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Mobile carriers reportedly are testing 4G versions of Apple’s smartphone. But before you get all excited, it may not necessarily be the iPhone 5.

BGR says iPhone carriers are testing models with 4G LTE capability. It discovered evidence of a property list file (.plist) within the firmware, which definitively revealed Apple is developing the technology. Whether it’s for the next generation iPhone, or a generation after that, is yet to be seen.

As we get closer to the anticipated announcement of the next-gen iPhone, rumors are flying. After missing its traditional June launch, rumors pegged the announcement for September. That’s recently been debunked by some in favor of an announcement in October. Whenever it appears, the the iPhone 5 is expected to sport an A5 processor, 8-megapixel camera sensor, “curved” cover glass and a flat metal back.

The Guardian previously reported carriers have been testing iPhone 5 models inside “specially constructed boxes,” with hardware encased in “a dummy body.” This makes it seem it could be the iPhone 5 that is being tested for 4G support.

It looks like Apple is putting in a lot more time testing its next gen iPhone in the wild than it did with its predecessor in order to avoid something like last year’s Antennagate fiasco — which really, in the scheme of things, was not that big of a deal.

Or maybe employees just aren’t being quite as scrupulous about Apple’s closely guarded secrets as they have been in the past.

Photo: Steve Jobs with the iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010. (Jon Snyder/Wired.com)

This article was written on April 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

A few days ago, Apple made the big announcement that their Leopard operating system will be delayed until at least October due to pulling engineers from the project to go work on the iPhone.

This hasn’t been confirmed as of yet, but rumors are starting to pop-up saying that the iPhone could possibly be delayed as well from its scheduled June (11th?) launch.

An insider from the manufacturing company in Taiwan is saying that the design is not “robust enough” and that all of the software functions are causing the battery-life to be compromised.

A delay would be absolutely necessary if this is the case, because there’s really nothing worse than a phone with poor battery life. Especially an iPhone with a hefty price tag of $500.

Yet another reason I’m not jumping on this bandwagon yet!

Source: Tuaw.com

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There’s been a lot of missed iPhone 3G news while we were gone, so we wanted to make sure we kept everybody up-to-date with this round-up post. We’ll include information from a few reviews, information about how much the iPhone 3G costs to make, what it looks like under the shiny black (or white) case, a couple of tips, and info about why it might be a pain in the butt to return a defective phone.

First Reviews

We are holding off on our review until we’ve had ample time to play around with the iPhone 3G and really get a feel for what it’s like. Look for our review in the next week or so. Until then, some sites have already posted reviews on certain aspects of the phone, and here’s what we were able to learn from them:

• Battery life varies, A LOT which means your experience will probably be different than mine. Gizmodo took a look at nine different 3G battery life test results and not one was the same. The bottom line from all of the tests seems to be that if you’re doing heavy browsing, your battery is going to drain pretty quickly. (READ)
• The Pandora add-on “rocks” according to TechCrunch. They say “streamed music plays flawlessly over Edge and 3G networks – during a 40 mile drive I didn’t once run into any kind of skipping or static. Even better, the app currently has no advertisements playing, though we can probably expect that to change.” (READ)
• Engadget has posted their reviews already and pointed out the good and the bad. One thing they aren’t impressed with is the battery life and the glossy black plastic back. The good is that calls are a lot clearer and 3G speeds are impressive. (READ)
• Popular Mechanics did a quick out-of-the-box review and included a video. They compared the iPhone 3G with the “old” iPhone and the Samsung Instinct. What they found was that the original iPhone had a better backlight, the Samsung Instinct was the winner of data speed (although it was far more difficult to navigate and read than the iPhone 3G), and the call quality winner was the iPhone 3G. (READ)

Where to find an iPhone 3G

The iPhone 3G isn’t going to be too easy to come across in the following states where the devices are completely sold out:

Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, MInnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennesse, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin

(READ)

How Much Does the iPhone 3G Cost to Make?

iSuppli estimated that the original iPhone cost Apple about $227 last year to make when it launched. Now they are saying that the iPhone 3G costs Apple about $173 in parts. It appears as though Apple found ways to make the new iPhone 3G more cost-effective which could ultimately help their market share grow. (READ)

Oh, and in case you were wondering what it looks like inside, take a look:

(READ)

iPhone 3G Tips!

Gizmodo points out how with the new iPhone 2.0 software, if there are YouTube videos embedded into a site, you now see a preview of them. Once you tap to view the video, it will take you to the YouTube player, and then once you are done with the video, you press done and you’ll be taken back to the page you were on in Safari. (READ)

Keyboard shortcut

Another tip comes from Lifehacker where they explain a domain keyboard shortcut. This trick will give you quick access to more than the “.com” keyboard shortcut. Now you have “.org,” “.edu,” and, “.net” shortcuts available. (READ)

Jump to search field in Contacts

This is a feature that comes with the new iPhone 2.0 software — you can easily jump to the search field in your contacts on the iPhone by tapping the status bar at the very top (like what you would do in Safari). (READ)

Need to Exchange that iPhone 3G?

Unfortunately, there will be some of you who get your iPhone 3G only to find that it is defective. One person has already experienced this and the process of exchanging it wasn’t very pleasant thanks to AT&T. Luckily Apple took care of them and went out of their way to resolve the issue. (READ)

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Smart Note is a kind of analog iPad

I have tried to use the iPad 2 as a classroom tool. In my ongoing quest to learn to speak Spanish at least as well as the average Spanish three-year-old, I go to classes a couple nights a week. I have used both iPads one and two (the 2 was bought to snap photos of the whiteboard, a task it utterly fails in), and they’re great. The problem is, they keep slipping off the table.

The neat little Smart Phone Note might be just the thing, though. With it I can press my aging iPod Touch back into action one last time, just like a tiny, electronic Rocky Balboa. The Smart Phone Note is a paper notepad with a slot up top to hold your iPhone (although it should work for the iPod Touch too). You can even leave the phone in there as you run from class to class or — in my case — from class to nearby bar. The slot will hold the iPhone in either landscape or portrait orientations.

Thus equipped, I could use a dictionary app and view photos taken of the whiteboard from previous lessons (with a proper camera, dammit) while writing on paper, all without anything slipping off the desk. There’s even a cut out for plugging in headphones, which frankly seems dumb, or at least pointless.

The Smart Phone Note is available now, for 30,000 Won, or around $27.

Smart Phone Note product page [Design Tag via Oh Gizmo!]

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Elements 2 adds a mess of options to the already great Markdown editor

You may remember Elements from last August, a time when new Dropbox-enabled text editors were popping up like mushrooms after a fall rain. Elements, from Second Gear software, distinguished itself by including a handy, popover scratchpad for taking notes, and with its Markdown-powered text editor. Now, Elements has been updated to version 2.

The new Elements, a universal app for iPad and iPhone, has a much-polished UI, but the main difference is getting things out of the app. It still syncs with an “Elements” folder in your Dropbox, but now there is a huge list of export options.

First, you can export you files as HTML or PDF to any Dropbox folder, not just the default “Elements” folder. You can also export to iTunes file sharing, to Evernote, to Facebook and to Tumblr.

The word, line and character counts remain, as does TextExpander Touch support and full-text search. There have been a few cosmetic tweaks, too. The icon is new, the whole app looks sleeker and more modern (there’s even a new default font — Museo Sans), and the Markdown preview has been cleaned up.

Markdown, if you’re not familiar with it, is a human-readable way to write HTML. You surround your words with symbols instead of ugly tags and when you run the text through the Markdown converter, these tags are added for you. Thus *bold* becomes <strong>bold</strong> (in HTML) and shows up in the final document as bold. (You don’t want to see the mess of code I had to write to make all those examples look right in the browser). It makes writing formatted text in a plain text editor very easy indeed.

And of course, you can always use Elements to write plain text, too.

Elements 2 is a free update for owners of v1.x, and costs a very reasonable $5 for new buyers.

Elements – Dropbox And Markdown Powered Text Editor [iTunes]

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