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New pictures claiming to be of the next iPhone show video chat and an inward facing camera.

The new iPhone may sport a built-in 3D graphicschip, operate on a higher-speed network, and hit mid-July, according toa Kotaku report.

Their sources revealed that the iPhone will beavailable on July 17th and it will feature a 3D graphics chip meant toimprove the gaming experience.

Also mentioned was improved bluetooth support as well as 3.5G network capabilities.

Kotakuhas not been able to confirm these specifications; however, they dofall in line with the general Internet chatter on the matter.

AppleiPhoneApps has heard detailed informationon the specs and release date of the next generation iPhone from asource that they deem reputable.

We have checked thesource?s credentials to the best of our ability and at this point deemthe source as reputable. Of course we cannot guarantee the accuracy ofthe source?s claims since Apple will neither confirm nor deny anyfuture product releases, including if a new phone will even be released!

The specifications provided are listed below. Which do you think are realistic?

- 32GB and 16GB to replace current capacities

- $199 and $299 price-points to be maintained

- 3.2 Megapixel camera

- Video recording & editing capabilities

- Ability to send a picture & video via MMS

- Discontinuation of the metal band surrounding the edge of the device

- OLED screen

- 1.5X The battery life

- Double the RAM and processing power

- Built-in FM transmitter

- Apple logo on the back to light up

- Rubber-tread backing

- Sleeker design

- Built-in compass

- Revolutionary combination of the camera, GPS, compass, and Google maps to identify photo and inform about photo locations.

- Turn by turn directions

- July 17th, 2009 release date

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LAPTOP HUNTER

Microsoft has released the fifth laptop hunter ad in which Lauren and mom go searching for a PC for her to take to law school.

She says she needs a laptop with speed and battery life for less than $1700. They choose a Dell XPS 13a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, and a $899 price tag.

I don't understand why anyone with 1,700 free dollars would choose a 900 dollar computer (Mac or PC) but you can watch the ad yourself.

Please go to this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gM4xZvrLQ

Recently it has been speculated that Apple willuse a second event to launch the new iPhone; however, there is anargument for a new iPhone at WWDC

Daring Fireball author John Grubar strongly believes the announcement will be made at WWDC: That’dbe goofy. Last year’s iPhone 3G was announced at WWDC in early June, sowhy wouldn’t this year’s? Plus, if there are any new hardware features— like say a video camera or magnetometer — that means new APIs, and ifApple wants to have WWDC sessions for the new hardware-specific APIs,they have to announce the hardware first.

AppleInsiderhas made some arguments of their own noting that on average Apple hasannounced availability dates for its iPhones several weeks ahead oftime so that launch information and procedures can be made withoutextensive safeguards and so that customers have time to plan theirpurchases.

They also note that Apple will be facing competitionfrom the Palm Pre device rumored to launch a day or two before thestart of WWDC. It wouldn't make sense for them to allow a fledgelingrival weeks of headlines when it could easily eclipse any excitementfor the Pre with its own headlines.

Its also pointed out thatApple may need to demonstrate it can successfully launch a major newproduct without the leadership and showmanship that only Jobs wouldbring to the keynote.

Gruber concurs with this saying, "My gutfeeling is that we’ve seen the last Steve Jobs keynote address. I don’tthink he’s leaving the company — and his medical leave has beenscheduled to run through the end of June — but I wonder if he’s done asthe company’s spokesman."

If you have anymore arguments for a WWDC announced iPhone you can let us know in the comments...

Do you have a Twitter? If so then you might want a Application for your iPhone/iPod Touch for your Twitter. Then you’ve come to the right place. TweetStack is a great way to organize your tweets, and keep them in order.

The Design:

One thing i like about TweetStack is its SMS/iChat look. It has the chat bubbles for its Reply, Tweet, and Direct Messages sections. Another thing i really do like is its sending screen. When sending a Tweet it has the iPhone SMS sending screen that makes it really cool.

Stability:

In the settings you can set TweetStack to refresh every time you log on. Now for some apps this causes a stability issue, but not for TweetStack. It can still hold up.

I really recommend you get TweetStack. Not only is it organized, but it has features that are incredible! If you would like to get it, see the App Info below.

Price: $2.99

BeejiveIM is a simple, reliable service for IM services Like AIM, Mobile Me, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN/Windows Live, MySpace IM, Yahoo! Messenger, and Facebook IM. The thing that brings most people to this IM service is the look. The style of this App provides an iChat/SMS style interface to the table. People who have a Mac or iPhone know and love this Chat style. Besides the look Beejive (Pronounced Bee Hive) has many other features as well. One is the ability to send Links, Pictures, Videos, and now Voice notes. As well as being able to change the background of your chat session so that you have a relaxing customized feeling. Another custom feature is changing the color of your chat bubbles. Organizing your buddy list has not been so easy. You can add/edit Names of the people in your buddy list so that you can remember them. You also have to ability to add people to a favorites list so that you can access their name easier. Another thing i like is the search feature. Why scroll through your buddy list and find the person your looking for? Why not type in their name and get them easier? I think im going with two, and Beejive did as well!One of the other features i liked is the Badge notification. If you don’t know what that is then ill tell you. Its puts the a number badge on your home screen icon telling you how many unread IMs you have, sort of the same as the Mail app. Another feature is the easy to use Landscape keyboard function you can enable in settings

The Cons:

Although i would say this app is the BEST, there are a couple of things that i think they should add. When your in a IM you can’t see when the other person is talking, and often change subjects when your friend is still on others. Also, no matter what IM service the receivers on when your using Beejive They can’t see when your Typeing, and when your typing a lot they won’t think your talking. Now i don’t know about you, but i think that needs to change. Another thing is that when you have several IMs going and you use Landscape it gets very laggy, and for me crashs. I do love BeejiveIM, but they need to change this.

Microsoft has released another Laptop Hunters ad in the ongoing video advertisement war between it and Apple.

Thistime we have Sheila, a filmmaker, looking for a computer that can do video editing

She looks at Macs briefly but says the best one underher budget of $2000 has only 2 GBs of RAM.

She ends up buying an HP HDX 16t, surprise!

Heres the link.

About two weeks ago 3.0 beta 3 was released for developers and was later leaked on torrents and uploaded to the net. Now 3.0 beta 4 has been released for paid developers in the iPhone Developer Program. It was released yesterday and has been leaked already on torrents. The Non-Dev Team jailbreak hasn’t been released yet so if you want a jailbreak don’t upgrade yet!

Note: We’ve gotten reports that developers must install the iTunes 8.2 pre-release before attempting to install iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4.

For the people who update ModMyi tell us that the store settings are working now. This means people who upgrade will be able to buy from the iTunes Store and App Store on there iPhone or iPod Touch.

Search results can now be shown or hidden and the order adjusted (Unchanged from Beta 3)

SMS messages that fail to send now appear with an exclamation mark. Demonstration of deleting and forwarding of individual SMS messages. Has been available since beta 1 but never shown on World of Apple before.

We also have found out that in MMS when taking a picture from your camera, it will ask you if you want to take the picture, want to save it or want to re-take it again. I’m not sure if this also goes for the camera.

Copy and paste has made its way to the Calculator app.

Remember before upgrading to 3.0 beta 4 you must do it the right way, by not connecting to the Internet. Please read this post before upgrading, please don’t do this if you don’t know what you are doing.

A new mockup showcases the amazing designs Apple could achieve by creating an OLED MacBook.

Yanko Design reports on the concept by designer Tommaso Gecchelin:

Gecchelinreasons if Apple were to go small, flexibility may be more importantthan hard rigidness - a trend current Apple laptops buck becausethey?re in favor of unibody construction. Flexible OLED technology maybe the key because it can provide the rich color and resolution densityneeded for a smaller screen without being a power hog and resistsdamage by its malleable nature, "The thinnest screens now are barely8mm thick and can fold like a piece of paper."

The core of this concept is a technology hecalls iSpine. Like the spine of a book, the tech avoid excessivecompression on the screen, yet allows the laptop to sit in multipleviewing positions. Go from a normal laptop with screen and touchscreenboard - to a large widescreen canvas for drawing, presentation or moviewatching. To keep everything minimal, ports like power, the minidisplay, and additional USB are externalized on a 'Magic Dock' to keepmost of the laptop slim and clean of an array of holes and plugs.

What do you think?

Lots of features are being discovered in the 3.0 beta firmwares and this newest one is voice recognition. This new feature is called Jibbler, but it wont be an app you open, it will be built into the homescreen. This new voice feature will be more like an add-on to the new Spotlight search feature in the 3.0 firmwares. We suspect these new voice features will be similar to whats in the newest iPod Shuffle. Adding voice recognition to the iPhone will bring it up to speed with a lot of other phones in that aspect. Although I don’t see any big need for it since voice recognition can get very annoying at times. But the more features the better!

Could this be the new iPhone thats debuting in June of this year? Probably not, but it is an artist rendering of what he thinks the new iPhone will look like. Aluminum backing with a glass front and updated OS 3.0 seem to be present. Click the jump for another pic!

Here is another pic of an artist rendered iPhone idea. This one seems more logical as it adapts the same curved style as the iPod Touch

A new build (10A335) of Snow Leopard was released for developers.QuickTime X offers a great new feature called Screen Recording witch is awsome.Such a feature will be particularly useful for software developers and educators, as it will simplify the process of creating video tutorials, software demonstrations, and anything else best captured in live motion as opposed to still shots.We hope that the screen recording feature will be better than Snapz Pro X or the same as ScreenFlow.When you start to recording a recording interface prompts the user to begin the video capture then disappears.To stop recording you'll use the upper-right hand side of the Mac OS X menubar.

Apple COO Tim Cook answered questions regarding the company's plans for the NetBook market during Wednesday’s conference call...

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For us, it’s about doing great products. And when I look at what is being sold in the netbook space today, I see cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens, and just not a consumer experience… that we would put the Mac brand on, quite frankly. And so it’s not a space, as it exists today, that we’re interested in, nor do we believe that customers in the long term would be interested in.

That said, we do look at the space and are interested to see how customers respond to it. People that want a small computer (so to speak) that does browsing and e-mail might want to buy an iPod touch or an iPhone. So we have other products to accomplish some of what people buy netbooks for. So in that way we play in an indirect basis.

And if we can find a way to deliver an innovative product that really makes a contribution, then we’ll do that. We have some interesting ideas in this space. The product pipeline is fantastic for the Mac. If you look at the past, in 17 of the last 18 quarters we’ve exceeded the market rate of growth, and to exceed it in this horrendous economy is quite an accomplishment, especially if you look at these very low-cost netbooks that I think is a stretch to call it a personal computer, that are really propping up unit numbers as a whole.
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I think a innovative product that might make a contribution would have a 10 inch touchscreen....

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