Last week Apple slashed prices of the iPhone 4 8GB (Rs 28,300) and the iPhone 4S 16GB (Rs 41,500), as was exclusively reported by BGR India. However, considering that price of the iPhone 4S, we would expect the iPhone 5 to start from Rs 49,000 for the base 16GB model and cross Rs 60,000 for the top-end 64GB variant. But today Apple has slashed the prices of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S further, which hints at an aggressive pricing plan for the upcoming iPhone 5 launch.  We have been able to confirm from multip...

Earlier this week Apple announced its annual update to iOS, which brings in a slew of new features including Apple’s own maps in lieu of Google Maps, deep Facebook integration and much more. While the new OS will be available on all devices that Apple is still retailing (including the three-year-old iPhone 3GS!) not all features will be supported by older devices like the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 2. If you have one of these devices, check out which features will be available on your device once iOS...

Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant service on the iPhone 4S, currently only supports English, French, German and Japanese. While Apple promises to bring Italian, Chinese, Korean and Spanish later this year, there is no sign of Siri ever supporting Hindi. Well, not if one crafty iOS developer has his way. (more…)Google+

The “Apple is worth more than” meme has gotten plenty of play over the past year, but a new measure of Apple’s success emerged on Monday that is as simple as it is monumental: a single share of Apple stock now costs more than an iPad. As of the open of the market on Monday, Apple’s stock rose just above $499 — the entry-level price of Apple’s iPad 2 — undoubtedly on its way to $500 and beyond. The Cupertino-based firm that once teetered on the brink of bankruptcy and was sav...

Pent up demand for Apple’s latest smartphone caused the company to halt sales of its just-released iPhone 4S in Beijing, China on Friday, fearing for the safety of its sales staff. According to Chinese tech blog M.I.C. Gadget, Beijing residents eager to get their hands on Apple’s iPhone 4S began to line up more than 12 hours before stores opened on Friday. A massive crowd had gathered at the Sanlitun Apple Store, and workers were forced to delay its opening. The crowd seemingly then became unruly...

Apple’s iPhone 4S is set to launch in China and 21 more markets on January 13th. The popular smartphone was previously rumored to be scheduled for release in the region on January 23rd, but Apple announced on Tuesday that the launch of its latest smartphone will occur 10 days sooner. “Customer response to our products in China has been off the charts,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. “With the launch in China next week, iPhone 4S will be available in over 90 countries making...

Twelve-year-old Charlie Le Quesne who was trying out the iPhone 4S at a Tesco store in Coventry, UK, met with a rude shock. The phone told him: “Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***.” Charlie was using the phone’s intelligent software assistant, Siri and had asked it: “How many people are there in the world?”The demo version of the phone, being in the lower shelf of the store was accessible to the kid.  His mother Kim was told that someone had tampered with the phone’s set-up i...

Foxconn, which assembles most of Apple’s hardware, will double the size of its Zhengzhou production facility in China. According to Appleinsider, this will make it the world’s largest smartphone manufacturing plant at a cost of just over $1 billion. Apple is expected to announce its best quarter ever ending December 2011, with iPhone sales estimated to cross over 30 million units.The China-based company is already the world’s biggest electronics manufacturer, employing just over a million people...

Apple is on track to sell a record number of iPhone handsets in the December quarter thanks to the launch of its latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S. UBS analyst Maynard Um was one of a number of analysts in recent weeks to raise his estimates on iPhone sales for the fourth calendar quarter, and he now believes Apple will offload as many as 30 million smartphones this quarter. Apple now sells three iPhone models: the new iPhone 4S, which broke Apple’s previous record when it sold more than 4 million hands...

Any disappointment that might have been expressed by onlookers as Apple unveiled its latest iPhone has not carried over to owners of the new smartphone. Apple’s iPhone 4S became the fastest-selling iPhone yet when Apple managed to move more than 4 million units during the handset’s debut weekend, and millions more have purchased the phone since then. According to new data from market research firm ChangeWave, the iPhone 4S is not only the fastest-selling iPhone to date, it also carries the highest...

We had exclusively reported yesterday that at least one carrier is planning to offer special deals for their high usage customers and now we have more details about the kind of deal you can expect. At the outset, it will be a “by invitation only” offer, where the carrier will identify customers it deems eligible (having high usage and not defaulting on your bill payment would be one) for the offer. Depending on the usage, the carrier will offer real, upfront subsidy on the phone. The subsidy will ...

Airtel has finally revealed its special tariff plans for the iPhone 4S on the eve of its launch in India. Aircel had announced its plans a couple of days ago. Airtel offers more choices in terms of plans that start from Rs 600 (users get a 50 percent discount that makes it Rs 300 commitment a month) and go up to Rs 2,000. Airtel offers more text messages (600 VS 350) and more 3G data (3GB Vs 650MB) and charges the user Rs 1,000 (Rs 950 on Aircel). Aircel offers double the voice calls than Airtel – 3,000...