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AppleCare Protection Plan may cover certain types of damage, but it sure didn’t stop up today’s alleged leak — if you pick an unlocked iPhone at the online Apple Store for Canada, Australia or the UK today and click the “Learn more” button on the AppleCare option, you’ll be treated to this “iWork for iPhone” containing screen. Coupled with the “Open in Keynote” prompt we saw a few weeks back, we may picking up the crumbs of a real app here, even if productivity isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when fondling that Retina Display.

iWork for iPhone revealed by AppleCare product description? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple this weekend announced that, as of Saturday, the company has moved more than 1.7 million iPhone 4s, a mere three days after the device’s June 24th launch. Apple CEO Steve Jobs responded to the launch with customary modesty, stating, “This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history.”

Jobs also took the opportunity to address the product shortages that plagued the device’s launch, adding, “[W]e apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply.”

Jobs, however, did not say when new shipments would be available.

There you have it. 600,000 pre-orders have turned into 1.7 million iPhone 4 sales through this Saturday. The Sunday transactions haven’t even been tallied up yet, but Steve and company already have another reason to look smug. That total eclipses the 3GS’ already phenomenal 1 million units sold over a weekend, and stands pretty much head and shoulders above any other launch the mobile world has yet seen.

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Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4s through Saturday, June 26 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We just couldn’t leave this face-off of superscreens alone, and went back for another bite at the cherry. Admittedly, we found out the Galaxy S had a browser-specific brightness setting that we hadn’t maxed out before setting off our camera hounds, so we’ve gone and remedied earlier comparison shots with the gallery below, and just as a bonus, we’ve now also run a HD video clip on both phones. This was to see how the Hummingbird and A4 SOCs, considered close siblings, handled some taxing video work and also to again compare performance deep down on the pixel level. What we can tell you now is that both handsets chewed through the 1080p clip with ease and that both gave results we have no hesitation in describing as sublime. Click past the break for the up close and personal video comparison action.

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iPhone 4 vs. Galaxy S, part deux: HD video playback (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just a short time after Apple’s PR team responded to our previous story on Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna issue, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs responded to an Engadget reader with much the same advice.

“I love my new iPhone 4 (nice work) but when I put my hand on the steel bands I lose all reception,” an emailer with an Arizona State University account emailed to Jobs. “It appears to be a common issue. Any plans to fix this?”

Jobs’ response: “Just avoid holding it in that way.”

The question, at this point, is whether or not a drop in the signal indicator on the iPhone 4 indicates a reduced ability to place and receive calls, and maintain a data connection at the same throughput as on a table or using a different grip. As one of my sources, Spencer Webb of AntennaSys points out in a comprehensive blog post Friday, the performance of the antenna will undoubtedly suffer.

“The antenna structure for the cell phone is still down at the bottom (I
won’t address the WiFi nor GPS antennas in this blog entry),” Webb writes. “The iPhone
4 has two symmetrical slots in the stainless frame.  If you short these
slots, or cover them with your hand, the antenna performance will
suffer (see
this video I found on YouTube).  There is no way around this, it’s a
design compromise that is forced by the requirements of the FCC,
AT&T, Apple’s marketing department and Apple’s industrial designers,
to name a few.”