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- Bon Jovi: 'Steve Jobs killing music business'
- Apple AirPlay-friendly third-party apps showcased
- Review: IE9
- Exclusive: Microsoft explains third-party tracking decision
- Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 9
- Sponsored: Check out our great HTC Desire deal
- Amazon beats Android Market to Angry Birds Rio
- In Depth: Plasma TV: the comeback
- Review: Samsung PL150
- Schiller confirms white iPhone Spring release
- Schiller confirms white iPhone Spring release
- iPhone 5 will not have NFC, says source
- iPhone 5 will not have NFC, says source
| Bon Jovi: 'Steve Jobs killing music business' Posted: 14 Mar 2011 02:27 PM PDT  Ageing rocker Jon Bon Jovi says Apple supremo Steve Jobs is "personally responsible for killing the music business" with the instant gratification offered by iTunes and the iPod. The Livin' on a Prayer superstar reckons that the lack of physical vinyl or CD album sleeves has damaged the youth of today's chance to truly experience the music of their idols. He told the Sunday Times Magazine: "Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album." He adds that rock and roll fans have missed "the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it." Bad Medicine Clearly JBJ thinks that downloading directly to an iPod, sampling tracks before you spend pocket money, while discovering new artists along the way is no Bed of Roses for today's easily satisfied youth. He says of his 1980s heyday : "God, it was a magical, magical time. "I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?'. Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business." While Jon overlooks that buying an album based on the insert booklet has probably resulted in millions of wasted pocket money pounds, we guess he has a bit of a point about iPods ruining albums. A shuffle here, a random song there, incomplete records all over the place. Do we really listen to our favourite records all the way through, in the order in which they were carefully arranged anymore? 
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| Apple AirPlay-friendly third-party apps showcased Posted: 14 Mar 2011 12:34 PM PDT  Apple has dedicated a section on its App Store to new AirPlay-enabled apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Last week's iOS 4.3 software update opened the door for third-party apps to make use of Apple's AirPlay functionality which allows iDevice owners to stream content to the latest Apple TV box. It's been less than a week, but there's also a few apps on-board and Apple has collected them together in a helpful section called "Great AirPlay-Enabled apps" Included in the selection are the VEVO HD music video app, the ESPN Sports Magazine app as well as the new Sony My Daily Clip app, which brings a classic scene to your device every day. More still to come Before the refresh, iOS 4.2 AirPlay only enabled the sharing of content from the Video and iPod apps, but the new update opens a world of possibilities for apps that rely on streaming content, like Spotify. Content providers can also send content such as photos and embedded videos to Apple TV from the Safari browser, so keep your eye out for the AirPlay logo during web surfing too. We'd imagine a flock of applications updating their offerings in the days and weeks to come, similarly to when the iPhone first offered multi-tasking through iOS 4. Which apps would you love to see adjust their offerings to allow playback on your Apple TV too? Let us know in the comments section below. 
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| Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PDT  The newly minted IE9 is now finished, nigh on two years after IE8 landed on our PCs. Microsoft is championing improved speed and performance in the Internet Explorer 9 in a bid to shake IE's reputation as a bloated beast. This is a change of tack for the company, which in 2009 said that benchmark tests shouldn't be the main factor when determining the quality of a browser. Then, the software giant insisted the public didn't care about slight differences in speed, and was more concerned about features like security and reliability. It was wrong.
IN CONTROL: Don't want to use ActiveX controls? You can turn them all off and then reinstall one by one if you really need them (like Flash, say) While Internet Explorer 8 was well received on the whole, it was slammed for being slower than its rivals. Now Microsoft is declaring open season on benchmarks, and its browser is performing well.
WAIT A MINUTE: Need to disconnect? Pause your download till you're back online The IE9 beta introduced hardware acceleration from the GPU for rendering web pages, improving the speed at which graphics are drawn onscreen. This was a major leap forward, and with the rise of browser games like Farmville, it could win over fans of rich web apps.
GPU OFF: If your GPU isn't up to the job of hardware accelerating you can turn it off (our test notebook didn't have a good enough GPU to start with) You'll find one of the best tests of this hardware on the IE9 test drive site. Navigate your browser to the test site and you'll be presented with a tank full of beautiful fish. Their job is to test your browser to the limit and record a frame rate. With 1,000 fish onscreen on our test PC, IE9 averaged 28 FPS. Google Chrome barely managed eight FPS.
NEW TABS: Put your tabs on a separate line - by popular demand The final version of IE9 has built on this feature, and can now decide when to use GPU acceleration, and when to give it a miss. Microsoft has achieved this by looking at the usage stats of its beta subscribers, which means that IE9 won't suck vital resources from your GPU when you're looking at relatively undemanding pages.
WEBM: Want to use WebM? Install the codec and IE9 RC will use it if the web site requests it A lot of Redmond's claims about IE9 cite its performance in the Sunspider JavaScript benchmark test, and Microsoft has put a lot of work into improving its results. Cynics would say this was been done to avoid a panning in head-to-head comparisons with its rivals, and they might have a point.
2D: IE9 includes CSS 2D support, which is what makes these postcards sit at a jaunty angle FutureMark's Peacekeeper benchmark still puts Internet Explorer 9 way behind Chrome, showing that the improvements aren't visible across the board.
QUICK SEARCH: Search faster by putting a question mark at the beginning - the search button does it for you Performance power The increase of performance in IE9 isn't matched by a higher demand on system resources, and the final version introduces a range of intelligent ways to use your system's hardware.
FIND ME: The info bar lets you share your location once, always or never
SO NEAR: That's close to our location, though not exactly right The browser is able to limit the number of setTimeout callbacks the browser makes. High levels of callbacks have an adverse effect on system performance, meaning that the processor doesn't fall into a dormant state and therefore draws more power from the system. The biggest impact of this is on battery life, and mobile users will suffer as a result. IE9 uses the power options in Windows to decide what performance settings are most appropriate for your system.
NEW LOOK: A slightly different interface; Hide Tabs moves down and Suggested Sites arrive If you're using a Balanced or High Performance plan, more resources are routed to the browser. If you're using a laptop away from the mains and you're in Power Saver mode, the number of call-backs is limited. Tracking protection is also in IE9, and it comes with four lists of common tracking sites for you to use; you can block every ad service from tracking you or go in and turn different services on and off. Although the interface is mostly clear, the setting for which tracking sites you see in the list based on how many of the sites you visit use them needs to be phrased lot more clearly (the more sites that use a tracking service, the more information they can correlate about you so you care more about a service used on 20 sites you visit than one used on five, but you won't know that from the description next to the setting to filter by frequency).
DO NOT TRACK: The interface for managing Do Not Track lists for ads IE9 feels like a polished browser, worthy of competing alongside the likes of Chrome and Firefox for the first time in recent memory. With GPU on chip becoming standard, and the rise of Sandy Bridge and Fusion-based machines, IE9 has every chance to live up to its potential. Microsoft is to be applauded in its efforts to innovate in a stagnant market, but in honesty, IE9 isn't going to eat away the market share significantly this time around. The biggest concern for Microsoft will be the length of time it's taken to bring Internet Explorer 9 to market.
SAVE POWER: If you're on a notebook and you're running on battery, IE9 slows its timer right down to save power It's almost two years to the day since Internet Explorer 8 first appeared to a dull whimper, and while IE9 is packed with new developments, you can bet that it won't take Google or Mozilla two years to counter the ground regained by Microsoft. VerdictWe liked: Hardware acceleration for the browser couldn't come at a better time, and with the array of rich web sites cropping up, we can't help feeling that Microsoft is ahead of the curve this time around. The security features are also excellent, and it's good to see that Redmond is just as concerned with user's privacy as they are about advertising revenues. We disliked: IE9 still seems less polished than its competitors, and Microsoft has made a hash of the Popular Sites screen which looks blank and bare compared to Chrome. Add-ons for IE9 also feel like an afterthought, and Firefox junkies won't running back to Internet Explorer for the meagre offerings of performance sapping applets. Final verdict: IE9 is a leap forward up for Microsoft, and they've done a fine job. Some of the features in Internet Explorer 9 are genuinely innovative, and as it's well placed to usher in a richer web experience. The down sides are lack of attention to the finer points of internet browsing, and unless Microsoft support the IE9 add-on ecosystem, and carry on their development of the browser instead of waiting 3 years to release IE10, all the great work could be for nothing. NB: This review was written using the Release Candidate of IE9. We'll update the review if there are any significant changes in the final version. Related Links
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| Exclusive: Microsoft explains third-party tracking decision Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PDT  Microsoft has explained its thinking behind the Tracking Protection in IE9 – a feature that will "identify and block many forms of undesired tracking" – but admits that it does not want to become involved in creating a blocked list itself. With privacy an increasingly vital topic when it comes to browser choice. Microsoft is keen to ensure that it is giving consumers options to stop sites from picking up information from them if they do not want to give it. However, presumably due to concern that any list that it creates will lead to criticism, Microsoft will allow third parties to create lists – a decision that is likely to also cause alarm, not least in the advertising world. "The privacy thing has been something we've been thinking about for a while," UK Internet Explorer lead Julia Owen told TechRadar. "It's a new thing for us. "Essentially there's an increasing groundswell of worry about privacy on internet. It's partly to do with how people have started to get more social and we share all sorts of things with social networks.
"If you go to a site like Facebook, there is stuff coming from third parties and going back out with third parties and I think most people are not aware of that going on and that there is data being collected about what they are doing on that website." Blocking So Microsoft believes that people should know exactly what information they are sharing through things like cookies, and decide if they should block certain sites and advertising tracking. "We think what we ought to do is give you the power, added Owen. "Some people are fine. They want to live their lives...in public, others are completely private and don't want to share anything and the rest of us are somewhere in the middle. "So [we added] Tracking Protection as a feature in IE9. We're at the moment partnering with number of site including eTrust and they have created a list for us." The list is essentially a block list of sites that can or can't follow you, and companies or individuals can create their own versions that Microsoft could host in its 'gallery'.
Concerns There are obvious worries about the power of a dominant list; which could reap havoc on the current online advertising model, for instance, or act as a barrier for some sites' business. "I think that actually if [Microsoft] created the list you would [question] Microsoft creating the list," said Owen. "This is a matter of public debate at the moment. We're not saying we have the answer, we are saying we care about it a great deal. "We think this is one way to address this issue. There are organisations that will help make the decision [of who to block] for you if you don't feel comfortable making those decisions for yourself. "There will be a lot of debate about who to block and one of the reasons why it ought to be not us that creates that list is that it needs that debate and needs to be decided in public." Microsoft insists that it is not passing the buck on tracking – which is already a hot issue in the EU – but it remains to be seen if giving the decision making to third parties becomes an issue that could shake up content provision on the internet as a whole. Not an ad-blocker Microsoft also provided TechRadar with their official explanation for the Tracking Protection, explaining that it is 'not designed as an ad blocker'. "Tracking Protection is designed to give users more control of the amount of information they share with third party sites," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "There is no impact on advertising behavior for sites the user has not explicitly placed on a Tracking Protection List. While not designed as an ad blocker, it is possible some content served by blocked third parties (that may include ad distributors) will not display. "Anyone can create a Tracking Protection List, including advertisers and ad trade groups. As such we believe that Internet Explorer 9's new set of privacy features attempts to provide a balance between customer choice, customer control and ad industry needs. "Tracking Protection was made available in IE9 RC. We are committed to receiving feedback as we build IE9 and we look forward to feedback from consumers, publishers, advertisers and the industry as whole." 
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| Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 9 Posted: 14 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PDT  Internet Explorer 9 will be available for the public to download 4am GMT on 15 March, with the next-generation browser representing a huge step for Microsoft's browser. IE9 has already been a big hit for Microsoft through its beta stages, with a massive focus on HTML5 and web standards winning plaudits, and the company is keen to show that it deserves its number-one spot in the browser market. Microsoft has made mainly tweaks from the RC and beta versions, with the fully-baked next-generation browser now ready for public usage. Partners "What has changed since the IE9 beta is the number of partners that have come on board," UK Internet Explorer lead Julia Owen told TechRadar "We've made some changes to the standards we're supporting and also added in ActiveX filtering and we've also added in some privacy changes."
The privacy changes are perhaps the most significant with the introduction of Tracking Protection and Tracking protection Lists sure to raise some debate, and the inclusion of ActiveX filtering and InPrivate browsing support from pinned sites welcome arrivals. Automatic dismissal Other changes include the automatic dismissal of less important notifications, with higher priority alerts prioritised, tabs in a separate row – allowing more space for open tabs – and allowing pinned sites to have more than one homepage. As TechRadar's IE9 review states, for those with IE8 there are some major changes that significantly improve Internet Explorer. It will be fascinating to see if the latest Microsoft browser can win over the public and ensure that powerful challengers like Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari, along with the ever-popular Firefox, can be held at arm's length. 
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| Sponsored: Check out our great HTC Desire deal Posted: 14 Mar 2011 08:01 AM PDT  We've teamed up with 3 to offer our readers a great deal on the HTC Desire HD (Black) - 2,000 minutes, unlimited texts and internet for 24 months, for only £35/month. 
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| Amazon beats Android Market to Angry Birds Rio Posted: 14 Mar 2011 07:49 AM PDT  Rovio has announced through Twitter and its blog that it will be launching its Angry Birds spin-off, Angry Birds Rio, exclusively through the Amazon Appstore. Like it did with GetJar, Rovio has decided to sell another Angry Birds game not through the official Android Market but a third-party site. The Amazon Appstore has yet to launch but the Angry Birds Rio UK release date is 22 March, so it's a given that Amazon will open up its app shop before this. Look mum, no ads! Interestingly, Angry Birds Rio will be a paid-for app. When GetJar had exclusive rights to Angry Birds Seasons for Android, it was offering the game for free but with ads. This isn't the case for Angry Birds Rio, even though Rovio will be getting a fair bit of cash from Twentieth Century Fox, as the game is a tie-in for the upcoming Rio animated film. Alongside Angry Birds Rio, the Amazon Appstore will also get paid versions of Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons. This is the first time Android users will be able to play the apps ad-free. "The Android platform has seen phenomenal growth, and it's great that new avenues for app distribution are opening up," explained CEO Mikael Hed on the Rovio blog. "The openness of the Android platform works for the benefit of consumers and developers alike. It has been delightful to team up with Amazon to bring the Angry Birds franchise to this great new application marketplace." 
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| In Depth: Plasma TV: the comeback Posted: 14 Mar 2011 07:40 AM PDT  When Pioneer announced two years ago that it was to stop making its Kuro plasma TVs, many thought it would bring the curtain down on plasma technology. Since then we've seen spruced-up LED-backlit LCD TVs not only takeover from basic LCD TVs as the fastest growing sector, but also sneaking-up on plasma tech in terms of picture quality. Against all the odds, the market for flat TVs is booming. Thought to be both at saturation point in Western economies and at the mercy of the global recession, the market for TVs grew by 15 per cent last year to 77.6 million units - with plasma TV panel shipments jumping from 14.8 to 19.1 million in the 12 months ending December 2010. Suddenly, there's a lot of fuss over phosphor, with steadily rising sales of the gas-driven panels hitting a record high in the final months of 2010. Although LCD (including LED) screens routinely outsell plasma, that disguises the fact that plasmas only start at 42-inches in size. And looking at the 3D sales figures for the UK - courtesy of GfK - plasma tech is actually in the lead. Between October and December 2010, 40,954 3D LCD TVs were sold compared to 46,553 3D plasmas. The reasons for plasma's resurgence are unclear, though the smart money is on price and 3D performance. LED backlighting still carries a premium, which has helped plasmas become better value purely on inch-per-pound. "In some cases plasma is more affordable than LED, hence why 3D is ubiquitous throughout Samsung's new plasma range for 2011," says Nick Webb, CTV product manager at Samsung UK. The brand's expanded plasma line-ups this spring are headed by the 51-64-inch D8000 Series, which now mimic Samsung's top-end LED TVs in terms of style.
STYLISH: It's not just Samsung's LED TVs that get the brushed metallic treatment - its D8000 Series of plasmas are also seriously high-end "They're less than 4cm thick, and even the entry-level plasmas are 20 per cent slimmer - and the bezels are now so slim that you get an extra inch of screen on the same size product," says Webb. That 'Plasma+1' designed D8000 Series will go up against Panasonic's VT30 Series of 3D plasmas, which after last year's great reviews must be considered the benchmark in terms of pure picture performance, at least for now. "Plasma still has a fan base," concludes Webb. "Some people go into a store and they specifically want a plasma." Plasma and 3D Although the tech has always garnered loyalty among home cinema aficionados after the deepest black levels possible, plasma's sparkling reputation in 3D has also helped increase its popularity. "While 3D has not played a big role in the growth of plasma shipments, it has helped to support plasma TV in the competition with LCD TV," says Ken Park, DisplaySearch's senior analyst for Korean TV market research. "With 3D functionality, plasma can re-position itself as a lasting technology in the TV industry. In fact, plasma TV brands are entering 2011 with 3D across their product portfolios, from 42-inch HD to 152-inch." The three plasma manufacturers, Panasonic, Samsung and LG, all grew their shipments in 2010 by 22 per cent, 37 per cent and 30 per cent respectively according to DisplaySearch. Rather than being wholly due to 3D, plasma's resurgence has more to do with our increasing appetite for larger TVs. The 50-inch market is where plasmas are price-competitive, though Full HD wasn't as popular as you might think; cue Samsung's debut 3D plasma, the PS50C6900, which featured just a HD Ready resolution. A critical as well as commercial success (it was the top brand in both 2D and 3D plasmas in 2010) best describes Panasonic's 2010 plasmas, so it's no surprise that the current holder of the Kuro crown (almost literally - many of Pioneer's plasma engineers now work for Panasonic) has just unveiled three Full HD 'Neo Plasma' 3D model lines for 2011 - the VT30, GT30 and ST30.
CHEAPER 3D: As well as its high-end 3D plasmas, Panasonic has this year introduced the budget ST30 Series We asked Fabrice Estornel, product manager at Panasonic UK's TV Group Visual Marketing, whether plasma is making a comeback. "It never went away," he told us, "but obviously the emergence of 3D was a key driving force last year, thanks to plasma picture quality superiority, plus the increase in demand for larger screen size supported sales where, again, plasma is the best suited technology to produce big quality screens, such as a 50-inch." Plasma advantages Estornel lists plasma's short response time, natural picture, accurate colours, best black levels and screen uniformity as reasons for its popularity - particularly in home cinemas. "People passionate about home cinema tend to buy plasma TVs; our VT20 last year was a massive hit in this market," he says. "The absence of backlight bleeding on Plasma makes the technology the best for such conditions. Estornel also points out that plasma was a lot more power hungry than LCD in the past, but that Panasonic has slashed power consumption by 50 per cent in the last few years. "Our aim in the near future is to produce plasma TVs that are more power efficient than LED TV, and I do believe that this can be achieved very soon," he says. The third pillar of plasma, LG, is also expanding is ranges. Five distinct Series of plasmas - the PW450T, PZ250T, PZ550T, PZ570T and PZ950T - are, remarkably, all 3D Ready.
3D READY: LG's PW450T offers the Full HD-capable Active 3D tech, but just an HD Ready resolution Despite a good year for plasma and the technology's perceived advantages for the 3D future, there's a big challenge ahead in the flatscreen TV market. After being conspicuous by its absence on the first throng on 3D TVs - save for a sole LG TV, the 47LD950 - polarized, or passive, 3D technology is about to sweep the nation. Promoted by LG alongside its Active 3D sets, Cinema 3D, as it's known, is an effort to make the format a lot more affordable. Screen sizes even dip to 32-inches. "Frame sequential (so active glasses) 3D requires no change at all to the panel - all the selection is done in the glasses," Paul Gray, DisplaySearch's Director of Europe TV Market Research, told TechRadar. "The passive ones create the separate left and right views by a striped polarizing film bonded to the screen - odd rows are left, even are right. I guess that this could be done for plasma, but nobody has tried it. Plasma seems to work better than LCD for active shutter, due to the impulse nature of plasma displays." We at TechRadar take no stance on the 'which is better' debate between LCD and plasma, but rather the opposite; they're both brilliant, and to see one or the other disappear would be a sad day indeed. But having seen some of the latest 3D plasmas, the original flat TV tech looks to have a bright future indeed. 
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| Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT  On first impressions, the Samsung PL150 isn't the sleekest compact on the market. That's not to say it's not pocketable, but it's certainly not going to win any beauty competitions. On the plus side, its bulky exterior also houses a reasonably large 5x optical zoom and second LCD on the front of the camera. One niggly annoyance is confusion between the power button and the front LCD button. Placed next to each and being similarly sized, I lost count of the number of times I frustratingly pressed the LCD button and the camera did nothing, but given time this could be something you get used to. There's a good array of buttons on the rear, and the scroll wheel is aesthetically pleasing and is also quick to use. The LCD screen is pretty large, and does a good job in bright sunlight and is fairly easy to compose with. The front LCD isn't fantastic, but given that's only really on board to act as a compositional aid, it does the job perfectly well. The menu system is fairly cumbersome to use, and if you're in a hurry you might get frustrated. Luckily, there's a Fn menu with all the quickest menu changes (such as ISO, scene mode etc). There's a number of different scene modes you can choose from, including all the usual settings of portrait, landscape and so on. There are also some creative filters, albeit hidden slightly in the menu under the 'Auto' setting, rather than the 'Scene' setting where you might naturally expect to find them. It seems a bizarre choice to use micro-SD cards for this camera, given the ubiquity of its full-size brother. Anybody with a stash of SD cards from previous cameras should beware, you'll need a new set to accompany this camera. You can choose between miniature, fish-eye or vignetting. There's further style settings under a separate menu, including 'Sketch' style, 'Negative', 'Retro' and so on. Unfortunately, we've seen better examples on other cameras, particularly the Canon IXUS 130, but never-the-less it's nice to see them on-board for creative photographers. In Program mode there's a few basic setting changes that can be made, including AF, metering mode, ISO and white balance. Given that this is basically a cheap point-and-shoot, it's great to see options like this, allowing users to begin to learn a bit more about photography. Overall images are clear and sharp, with excellent colour rendition. There's a slight problem with noise creeping in, even in bright conditions with low ISO, so it's clear that this camera is not best suited to low-light shooting. Unfortunately, at full optical zoom, the lens doesn't perform particularly well, resulting in less than crisp images (see our test shot). On the plus side, image stabilisation works well to combat hand shake, and the camera does a good job of guessing which scene it was presented with. Samsung PL150: Sample images
The Samsung PL150 is a good choice for a family camera, with some nifty features that should make it great. The dual-screen is a nice added touch that will surely catch on with other manufacturers and for the price (you can now pick it up for around £100), this is not a bad buy. It's a shame therefore that the PL150 suffers from some image quality problems, as this ultimately brings the score down. Related Links
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| Schiller confirms white iPhone Spring release Posted: 14 Mar 2011 02:07 AM PDT  If you are one of those people still holding out for a white iPhone 4 then things are looking up, with Apple's Phil Schiller confirming that the pale handset will be arriving soon. Schiller, responding to a teenager's question on Twitter, confirmed the news, although obviously there is no mention of a white iPhone 4 UK release date. "The white iPhone will be available this spring (and it is a beauty!)." tweeted Schiller. White spring The desire to own a white version of the iPhone has been huge, with thousands left wanting after Apple decided not to put a white iPhone 4 into production until this year due to production difficulties. A Spring 2011 date has already been leaked in Apple documentation, and rumours of first a March and then April release date have been circulated. Of course, with the iPhone 5 likely to be announced in summer and the iPad 2 available in white, you may wonder if it's worth holding off to see if the next incarnation is not, in the words of Henry Ford, "available in any colour, as long as it's black." 
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| Schiller confirms white iPhone Spring release Posted: 14 Mar 2011 02:07 AM PDT If you are one of those people still holding out for a white iPhone 4 then things are looking up, with Apple's Phil Schiller confirming that the pale handset will be arriving soon. Schiller, responding to a teenager's question on Twitter, confirmed the news, although obviously there is no mention of a white iPhone 4 UK release date. "The white iPhone will be available this spring (and it is a beauty!)." tweeted Schiller. White spring The desire to own a white version of the iPhone has been huge, with thousands left wanting after Apple decided not to put a white iPhone 4 into production until this year due to production difficulties. A Spring 2011 date has already been leaked in Apple documentation, and rumours of first a March and then April release date have been circulated. Of course, with the iPhone 5 likely to be announced in summer and the iPad 2 available in white, you may wonder if it's worth holding off to see if the next incarnation is not, in the words of Henry Ford, "available in any colour, as long as it's black."
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| iPhone 5 will not have NFC, says source Posted: 14 Mar 2011 01:37 AM PDT  The Apple iPhone 5 will apparently not have near field communications (NFC), according to reports in The Independent. Quoting sources from 'several of the largest mobile operators in the UK' the Indy suggests that Apple has told them not to expect NFC. NFC is a similar technology to that found in Oyster Cards allowing people to wave their phone at readers and make a connection – allowing you to pay for goods for instance, or register at an event. It was widely expected that the Apple iPhone 5 would bring the NFC technology, following in the footsteps of rival Google who brought it in for its last handset the Google Nexus S. "The new iPhone will not have NFC, Apple told the operators it was concerned by the lack of a clear standard across the industry," said The Independent's source. The launch and arrival of the Apple iPhone 5 are key dates in the technology calendar for this year, with the next generation phone almost certain to be a big seller, given the performance of its predecessors. 
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| iPhone 5 will not have NFC, says source Posted: 14 Mar 2011 01:37 AM PDT The Apple iPhone 5 will apparently not have near field communications (NFC), according to reports in The Independent. Quoting sources from 'several of the largest mobile operators in the UK' the Indy suggests that Apple has told them not to expect NFC. NFC is a similar technology to that found in Oyster Cards allowing people to wave their phone at readers and make a connection – allowing you to pay for goods for instance, or register at an event. It was widely expected that the Apple iPhone 5 would bring the NFC technology, following in the footsteps of rival Google who brought it in for its last handset the Google Nexus S. "The new iPhone will not have NFC, Apple told the operators it was concerned by the lack of a clear standard across the industry," said The Independent's source. The launch and arrival of the Apple iPhone 5 are key dates in the technology calendar for this year, with the next generation phone almost certain to be a big seller, given the performance of its predecessors.
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