iOS Devices

Apple is really pushing the FaceTime.

…Emotions…

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Sweet. The EPT home pregnancy iPhone 4 commercial:

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You want to see your grandkid for the first time on a 3.5-inch screen? I’d be iChating on a HDTV, personally.

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“that haircut sucks”

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By the way, most of these people are “holding it wrong” according to a certain someone.

Here’s a dirty little secret: AT&T hooked me up with a free Microcell a few months ago (probably because I am a pretty vocal critic).  Long story short, it works pretty well and does what it is supposed to do (it took a few days to become reliable for whatever reason).

But mine was free.  I’m not sure I’d feel the same way if I had to pay for the service, though customers still pay for data that travels over their own network.  Sure Wifi works in these places, but it is still annoying.  

Engadget chimes in today and says that certain AT&T customers are getting free Microcells.  They are now apparently giving them away to their most loyal customers.  Or at least ones that will soon have the option of going elsewhere.

Anyone else get any love letters from AT&T?

If you are picking up a Bimmer in 2011, you’ll notice a new level of iPhone and iPod integration.  Check the video below:

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On his blog today, Geohot announced that he will be taking a shot at an iPhone 4 compatible jailbreak, and he’s calling it Limera1n. He doesn’t say when the release will go public, but he does say not to bug him about it. That’s all we know for now. 

Via Redmond Pie.

It was only five days ago when the entire “App Store Hacked” phrase was put into play, but here we are, July 9th, 2010, the 2 year anniversary of the App Store. What do we find out today? It appears that more iTunes accounts may have been compromised. Last time was the Books section by a Vietnamese developer, Thuat Nguyen. Today, we get ‘WiiSHii from China, in the travel section. As you can see there are 11,449 Travel apps. This means their apps did not shoot to the top because there are so few apps:

So here we go: WiiSHii has a large set of travel applications for the both the iPad and iPhone. Their apps are very similar, all different editions of each other. They all start with the same name of “GYOYO.” As you can see the screenshot below they have made their way into chunks of the Top Paid iPhone Travel section.

This is very similar to last week’s app farm story. They clearly used some cheating mechanism to get their apps in the top 100. Additionally, Ars Technica reports about a user who was falsely charged for a bevy of apps from the same WiiSHii development company:

UPDATE: The Developer, WiiSHii, has been completely removed from the App Store. Glad we can help Apple keep iTunes clean. Also, that was fast, just like last week’s incident.

Please read the rest after the break:

This seems to indicate that the iTunes App Store may have been manipulated in some shape or form once again. Perhaps it’s time for the iTunes fraud sheriff to step in. 

It was only a matter of time before this would happen, and it did. Introducing iChatr, an app which mimics the infamous Chatroulette, but is exclusive to iPhone 4 owners. The app uses the iPhone 4’s front facing camera to setup random video chats between users. Simply launch the app and you will be greeted by the shining ….*face of some nice stranger. Sick of the new person in your life? Swipe for the next lucky iPhone 4 user.

Also, to hear the human on the other end of the chat, be sure to pop in some headphones. For some reason the developers don’t have the audio feed connecting to the iPhone’s speakers. For those wondering, one way random video chats with older iPhone models doesn’t seem to work.

Oh, and the app is free.

Yesterday we posted a great and in depth article about the new Fring for iPhone, and we featured our experiences about using Skype with it. Today, the company has pulled access to Skype video and voice calling from the application. Although this is temporary, it is a big deal as it is not isolated to iOS but is something occurring across the Fring app ecosystem. 

Readers have reached out to Fring for comment and the company left the following official statement on their website:

This official statement clearly shows the company’s push towards users utilizing Fring’s internal system and not third party’s. We hope Skype and other clients follow in their footsteps and allow video conferencing in their official apps very soon.

Via Mobiture.

A pretty sweet concept of what that touch screen leak from this morning could be. What do you guys think?

Thanks, Drummertist.

The fine folks at Fortune report that YouTube has announced support for ultra high-quality video. The announcement, which came at today’s VidCon 2010 conference, promises video “that you typically see on 25 foot IMAX screens” 

As you can imagine, playing this type of video at home would require some killer setup with a fast computer running a fast Internet connection with an insane video card and display.

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To be specific, the full support resolution is 4096 x 3072 which is typically abbreviated as 4K. You can watch a sample video above filmed on RedOne 4K camera.

Well informed sources have notified us that the rumors of a 5 mega-pixel camera coming to this fall’s iPod touch line may not have merit. They claim the new iPod touch will have a 3.2 megapixel camera that has similar characteristics to the one found in the iPhone 3GS.  Update:Digitimes agrees.

This also takes us back to those iPod touch prototypes that we have seen to time to time. Just a few months ago we saw some prototypes show up on eBay and case manufactures even created cases for them in anticipation of their release last Fall.

Our source did not go into much detail but they do fit MacRumors’ discovery about camera sizes. Their report proves that a 5 mega-pixel camera simply won’t fit in the current design, let alone anything thinner (which Jobs and Ive love to push).

Also, Apple likes to create some distance between the features of the higher end iPhone and the lower end iPod touch.  This would do exactly that.

Update:

Our informed sources have told us the design change would not follow past iPod touch update history. The iPod touch 1G to iPod touch 2G can be compared to the original iPhone to iPhone 3G design change. The iPhone 3G got a curved back and so did the second generation iPod touch.

The iPhone 3GS looked the same as the iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 3rd generation looks the same as the second generation. If part history would repeat itself, the 4th iPod touch would follow the same design elements brought to the iPhone 4.

Our sources say that this year, that won’t be the case. We assume it may be some new drastic change we have yet to see, or it will look just like the picture above. That would be odd though, for Apple to keep the same design for three generations of an iPod.

Thanks WS!

Why those leaked images of a tiny 2-in. touchscreen published by a fairly reputable Apple leaks Web site may well hint at Apple’s next big plan for television. Think of an iOS and MultiTouch future for the Apple TV — game on, Google …

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Put yourself back in time to those heady moments of — last week — when Apple told us it had found a problem in its signal strength indication math and promised a future iOS 4 update would patch the problem.

The update isn

Everyone’s favorite iPhone 4 dropping crew at ifixyouri.com have returned to drop test the iPhone 4 with Apple’s $29 Bumper.  As with their other tests, the third time appears to be the charm.  Again, shocker.

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Throughout the day numerous reports were released that indicated the iOS application, “NDrive” had been pulled from the App Store. Applications being removed from the App Store is not a common thing but is something that happens often enough for sites like this to be created. 

What got everyone so interested in this removal was not the fact of why or that the app from a renowned company, but the means of removal. People all over the internet have claimed that as the app was removed from the App Store, it was also removed from their iTunes library and from their iOS mobile devices. 

As you are probably thinking right now, that sounds a lot like the notorious application “kill-switch” Apple has been known to have at their disposal. After research on today’s app removal and polls on twitter were conducted, we have come to the conclusion that Apple’s kill-switch was not been activated. Apple, in fact, did not pull the application from user’s mobile devices or computers. This seems to initially have started as a rumor and then it spread like wildfire. People probably could not find the app for a moment in their collection so they threw up tweets, just fueling the rumors…

Please read on after the break:

As Arnold Kim and RazorianFly point out, several readers still have the application on their devices. Because of this evidence, Apple did not use the kill-switch. If the total annihilation of the app was put into play, the app would no longer be in any pockets or iTunes libraries.

To even pack in more substantial confirmation of the “switch” not being used, the makers of NDrive offer the following statement: