Conspicuously absent on the iPhone 5, near-field communication enables smart phones to share purchasing and security data with a tap--a feature that has surged on the Android platform
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Apple's new iPhone 5 (Credit:Apple) As expected, Apple has announced the iPhone 5. The object of much anticipation and speculation over the last several months, the iPhone 5 delivers most of what industry observers had expected...
With a little more than a day before the iPhone 5's expected debut, Samsung has decided to sue Apple for patent infringement over its reported use of long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity in the next-generation smartphones...
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Amid all the advance iPhone 5 hullabaloo -- and no, sports fans, we're not anywhere finished and there are still two days to go before the official announcement -- it's easy to forget that this was a family of devices "that, under the normal rules of business, should not have been invented." The above is a partial quote from Slate columnist Farhad Manjoo who's must-read piece recounts the long and winding road taken by Apple before it came out with the first iPhone in June 2007...
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