iOS Devices

Apple thinks their legendary, magical, and amazing iPad is also electric:

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Apple just released iOS 4.2GM to developers and along with it has invited them to test their applications against the GM.  Who has a download link for the GM btw?

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The golden master seed of iOS 4.2 for all iDevices has just been let into the wild – for developers that is. If you want it become a developer or become friends with someone who is. Early reports share no new features except some lame Apple ID thing. Let us know if you find anything new mmk? Oh and it’s apparently pretty snappy.

Update: MacStories notes that YouTube Airplay is back in action with this Golden Master seed as well as a spiced up controls bar to the left of the multitasking dock:

Also, GMs don’t require you to register your device with a developer so if you want to be daring and jump on board, have at it.

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Not a huge surprise because they carry the iPod touch and as of last month, the iPad. Now Target is going to carry the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS in their 850 stores starting next week.

Press release follows:
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Apple’s plans for the iPhone 5 extend beyond the iWallet and straight into a more mobile computing experience than you’ve seen before using an iPhone, at least that’s what Cult of Mac is claiming.
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COMPUTERWORLD: Sorry about this. Perhaps I should have posted this earlier, but I slept in. I really didn’t expect Europe’s iPhone users would fail to wake up this morning because a bug in Apple’s iOS alarm software didn’t recognise the change in clocks here over the weekend…

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iPhone is the most popular US smartphone while the Android army’s march has propelled that multiplicity of devices to become the most popular OS, Canalsys reports today.

The analysts note massive growth in the sector – the worldwide smartphone market grew by 95 percent over the year ago quarter. Nokia stays ahead of the pack with 33 percent while Apple grabbed 17 percent worldwide, putting it above RIM.
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If you are in Europe and your iPhone alarm didn’t go off on time this morning, you aren’t alone.  A bug in the way Apple’s alarm code works in iOS 4.1 means that your alarm will be ringing an hour later than it should.  The bug was first reported by many Australians and New Zealanders over a month ago.

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The fix is fairly straightforward. Delete and re-add your alarms. Apple is aware of the bug and it will be addressed in an upcoming release of iOS.  Thanks Roman!
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We already know Parallels has their own iPad remote desktop app and today RazorianFly reports that VMWare has one of their own in the works. The iPad app is called ‘VMWare View Client’ and will be available sometime in early 2011. Above is a hands-on video of the application by VMWare’s CTO.

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Remember when Motorola sued Apple (and everyone else) earlier this month? Remember when Motorola said Droid Does and iPhone Doesn’t? Well today Apple is hitting back at Motorola. Apple has recently filed two lawsuits against Motorola over six patents filed by Apple relating to Multi-Touch. According to Apple’s lawsuit the Motorola products infringing on Apple’s Intellectual Property are the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm 1.

Apple has split up the six patent infringements into two lawsuits and here they are from Patently Apple:

One: Apple, Inc patent titled: Ellipse Fitting for Multi-Touch Surfaces

Two: Apple, Inc patent titled: Multipoint Touchscreen

Three: Taligent, Inc patent titled: Object-Oriented System Locator System

Four: Apple, Inc, patent titled: Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics

Five: Apple Computer, Inc. patent titled: Method and Apparatus for Displaying and Accessing Control and Status Information in a Computer System

Six: Apple Computer, Inc. patent titled: Support for Custom User-Interaction Elements in a Graphical, Event-Driven Computer System

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What will be inside the iPad 2.0? If you’ve been asking yourself this question then you don’t have too long to wait — iPad 2.0 will boast a camera and is set to ship in the first quarter of 2011.

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COMPUTERWORLD: Despite the heavily-hyped Android onslaught and the ‘antenna-gate’ affair, Apple has managed to ease its way into the top five handset makers for the first time, bouncing Sony Ericcson out of the game and returning iPhone sales growth of 90.5 percent since last year.

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Sprint’s making cooing noises around Apple, praising the company’s iPad for stimulating interest in the carrier’s Overdrive 3G/4G MiFi Wireless hotspot device.

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, says “Smartphones is part of a bigger value proposition, because you need to have a network that can support that smart phone,” he said. 
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Apple launched its online retail store in China this week — and promptly sold out of iPhone 4 units within 10 hours, forcing the company to suspend sales.

With Apple’s recent move to stop iPhone sales in its brick-&-mortar stores in China, this means there’s now nowhere to purchase an iPhone in the country — except from the scalpers who are scooping-up all stocks in the first place.
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COMPUTERWORLD: Intense competition; component cost price hikes; and rapid technology advancement — for most handset manufacturers, mobile’s not a nice market any more. Apple’s iPhone advantages include some Android and others can never match.

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TPK Holdings, a supplier of touchscreens for iPhones and iPads has seen serious business come its way as a result of its Apple connection, raising $200 million from its IPO — the largest such offering in Taiwan this year. Similar happy rumblings too from Apple’s carrier partners in the area, who confirmed rising profits and subscriber numbers on back of the Apple device.
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Apple has removed all mention of the white iPhone from its website, scant hours since some reports claimed the company may have dismissed the product completely.

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Yet more information on the iPhone which doesn’t yet exist! And no, I’m not talking about the mythical, nay, almost unicorn-like white iPhone 4 fantasy creature, but the CDMA iPhone for use on networks outside of AT&T.

Pegatron Technology has been identified as manufacturer of the new model CDMA iPhone, and a report in today’s edition of Digitimes tells us that company expects to ship 10 million of these things next year.
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Yahoo has just updated their Messenger app to enable video calling on the iPod touch 4. Yahoo Messenger video calling was released for iPhone 4 a few weeks back and enables video calls over 3G between computers and smartphones. The update is free of course and includes bug fixes as an added treat.

According to a report from Gigaom, Apple may be planning to cut out their carriers in future iPhone purchases. The report claims that Apple is working with SIM-card manufacturer, Gemalto, in order to create a custom-made card that is installed in the phone.

The card’s purpose would be to allow users to purchase an iPhone directly from Apple’s online or retail store, then choose their carrier when they get the device. The SIM-card would work with an Apple carrier-chooser App Store app thus cutting out the need for users to call or work with the carriers, in order to get their devices all set up.

The apparent future of iPhone sales appears to be geared towards Europe as Europe has several iPhone carriers, versus one in the U.S. – until January-ish, that work on similar cellular and data connections.

Dan Frommer at SAI reports that Apple is having a developer summit at its Cupertino campus. The event begins next Tuesday, and runs for three days.

We are short on details, and we have not seen any public information about it, but it sounds like this will be a more intimate version of the iPhone Tech Talks that Apple hosted around the world last year.

This year, app publishers may get some extra face time with Apple engineers, and perhaps some hands-on development help. The big idea, it seems, is an effort to improve the quality of iOS apps available in Apple’s App Store. This comes as Google’s rival Android platform continues to look better to developers, and receives more of their attention and investment.

It might also get developers interested in the Mac App Store which is starting soon.  The timing would certainly indicate as much.

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