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The Apple iPhone 4 signal non-issue issue just won

Apple last night updated the Mobile Me Gallery app to download higher resolution images on the iPhone 4 (but only when connected to Wifi).  Version 1.1 also squashes some bugs in the process.

We have a quiet morning so far, so to keep you tuned in here’s a rather cool video detailing 30 years of Apple history in two minutes, featuring almost every Apple computer ever released. Enjoy… (Thanks Make).

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Wow.  First, Apple sells a $.50 bumper for $30 and people flock to it.  But this little antenna issue has demand even higher than expected so supply is short.  The very opportunistic amongst us are now selling that little piece of Antenna saving rubber for $100.  Long live capitalism!

BGR says that they’ve got internal Apple docs detailing how geniuses should deal with people who lose left hand connectivity in their new iPhone 4s.

Looks like that software update claim from last week might have been BS. Gizmodo’s petition and the free bumper wishes might also be over.  Another shocker.

Sorry, I can’t write about Verizon iPhones anymore.

Psst! We told you earlier how much Microsoft looks up to Apple (albeit in secret), now it looks like a little bit more of Redmond could one day nestle snugly inside Apple

Apple is looking for key deals as company CEO, Steve Jobs, will spend time at a leading media industry event next month. Is Apple seeking to extend into television, or is Jobs on a mission for new media-focused executive talent as the company takes on Google for the future of tech?

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Apple is working to bring Pages to the iPhone, as claimed in this fresh collection of blurry beta test images from our tipster. (More pics after the jump).

Making the app available across its family of devices clearly makes a lot of sense for the company.

After all, if you think about it, while iWork may orginally have been introduced as an alternative to Microsoft Office, Google’s actions since that point and the movement of the industry into the cloud predicate an available everywhere model for Apple’s creative apps.

Me? I’d like to see Logic Mobile, GarageBand Express and Final Cut Mobo make it to the iPhone. One day they will, after all, so why not now?

Moving away from all the reported snags and SNAFU

Reading between the lines of his latest interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests just why Google is going up against Apple in the mobile space, saying smartphones are “the future for Google and the world.

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This is artist David Kassan finger-painting on an iPad using the iPad Brushes app.

As the video shows, he manages to capture an extremely impressive image of a his live model in a project which takes him three hours. I

Apple users make the best lines, that

Its looking pretty likely that, for better or worse, iWork is heading to the iPhone and iPod touch. Here are some blurrycam images of a beta test of Pages for iPhone, according to our tipster:

Good to know: this appears to be running on the 320×480 screen of the iPod touch so there might be some legacy support.

Life at the Apple product factories may have improved slightly, but now it looks as if Hon Hai/Foxconn plans to build a huge new plant in north-central China in which it will place some of its Apple-related manufacturing operations. And Apple is reluctant to take part in this plan.

Local government reports claim up to 300,000 new workers will be recruited for the new plant which is to be placed in the city of Hebei. The move follows a series of well-reported suicides at Foxconn factory in Shenzen.

Foxconn makes iPods and iPhones but also works for others, including Dell and HP. The company recently doubled basic salaries in response to the suicides, which some say were caused in reaction to autocratic management, long hours, overtime and low wages.

Workers at the new plant will pick up 1,200 yuan ($176) per month, rising to 2,000 yuan ($300) after a probationary period.

The Financial Times tells us Apple is unhappy about Foxconn

Andy Ihnatko does a pretty solid iPhone 4 review for the Chicago Sun Times.  One kind of surprising thing however: 10 hours after getting his demo unit, he drops it and shatters the glass back panel.  He seems like a pretty responsible fellow, not a clown like these folks so it is a bit surprising.  The iPhone 4 continues to work but I can’t help but think an aluminum and/or plastic backing option might have been more practical.  I know, I know: where is the ‘sexy’ in that?

Aluminum?  Well, good on Andy/Apple for being honest.

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We’re pondering these new rumors from Jason O

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For those of you keeping up with the iPhone girl, Kim Yeo-hee, who sang a cover of Lady Gaga

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Philadelphia Eagles’ star Stacy Andrews couldn’t wait to get his hands on an iPhone 4 so he payed a 15-hour line sitter two-thousand dollars to get the only iPhone 4 up for sale at Walmart’s launch.   He could have probably found a much better deal on eBay.

An interesting tidbit from the story is the girl who sold the iPhone was initially offered $1 thousand from the star but had turned it down only to have the offer doubled. 

Video on YouTube for the flash impaired.

via Switched

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A mind-boggling 1.7 million iPhone 4 users are waiting on Apple to release arguably the most critical software update in its history, as users and competitors wait and see if software can fix the damage done by the left-hand-holding iPhone 4 call flaw….

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