New iPod Touch Adds Vibration

Originally discovered on iPod Touch Fans (and also on 9to5), it appears that the new 4th generation iPod Touch actually contains a motor that allows it to vibrate. The motor is shown in the FCC tear down photos of the device.
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Parallels 6 Prematurely Appears on Store Shelves

TUAW reports on one reader spotting the retail packaging for Parallels 6 at a local Fry's store:

No official announcement from the virtualization mavens at Parallels, but it appears that the next version of the company's Mac a...

Best of Smartphone Experts, 5 Sept 2010

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Swype for Symbian Ovi Files services closing October 1st	webOS 2.0 details Why developers should be pumped for webOS 2.0 Virtual Keyboard reference in webOS 2.0 SDK
iOS 4.1 in 10 minutes – video quick start guide iOS 4.2 for iPad and iPhone coming in November Complete coverage of Apple Special Music Event 2010 – New iPod touch, iPod nano, Apple TV, iTunes 10 with Ping social network	LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 goes gold Tilt 2 gets ROM update

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Video call debugger running on iPad?

9to5mac got their hands on what appears to be an extreme close up of a video call debugger running on an iPad. Now that iPod touch has gotten a camera and FaceTime, can iPad really be far behind?

Apple special event in late January to announce iPad 2, followed by video camera capable iPad in March/April? But will it have both front-facing and rear camera, or just one or the other?

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Review: iMusic Puzzle for iPhone

Think you know the songs in your iTunes library? Perhaps you should try your hand at iMusic Puzzle, a $0.99 game from I-Play.


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iOS 4.1 release may finally resolve your iPhone 3G woes

Good news, everyone! The software update that was "coming soon" to resolve iOS 4.0's terrible performance on the iPhone 3G has gone "gold master" (GM) and should be available to the general public next week. I've had the opportunity to test this update out on my wife's iPhone 3G, and I'm happy to report that it does indeed appear to resolve all the stuttering, crashing, and generalized slowness the iPhone 3G was suffering under even previous beta builds of iOS 4.1.

I tested her iPhone 3G out under the iOS 4.1 GM by doing things that would have brought her iPhone to a standstill before. First, I started a playlist in the iPod app and let it play in the background. Then I went into Safari, where she had four "tabs" open, and navigated to an image-heavy page.

Normally just loading such a page would have caused the background music from iPod.app to start stuttering, but even though I started scrolling back and forth through the page before all images finished loading, I couldn't get Safari to freeze or iPod.app to stutter.

Next, I loaded up the Maps app and started navigating along an input route with music still playing in the background. This was a guaranteed way to bring her iPhone 3G to a screeching halt before, but no matter how much demand I placed on the iPhone, it took it like a champ. I tested Google Earth's app as well, and it was far more responsive than I've ever seen it in iOS 4.

I'm not sure what under-the-hood changes Apple made to get iOS 4 running on the iPhone 3G at an acceptable speed (finally), but I did notice one thing: Spotlight Search on the iPhone 3G no longer searches through text messages. I verified this by comparing the Spotlight settings side-by-side with my iPhone 4; "Messages" was missing as an option on the iPhone 3G. On previous iOS 4 builds, one of the most popular suggestions for improving iPhone 3G performance was disabling Spotlight, so maybe that was the problem all along.

Your mileage certainly may vary, but for at least one iPhone 3G, iOS 4.1's gold master release has finally made the phone just as responsive and useful as it was before iOS 4. And there was much rejoicing.

iOS 4.1 release may finally resolve your iPhone 3G woes originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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