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iBooks, Higher Resolution and 24 Millions of these : iPhone 4G

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Apple surely isn’t pleased with odious prototype pictures and videos of it’s latest creation, iPhone 4G but readers are surely delighted. To add more to it, we have Digitimes with some exclusive report.

As report split up, FoxConn will be shipping 24 Million Pieces of the latest iPhone which is expected at the Apple’s WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) on June 7th. 4.5 million units in first half and rest 19.5 million in the other half.

THe device will sport FFS (fringe-field switching) technology, which makes it more sensible for the “coming of the iBooks to iPhone” by making the viewing angle wider and better viewing quality under sunlight. Arm Cortex A8 processor, 512 MB ram all ready to welcome OS 4.0 to iPhone 4G. iPhone panels have been prepared to fit in larger battery by shrinking panels by 33%.

[Via DigiTimes]

Apple developing the Technology of Future for your iPhone?

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To add to the upcoming patent wars (hopefully from Nokia and HTC), we have Apple publishing as many as 16 new patents covering mobile technology. They possibly could be breakthrough in the way people do things, everyday.

This patents which arrived at the US patent office yesterday suggest the evolution of a new kind of feature in your iPhone. Remember old days, Technology was related to WHAT. Today, it’s related to WHERE. Geo-location tagging, Augmented reality and apps with support from them pouring into app stores probably provoked Apple too.

Just imagine, if you just walk into a restaurant and you get the Menu on your iPhone directly? Or, suppose you go to Library and you get the whole database downloaded to your iPhone in a second? Well, thats the plan at Cupertino’s notorious office. They are going deeper into location based services and this could be a feature in the future iPhones.

This simple, you thought rocket science huh? As soon as the device enters the WiFi Hotspot range, the location data (latitude, longitude, direction, etc.) is calculated and is communicated. Once the location of the device is approved, all the data from the content delivery network is downloaded on your Device. Neat.

Commercially, scope is wider but educationally it’s more wider than we can imagine. This technology could even possible reduce the load of books or maybe those bulky laptops? Mr. Nerd, no more carrying hot girls, books home. Instead, repairing iPhones!

For more on this, head on to PatentlyApple.

Verizon and Google to give birth to the iPad killer

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The trail of iPad Killer has just begun with RIM’s blackpad. If you were hoping for insanely great competitors to iPad, we’ve got Google and Verizon planning to do something with the newly inaugurated Tablet market.

Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO showed that the company was enthusiastic about tablet market. It has to be, with all those credit cards being swiped for AT&T data plans which come compiled with the iPads.

Verizon’s relation with Google has been strengthened especially after the Motorola’s Droid launch which flaunted Google’s Android running on it along with Verizon as its carrier. Mr. McAdam, a spokesperson for Verizon said,

What do we think the next big wave of opportunities are? We’re working on tablets together, for example. We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience.

For carriers, the main business is in the cell phone market, but looking at the rapid growth rate, it would be a mistake to leave the netbook and tablet behind. Apple sold about a million iPads in 28 days and more to come, which surely means $$ for Apple and lot many subscribers for AT&T.

The tablet details haven’t surfaced yet, but we are sure the tablet will run the the Android OS. Google did not speak anything except that anyone can use the company’s mobile software to create phones and other devices.

It’s a must on both, Verizon and Google’s part. Verizon must add on more subscribers and has to get into the tablet carrier market because if you see, AT&T apart from the iPad is also the official carrier for Amazon’s Kindle. Google Vs. Apple is already tornado-ing the markets. Google got into the phone market with Nexus one and android, Apple got into the advertising business with iAd. Google needs a tablet of it’s own to grab its age old hold on advertising.

Rest all’s well in the world of tablets for now with iPad stores going out of stock due to excess iPad demands.

[Via WSJ]

The iPod Revolution : All captured in one Graphic

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After 2001, there was an explosion. Music, Music and Music. From a 90 year old granny to a 7 year old timmy, all seen rotating their fingers on a little, smaller-than-10-cm-device. Even today, walk around you’ll find tons of people snapping, pinching and shaking little devices to mix up music and much more. That’s the iPod magic. Nah, wait.. It’s Steve Magic.

Since 2001, Apple has sold millions of iPods and billions of Apps. Want to know some more amazing facts?

The Ipod Revolution
Via: Online MBA

There goes my cursor : How to Use Magic Mouse with your iPad

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For all those old-schoolers who still have not been able to recover from the dazzlement of MultiTouch, here’s a trick that will get the traditional pin and point cursor back to your iPad.

With this magic app called BTstack Mouse  you will be able to use the Magic Mouse or any other Bluetooth mouse right on your iPad. My Grandfather would probably love this.

You can get this app in the Cydia store but before that make sure your iPad has a jailbreak done already. Rest all falls in place! Video down below. (Via RedmondPie)

Winterboard coming soon to an iPad near you!

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For all those who wanted to revamp and dress the current iPad Homescreen, here’s some good news. Winterboard, the famous app for iPhone themes from Cydia is soon coming to iPad, as tweeted by Saurik (The guy who made all this!).

With Winterbaord you will be able to overhaul the current looks of your iPad (with Jailbreak) to something what you would like at leave it at the mercy of awesome theme developers. I am sure they will find some good decorations for the 10″ screen!

Here’s a snap of how it looks.

Sony isn’t the Enemy, Apple is : Nintendo

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It’s not been an eon since Nintendo last claimed it’s enemy : Sony. Big N didn’t take time calling Sony a already defeated enemy after looking at sales figures which are well above it’s Microsoft and Sony Counterparts.

Major sellers, Nintendo Wii took a 21% decline in sales, and financially a drop of about Y51 Billion while maintaining it’s supremacy over other consoles. Lastly Nintendo called the iPhone OS premature for game developments, but Nintendo’s CEO himself came over to state Apple as it’s future enemy.

This is quite visible because the developers fleeing to the app store to have their own share in the gold rush. With over thousands of gaming applications, Motion Sensing and HD support make iDevices a complete blockbuster pack for family gaming. iPad crossing a million sales in meagre amount of time could have hurt Nintendo’s sentiments because, not now but in future it obviously meant the Cupertino guys were coming to raid the gamers market too!

Nintendo is looking forward to revive the “surprise” level amongst it’s products and bring back the magic. Waiting to see what they’ve got next.

[Via Engadget]

How to : Use iPad to read external USB HDD

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Not long since iPad got it’s first jailbreak than did the App shower started. Voice Control, Texting and a couple lot of apps poured into Cydia’s store making the iPad capable of thing Apple would have allowed – not.

One thing which major iPad users lamented was the incapability to read 3rd party external storage devices. Pack it up, we’ve got an hack for that.

What you need for this hack

  1. iPad (Jailbreak required)
  2. Camera Connection Kit
  3. External Harddrive
  4. Mac (Not sure if you can do it with windows either)

With all this and after following Max Shay’s simple steps, you’ll be checking out pictures from you HDD, iPad style.

Over 1 Million iPads grabbed till date : All within 28 days

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Remember the iPhone craze? Do you have a iPhone? Ya i do, and i am the coolest man on earth! Somewhat drama like this was everywhere around the globe with Apple selling over 1 Million in just 74 days. Now it’s the iPad which broke the record shipping one million boxes of fresh iPads in just 28 days.

I just don’t get it. First people say its an oversized iPhone, and now this? Holy Smokes, it raining money at Apple!

Apple iPhone #1 Opera Mini Device in US

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We’ve been continuously shocked ever since Opera Mini for iPhone was accepted by Apple in it’s very own exclusive closed App Store. Here’s some piece of news to do the magic again.

Apple’s huge user base made it the Number 1 device on the hot list of Mobile phones running Opera Mini. Entering the iPhone arena was a very crucial decision indeed and the efforts payed off! And btw, Apple defeated Blackberry which was No.1 before ;)

[Via BoyGeniusReport]