Wait, how many new iPhones have been sold?!

Do you guys know how many polar bears there are in the world? C’mon we’re going somewhere with this, we promise.

It’s around 25 thousand. What about Penguins? You guys know much about penguins?

Well we got a few more of those cute bastards running around. Around 2 million.  Annnnd… how many pet birds in the United States?

That’s sitting at about 6 Million-ish.

Put all of that together, and now you have the number of iPhones Apple sold in the first three days of their release.

Yup, that’s NINE MILLION IPHONES.

That’s right, Kanye. NINE MILLION Sheesh.

That’s like almost half of all Australians bought an iPhone. OR like, everyone in Slovenia bought 4 and  a bit. Last year in the same 3 day period, the iPhone 5 only ( ha, ‘only’) sold 5 million units.

iOS 7 has also been updated by 200 million users- doubling the rate that iOS 7 was adopted.

Here we have Tim Cook:

“This is our best iPhone launch yet — more than 9 million new iPhones sold — a new record for first weekend sales. The demand for the new iPhones has been incredible. And while we’ve sold out of our initial supply of iPhone 5S’s, stores continue to receive new iPhone shipments regularly. We appreciate everyone’s patience and are working hard to build enough new iPhones for everyone.”

He later went back on Twitter to say:  “Thanks to all our amazing customers for the fantastic weekend!”

Not surprisingly, Apple stock has jumped back up around $490.

Although Apple has not broken down the sales between the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C, the general consensus is that the iPhone 5S has far outsold the iPhone 5C worldwide – but that the cheaper model will start to catch up in time.

SO, Yay apple! You guys did good.

p.s. it was depressingly hard to find enough cool animals to compare to the sale of the new iPhones in 3 days. Sorry to sad out on you guys, but like, give a lion a dollar or something next time you see one.

Images courtesy of imore.com, themetapicture.com, imfunny.net, cafemom.com

Guys! iOS 7 makes your phone waterproof!

NO. NO IT DOESN’T

But some people said it did, because some people are big jerks. Like the guys behind this fake out video.

It is possible to waterproof your iPhone, but not by updating the software. Apparently, some people believed the big jerks. If anyone knows these kids, pass them our number yeah? iPhone Antidote.

When will we get an iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C sent in?

Last year we had a cracked screen iPhone 5 sent in two weeks after the release…. How long until we see an iPhone 5S or iPhone 5c??

It’s definitely going to be water damaged or cracked, and it’s definitely going to break someone’s little heart. The pain of a favorite shiny new gadget turned old and stinky in one little instant is a first world pain so many of us share.

The only thing we can do is give you some cash to take it off your hands, and some sympathy. Probably a neat little magnet or pen too.

With San Francisco company Square trade releasing smartphone durability testing results yesterday, and the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C coming in at a slightly worse score than the iPhone 5, we’re going to place our bets, hope it isn’t you, and predict 8 days until we pay someone CASHMONEY for a sad little iPhone 5S or 5C.

These durability tests also placed Samsung’s Galaxy S4 in right bam blam last place of the 5 smart phones that were tested, with the phone not even functioning by the end of the testing, with it’s screen half falling off.

So, be happy you ain’t an android kid, try not to drop your shiny new iPhone, and try not to be the first person to send us in a broken iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C. Unless you want some kind of publicity. Like Kim Kardashian and her sex tape. Kind of. In that case – Here is where to start! 

And, we just decided. We’ll give an extra $10 payment to the person who sends in the first iPhone 5C or iPhone 5S. Deal?

Image courtesy of bgr.com

New iPhone 5C Ad screened during the Emmy’s

Apple released another iPhone 5C ad in the middle of the Emmy’s but we were too busy celebrating Breaking Bad FINALLY winning something and feeling weird about Claire Danes dress and wishing we were cool celebrities who get to dress up and be fancy with champagne and gold trophies and stuff.

Oh, you guys too? Yeah, we thought so. So here’s the ad again.

Now everyone go buy some cheap champagne and pretend you’re a witty fancy dressed up celebrity RIGHT NOW!

Image courtesy of www.studiosystemnews.com

Tim cook’s first tweet

Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined Twitter! Hooray!  Actually, he joined back in July but waited until the day of the release of the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S to send out his first Tweet.

And wasn’t it a magnificent one!  “Visited Retail Stores in Palo Alto today. Seeing so many happy customers reminds us of why we do what we do.”

We wonder if there was perhaps a few more gold iPhone 5S available at the Palo Alto store with so many happy customers?

His twitter handle is @tim_cook and you can follow him here https://twitter.com/tim_cook

Image courtesy of Apple

Bought a Verizon iPhone 5S and having trouble activating it? We got you

Hands up who bought an iPhone 5S unlocked through Verizon and can’t activate it because it’s saying your SIM is not valid?

Hopefully not too many people, and hopefully those people have sorted it out by now, but we thought we’d give you a fix just in cases.

If you have had this problem, shaking your phone wildly and shouting at it that the “SIM IS VALID YOU STUPID SHINY BEAUTIFUL THING” won’t help. It’ll look awesome, but it won’t help.

Call Verizon, or go see them if you can’t handle their customer service. Thanks to Appleinsider,  we know that Verizon’s internal issue ticket number for this is 6504781. Giving the Customer service agent this number will speed things up significantly.

Good luck, and quit shaking that beautiful shiny new iPhone 5S! Much more of that and you’ll be sending it in to us! ( We’d love to take it off your hands….keep shaking it…)

Image courtesy of motionhouse.co.uk 

iPhone 5 response time is soo much better than the other guys

Just like this guy, Apple’s hard work has paid off with a win! Probably not going to be seeing Tim Cook in an orange G-Sting accepting a big ‘ol gold medal though, which is… good.

A company called Agawi tested all the major Smartphones to see the time lapsed between when a user touches the screen to when the device responded to the touch.

They did this using a camera that captures 240 frames per second – super fast – alongside their own custom made device called a TouchMark.  Using this technology they were able to measure what they call a Minimum App Response Time, or MART.

The MART is how long it takes the device to respond, as above. The smaller the MART, the better the device’s screen response.

GET TO THE NUMBERS iPHONE ANTIDOTE

OK, ok. Geez.

Apple’s iPhone demonstrated a MART of 55 milliseconds. The next closest competitor was… the iPhone 4.

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 had a MART of 114ms. The Lumia 928 had a MART time of 117ms, the HTC One had a MART of 121ms and the Moto X came in so slowwwwly at 123ms.

Rohan Relan, the Agawi CEO, spoke to Venturebeat and had this to say about the results.

“App responsiveness is judged by how quickly the app can respond to your inputs, smartphones with touchscreens that have lower MART scores feel snappier. This is probably why, to many users, the iPhone keyboard feels more responsive than an Android phone keyboard.”

Agawi has not yet tested the iPhone 5C or iPhone 5S, but plans are in motion to do so. They also advised that further testing is necessary.

… But we’re pretty sure the initial testing sounds about right.

Images courtesy of  The Honolulu Advertiser & Macrumors

Pictures of people lining up outside Apple stores

No surprises here, guys. We could say something about materialism or Generation X/Y/Z or technology or society or how the terminator is coming…

But really we just wanted to show you pictures of people lining up outside Apple stores for the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.

Perhaps some comfort for those who are not getting a new iPhone, cos it’s pretty funny.

Or if you are one such liner-upperer, perhaps you can use it as some form of visual bonding with others who are doing the same as you! These pictures are from all over the world, proving passion for Apple products is truly international! Yay you guys, you big phone getting first guys!

Images courtesy of Appleinsider.com, Cultofmac.com, The Daily Telegraph, news.com.au, & CBS

Our first hand impressions of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C

It’s almost September 20th, which as we all know is the date that Apple releases the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C.  That makes us feel like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY

So… guess what we went and did?

We kinda went to Australia for you guys. Why would we go to Australia and why should you care? BECAUSE IT’S ALREADY FRIDAY THE 20TH OF SEPTEMBER HERE GUYS. IT’S THE FUTURE. WE’RE IN THE FUTURE.

It’s pretty cool. Seen a couple of these guys around.

But more importantly, we’ve also seen these guys –

and these guys –

We’ll be doing a proper rundown and how to on these babies soon, but we wanted to give you our first hand impressions on their aesthetics and how they feel in the hand.

If you’re sitting outside an Apple store somewhere right now, you should congratulate yourself. These are worth lining up for. But you should also beware- stock for the iPhone 5S has been really low over here – so much so that it is reported that some stores have no stock of the Gold iPhone 5S. At all. Some stores are advising customers that they won’t have any for three weeks.

While the U.S., having a population slightly larger than Australia (Sarcasm…), and being the home of Apple, should have more stock, especially in bigger metro areas, but this is something you might have to be prepared for.

In other countries, online stock for the iPhone 5s is also drying up. In countries such as Germany, France and the U.K, shipping times have slipped to 7-10 days.

So here’s what we think.

The iPhone 5C

It feels really nice. It has a curved, light, slippery feel. We were expecting the color to be more obvious from the front of the phone, but it’s actually quite subtle. It looks like a really nice, colorful, iPhone 5. From the back and sides, it looks like it feels magnetic. Does that makes sense?  You’re drawn to the bright and poppy color.

Our personal favorite is blue, and our least favorite is the salmony red. Sorry Apple, but something that makes us think of fish flesh is not something we’re gonna want to use erryday.

The 5C is slightly heavier, but not as much as you would expect. It feels good and substantial in the hand. The polycarbonate is smooth and shiny and looks anything but cheap – the shell is finished to a level of craft that amazes when you try to find a seam or a join line.

The iPhone 5S

Although carrying pretty significant changes under the hood, the iPhone 5S looks very similar to the iPhone 5, with the same aluminum body, same dimensions, and same weight in the hand.

Physically new to the iPhone 5S are the new colors, the fingerprint sensor, the duel – LED flash on the rear, and the word iPhone on the back is in slightly lighter font to match iOS 7. And the colors.

The colors, Space Gray and White are nice, really, but we can’t take our eyes off the Gold color to look at the other options for long. It’s so subtle in its gleam, it’s like it adds this beautiful character to the phone, but is too humble to talk too much about it. Not like those brash 5C’s.

The fingerprint sensor feels nice to touch, and it works. That’s it, it just works. We tried it with multiple people and it worked no matter how hard we tried to trick it. And we’re pretty smart kids. It took less than a minute for the phone to learn each person’s fingerprint, and once that had been done, reading them took only a couple of seconds.

Outside of the physical, the phone is super fast and the camera is really improved beautifully. The slo-mo is hella fun.

So.

We’ve been playing with iOS 7 on our stinky old iPhone all day, and we really like it, but now we can see how much better suited it is for playing on a shiny new iPhone 5S, or a bright poppy iPhone 5C.

We’ve decided, by the way. Gold iPhone 5s. Possibly a blue iPhone 5C for like… just in case.

Now we go play with Kangaroos. P.S. Seeing a baby Kangaroo hop back into it’s mother’s pouch is pretty much one of the most unexpectedly gross things we have ever seen. It sounds kinda… slurpy.

Images courtesy of iPhoneantidote. 

New Apple ad for iPhone 5C with iOS 7

Here’s Apple’s new ad, cementing how well they’ve designed the iPhone 5C specifically to work organically and flawlessly with iOS 7.

Today we’ve seen iOS 7 for ourselves, so all we need to is to countdown to the release of the 5C! (And the 5S…)

16 hours people.