iOS Devices

For a cool $70, you can now connect your iOS device directly to your HDMI TV via the USB Fever HDMI dongle.  Sounds nice, but for an extra $27 you can stream HD content to your HDMI TV with AirPlay (released soon) and AppleTV.  That sounds nicer.

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Not only does Steve Jobs compare iOS devices to cars (and PCs to trucks), so does Jailbreaker extrodinaire and Cydia developer Jay Freeman (Saurik) in his Ted Talk:

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Sure is getting cold here. Soon I’ll be wearing gloves to keep warm, and that’s where my troubles will begin as people call me up on my iPhone – my touch-sensitive smartphone doesn’t respond well to a gloved hand. (I’d use mittens but I think they look passe). What’s to do? Looks like helps on the way, because Japan’s Hitachi Displays has developed a projection-type touch panel capable of detecting insulators such as plastic and cloth.
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We’re living in an iPad world, in which Apple holds 95 percent of the tablet market and nearly everyone owning one of the devices says they’re pretty satisfied. But now the iPad is breaking out, and entering corporate, enterprise and medical industries with a vengeance.
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It’s not as electric or musical as Apple’s latest iPad TV ads but Verizon has released their very first commercial to let the world know they got the iPad. The ad basically shows off Verizon’s MiFi as well as their reliable network in both the home and on the middle of some mountain next to a beach. The Next Web via MacStories.

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COMPUTERWORLD: There’s been some talk on Lion’s new user interfaces and the removal of active indicators to show active applications in the Dock. Does this mean the Dock itself is set for change? Today a new European patent filing has emerged which describes an all-new system of “scrollable menus and toolbars.”

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Free (ad supported) until February 15th, the Washington Post, one of America’s best Papers now is on the iPad.

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Epic Games has released its latest game trailer, a new trailer for its high-end iPhone game, Infinity Blade. The game — demonstrated at an event earlier in the year — promises powerful graphics on the Apple handset.

Otterbox’s Impact Series case for iPhone 4 is a fantastic and versatile case offering. It is not as strong as the Defender Series case but it does the job much better than many iPhone 4 cases. The case itself is made from relativity tough silicon yet is still slim. Although it’s slim it’s built well enough to protect your iPhone 4 from drops, nicks, knocks, and scratches.

The side volume buttons are completely covered, there is a hole for the silent/ringer switch, there is an opening for both the iPhone 4 camera and LED flash, as well as an opening for the ear piece. There is an opening on the back of the case so that shiny Apple logo is always in prime view and the home button is completely covered…

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Apple recently provided developers with the golden master seed of iOS 4.2 and this means that the public release is imminent. Apple is yet to announce the world-wide launch date of their updated operating system for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch but according to Inside-Handy.de the launch may be this Tuesday, November 9. Apparently the German website made contact with some Deutsche Telekom representatives who informed them of the November 9th release date.

German blog, iFun, is now offering a conflicting report of the November 9th iOS 4.2 release date, saying the update OS may actually be launching Friday, November 12th. They have discovered that Apple will be pushing out some carrier updates on November 12th. Based on this, they figure there is a chance iOS 4.2 may be released the same day. You can see this for yourself by clicking this link or looking at the screenshot directly below:
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Tarek Mansour writes in to tell us that he’s been able to activate Facetime on his iPhone 3GS with Jailbroken 4.1 OS using FaceIt-3GS. It should be in Cydia shortly. One major caveat: The camera doesn’t work yet but they are working on it (you’ll also probably want to get a mirror). For the time being it is just for audio transmissions.

Update: It is now working with video

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Although we didn’t learn as much as we’d like, we hear that Apple was filming ads for its upcoming iPad 2 late last month at New York’s Pier 59 by British photographer David Sims.

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Commercial shot by David Sims

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Hi Adobe. I know I’ve said some critical things about Flash, and I sure do miss the days when you and Macromedia seemed more focused on creative applications, but I do like this demonstration of a version of Photoshop running on an iPad.
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The App Store’s full of apps, thousands of them, but its still a little tricky sorting through them all, now Apple’s put together a new element to guide you to the most popular ones, the “App Store Hall of Fame”.

The Hall of Fame features the top fifty apps of all time, Apple says, describing these as the ‘best of the best’. The list includes both free and paid apps.
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Giz likes these iPod Nano watches and we’d have to agree.  They are plastic-silicon and you just pop your Nano in and out for charging and what not.  $25 is a little bit of gouging but Apple does sell its bumpers for $30 so it is hard to talk.
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When Steve Jobs was asked about watching TV on iPad in the future, he said he was doing that right now.  Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do the same thing?

According to Peter Kafka at Media Memo you can (at least at the moment) right now…if you don’t mind Los Angeles affiliates.   A company called FilmOn is re-broadcasting TV from LA in iPad format. The quality is really good and the servers seem to be able to handle a load.

If you want Seattle affiliates, check ivi.TV.

Both companies are being sued by the broadcasters who don’t want their advertisements to reach all of those people on mobile devices so this might not be a permanent thing.  I’m looking forward to USC Football on Saturday so don’t crash it until then at least.  kthx
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What’s more fun than playing Quake 3 at full rez on your iPad? (Maybe using some more of those accelerometers as controls? )

Anyway, expect it to hit (the new improved iPad version of) Cydia later today and note that it works on 4.2. You can get support and the GPL code at Paduser.  Via Giz
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Interesting new product available at T-Mobile Stores in the US.  Are they just looking out for AT&T iPhone and iOS device users or is there something bigger coming? Remember it was just this week that T-Mobile started running its AT&T bashing ads in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ format.  via Engadget.
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Yet more Apple moves in corporate America, where the iPhone and iPad are gaining more traction than the actually pretty good Xserve ever did — it seems Bank of America and Citigroup  are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry for corporate e-mail.

From out tips:

At PwC, we go live with iPhone roll-out in January – available to all 30,000 US employees. No word yet on availability to our foreign comrades (roughly 120,000 of them worldwide).

– Talkin’ Bout A Revolution
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Google’s Instant steaming search results just hit the iPhone and presumably other iOS devices.  Up here in New York, we’re still without.  Hit us in the comments if you’ve got the Instant.

Update: Google just confirmed it is live.

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COMPUTERWORLD: I’ve said it before now I’m saying it again, the iPad is indeed cannibalizing netbook sales. For proof, you don’t have to ask Best Buy’s boss, nor do you have to listen to the analysts, you just need to speak with Microsoft. Apple’s iPad is exploding into the enterprise, defining new categories and generating huge disruption across many industries, meanwhile competitors are simply unable to keep up as Apple does the business.

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