Leaked Photos of Next-Generation iPod Touch?

iPod touch Leaks Begin! Is This the Third Generation’s New Camera?

New images have surfaced purported to be Apple’s third generation iPod touch, showing a top, center mounted camera for the presumed-to-be-announced in September product revision.

Real? Fake? Really fake? There are certain constants in this Apple ‘verse, including spec and image leaks prior to, and in anticipation of, any new Apple event. So either way, we’re right on schedule!

More images after the break!

[via MacRumors, thanks for the tip Gregg!]

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iPod touch Leaks Begin! Is This the Third Generation’s New Camera?

Wondering what’s in iPhone OS 3.1? There’s a YouTube video for that

Filed under: Rumors, Video, Beta Beat, Developer, iPhone, SDK, iPod touch

So here's something interesting, if you're curious to know what features might be in iPhone OS 3.1. It seems YouTube is chock full of videos shot in what seems to be defiance of Apple's NDA for 3.1 features. A couple of gems hint at expanded copy/paste functions, and there's one video which we could swear might hint at a real-time zoom... perhaps not just for photos but for framing video?

Anyway, it's a bit of a mining expedition, as searching for specific [REDACTED] methods or properties yields best results, so don't get all hot and bothered thinking you'll peep an iPad by searching for "setAppleTabletSize" or something. In fact, all of these could be fake, although the sheer number of videos seems to suggest something other than a grand deception.

Wondering what's in iPhone OS 3.1? There's a YouTube video for that originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What backlash? iPhone 3GS users very satisfied, survey says

A new survey by RBC/IQ ChangeWave finds that 99 percent of iPhone 3GS owners are satisfied with their mobile device.

Review: Duke Nukem 3D for iPhone

Unplayable controls, missing multiplayer functionality, and middling graphics make this rehash of Duke Nukem little more than nostalgia for old-school gamers.

Navigon updates iPhone app, adds some desired features

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, App Review

Navigon, as promised, has updated MobileNavigator [iTunes link] for the iPhone. According to the developer:

"The free update adds a couple of new features and enhancements to the MobileNavigator. NAVIGON's route planning function known from the companies PND line enables users to plan a route with different destinations ahead of time. Taking advantage of the iPhone's own functionalities, a call POI (point of Interest) function allows to directly call the number of a POI such as a restaurant or hotel by simply clicking on the number. It is also possible to save it to the user's contacts. Furthermore, the update provides an optimized volume control when navigating and using the integrated iPod function of the iPhone at the same time. It also allows to decide which POIs should be displayed in the map view."

I have tested the new functions and can verify that they work as advertised, except for the ability to save a POI in my contacts list. I've asked Navigon for the secret. Navigon has also updated the GUI, and while en-route you can get time of arrival and distance to destination without having to click on the screen. The map also displays your current speed, the posted speed limit (if available in the database) and the distance to your next turn.

While the points of interest database is not as large as the AT&T Navigator app, which is web connected, it is reasonably up-to-date and complete. A shopping center near me which opened last November was there, along with the new roads that were built around it. The database won't be perfectly up-to-date, but frankly, even Google is behind on POI locations near me.

Coming in future updates to MobileNavigator is real-time traffic, and text-to-speech, so street names get announced when approaching a turn. I know those are biggies for many buyers.

The Navigon MobileNavigator is $69.99 until the end of this month, when it goes up to $99.99.

There is also an update coming soon for the excellent iGO Navigator, so it is interesting to see the competition forcing new features and innovations.

I just received a press release from ALK Technologies announcing their CoPilot Live [iTunes link] nav solution for the iPhone. It looks feature complete, and sells for US$34.99. We'll be reviewing it ASAP.

If you are looking for nav for your iPhone, it's a good time to start comparing, and there are more apps and the TomTom solution on the way.

Here are some screen grabs from the latest version:

Navigon updates iPhone app, adds some desired features originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Navigon updates iPhone app, adds some desired features originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon offers free netbooks with BlackBerry Tour

Verizon Wireless is offering BlackBerry buyers any phone or data device free if it costs the same or less than the smartphone.

Images of Next-Generation iPod Touch Surface? [Updatedx3]

Earlier this week, MacRumors received a somewhat blurry image claimed to be the next-generation iPod touch. The image depicts a camera centered at the top of device's rear, corresponding with numerous third-party case designs appearing from Chinese ...

Images of Next-Generation iPod Touch Surface? [Updatedx2]

Earlier this week, MacRumors received a somewhat blurry image claimed to be the next-generation iPod touch. The image depicts a camera centered at the top of device's rear, corresponding with numerous third-party case designs appearing from Chinese ...

Images of Next-Generation iPod Touch Surface? [Updated]

Earlier this week, MacRumors received a somewhat blurry image claimed to be the next-generation iPod touch. The image depicts a camera centered at the top of device's rear, corresponding with numerous third-party case designs appearing from Chinese ...

Apps for Less Extra: ConvertBot, Doom Resurrection, Wolfenstein 3D Classic,

Apps for Less is Jeremy’s turf, but we just got a few extra, time-sensitive tips we wanted to share with you for the weekend, so please bear with my less than Bad Ash fill-in attempt.

First up is ConvertBot [iTunes link], which is now totally FREE for a limited time.

Next up, ID software has a sale going in honor of QuakeCon 2009, discounting Doom Resurrection [iTunes link] to $2.99 and Wolfenstein Classic [iTunes link] to $0.99 from now until Sunday. (Thanks Pete for the head’s up!)

If you see any other great weekend deals, let us know in the comments, or send them Jeremy’s way any time for inclusion in a future Apps for Less!

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SeeClickFix for iPhone helps communities help themselves

Filed under: Internet, iPhone

One of the oft-unsung but quite awesome things about living in New York City is our urban help line, NYC 311. Whether it's a leaky hydrant or a burnt-out streetlamp, a missing manhole cover or a mixed-up parking sign: there's only one number to call for any non-emergency question, and they will track down the information you need. I'm pretty sure that the only time I've stumped the 311 team was when I called to ask who could help evict the family of stray cats that had set up housekeeping in our backyard-the verdict was that I had to trap the whole colony before they could come and collect the furry trespassers.

A centralized helpline and problem reporting infrastructure is great for megaburgs like New York, but what kind of resources are smaller communities turning to when they need to know what's broken? One website is trying to leverage the power of citizen self-organization to help cities keep things working: SeeClickFix. Founded in New Haven and inspired by fixmystreet.com, the site allows participants to report issues and concerns, define 'watch areas' where they can be notified of problems, and generally help their towns help themselves.

The SCF team has just released version 1.0 of the site's iPhone app [iTunes link], which allows participants to report issues right from their phones, complete with geotag to provide the map location of the problem. Version 1.2, in the works, will let iPhone users vote on problems and close them out without going to the website.

How have you used your iPhone or your Mac to do something positive for your community today?

SeeClickFix for iPhone helps communities help themselves originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

SeeClickFix for iPhone helps communities help themselves originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone 3GS: 99% Pure Customer Satisfaction!

With 82% of iPhone 3GS users claiming they’re “very satisfied” and 17% claiming they’re “somewhat” satisfied, we don’t need Leanna to do the math — that’s 99% pure satisfaction according to RBC/IQ and Changewave (via Macrumors).

Apple sold 5.2 million iPhones last quarter, many of which were likely iPhone 3GS — that’s a spectacular satisfaction rating for a spectacularly successful launch.

Given that rival handset makers aren’t (yet?) hitting either those per-product sales or satisfaction levels (and even passionate iPhone boycotters are lamenting the alternatives), we’re wondering if the gap isn’t widening?

(Of course, AT&T satisfaction levels were somewhat less impressive, to put it kindly…)

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iPhone 3GS: 99% Pure Customer Satisfaction!

iPhone 3GS has almost perfect satisfaction rate, according to new survey

Customers who flocked to Apple’s latest iPhone upgrade were overwhelmingly satisfied with their purchase, but AT&T’s network didn’t fare nearly as well, a new survey shows. A total of 99 percent of 200 respondents to a RBC/IQ ChangeWave survey in August said they are satisfied with their iPhone 3GS, with 82 percent of those “Very Satisfied.” [...]

New lawsuits target Apple and AT&T over iPhone MMS system

Two new class-action lawsuits were filed this week over the lack of multimedia messaging capabilities on the iPhone, and the apparent inability of Apple and AT&T to provide the service to U.S. customers. One complaint was filed in a U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Illinois on behalf of Tim Meeker and other unnamed [...]

Apple iTablet Gone Wild: Nerdfights, Molotovs, iPads, and Assorted Other Craziness

Now that we’ve got the iPhone, the only thing currently left to fantasize (fetishize?) about seems to be the iTablet, with rumors increasing at an exponential rate — and maybe bringing more than a little crazy on with them.

First up, following Brian Lam’s story yesterday concerning the iTablet and it possibly shipping soon, former Macworld’er Jim Dalrymple says on The Loop that his sources confirm it ain’t happening before 2010, which matches up with what John Gruber’s hearing on Daring Fireball, and previous accounts from Apple Insider. Hopefully this will be settled before the Twitter nerdfights escalate (or we run out of popcorn).

Hey, maybe Apple can show off the iTablet during an October 2009 laptop event, then ship it next year, like they did with the Apple TV and original iPhone? That make everyone happy?

Brian Lam also mentioned a mysterious, yet “it all made sense” code name for the iTablet. Funnest theory we’ve heard so far? “Molotov” from Twitter user Jason Diaz who thinks Apple’s going to use the iTablet to make their upcoming Cocktail initiative da bomb this winter. (Wikipedia it).

Next up, Justin pointed us to a MacLife post which shows a Border survey asking if an Apple iPad is high up on the “will be purchasing” list. We’ve heard the name iPad before, so is this just a resurgence of old rumors by a company sadly out of iTouch, or more fuel for that naming fire?

Lastly — for today at least — the Macalope thinks that if Apple is really ready to ship a tablet, they must have found “a hook”. We think so too, but like the ‘lope we struggle to see what it is aside from “big screen iPhone/iPod touch”. Likely hindsight, come this or next year, will fix that…

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Apple iTablet Gone Wild: Nerdfights, Molotovs, iPads, and Assorted Other Craziness

About Face: China Unicom denies buying 5 million phones from Apple

An official with China Unicom confirmed the company is in talks with Apple to be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the nation of over one billion, but denied a report that the company purchased 5 million iPhones. “Talks between us and Apple have been going on for some time, but no agreement has been [...]

iPhone 3GS Trumps Palm Pre in Satisfaction Survey

Two reports published today by RBC/IQ ChangeWave highlight user satisfaction and likes and dislikes of Apple's iPhone 3GS and Palm's Pre. The surveys, both conducted in August, show that iPhone 3GS users are far more satisfied with their device than ...

iPhone 3GS Camera Pre-Caches Images Before You Take Them?

Does the iPhone 3GS camera constantly buffer live video data, in effect pre-caching the images you want before you take them? Birdhouse developer Adam Lisagore thinks so, and says so via his Lonely Sandwich blog:

from the moment you launch the Camera app, data is not only streaming to the viewer, but being cached to memory at full resolution, much like a TiVo with a live broadcast. Where there’s been latency in previous versions of the iPhone hardware/software due to processing limitations, those limitations have been overcome in the iPhone 3GS, closing the gap between intention and result by processing the streaming input from a microsecond before the shutter was released. In essence, the iPhone is constantly storing the picture you want before you even take it.

Daring Fireball confirms this, and after-the-fact, it lines up with a lot of our experiences here at TiPb as well.

Clever indeed, Apple…

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iPhone 3GS Camera Pre-Caches Images Before You Take Them?

Sony to court iPhone devs, match App Store pricing?

We've known for a while now that "snackable" content (inexpensive apps for instant gratification) was in the cards for the PSP, a fact that supports rumours reported by Pocket Gamer that handheld games for the PlayStation Network will be priced in the €1-5 range -- on par with Apple's App Store. In addition, it seems that the company has been "actively sourcing" iPhone developers to bring their existing titles to PSN. Who knows? Maybe the quick'n'easy approach to games (and someday apps?) will take some of the sting out of the PSPgo's "premium" price point. Either way, if all this is true it's turning out to be a red letter day for iPhone devs.

[Via gamesindustry.biz]

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

Sony to court iPhone devs, match App Store pricing? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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