Possibly an iPhone 3gs prototype

Early concepts of Apple’s market-leading iProducts revealed as a result of a sprawling legal battle with arch-rival Samsung show wacky ideas — including octagonal shapes, handles and kickstands.

Images revealed by tech news site The Verge, show Apple was intent on pursuing a kickstand for its tablet, with multiple iPad prototypes working through how such a stand would work.

Other renderings show a version of the iPad that never was, with molded grips integrated into the frame to make it easier to hold.

“Many of the iPad prototypes also feature ‘iPod’ on the back, [...]

They are at it again. Apple and Samsung are in legal hot waters yet again, only when things couldn’t get worse. Apple has called for early ban on Samsung’s new flagship device the Galaxy SIII. According to Apple the Galaxy S III violates at least two patents, one  is the data tapping patent, the exact on in their suitagainst HTC and the other a unified search patent that covers Siri. 

Apple is also arguing that a Million Pre-orders are evidence of the potential damage if the US court lets the dispute slide. Samsung has confirmed that the injunction will not affect the US [...]

Its like winning and loosing all round, Apple was denied injunction lift suspension and Samsung was denied primary sale ban in France. The french courts yesterday denied Samsung’s request to ban the sales of Apple iPhone 4S in France. The court called the reaction out of proportion with its claims of intellectual property theft and ordered Samsung to pay a fine of €100,000 (about $134,000) to cover Cupertino’s legal fees.

The case is one of many legal battles being waged between Samsung and Apple in the United States, Italy, and several other countries over intellectual property protecting their smartphones.

Before the journey, Here are the major and upcoming smartphones of India in a spec by spec battle.

Sure there are others and we will continue to add them.

 

 

       Price  TBD  TBD INR : 28500   TBD    Processor  Dual-core Apple A5   1.2GHz dual-core  1.2GHz dual-core Samsung Exyno  Dual core, Qualcomm 8260, 1500 MHz    Display  3.5 inches, 960 x 640IPS LCD  4.65-inch curved glassHD Super AMOLED1280 x 720   4.3 inch , 800 x 480 Super AMOLED Plus  4.3 Inch, 540 x 960 SLCD    Primary Camera  8 megapixel AF, f2.4 lens, BSI sensor, LED flash  5 megapixel with zeroshutter lag  8 megapixel AF, LED flash  8 megapixel AF, LED flash    Front [...]

Its already later than I expected it to be! Anyway we have them now all iPhones for the iGyaan team have arrived with a bunch of Black ones that are still in transit. The new iPhone 4S follows in traditional Apple iPhone Packaging with only 4 essential things in the box, the device, the cable, the charger and the handsfree.

Check out the pictures while an unboxing video and some fun things start to pop up around iGyaan.

Oh and one big disappointment : Siri does not support navigation and maps in India , everything else seems ok!

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Apple has claimed yet another title when it comes to the iPhone. The iPhone 4s is officially the first smartphone with bluetooth 4.0 shipping in the body of the device. Bluetooth 4.0 will enable a whole new series of devices with the iPhone allowing heart monitors, and other gadgets of sorts to seamlessly connect with the device over long range and low power. 

Seldom does the world come close to such an instance where things happen so fast that its almost impossible to catch upto them. Last time this year we were discussing the iPhone 4 launch in India. Throughout this year there were speculations of a Jesus Phone in the form of the iPhone 5, a slim design, bigger screen, high spec’d cameras and a lot going on under the boot.

There were several devices launched in the mean time, the Samsung Galaxy S2 being the most prominent of them all followed by the likes of Sensation, Optimus 2 and now the Galaxy Note and galaxy Nexus. But companies like Samsung and LG live in the [...]