Apple Might Be Working On NFC-Based Mobile Payment System

With Google already embraced NFC for mobile payments, Apple fans were expecting an NFC enabled iPhone which certainly didn’t happen as iPhone 4S has got no such hardware to support it. Though Apple is behind its competitors’ to launch an NFC enabled iPhone, they are certainly not sitting around!


According to PatentlyApple, the US Patent and Trademark office published 31 newly granted patents for Apple and NFC is one of them. Which means Apple is leading the market from behind, letting Google do all the work, and that is really very clever of them! Besides, as you all are aware of that Apple has recently introduced self-checkout in store, which is might be the first step to bring NFC technology in their next iOS devices.
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Apple Is Working On Crack-Resistant Glass For Future Devices (PATENT)

The iPhone, since its launch back in 2007, has received a lot of praise thanks to its software, high-resolution camera, display screens, ease of use and more but there has been one thing that disturbs iPhone users, the fast damage of its front and back glass panels. Apple actually is working on solving this problem.

According to PatentlyApple, it has been revealed that Apple is currently working on developing crack-resistant glass for future devices. The patent describes the method of developing crack resistant glass solutions for iPhone, there are many ways to do thing but only a couple work.

iDownloadBlog gives a quick description:

The first one involves disposing a tunable shock mount between the cover glass and the main body. This would dampen the blow of a drop because it isolates the glass from the rest of the device. It would also help protect against water damage.

The second method is more complex, and pertains to a retractable glass cover that can sense when the device has been dropped. Using an actuator, control module, and sensors, the cover glass would be able to retract itself in the event that it detected a drop.

Hope this comes to the iPhone 5.

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Siri On iPhone 3GS Ported Successfully And Working Great (VIDEO)

We’ve already seen Siri working great on the iPhone 4 with very good performance but we haven’t known its performance on iPhone 3GS until today. Chpwn has managed to port Apple’s voice assistant feature to the iPhone 3GS. I thought that it may be working bad on iPhone 3GS but it seems like I was wrong.

A new video posted on Twitter showing the iPhone 3GS running Siri and it works as smoothly as it does on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. So it looks like that the iPhone 3GS is powerful enough to get Siri working on.
Watch the video below:
Moreover, the well-known Cydia tweak, Activator, has been integrated with Siri. I’m just wondering why Apple didn’t release Siri for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS since it’s working very good.
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