Apple eyes way to entertain your iPhone callers on hold

Callers waiting on hold for you via your iPhone may be a bit less bored if a new Apple patent ever sees reality.Published Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a patent dubbed "On-hold visual menu from a user's communications device" envisions a way to share your music, photos, videos, location, and other content with fellow iPhone users patiently waiting to talk to you.The technology would first allow you to set which, if any, content items you wish to share with your callers. It would determine if and when a caller is placed on hold. Your caller would then see a list of items enabled for sharing and choose one from among them.You could even customize which items are available for certain callers. For example, you might want to share only songs with strangers but share everything with family and friends.There is at least one caveat. Sharing bandwidth-heavy content such as videos would surely eat up the cellular data allowance for both you and your callers. So, you'd have to be careful just what you share.(Via AppleInsider)

Apple eyes two bigger displays for iPhone, another report says

Another day, another rumor that Apple plans on launching two iPhones this summer featuring bigger screens.This time around, The Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the company's plans, that Apple will launch one iPhone with a screen size bigger than 4.5 inches and another boasting a display in excess of 5 inches.That report follows another from Wednesday by QQ Tech, claiming the iPhone 6 will feature a 4.7-inch screen. Another iPhone Apple plans to launch this June will come with a 5.7-inch display, according to QQ Tech.In addition to a larger screen, Apple plans to ditch the plastic casing in the iPhone 5C and go with metal in both versions of the device.For its part, Apple hasn't confirmed that it's even working on a new iPhone, let alone two devices featuring larger displays. Apple is, however, behind on the screen-size front. The company's handset currently boats a 4-inch screen, making it one of the smaller devices on the market. Many Android handsets come with 5-inch-or-larger displays.This content is rated TV-MA, and is for viewers 18 years or older. Are you of age?YesNoSorry, you are not old enough to view this content.Play