Originally posted by Jem_hadar
Bc 75% of my friends have iphones. Like to keep abreast of things.
I'm just busting your balls, youre always welcome here dude :)
Jer
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Originally posted by Jem_hadar
Like to keep abreast of things.
Pun most definitely intended.
malek
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Indeed, it's not a in-market plan. I did ask you guys before if anyone wanted info on these unlimited voice plans Rogers offered me (which I rejected :p) but no one cared. Lol
Why is Jam_Hadar always lurking in our thread? he has his own lol :p
ahahahaha where can we get those angry birds?
E2EK1EL
^^^ Coming out soon, those are prototype demos. Looks like they're were being shown to ToyRus, judging by the bags.
Is that a FaceTime camera on the iPad patent from this morning?
This morning we reported on a couple new patents which revealed some realistic new features that may someday arrive for the iPad. On one of the patent images we posted (pictured below) there is a circle-shaped hole on the top of the iPad. This hole is identical to the one seen on the current iPod touch with a front-facing camera and this led to several comments, tweets, and email calling us out for not mentioning the “camera”.
We personally did notice this “camera hole” but didn’t give it a mention as it’s most likely the iPad’s ambient light sensor. If you recall, there was some controversy after the iPad’s announcement when people believed that the iPad Steve Job’s showed off at the keynote had an unmentioned camera, when iPad replacement parts emerged with MacBook-like camera holes, and when we revealed some camera evidence in the iPad SDK (here and here).
In the end, the camera evidence most likely was some left over code when Apple was simultaneously developing the iPhone 4 and iPad, and those “camera holes” turned out to be spots for the ambient light sensor. Because of these we held back on saying that hole is a camera. On the other hand, Apple does not normally include that ambient light sensor hole on their patents as shown here, and here.
So in the end it is really a tossup. That hole could be an upcoming front-facing camera for the iPad or could simply be that ambient light sensor. We think it’s the sensor but let us know what you think in the comments.
(Not a HDMI slot; that's the microsim tray, there's a hole for the pin)
E2EK1EL
"No Phone Can Best the iPhone:" iPhonemania in China
The iPhone 4 went on sale today in China, with large crowds gathering outside Apple Stores in Beijing and Shanghai. The only authorized carrier in the country, China Unicom, said they received 200,000 pre-orders before sales began, and the phone apparently did brisk business at China Unicom retail outlets and Suning Appliance stores throughout the People's Republic. China Unicom requires a contract, though, and the carrier-unlocked phones available at the four Apple Stores in China are proving popular.
Most Chinese mobile phone customers pay month-to-month, rather than signing a contract. In addition, many just want to keep their existing phone number; the Chinese market does not aoffer portability. In an online survey by portal 163.com, over 70 percent of the more than 7,000 people surveyed said they would rather buy an iPhone 4 from Apple instead of China Unicom. With a two-year contract from China Unicom, the iPhone 4 will cost 5,880 yuan ($877 US) for the 16GB model, and 6,999 yuan ($1,044 US) for the 32GB model. Apple's price for unlocked iPhone 4s is 4,999 yuan ($744 US) for the 16GB model and 5,999 yuan ($893 US) for the 32GB model. According to China Daily, the English-language newspaper published by the Communist Party of China, Apple's price is below the 5,500 yuan charged for gray market phones brought in from Hong Kong. "We cut the price by 200 yuan this week," a vendor in Beijing's largest electronics market told the government newspaper, "but customers still think it is too high since they can buy an official one from an Apple store for 4,999 yuan."
Customer lined up for as long as two days waiting for their chance to buy an iPhone, with more than a thousand people waiting outside the new Apple Store at the Xidan Joy City shopping center in Beijing. "It's like waiting in line to see a movie star," Sun Jian Kuan, a 26-year-old systems engineer, told Computerworld. "No phone can best the iPhone."
Source: Computerworld, image via Agence France Presse
(Showed my dad the article, all he said was "WTF, 6000RMB!!! That's like 4x the average rent!")
E2EK1EL
Hmmmmmm, Softbank is in Japan.
Jer
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
I actually never realized the Ambient Light Sensor was up there. Cool ! Still prefer my Black colourway, but I can see the appeal behind White.
Jem_hadar
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Originally posted by Jer
Pun most definitely intended.
Oh yes. ;)
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
The white iPhone4 is pure sex! Wow, beauty! I want a white android phone now!!! :(
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by Jer
I actually never realized the Ambient Light Sensor was up there. Cool ! Still prefer my Black colourway, but I can see the appeal behind White.
You can see the proximity sensor on the black ver also; they hid it very well this time around and can only be seen with a bright lamp or on a very sunny day.
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Originally posted by Jem_hadar
The white iPhone4 is pure sex! Wow, beauty! I want a white android phone now!!! :(
Here you go, you can also get it w/o a data plan lol
Ironicly, i was walking by a cheese ass Telus dealer a few secs ago. This was taken in some ghetto mall, hence the no data require header lol
E2EK1EL
iPhone 4 hits UAE and Qatar, but without FaceTime installed
The iPhone 4 launched this weekend in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but buyers wound up with a surprise -- their handset's front-facing cameras couldn't do FaceTime. The National reports that the video chat feature is missing from phones sold at UAE carriers Etisalat and du, as well as those from Vodafone Qatar. Carriers are blaming Apple for the missing feature, and spokespersons from both Etisalat and Vodafone say they're speaking to Cupertino about reinstating FaceTime post-haste; It was reportedly advertised on Middle Eastern versions of Apple's iPhone website until around September 20th, when all references to FaceTime were removed. TUAW reports that some UAE denizens have actually tested FaceTime on phones bought abroad and found it working just fine, but that the functionality disappears after installing the local version of the iOS 4.1 update.
RIM's Mike Lazaridis famously warned that countries threatening to ban the BlackBerry might thumb their nose at other forms of internet transmission too, but if's far too early to tell if Apple was pressured into removing FaceTime or chose to for another reason entirely. It's worth noting that both the UAE and Egypt (also missing FaceTime website ads) have banned certain VoIP services in the past.
(Hooray! It's not the IP4, it's the iOS ver of UAE that removes FaceTime!
Now with the China and UAE launch, let's hope Canada's inventory returns back to normal.)
Jem_hadar
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Here you go, you can also get it w/o a data plan lol
Ironicly, i was walking by a cheese ass Telus dealer a few secs ago. This was taken in some ghetto mall, hence the no data require header lol
Actually I like that phone's look and appearance a lot, John! (And unlike some I'm actually a fan of the chin.)
Though the small 3.2-inch screen dont allow it to make the "white android phone" cut for me... alas... :thepirate
E2EK1EL
HeyWire: Free International Text Messaging With A Real Number
On September 22nd, a new service and app was added the iTunes App Store without much notice. A company called MediaFriends has created Hey Wire, a service which allows anyone with an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac or PC to send text messages to people around the world for free. HeyWire is the first and currently only multi-platform texting and chat service that delivers free international messaging with a real phone number.
Not only does HeyWire give you a real number, the service also enables users to text eachother worldwide, anywhere, and even supports all major languages, thus allowing people to communicate in their native language.
The App is available in the Apple App Store and the Web PC/Mac Beta versions can be found at HeyWire.com. HeyWire will soon be available for Android, GoogleTV, gaming devices and e-Readers in 2011.
Download in iTunes
EDIT: 09.27.10
First time an Appstore app causing my iPhone to drain some serious battery.
GF's unit was used only twice today, both times was only for checking FaceBook and 11 hr standby should not drain 20%.
