iPhone 4S Speed Test Comparing With iPhone 4 (Video)

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iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4 Speed comparison.It certainly is faster but I doubt the iPhone 4 users will feel left behind. At least Angry Birds loads faster :) If you got the iPhone 4S, go find those iPhone 4S Easter Eggs now.

Only Sprint Gives Your iPhone Unlimited Data And iPhone 4, iPhone 4S Ready For Pre-Order

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Sprint is touting their unlimited data plan, rightly so, since they are the only major carrier to do so on States side.
They also announced that we can pre-order iPhone 4 now and iPhone 4S on Thursday. 8GB iPhone 4 is $99.99 with a 2 year commitment.
On the side note, I will get an iPhone 4S, to complement my iPad 2, my way of saying bye to Steve Jobs. Rest in peace big man.

Morphie Juice Pack Plus Outdoor Edition!

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I have used the Morphie Juice Pack with my old iPhone 3G and it did supply enought juice for the phone while it worked, but suddenly if decided not to get charged up, I am sure something to do with the charger connection.
Now Morphie is coming out with Morphie Juice Pack Plus Outdoor edition with similar juice pack for iPhone 4 and comes with an app that helps you to get around, basically an GPS app (a collaboration with NeoTrecks) for the iPhone 4. There are many GPS apps in the iTunes store but you get this one for free and looks to be taking you where you want to go according to Engadget crew who seem to get the bearing of their office. You can read more about the duo and the see a video over there.

iOS 4.3 Update (Direct Download Links) For iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2 and iPod touch 4G, 3G.

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Apple has released iOS 4.3 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2 and iPod touch 4G, 3G. Download the free iOS 4.3 Software Update and get new features that let you do even more with your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You can download the update through your iTunes or directly from the links below.
The iOS 4.3 brings many features to the iDevices and some on the most noticeable are;

iPhone Hotspot
- Share iPhone 4 cellular data (iPhone Tethering)with up to 5 devices (combination of up to 3 Wi-Fi, 3 Bluetooth, and 1 USB)

iTunes Home Sharing - Play music, movies, and TV shows from a shared iTunes library on a Mac or PC (requires iTunes 10.2)

New AirPlay features - Play videos from the Photos app including the Camera Roll album, iTunes previews, enabled third-party apps and websites on Apple TV
- Play slideshows from Photos on Apple TV using transitions available on Apple TV

Faster Safari performance with Apple Nitro JavaScript engine 

 speeds up the browser as much as 2 times that of iOS 4.2

HD video out using the Apple Digital AV Adapter - View 720p HD videos from Videos apps like Photos, YouTube, Keynote, and enabled third-party apps on an HDMI display

The direct download links:
iPhone 4
iPhone 3GS
iPad 2
iPad
iPod touch 3G
iPod touch 4G

Learn more about iOS 4.3 at Apple

Vydio And VidyoConferencing Brings HD Multi Party Telepresence To Homes

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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vidyo®, Inc., will demonstrate tonight, at CES Showstoppers, its HD multipoint video conferencing over the Internet, connecting consumer devices including laptops, an iPad, iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy Tab and the new Google Nexus S running “Gingerbread” with enterprise room systems, enabling users to visually connect with friends, families and business colleagues from home, the office or wherever life takes them. VidyoConferencing™ is an HD multi-point solution available today that extends work productivity tools into the home, leveraging popular consumer devices that users already own and use with their residential and wireless broadband connections, without requiring costly purpose-built devices or networks.

“Vidyo’s solution has been used for over two years to connect business colleagues and customers via HD video conferences over cable modems and DSL from homes, offices, airports and cafes,” said Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and CEO of Vidyo. “Today Vidyo’s users are also connecting their PCs and Macs to TVs in their living rooms and kitchens to gather the family and interact with multiple friends and relatives around the world in an HD, highly reliable personal telepresence experience. We’re at the beginning of an exciting new era of joining smart phones and tablets with these desktop and room system-based experiences, and Vidyo’s unique architecture makes this possible today. Vidyo’s solution on mobile devices is currently being piloted by a telecom carrier in Europe and we believe these services will be broadly available to consumers around the world in 2011.”

Vidyo’s patented architecture offers the highest quality video via less than perfect networks when connecting to remote areas, or internationally, into areas with limited bandwidth like India or China. Click here (link did not have a embeddable video one below is from Youtube) to see a demonstration of Vidyo versus a competitor over the Internet with packet loss.

Vidyo’s unique VidyoRouter architecture is the first in a new generation of software solutions that leverages H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and eliminates the Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), enabling natural, high quality video to work over the Internet, 3G, 4G and WiFi networks at a fraction of the cost of MCU-based solutions. The company’s solution is software-based, and adapts easily to virtually any hardware platform and operating system. This combination of performance, flexibility and price has led partners, including telecom carriers, conferencing service providers and OEMs to deliver new service offerings that weren’t previously possible. Vidyo spans a full range of applications, from the VidyoDesktop™ with personal telepresence capabilities on a PC or a Mac to the VidyoRoom™ that encodes and decodes HD-quality video at up to 1080p and 60 frames per second. Software Development Kits (SDKs) are available today for mobile devices running Android, iOS, and Meego operating systems.

Vidyo’s solution was recently the recipient of the Wall Street Journal’s 2010 Technology Innovation Award, nudging out other formidable nominees to win the top honor in the publication’s “Network/Internet Technologies/Broadband” category. Vidyo technology is licensed by HP, Hitachi, Teliris, ShoreTel and others and Vidyo is available today in a pilot mobile service from Elisa Corporation on the Samsung Galaxy Tablet.
More information from Vydio

iPhone 4 FIlm Festival, First Of It's Kind To Be Held In Korea October 6-13.

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Korean Film makers from all walks of life have come together to bring the world, First Ever iPhone Film Festival. The festival will showcase movies shot entirely on iPhone 4. Some of the movies will be even edited on the phone itself. Participating parties will receive an exclusive App designed for the task.
Famous and established Korean directors will take part.Some of the directors already confirmed are Jeong Yoon-Chul (“A Man who was Superman”/”Shim’s Family”), Bong Man-Dae (“Cinderella” / “Sweet Sex and Love”), Lee Ho-Jae (“The Scam”), Yim Pil-Sung (“Hansel & Gretel” / “Antarctic Journal”), & Yun Jong-Seok (“Marine Boy”). They will work with cinematographers Kim Byeong-Seo (“Castaway on the Moon”), Kim Ji-Yong (“A Bittersweet Life”), Jung Jung Hoon (“Thirst”), Jo Young Gyu (“Running Turtle”).


Korean iPhone Film Festival via Asianmediawiki

iPhone 4 Going To China On September 25th

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Apple® announced today that iPhone® 4 is coming to China beginning Saturday, September 25 at 8:00 a.m. at Apple Retail Stores. These stores include the new Apple Store® Hong Kong Plaza in Shanghai and the new Apple Store Xidan Joy City in Beijing opening on the same day. And of course it will also be available at China Unicom retail stores for qualified buyers with a new two year contract. Perhaps China Unicom will be able to further bump it's rank among the global mobile carriers

iPhone 4 carries the same specs as that of other iPhone 4 versions and what is not clear is if the imperfect antenna of iPhone 4 has been fixed. Other wise users will need to get a iPhone bumper too! But unlike the iPhone 3G which had the WIFi disabled by China Unicom, this version of the iPhone has it enabled.

iPhone 4 will cost CNY4,999 for the 16GB model and CNY5,999 for 32GB model without a contract. At China Unicom stores, iPhone 4 will be available for qualified buyers with a new two year contract, sold separately. Pricing and tariff information please visit www.10010.com. But the pricing seems to be even crazier than bumble bees path, even if you could understand Chinese, you will need an expert to explain the plans and their costs.
At this price Foxconn employees, who makes iPhones for dirt cheap salaries might not be able to afford one.
The new Apple Store Hong Kong Plaza is located at 282 Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai. The new Apple Store Xidan Joy City is located in the Joy City shopping center at 131 North Xidan Avenue, Beijing. For more information please visit www.apple.com.cn.

Use Your iPhone 4 Data Plan With Your iPad 3G!

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If you are one of those who got iPad 3G, there is a way to connect to 3G network for cheap, that is if you are a iPhone 4 Data plan user.
TUAW tells us that it is a simple matter, They have shown us how we can swap iPhone 4 Micro-SIMs to make use of your iPhone's unlimited data plan with your iPad. and to set up the connection details. Yes we know Apple say it is not possible to interchange the micro SIMs;

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  Are iPhone 4 and iPad micro-SIM cards interchangeable?

  No. Your iPad micro-SIM card will not work with your iPhone.

TUAW was able to insert iPhone 4 Micro SIM into iPAD 3G and make a connection. But could not connect to a the wider net without making following APN data;

Here are the APN settings that are required:

• APN name: wap.cingular
• username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
• password: CINGULAR1

After that TUAW was sipping through web sites, just like an ant over a sea of molases, just kidding. But it seems that the connection was real and TUAW and anyone will be able to use iPad 3G, without paying twice for data plans.
B ut the question is what happens, if you get a call while browsing over 3g on your iPad?
TUAW

iPhone 4 Coming A Day Early!

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With all the iPhone 4 chaos surrounding the iPhone 4 knockoffs, iPhone 4 leaks, iPhone 4 pre-orders, there sometime good bits of news. It seems that Apple will ship the much awaited phone, a day early! On June 23rd!

Dear Apple Store Customer,
You recently received a Shipment Notification email from Apple advising you that your iPhone has shipped.
This email is to confirm that your delivery will occur on June 23rd. Although Apple and FedEx tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the FedEx website the morning of the June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep.
In the event that you will not be available to accept delivery on June 23rd, it may be more convenient to use our pre-sign delivery option by visiting our Order Status website at http://www.apple.com/orderstatus.
Sincerely,
The Apple Store Team

It is indeed good news for people who managed to get their orders in. The rest, go stand in lines, so we can amuse ourselves.
Gizmodo, Twitter

Teardown New Mac Mini Slim! iFixit Does It.

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Keeping up with the tradition, iFixit has torn down the latest Mac Mini 2010, which we call Mac Mini Slim. Looks like it is much easier than opening up the previous Mac Mini.
As you may already know, the Mac Mini Slim sports;

• 2.4 or 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  
  
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  2 GB of RAM (expandable up to 8 GB)
  
  
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  NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of shared DDR3 SDRAM (the same as the most recent MacBook)
  
  
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  HDMI port with support for up to 1920-by-1200 resolution
  
  
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  AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking
  
  
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  SD card slot

Well while others fighting for iPhone 4, I think I will play with New Mac Mini, Upgrade the current development server / desktop, which is the previous incarnation of the Mac Mini. Perhaps when I get it, I will follow iFixit guide and this video;

Apple's App Store App Is In App Store.

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With a rain of "app"s the Apple's App store app has arrived in the App store, in time for iPhone 4 release. But with all the trouble with Apple Store and pre ordering an iPhone 4, better walk to a AT&T!

iPhone 4 Makes You Want One Even If AT&T Sucks

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This is what Steve Jobs presented (The complete keynote) today.

"FaceTime brings you phone calls like you've never seen before. Text and images look amazing on the Retina display — the highest-resolution screen ever on a phone. A 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video recording and editing let you shoot and share from anywhere with iMovie"

iPhone 4 On June 24th, $199 For 16GB And $299 For 32GB

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iPhone 4 will come in two collors, Black and white (faces are while or black but the backs are steel). Both will be offered in two memory capacities, 16GB and 32GB priced at $199 for 16GB and $299 fro 32GB.
AT&T will be generous too, you can upgrade if your contract expires anytime in 2010 (You can get the upgrade pricing up to 6 months early)
Now the iPhone 3GS will be $99 :)
Pre orders will be taken from a week from tomorrow and will ship in five countries followed up in July for 18 more countries.

FaceTime iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 WiFi Only, Video Calling

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Steve made a video call to"Jony Ive" and it looked cool. regular IM with video but you can speak instead of typing!
But it is only WiFi for the moment but Steve says, they need to talk with "Careers".
Steve also says this is a new standard, an Open industry standard? Which industry Steve? Apple Only?

Book Lovers Will Love iBooks

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Book Lovers will love iBooks and the whole i series. Once down loaded to one device, you will be able to have the book on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch without additional cost. The devices will automatically sync to your current place on the book, together with your bookmarks and notes. Cool.

iMovie for iPhone

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HD Video recording
720p at 30fps
tap to focus video
built in video editing
one click share
LED Flash
iMovie for iPhone with all the capabilities are great. You will see a movie done entirely on iPhone 4 soon, I bet. iMovie for iPhone will be 4.99 from app store