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Archive for April, 2008

The second-generation iPhone 3G, GPS, and slightly thicker

So we’ve got it on authority that the second-gen iPhone is already well into testing, and numerous units are floating around in super secret pockets. A trusted source got a chance to check one out, here’s what we’ve heard.

  • The first thing people will notice: the 2nd gen iPhone will be about the same size and shape as the first gen.
  • It will, of course, have 3G. And proper GPS!
  • The most noticeable physical difference is back of the phone is no longer metal — the whole thing is glossy black, from top to bottom. The volume buttons are now chrome.
  • Because it’s got a little less metal to deal with, it doesn’t have quite as many angular edges. The battery is (still) not removable.
  • The phone itself will be slightly thicker than the first gen device.
  • The headphone jack will no longer be recessed, and will finally be flush with the body.
  • The device itself uses roughly the same size and resolution screen as the first generation product.
  • No solid word on battery life or storage capacity.

It could ship (or be introduced) as early as July — but it’s worth noting that none of this is necessarily finalized, and any of it could change between now and its introduction. You really never know with Apple!

P.S. -Image via iPod Observer, MacRumors points out it’s probably just a case (which we’d likely agree with); we’re not by any means claiming the image above is the new iPhone, just an example of what it could look like given the info we received.

News Source : www.engadget.com

8GB iPhone and iPod touch reached the end.

Conspiracy theorists and Mac rumor-mongerers, start your engines. According to an internal O2 memo we’ve received, stock of both the 8GB iPod touch and iPhone have run their courses, and have been EOL’d (at least in the UK). The brief letter sent out yesterday evening states that, “Due to the highly successful sales of the Apple 8GB I-Phone [sic], supply chain have today run out of stock & will not be replenishing stock of this product as it has now gone to end of life.” Whether this is due to the recent price cuts, the rumored upcoming 2nd generation iPhone, or just a sign that Apple is moving towards higher capacity devices is anyone’s guess. All we know is that soon the 8GB iPhone — at least in the UK — will become as rare and precious as the Pygmy Three-toed Sloth.

News Source : www.engadget.com

New iPhone SDK and firmware builds, OpenGL …

Once again, the time has come for a fresh beta build of the official iPhone SDK — and if you’re lucky enough to be involved in the firmware seeding program, a fresh build of the 2.0 firmware, too. The big change this time around appears to be support for OpenGL ES in the SDK’s emulator, enabling easy, breezy access to 3D acceleration for testing all those spellbinding games we plan on playing the heck out of in a couple months. So yeah, shouldn’t you get cracking on that? Seriously.

News Source : www.engadgetmobile.com

Another iPhone SDK update, another iPhone 2.0 build, when will it stop?

You’ve got to give it to Apple, though — they’re going extra hard with the updates! We’re now on the fouth SDK update and fourth iPhone 2.0 build. This particular build is 5A258f, and while it’s not “Pwnable” yet, we can be certain those crazy folks on the Dev team are working on it. Of note: Open GL support in the iPhone simulator now. That means everyone seriously pissed off about not being accepted into the developer program just yet won’t have that much to bitch about anymore.

News Source : www.boysgeniusreport.com

First Screen Shots of the iPhone AppStore

TUAW received the screen shots above from a tipster (iPhone application developer Drunkenbass) and they most certainly appear to be real. The UI is of course very uniform with other Apple applications and in line with what we would all expect. If the pics are indeed real, then this is likely a very early build of the AppStore interface as we imagine that applications would be split into something like “categories” as opposed to “genres”. If the pics are fake then whoever created them probably should have thought of that. Apparently Drunkenbass says that upon initial launch it fires back an “iTunes Connection” error but after several successive launches he finally got it to display some random pages. Would he have had more luck on AT&T? Either way, we’re infinitely more interested with what applications will be making their way to the AppStore as opposed to the UI itself.

News Source : www.boysgeniusreport.com

Emulation : Palm on the iPhone

StyleTap, the folks behind the CrossPlatform Palm emulator for Windows Mobile have built a proof of concept version of the software for the iPhone / iPod touch. They’re not committing to releasing any such product, and aren’t releasing the software as a beta or anything like that at the moment, but the video demo of the software in action is certainly promising. All the apps are rather responsive, the device benchmarks a good bit faster than the Tungsten | T, and Apple’s keyboard is even integrated into the proceedings quite nicely. Video is after the break.

News Source : www.engadgetmobile.com