we have been hearing rumors of the next iteration of the iPhone  (ostensibly called “iPhone 5″) as early as last year.  Just think about this, it is May, 2012 and sources as reliable as the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting with confidence that the new iPhone will have at least a 4-inch screen.  When rumors of Apple products that are not even announced yet make front page headlines, that is something to truly behold.

How long will Apple’s steam last?  As a Beatle once said, all things must pass.  Microsoft has dominated the home computer market for a long time and just recently we’re seeing a valid competitor in Apple to maybe de-throne Microsoft.

When industries as big the medical industry start using iPads to manage medical records, that turns eyes.  That industry, while still a PC dominated one, is beginning to use iPads and iOS.  That is the first step of many that may lead to big things to come.

A lot of this is speculation, of course, but that’s what I’m here for. Would you like to see a bigger screen on the next iPhone?  Or are you satisfied with the status quo? Let me know!

Written by Keith

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The iPhone Dominates The Market

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

It is no surprise that Apple’s iPhone dominates the smartphone market this day and age.  Take a look at the wonderful info-graphic below courtesy of Macrumors.com.  It shows that Apple is ranked number two amongst all other vendors that are in the smart phone market.  Although Samsung is number one on the list, they have a wide range of Android driven phones which prevents any one phone from dominating the market as opposed to Apple, which offers one iPhone (albeit with several yearly revisions of the device).  This means that the iPhone can be considered the most popular smartphone on the market.

Apple is now number 2 in the smart phone market

Kudos to Samsung, though, for providing such a wide variety of excellent smart phones. The Android OS has proven to be a worthy competitor to Apple’s iOS in such a hard market to dominate.  Still, the presences of Apple near the top of this list is compelling.  How long before you see Apple at number one? Will the iPhone 5 be the final push that takes Apple over the edge? If I had to place a bet, I would put all of my money on the iPhone 5 doing so.

With such a huge installed iPhone user base, iResQ is seeing more and more iPhones come in for repair.  Believe it or not, the iPhone 3G S is still as popular as ever and we see tons of them come in for broken glass (or digitizer repairs). But when it comes down to the king of the castle, the iPhone 4S reigns supreme. This shows in our spike in iPhone 4S repairs lately.

Have any questions about iPhone repairs? Give us a call!

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For the love of gadgets

Friday, April 27th, 2012

As you may know, I am a pretty big Apple fan.  I am also a huge gadget fan in general.  I can easily say that my iPhone 4 is my favorite and most important gadget that I have ever owned.  The thought of being without it for a few hours makes me cringe. On my way to work today, I noticed that my iPhone wasn’t where it usually was in my car. I panicked. I had already driven out 10 minutes and was contemplating turning back around towards my house to pick it up. Was an extra 20 minutes of driving going to be worth a few hours without my beloved iPhone 4?  Before I turned around, I thought that I would just pull over and check the car to verify that I didn’t somehow drop it in my car before I left. Luckily for me, I found it on the floor in the back of the car. Whew!

This got me to thinking about how attached I am to this little device.  Not being in touch with the world via my personal serial number (my phone number) would not be fun.  It also got me to thinking about all the things I use it for: accessing work email and client contacts, games, Netflix while I’m at the gym, podcasts when I’m on the road, and I am even beginning to dable into recording music in GarageBand with iRig.

As much as we rely on these devices, we all know that if you were to ever break your iPhone 4 or crack its screen, you would need to get it fixed as quickly as possible. Well, that’s where we come in. You send in your broken iPhone 4 for repair through us, we’ll fix it and ship it right back out to you the SAME DAY we receive it.  I challenge you to find quicker turnaround time on these repairs anywhere. Even if you decide to drop off your cracked iPhone to a local store, chances are it would take them about a week to get it repaired for you, in which time you would have already received your repaired iPhone if you were to have us repair it for you.

Just food for thought. Talk to you next week!

Written by Keith

 

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My iPhone Was Throttled by AT&T

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

To be exact, AT&T throttled my so called “unlimited” data plan.  This is nothing new as this type of thing has been happening for quite a while, but still! It’s natural in modern society to think things like “That will never happen to me,” or “Too bad for  him. Glad it wasn’t me.” Well guess what?! It happened to me! I was driving on my way home from work one day, sun was shining, I was content, and I was streaming one of my favorite podcasts on my iPhone over 3G and I got this text:

What did I do next? I ignored it and went on my merry way.  The next day I pulled out my iPhone while at the gym and began to stream another podcast and what happened? Something I like to call the “eternal buffer”.  What is this phenomenon? Well it’s what happens when your bottlenecked bandwidth doesn’t allow you to stream things without letting it buffer for at least 5 minutes.  I know, I know,  these are first world problems so I should stop complaining, right?  Well, it is kind of frustrating when you are paying for the unlimited plan but get throttled to speeds so slow that it is seems like a joke to call that data plan unlimited. Seriously, I couldn’t stream a simple podcast because of this. I could barely use Safari or Google Maps during this time either. My iPhone reverted into an old Nokia from 2002 that can do pretty much nothing but dial and accept calls.  I even contemplated moving over to Sprint for its unlimited plan but I chose not to.  As upsetting as this was, I am getting a fair price for my 3GB of data, at least, and stopped my mild abusing of the data network.

Lesson learned.  Since then, I have made it a point to use more wifi when I can and limit my 3G usage.  I also found out what the biggest data sapping offender for data usage on my phone was: Netflix. Word of caution, when using Netflix use it over wifi. It will help you in the long run.

See ya’s!

Written by Keith

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Apple and Valve Partnership

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Apple Valve PartnershipEver since AppleInsider reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Valve headquarters last week, the rumor mills were abuzz.  The implications of a partnership between these two companies would be as big as it gets in the video game industry.  Valve is mainly known as a video game developer and for its Steam network which serves as a video game platform which allows both PC and Mac users to download a vast library of games.  To put it simply, Valve holds a lot of clout in the video game industry.

Valve has already been involved in recent rumors this year including one in particular that said Valve is currently developing a hardware video game console to rival the Xbox 360 and the PS3.  When you bring Apple in the mix, things get crazy. Could Valve be working directly with Apple to develop a new console or even partner with Apple to help develop Apple’s new TV set with Steam bundled in?

I hate to burst your bubble, though, as a recent podcast preview on Kotaku revealed that Tim Cook actually did not visit Valve’s headquarters. All of this seems to be made up.  Nonetheless, we all know that Apple, who for a long time spurned the video game industry, is now fully embracing that medium as not only valid, but highly profitable.  Games are garnering Apple an enormous amount of income through the app store. As more and more people own iPhones, more games are being downloaded and played.  You might catch a fellow commuter playing a game of Angry Birds on the train to work.  You may have even witnessed them drop their iPhone and crack their screen in the process; you know where to go for an iPhone screen repair dont you  ;)

Summing things up, although Apple may or may not be partnering up with Valve, Apple is in the video game market and they are here to stay.

Written by Keith

 

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