CanvasPop Brings Your Instagram Photos to a Real Wall Near You

Take your digital masterpieces and hang them up!

The iPhone app Instagram is doing wonders for the amateur photographer – so why not have those creations printed and hung in your walls?

Here’s a company we’re sure to see cloned in Hong Kong soon enough: CanvasPop prints your Instagram photos onto canvas so you can hang them in your home for instant cool interior design ideas without having to buy crazy expensive stuff from Lane Crawford Home.

It sounds a lot like how we made our own custom iPhone cases: upload your photo to the CanvasPop site, adjust the photos and then they print and send to you. We’re going to assume that the shipping is going to cost a pretty penny based on the size, but you’ll get some custom-made photos to hang or give away as gifts this Christmas.

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Use Apple’s iReserve Website to Get Your iPhone 4S for In-Store Pickup

Book it online and you can walk in and get it – no lines, no hassle.

Apple is really trying to take away any and all friction from getting you your iPhone 4S.

Despite the Day 1 craziness Apple have opened this page here for you to reserve a SIM-free or a contract-based iPhone 4S so that you can just walk-in and pick it up without waiting in any lines.

Apple employee’s will help you set it up, copy the data from your old iPhone and show you how to use it as well as sign you up for free workshops on how to get the most out of your iPhone.

Small snafu: when trying the site today it seemed to be down due to heavy traffic and it’ll be hard to actually iReserve one online if you don’t hit it at the right time. Keep trying and let us know when you get through.

Reserve your iPhone 4S here.

Siri Says ‘Hello’ to Hong Kong With Official iPhone 4S Launch

The iPhone 4S is now in Hong Kong!

Face front true-believers: the iPhone 4S is finally here.

Doors were thrown open this morning at 7:00 am and the first customers emerged just a few minutes later, iPhones in hand and smiles on faces. The process indoors was smooth and efficient, with people waiting only a few minutes once inside the store for the clerks to sort out their orders.

Apple had a large number of iPhones available in all sizes and colors. Large plastic storage ‘bins’ of phones were being wheeled around on the second floor to multiple cashiers who were selling phones to actual customers. Groups of about 20 were escorted from the lines outdoors into the line inside where they were met by cheering Apple staff as they walked up the glass staircase overlooking the Hong Kong skyline. Many had waited all night for a chance to get the newest offering from Apple.

So will you be heading over to get one today? Check our photos and video below:

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1010 Celebrates the Launch of the iPhone 4S with a Late Night Party

1010 Hong Kong’s Much ado about iPhone 4S.

While most people had to queue up for several days in advance outside the Apple Store to be amongst the first people in Hong Kong to get the much coveted iPhone 4S; a few local mobile companies held special midnight sales for their loyal customers. Three and CSL held garish parties at their flagship stores with eager customers lined up outside waiting for the stroke of midnight; while celebrities and wannabe socialites mingled amongst themselves with tech reporters somewhat boringly entertained as they waited for the midnight countdown.

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The Neonpunch iPhone 4S Review

The 4S is available on Friday – should you buy one?

Open the pod bay doors Siri, the iPhone 4S is coming!

The latest and greatest iPhone from Apple is a mere 48 hours away from being made officially available in Hong Kong and we were able to get our hands on one so we could get one to give you our initial thoughts.

The biggest thing people say is that the 4S doesn’t look any different from the iPhone 4 – which is absolutely true; but who cares? The iPhone 4 design is pure, sleek sophistication, and should be enjoyed as long as possible – so while the physical similarities are minuscule everything “under the hood” is different and makes it a must buy for power iPhone users (i.e. anyone with more than 3 pages of apps).

If you are thinking of upgrading from iPhone 4 (older iPhone users MUST upgrade) the 3 key upgrades that will make you want to get a 4S are:

1. Speed
2. Camera
3. Siri

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