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Article | 22/05/2013 Would you pay $US30 for a waterproof Android smartphone?

If you've ever dropped, broken or drowned your mobile phone, Kyocera Wireless has a deal for you: two new waterproofed Android phones, one of them rug...

Article | 18/05/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending May 17

There's nothing like exclusive, high resolution, leaked photographs of arcane internal iPhone components to trigger the gaga reflex in the iOSphere. I...

Article | 10/05/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending May 10

An unstable hot air mass troubled the iOSphere this week, the sky blackened by contradictory rumours, sometimes in the same blog post.

Article | 3/05/2013 iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending May 3

Almost overnight, thanks to posts finally resembling "news," the iOSphere has become an expert in industrial design, contemplating an iPhone 6 or 5S o...

Article | 1/05/2013 iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending May 1

The truth is out there, in blurry, "leaked" photos of the iPad 5 rear shell, which is just the right size for the compost pile of iOSphere rumors. One...

Article | 29/04/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending April 26

The iPlasticPhone rears its glossy head and the iOSphere shivers.

Article | 18/04/2013 iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending April 17

Starved for details, the iOSphere again turned to studying the dimension of third-party iPad 5 cases. That's right: products for a product that doesn'...

Article | 12/04/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending April 12

Not content with merely repeating unsubstantiated iPhone 6 rumors, the iOSphere this week turned to original research and to reading entrails, otherwi...

Article | 11/04/2013 iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending April 11

The Third Law of Rumors says that the less you know, the more you can say. And the iOSphere this week swelled with iPad rumors that relied heavily on ...

Article | 5/04/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending April 5

The iOSphere quivered with anticipation as it welcomed a rumor that the Next iPhone, whatever it will be like, draws nigh, as worker bees in Chinese f...

Article | 3/04/2013 iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending April 3

If you don't know what the Next iPad will be like, you can at least know when it's going to be announced. This week: the iPad 5 Dating Game, iOSphere-...

Article | 27/03/2013 iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending March 26

In the iOSphere one doesn't need sources for rumours. Just unhinge one's imagination, propose a couple of untenable hypotheses, and deduce.

Article | 22/03/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending March 22

New technologies and patents sprouted everywhere this week, causing it seemed a thousand new iPhone 6 rumors to bloom, each more daring, or at least w...

Article | 21/03/2013 iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending March 20

God bless you Mr. (or Ms.) "Inside Source at Apple," who has revealed to the Chosen One that iPad 5, and more, will be announced June 29, complete wit...

Article | 15/03/2013 iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending March 15

Keep in mind Professor Trelawney's divination class at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft Wizardry, and much of what happened in the iOSphere this week...