The Apple iPhone 4 retina display has come under attack from Samsung who argue that quadrupling the resolution of the iPhone screen would have little impact on the quality. Samsung quoted a three to five percent increase in clarity.

Samsung also commented that the IPS screen used by Apple [AAPL] could also drain the battery as much as 30 percent. The Super AMOLED screen used on the Galaxy S is said to be better in that it doesn’t require the battery draining backlight of the IPS screen. The AMOLED screen also has true black and more accurate colours making it look better all around and from all viewing angles.

Although Samsung has attacked Apple on this (of course they would with the launch of the Galaxy S), the AMOLED screen isn’t without it’s flaws either such as problems in daylight and high cost to produce. [Read more…]

The Three network in the UK has stepped up by now saying it will also offer the iPhone 4 in the UK when it launches. The network joins the other four main networks in the UK which are O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

Just like the other four networks, the iPhone 4 UK on Three has yet to receive pricing details although we expect to hear within the next few days, possibly tomorrow in preparation for the June 15 pre-orders starting.

The only network who seems to be hinting on the iPhone 4 UK price at the moment is O2 who has created a micro site with details on how much you pay to get out of your contract. We also have seen some hints that O2’s pricing will follow that of the iPhone 3GS when that launched. [Read more…]

The Apple iPhone 4 has a number of new features one of which is FaceTime. FaceTime allows you to video call from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4. However, there is currently a restriction on the iPhone 4 preventing it from working over a 3G connection.

Musclenerd commented on twitter a couple of days ago that one reason to jailbreak the iPhone 4 would be to disable the WiFi only restriction on the iPhone 4.

Apple just gave whole new reason to jailbreak iPhone 4: to trick FaceTime video chat to use 3G (not restrict to wifi)

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Earlier today we mentioned that Google Maps Navigation was landing in Canada and a number of countries in main land Europe. Google [GOOG] has now confirmed exactly what countries will receive the free navigation service.

In total, 11 more countries have been added which includes (on version 4.2) Austria, Belguim, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.

To run Google Maps Navigation it requires that you are running Google Android 1.6 or higher. [Read more…]

If Apple [AAPL] impressed you enough to grab an iPhone 4 in the next couple of weeks then you might be able to save a bit of money by selling your old phone back to O2.

We don’t yet know the iPhone 4 UK price, but we are hearing rumours that it will fall in line with what the iPhone 3GS prices were recently ie, if you pay more per month and commit for longer you’ll get it for free and then the lower you commit, it will cost more out right.

On to the O2 deal, we noticed recently that they have a recycling scheme going on and the prices they are willing to pay back are not bad at all. Looking at the prices we see that the iPhone 3GS 32GB fetches up to £253 while the 16GB 3GS will pay you £240. [Read more…]

The Apple iPhone 4 is launching in just a couple of weeks. However, the iPhone 4 UK pricing has yet to be revealed. What we do have though is details for those on O2 network wanting to upgrade to the iPhone 4.

O2 suggest three ways to get an iPhone 4. The first is to take advantage (or disadvantage?) of their early upgrade offers. O2 is offering those with a current O2 contract the ability to upgrade early for a “small” fee. The O2 early upgrade calculator can be found here and from what we can figure out, it seems to add £20/month for each month you have left on your contract although if your contract ends before August you won’t pay any extra fees. After that, each month ads an extra £20 to the cost of upgrade, so if your contract ends 17 December this year, you’ll pay £100 inc VAT on top of what you pay for the iPhone 4. [Read more…]