Category: Apple News

T-Mobile customers from the U.S. can improve Tmobile signal at home for iPhone or other gadgets. There is a signal booster you can use which allows getting past the one bar inside the building.

You should meet the criteria for your smartphone. You can use T-Mobile signal checker before you decide to make this purchase. Users who have tried using the booster at home say that their weak signal has actually improved allowing them calling from home much easier. The best part of this news is you can actually get T-Mobile signal booster for free from the carrier if you are eligible for this offer.

The mobile operator is planning to operate its towers at 700 MHz in 2014. This should happen later on and till then you can simply order the signal booster from the carrier if your cell phone doesn’t support LTE Band 12 which is required for the better signal. Thus if you have a weak signal inside the house try to solve the problem now.

If you are postpaid consumer you might be eligible to improve T-Mobile signal for iPhone and other gadgets at no cost. The device you can use is called Cel-Fi. It has two parts. One part is located on your window. The other one is located inside your house or apartment.

This booster can receive signal and amplify it for 3G / 4G networks. It covers the area of 13 thousand square feet.

As Cel-Fi reports, it will start shipping the product at the end of May. You might like to contact T-Mobile and find out whether you can enhance your signal for free as buying it yourself will make your pocket lose about $575.

iPhone 5S users can enjoy new Verizon LTE bands. The U.S. carrier has brought its XLTE service doubling its bandwidth to different American cities. The enhanced service promises faster Verizon LTE speeds to customers who live in the areas where it is possible to use AWS-enhanced XLTE.

The new service has reached about 2 dozen gadgets, including the iPhone 5S from Apple and other brands [Samsung, HTC, BlackBerry models]. The news about Verizon LTE advanced technology has been published by this carrier.

Don’t mix 5G and the service from Verizon. This is not the same thing even though iPhone 5S users in some cities will enjoy the doubled 4G LTE bandwidth. The mobile operator promises to provide “faster peak speeds” to its client, according to company’s CMO Ken Dixon.

To get these better speeds, you should have an XLTE-compatible smartphone. The update is actually “invisible” to you. You might only notice that your speeds have increased. Older LTE service from Verizon wasn’t as good as T-Mobile’s or AT&T’s. The new solution might be enjoyed by most carrier’s customers.

The AWS spectrum used by the company should also help people with gadgets that work on 700MHz spectrum only as AWS should free up some capacity for them.

Thieves like to steal iPhones. No matter how hard Apple tries to protect its customers from thieves, bad guys keep hunting for the popular iDevice. With iOS 7 and Activation lock feature, it became harder to erase your personal data distantly, turn off Find My iPhone app and resell the smartphone that is running iOS 7 and up version of Apple firmware. Still bugs and different services can still allow third-party people bypass the security feature and restore the handset for the used gadgets market. But they will fail if iPhone is reported stolen or lost.

What to do when someone steals your iPhone? Let’s answer this question from “nots.” Let’s see what you MUST NOT do when the iPhone was stolen. This can help organize your thoughts and think clearly.

If iPhone Is Stolen

According to the NYT report, law enforcement officials do not advise users to track their stolen iPhone via Find My iPhone. This is probably the first thing you can think of doing after you find out that your smartphone is lost.

As one former police chief explains to The New York Times, the phenomenon of tracking the lost smartphone using Find My iPhone option is new, but it can get you in trouble. Some people actually go to places they should go. While lucky ones are successful, still “others have gotten hurt.”

iPhone Stolen Check Can Hurt You

Some users even take hammers with them while tracking down the lost cell phone. Such weapon is useless against firearm, so anyone who got into this upset situation should not try to catch the thieve taking the law into their hands.

Do not risk your life for the gadget. Call police and report your stolen iDevice. Let the professionals do what they can do great. Let the police catch the thieves and return your iOS 7 smartphone. Stay safe and healthy!

Apple fans who are not running for owning the newest smartphone have now a good deal for grading in their older model to upgrade to iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c. This offer can be interesting to customers who are not going to wait for the iPhone 6 release in order to trade in for the latest smartphone with iOS firmware.

Everyone who is going to have iPhone trade in at Best Buy is guaranteed to receive $200 trade-in value. The promotion lasts till May 11. You still have a couple of days to get the deal and own either iPhone 5c or 5S.

You can easily trade your old iPhone for new iPhone 5S / 5c by bringing the working cell phone to the store and receiving the newer model for free. The $200 credit is guaranteed by the store and you can apply this sum of money for your new iDevice.

Best Buy offers another promotion as well. If you are using Verizon or Sprint as your U.S. carrier you can trade in your iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S and upgrade to iPhone 5c / 5S you will aslo get a gift card from Best Buy with either $50 or $100 value.

So how good is the deal? Consumers who wish to have the 16GB iPhone 5S locked to Sprint, AT&T or Verizon Wireless will get this model at no-cost if they bring their working iPhone 5.

Users who want to exchange the 4S model can get 16GB iPhone 5S for free from Verizon and T-Mobile. The same AT&T device will cost them $49.99.

If you are going to trade-in your older iPhone 4, you will receive the free 16GB iPhone 5S from Verizon and Sprint, and $99.99 iPhone 5S from AT&T.

iPhone 5S 32GB and 64GB models are also offered with discounts. What do you think about this deal?

Some iPhone Sprint unlimited plans users will soon experience problems with this mobile operator. The carrier allows itself to throttle back on customers who consume “too much data” within a month. Sprint throttling will be affecting both contract and prepaid consumers who are connected to Sprint and MVNOs based on Sprint carriers, such as Verizon Mobile USA and Boost mobile.

Sprint iPhone problems are to begin in congested areas this summer. The company has already sent warnings to its MVNOs assuring that from the next month it will use prioritization management policy to heavy use consumers.

Some customers even received a message about Sprint throttling plan. It says that starting on June 1, 2014 the company will do everything in order to provide the bigger number of its clients with a top-quality “data experience during heavy usage times,” and this means that the mobile company will control its network resources in congested areas providing better service for people who are within the top 5 percent of data usage.

Sprint throttle unlimited data policy becomes similar to T-Mobile’s as this carrier also like to throttle its customers’ speed back once users get past the soft cap on the network. It is worth noting that Sprint advertised its unlimited plans in the past and touted that these plans were “truly unlimited” unlike the services provided by T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon.

The carrier assures that the throttling will happen during congested times and only in congested areas. If the client who is in the top 5 percent is out the congested area his or her speed should be normal again.

Who can get to the 5$ zone? According to Sprint, users who consume more than 5GB per month can easily get into it. If you crossed this limit line, you might be throttled and might not be throttled. The situation depends on where youare and what time it is. Only high traffic areas will be affected by this policy.

The new T-Mobile iPhone promotion gives all loyal consumers a free full season of MLB. You can get it at Bat 14. The offer can be enjoyed by customers from the U.S. who are using T-Mobile network.

T-Mobile can offer this deal because it officially sponsors MLB. Users who like MLB will be glad to get a full season at no cost. The carrier’s site doesn’t mention his promotion officially yet, but everyone who accesses MLB at Bat from the iDevice or other gadget that is connected to the carrier will see that the promotion can be redeemed for the free 2014 season.

You can get the offer till September 30, 2014. We’ll be glad to hear from T-Mobile customers who get the free season. We’ll keep an eye on other interesting T-Mobile news to share with you. If you need to unlock T-Mobile iPhone 5 / 5S / 5c / 4S / 4 you can do this using factory permanent unlocking service.

You can place your T-Mobile iPhone unlock request and have the handset become SIM-free within 24 hours or in a couple of days. This gives you the opportunity to connect to different carriers and use their networks within and outside the U.S. Maybe other companies will also run good promotions such as the one with the MLB season as a gift allowing you participating in them.

Apple has started the program for repairing sleep / wake button in the iPhone 5 models that are affected by this problem. You can go even further and firstly ask for the button fix and then for Apple iPhone trade in deal. It can cost you $350 to trade the older iPhone 5 to the newest iPhone 5S device.

The Cupertino-based tech giant offers two ways for fixing buttons. You can either send your device in or go to the nearest retail store and take your iPhone 5 with you. Ask for the not working sleep / wake button repair, which is free if you are eligible for this program. You should also ask about the second program available to customers. This is the $350 trade in deal where you can trade iPhone 5 for 5c or 5S [your choice].

The catch here is pretty simply. No one will offer you this trade in deal unless you ask for it. According to some users, Apple instructed its employees to present the option only to consumers that specifically want to upgrade to the latest model and ask about this.

The deal is available to iPhone 5 users only. The smartphone has to be in working condition. There should be no broken display or other damages to it. If the damage exists, you need to have it fixed before you are able to trade in.

Everyone who is looking for the new iPhone 6 with iOS 8 that is expected to arrive this fall are advised to save their trade-in opportunity for later.

Apple has presented a fix to bugs with iOS 7.1.1 release that you can now download for your device. The firmware improves some options on iOS 7 and solves problems that make a lot of users tired and frustrated. You can learn how to update to iOS 7.1.1 inside this post and use either direct links or OTA-upgrade.

This release comes with minor improvements to the system. It should solve the bugs such as the ability to distantly turn off Find My iPhone application and restore your smartphone without having to enter Apple ID and password. The Cupertino giant has also offered some changes to Touch ID making its response a lot quicker.

As Apple states, you will get the following changes after you install iOS 7.1.1 on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch:

–   Your keyboard should be better in turns of responsiveness

–   Touch ID sensor works better

–   Bluetooth keyboards are also fixed

You can follow iOS 7.1.1 download links to upgrade to this firmware from iOS 7.1. This is good for everything with a non-jailbroken device. Hackers haven’t released the jailbreak for this operating system so they advise everyone who needs jailbreak to not update to the newer firmware version.

iPhone 5 CDMA users can download their firmware using the previous link and GSM owners can get iPhone 5 iOS 7.1.1 for GSM here. iPhone 5S users can download CDMA or GSM model and iPhone 5C should follow these links for CDMA smartphone and GSM cell phone.

Users with iPhone 4S can update as well and iPhone 4 owner can use one of the following sources: GSM Rev A, GSM and CDMA.

iPod touch 5 gen iOS 7.1.1 is here.

Tablet devices can be updates through here:

iPad Air 5 gen – WiFi + Cellular

iPad Air 5 gen – WiFi

iPad 4 gen – CDMA

iPad 4 gen – GSM

iPad 4 gen – WiFi

iPad 3 gen – WiFi

iPad 3 gen – Wi-Fi + Cellular AT&T

iPad 3 gen – Wi-Fi + Cellular Verizon

iPad 2 gen – Wi-Fi (Rev A)

iPad 2 gen – Wi-Fi

iPad 2 gen – Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)

iPad 2 gen – Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)

iPad mini users can install the update this way:

iPad mini CDMA model

iPad mini GSM device

iPad mini Wi-Fi tablet

iPad mini 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular gadget

iPad mini 2 Wi-Fi release

 User direct iOS 7.1.1 download links to install this firmware on your iDevice and update to better options with bug fixes.

The iPhone 5c model isn’t as popular as a lot of previous Apple handsets and the company is trying to boost its sales by introducing an even cheaper 8GB smartphone to consumers from some European countries. You can now buy a cheap iPhone 5c in USA, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands and some other corners of Europe, including Finland, Portugal, Austria etc.

It is expected that the common price for the low-cost 8GB model is to be €50 cheaper than the price on the 16GB handset. This could actually bring more customers to the Cupertino-based company if carriers don’t give discounts on the 16GB smartphone.

The news about low sales of the colorful iPhone 5c that was released along with the more expensive 5S model was everywhere on the web. The introduction of the model with less storage a month ago came as surprise to everyone. Can it earn the results Apple wants? Maybe once the sales figures are shared with public experts will see how this idea allows the company benefiting from extending the line of its cheaper handsets.

It is curious that some countries offer the new model more expensive than the 16GB one. For example, some people note that Germany starts to sell iPhone 5c with 8GB of storage for €499 while the 16GB device is €10 cheaper. This sounds weird.

If such pricing policy is preserved in other countries people will not buy the lower storage smartphone when it is possible to purchase more storage at a lower price.

One of the American carriers T-Mobile changes its price policy on tablets. The company should start offering LTE devices for the price of Wi-Fi models. Its new T-Mobile price plans also suggest the free data use through 2014. This company likes to introduce different promotions for its customers shaking up the market in the U.S.

The operator wants to attract more tablet consumers thus it came up with a new initiative. The Tmobile price policy offers LTE Apple tablets $130 less plans than Apple offers them. The fruit tablet with LTE option usually costs $130 more than the Wi-Fi gadget but for a limited time you can get the LTE model cheaper.

Even if you still have the Wi-Fi model and wish to get the newer device you can visit the carrier’s store and ask for upgrading your tablet for the 4G LTE-enabled iPad. You will pay the same price as you would have paid for the Wi-Fi device. This might be a good deal for a lot of Americans who like to own the latest generation gadgets with the Apple logo.

T-Mobile price plans offer no annual contract but offer different postpaid activation on mobile plans. In other words, you can now purchase the 16GB iPad Air with 4G LTE connection for $499 and not pay $630.

Some consumers can get the 2-year financing with no money down. You can also get the bonus of free monthly 1GB data in 2014. This is an addition to the offer with free 200 MB data that tablet users already get from this company.

This is a good time to buy the tablet if you wanted one for Christmas but found it too expensive. You can also wait till the next-gen model that might be launched this fall. Apple is planning to release the A8 processor devices, as rumored.