Apple prepares to dump connector heritage with new iPhone

In April 2003, Apple unveiled the third generation of its iPod – and introduced the 30-pin connector on its base that would in less than a decade become part of more than half a billion devices. But now, Apple is preparing to dump that heritage by introducing a new, thinner 19-pin connector with the next …

iPhone 5 rumour roll-up for the week ending October 28

The iOSsphere hungers for news about iPhone 5. It can’t let go of LTE, and new images of what the next iPhone will look like again rear their Photoshopped pixels. Contemplating a quad-core mobile processor causes swooning. And just in time for Halloween, authoritative word that the late Steve Jobs will not introduce the iPhone …