During this morning’s Apple press conference, where the company announced they’d be giving free cases to iPhone 4 customers (as well as refunds for anyone who already purchased a Bumper Case ,) we also got an update as to the whereabout of the white iPhone 4 . Originally, Apple said it would ship in the second half of this month
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White iPhone 4 shipping at end of July in limited quantities
So there it went. The big iPhone 4 press conference. If you were expecting for Steve Jobs to issue a recall , tough luck. What did happen was an intricate defense of the iPhone 4′s antenna design, even spiced up with tests on other (obviously carefully selected) phones, to show that the reception issues everyone’s been talking about actually happen to all phones.
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Free bumpers for all iPhone 4 buyers, white iPhone 4 to come at the end of July
This morning Apple took the stage for a press conference to address the iPhone 4 antenna issues that a small number of users have been experiencing. After Steve Jobs gave details on the antenna issue alongside data that Apple has collected, he announced that Apple would be sending free cases to iPhone 4 customers through September 30th. One caveat mentioned, though, is that Apple can’t seem to make enough Bumper Case s to meet demand, so to be true to their free case promise, they will source cases from their partner manufacturers as well.
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Apple to give every iPhone 4 owner a free Bumper Case
Steve Jobs, during a press conference today, announced that a software fix is coming for the iPhone 4′s proximity sensor. The sensor is used to detect the user’s face during a call and to deactivate the touchscreen. Users have complained of the device’s touchscreen activating while on calls, which has resulted in dropped calls or placing the caller on hold. Apple expects the issues to be remedied soon and included in the next iOS update. Read the full story here
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Apple iPhone 4 software fix for proximity sensor coming soon
In the past, we’ve seen some demo videos of the new UI in Symbian^4, there was also Nokia’s UI concept proposal before that, and now new pictures of the Symbian^4 homescreen have surfaced on the Symbian Developer Wiki . These are built in an emulator, using the Qt for Windows SDK. Symbian^4 will feature a complete Qt-based UI redesign compared to its predecessors (such as Symbian^3 powering the upcoming Nokia N8 ).
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New pictures of the Symbian^4 homescreen surface
During a press conference today, Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone 4 will be available in 17 more countries beginning on July 30th. The countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Read the full story here.
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Apple iPhone 4 launching in 17 more countries on July 30th
Apple have just concluded a hastily convened press conference, to respond to the growing bad press the new iPhone 4 has been receiving, in regards to the now infamous reception issues, popularly known as the ‘iPhone Grip of Death.’ The press conference started with a short presentation, led by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and he started off by pointing out that all phones will suffer some kind of reception issues when held in a specific manner, citing the BlackBerry 9700, HTC Eris and Samsung Omnia as examples. After explaining all the testing that the iPhone 4 went through before release, Jobs said that Apple were aware of the reception issues the iPhone 4 had, but didn’t see it as such a big deal, seeing how this is something that all phones suffered from to some degree. The rate at which a phone shows the signal dropping is calculated on a software algorithm, which differs from phone to phone. Apple have noted that there was a flaw in their calculation, which was resolved by a software update rolled out for all iPhone handsets through iTunes, which started going live yesterday.
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Apple Responds to iPhone 4 Antenna Issues
In just about 30 minutes, Apple will be holding a rare press conference to address issues surrounding the iPhone 4 . They’ve been pretty vague about the content that they will address, but it’s pretty obvious to all that they will be talking about the antenna issue that many have been complaining about (although we also wouldn’t mind hearing about a ship date for the white iPhone 4, and an update on the proximity sensor issue.) We figured we’d take a stab at predicting what Apple is gonna do.
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Apple iPhone 4 press conference prediction
After all the Motorola and HTC Droid phones, Verizon launched the Motorola Devour, and Android messaging phone. We picked up a Devour to give you a look at the device, which certainly isn’t aimed at the high-end smartphone crowd. However, since the Sidekick has pretty much fell off the face of the earth, we thought the Devour would be attractive to that younger crowd that’s into text messaging but doesn’t need an overly expensive data plan.
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Unboxing Live 061: Motorola Devour
No, Mozilla’s browser isn’t coming to iPhone ( yet ), but the company has just announced the availability of a new (its first?) product for iOS, called Firefox Home. Available for free in the App Store (iTunes link here ), Firefox Home syncs with your desktop Firefox and lets you access history, open tabs and bookmars – all on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can even open sites in Safari and share them via email.
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Mozilla Firefox Home for iPhone available in App Store
I never thought I would see the day when a SyFy original movie would please me more than the Declan O’Brien helmed Rock Monster , but that’s exactly what happened today when I spied the Roger Corman produced Sharktopus . How could you possibly not want to watch a move where a shark is combined with an octopus that can spit ink and tear you apart with razor sharp teeth. If that isn’t enough for you, there’s a ridiculous “plot” and I use the word “plot” lightly with a ton of girls wearing pretty much nothing. For the ladies there’s also a bunch of hunky guys…unfortunately both sexes get equally torn apart
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Sharktopus Gets Official Trailer. It’s Full Of Awesomeness
I had been thinking the past few days about copyright in regard to comics, what with the successes of Dynamite with Project Superpowers and the Black Terror, even as the original Daredevil also appears in the pages of the Savage Dragon and had been a background staple in the pages of FemForce. There have also been hints of characters mentioned in JSA history that I think have fallen into the public domain, such as the The Spider int he lead up to the first appearance in that tile of the King Of Tears. I’ve been reading over at TechDirt (totally comics unrelated) how copyright itself seems to be an inhibition to innovation rather than a incitement to innovation, as study after study flies in the face of convential wisdom. Considering the excellent stories that I have seen in the past ten years using characters that no longer have owners (America’s Best Comics spring to mind as well as the aforementioned titles). And I wondered just what comics would look like without copyright.
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Comics without copyright?
Links from Friday’s episode of Loaded: Apple releases an update to iPhone software in preparation for its press conference at 10 a.m. PDT Friday, which we will cover live here . Amazon … Originally posted at Loaded
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A Google Earth layer to scare you into submission
Qt has quietly rolled out the Qt Developer Network in a hope to get developers on board. Still in beta, the new site offers such “standard for developer sites” content as blogs, wiki, forums and FAQs. From the mentioned blogs, we learn that future plans include Ovi account integration, groups, eLearning content, books section and videos. It is a somewhat different approach taken by Nokia (owner of Qt) to make a separate site — i.e. not part of Forum Nokia — though it’s still on Nokia’s domain.
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Qt Developer Network quietly launched in beta
When a phone is out of battery, it takes long time to get the phone fully charged. The new kind of battery – Graphene Battries is developed to solve this problem by cutting down charging time from 2 hours to about 10 minutes. The new graphene-based electrode fabrication process in cooperation with Princeton researcher Ilhan Aksay under a cooperative research and development agreement with Vorbec, also developed by researchers at the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has been licensed to Vorbeck Materials Corp.
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New Graphene Batteries Recharge in 10 minutes
In addition to releasing iOS 4.0.1 earlier today , Apple has also given us iOS 3.2.1, the first software update available for the iPad. Some changes and improvements in 3.2.1: Improved Wi-Fi connectivity Fixed an issue that could prevent copy and paste of single-page PDF attachments in Mail Addressed an issue that could cause video playback to freeze Improved reliability of video-out when using iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter Added Bing as an option for Safari’s search field Just connect up your iPad and check for the update in iTunes, and you’ll find it ready for you. Tags: apple , bing , ios , ios 3.2.1 , ipad , ipad 3.2.1 , ipad vda adapter , itunes , software , iOS 3.2.1 update for iPad now available originally appeared on Gear Live on Thu, July 15, 2010 – 12:42:54
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iOS 3.2.1 update for iPad now available
An increasingly popular gadget in the modern day world happens to be mobile phones . It’s a thing that is common between a street vendor on the streets of Karachi and a CEO sitting in the posh suburbs of New York. With such a robust demand of this infamous gadget, there is little or no surprise that the newspapers and other forms of media are bountiful with a plethora of news about the same. Latest mobile phones and accessories are a fad amongst users across the globe. From youngsters to adults, everyone wants to stay connected and know the latest trends of the industry these days
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No Evidence Linking Cell Phone Use to Risk of Brain Tumors: FDA Consumer Report Do the radio waves that cell phone s emit pose a threat to health?
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No Evidence Linking Cell Phone Use to Risk of Brain Tumors: FDA Consumer Report
Apple just released iOS 4.0.1, which they say “improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display,” and also gives the signal bars a visual facelift as well. You can download it now. Let us know how it goes! Tags: apple , death grip , ios , ios 4 , ios 4.0.1 , iphone , iphone 4 , iphone 4 antenna , iphone 4 reception , reception , sidefeatured , software , iOS 4.0.1 now available originally appeared on Gear Live on Thu, July 15, 2010 – 11:27:30
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iOS 4.0.1 now available
Magellan just updated their eXplorist lineup with three new models. These are Magellan eXplorist 510 , Magellan eXplorist 610 , and Magellan eXplorist 710 . First off, all three new eXplorists come with a 3″ color touch screen, 3.2MP camera with auto focus, mic, speaker to mark waypoints not only with a dot on a map but also include a photo, some audio, or even some video. It’s like geotagging on steroids.
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new Magellan eXplorists are out
With so many different BlackBerr models on different carriers, RIM does face some issues when updating devices. They have to get things ready for both CDMA and GSM, and then for multiple devices on each. It doesn’t make for easy upgrades
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BlackBerry News From The Wire for the Week of 7/12/2010