Archive for September 9th, 2013

Two Chinese carriers - China Telecom and China Unicom - are said to start taking pre-orders for the Apple’s new flagship iPhone 5S and the lower cost iPhone 5C this week. The companies also assure their customers they will fulfill the deliveries in a week after the official release of the devices is China - that is, on September 18th.

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AMZN Mobile LLC has released a ‘pre-iOS 7’ update for Kindle app recently. It fixes some compatibility issues that can prevent you from upgrading to the Apple’s seventh mobile operating system, so if you enjoy reading books and plan to continue doing this - you should install the version 3.9.2 on your iPhone or iPad.

The list of improvements is not actually a list at all - here’s what you can find in the ‘What’s New’ section on the App Store:

This is a fix for a Kindle issue with the upcoming iOS 7. OS upgrade that may cause customers to have to re-register and re-download books from Amazon. Please download and install - this is a required update before upgrading to iOS 7.

Kindle app for iOS is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and requires iOS 5.0 or later.

One can download the app for free from the App Store right now.

Another short video that allegedly shows a working iPhone 5C was uploaded to a Chinese website CTech. Like the previous one, it shows a device that looks very similar to what we know as the lower cost iPhone.

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