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iPhones Causing Mistrials? Google, Twitter, and Wikipedia Out of Order?

The New York Times (via TUAW) is reporting that the iPhone is literally causing mistrials now. Howsat?

It might be called a Google mistrial. The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, upending deliberations and infuriating judges.

Others were, apparently, Twittering updates during trial, or looking up information in Wikipedia [citation needed...]

Sorry, smacked my head on the desk in utter disbelief of personal entitlement these days, one moment while I recover…

Is law once again failing to keep up with technology, or are humans — also once again — slipping further down the slope of irresponsibility? What say we?

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iPhones Causing Mistrials? Google, Twitter, and Wikipedia Out of Order?

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“iPhone HD” and the Problematic Shift to Resolution Independence?

We’ve spoken quite a bit before about the potential that Apple might one day “split the platform” with either an iPhone nano (very unlikely) or an iPhone HD (which we’ve been discussing quite a bit lately).

Right now, all existing iPhones and iPod touches sport 320×480 screens at 163dpi. The iPod nano, by contrast, was already at 202dpi during the previous, “fatty” generation. The BlackBerry Bold is at something around 217dpi. HTC is making 480×800 displays now like they’re going out of style.

At some point, the iPhone will jump to HD (by which we mean 480p, or 480×800) and current generation iPhone apps, and their associated bitmap interface elements just won’t look so good.

Cocoia, renowned icon and interface designer Sabastiaan de With’s blog, has an excellent post up today about that very issue. He says:

Applications will have to ‘deal’ with two different resolutions at the least; icons and other bitmap graphics will have to be redesigned for the higher pixel density screens. There will, no doubt, be applications that are not ready and look very bad on the new device, or perfectly good applications are not approved into the App Store because they are not ready yet.

We may keep pushing the date forward like a hot potato, but at some point Apple and developers will have to face up to the fact that there will be a lot of redesigning, re-thinking and adaptation required. Until that day, enjoy the simplicity of developing and designing for a simple, defined hardware specification. But don’t say I didn’t warn you when technology comes and slaps you in the face.

Apple has enjoyed huge success from the relatively unified hardware model as well, so here’s hoping they help developers not only prepare for, but transition to future resolutions as painlessly for them — and us — as possible. Any developers out there already pondering this?

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“iPhone HD” and the Problematic Shift to Resolution Independence?

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Video: iPhone OS 3.0 walkthrough

Many of us -- okay, a small handful of us -- wouldn't dream of putting beta firmware on our day-to-day devices, so we wanted to treat that very special group of safety-minded individuals to a once-over with iPhone OS 3.0's finer points on video. Odds are this is about as close as they'll get to the goods until Apple blesses the binary a few months from now, after all, and there's no harm in living vicariously through an Engadget editor's load-firmware-first, ask-questions-later lifestyle -- trust us. Video after the break.

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iPhone 3.0: Still a Reason to Jailbreak?

The iPhone 3.0 software release day this summer may be a sad one for the little iPhone Pirate. Will we still need jailbreaking? As Rene has already pointed out, yes you will be able to jailbreak iPhone 3.0 but just how many of you will be abandoning this process all together? We’ve given your Top 5 Jailbreak Apps and 5 More Jailbreak Apps. Now Apple has seemed to satisfy most, if not all of your iPhone needs with the 3.0 software, it may be bit premature to cast jailbreaking into the darkness just yet. Some of the reasons being:

• No themes

• Categories and folders

• Tethering, still no sign of this coming anytime soon from AT&T.

• Lack of options for things such as ringers and tones.

• On screen notifications

• Video recording

Yes, we all know that things may change from now and the time 3.0 is released but the above list has a bleak outlook in terms of Apple tossing them into the mix anytime soon. How many of you will still be jailbreaking when iPhone 3.0 drops?

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iPhone 3.0: Still a Reason to Jailbreak?

Imagination Details PowerVR Graphics Multi-Cores Destined for Next Gen iPhone?

Imagination makes the PowerVR graphics core chip (GPU) that powers the current generations of iPhone and iPod touch handsets. Apple likes them enough to have become a huge licensor and even investor in the company. Well, it’s looking like that investment may pay off for iPhone users in the next generation iPhone and iPod touch (which TiPb is still predicting will hit in July and September respectively).

Even bigger news? It looks like these new multi-core chips will be transparent from the developer’s point of view. That means Apple has far less risk in “fracturing the platform” by adding more GPU firepower to the next gen iPhone. Also, they look to be supporting OpenCL, Apple’s open source implementation that allows GPUs to be treated like CPUs and boost general purpose computing when they’re not throwing polygons and pixels around our favorite games or movies.

Says the Register (via MacRumors):

Without any intervention by the application - and, more importantly, without any intervention by the application’s developer - the driver will pass data to an “MP code scheduler,” which will in turn pass that data to one pipeline scheduler per core, which will then pass it to one thread scheduler per multi-threaded processing engine, which will then manage the threads through the engines as they process the graphics data.

In other words, the SGX543 can have any number of cores from two to sixteen with no change in the driver software or the application. All that complex data/pipeline/thread management is done in hardware. No muss, no fuss.

But a whole lot of “we want it now!”…

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Imagination Details PowerVR Graphics Multi-Cores Destined for Next Gen iPhone?

Multi-Core GPUs Announced from iPhone Chip Maker

iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 Screenshot Gallery

We have been, and will continue, to cover specific features in their own posts, but for those of you — like us — just chomping at the bit for more iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 goodness, here are some preliminary screenshots to tide you over.

If you haven’t already, check out our previous massive news roundup, and let us know what you want to know more about next!

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iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 Screenshot Gallery

Gallery, Video and Notes on iPhone OS 3.0

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iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari to get Anti-Phishing, Auto Fill

Apple has gotten some much-deserved heat in the past for not adapting anti-phishing measures into their Safari browser. Phishing is when “bad guys” make look-alike websites and try to trick users into entering personal data like passwords or credit cards numbers, so they can be used to break into user accounts or make fraudulent purchases. We’ve had some warnings about MobileMe phishing attacks in the past for example.

Safari 4 Beta on the desktop finally took steps to address this, and it looks like Apple is rolling the anti-phishing alerts out to Mobile Safari as well! As more and more people start using mobile browsers for banking, email, and other security-sensitive tasks, Apple can’t be too careful.

Also of note in the screen shot above is auto-fill. We’re guessing this works like the desktop, automatically entering common data in text fields like name, email address, etc. (Of course, the convenience comes at the expense of the very security mentioned above — balance your usage accordingly!)

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iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari to get Anti-Phishing, Auto Fill