Apple announced their Q3, 2009 financial results today. The Company posted revenue of $8.34 billion, with 5.2 Million iPhone sales in the quarter. That makes an install base of 45 million plus iPhone OS devices, including iPod touch.
The iPhone and iPod are obviously doing really well obviously in sales. They also talked about sorting on Apps differently, and lowering MacBook prices. There's also a whole bunch more if you wanna read about it click here.
Is the next generation of iPod Touches getting a camera upgrade? But not only the camera but as well as a integrated microphone. Tech sites all across the web believe so. According to Wired.com:
A well-connected source tells us those rumors are on the money, and that Apple’s factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.
This is really not suprising me as I could see the iPod touch getting this soon. Why? Well because when you think about it iPod touch owners are held off from purchases in Camera Apps, or applications such as Skype because users would have to buy yet another $30 Headset with mic. I'm sure Apple would like some more money coming in with iPod touch users now being able to purchase more apps.
What else could the microphone mean? Well the iPod touch could also be getting the Voice Control feature as well. This would not be a iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 3rd gen only exclusive feature.
Last year the iPod touch 2nd gen came out around Sepetember, we can only wait and cross our fingers to see what Apple has planned for us.
The great people over at MMi have made a nice little 15 second tutorial over on their site about download .IPSW files on Safari on Macs. It seriously takes like 15 seconds.
.IPSW being the file type for the firmwares. If you've jailbroken your phone or are thinking about it. Then your going to deal with these files. Safari automatically extracts it which is why the .ipsw could not be working. Follow this tutorial on their site and you'll be set. 15 secs goes a long way when dealing with problems like this.
BTW Safari might not do the auto-extract thing again but it might name it ".ipsw.zip" just rename it and take of ".zip" and you'll be good!
So I wanna know how many people are loving the new phone. Was it worth the upgrade? are you unhappy? is it what you expected? what you didnt expect? I'm curious to know. You can either comment here or send me a Tweet @iRockIsh.
I didnt get one for two reasons. 1 I'm not on AT&T, I'm one of the ones who have to wait till the dev team unlocks the phone like 6 months after it comes out. 2. i dont have the 600-700 dollars for it
I do want it badly, but it's alot. Next year when my contracts up I think I'm gonna make the switch!
above is just one of the performance results showing how fast the page loaded up and rendered. The contestants were most of the big smartphones in the market such as the iPhone 3G, the Palm Pre, and the T-Mobile G1
above now is the application launch times, all of these apps are on all of these phones, of course you can see how the iPhone 3G S (Of course), comes in first place without a doubt.
The new 3GS renders web pages 128% faster, on average, than the old iPhone 3G. The 45% clock speed boost alone isn't enough to generate such a large performance increase, this is a new microarchitecture. Also, note that the 3GS' performance mimics that of the Palm Pre - another Cortex A8 based phone.
Such nice results, Pre and G1 didnt stand a chance, especially its little iPhone 3G brother.
We all know by now that the iPhone is going to be faster than both the iPhone 3G and 1st gen iPhone but now the specs have been revealed that the iPhone 3G S will have 600 MHz processor bumped up from a 400 MHz like the iPhone 3G has. The RAM has also been bumped up as well from 128MB to 256MB. This is how the brand new iPhone is faster than the 3G! would be nice if we could replace the pieces in the iPhone 3G with these right?
New iPhone 3G S was announced earlier today, in this video I talk about some of the features as well as the 3.0 firmware features that were announced earlier this year and a few others as well
If you watched the Keynote earlier this year, I'm sure you remember hearing about all the lovely features of 3.0 right? The copy and paste, the MMS finally after 2 years, all the new API's for the developers in the SDK. Well with every good thing, comes something bad.
More money! With the new SDK, developers are allowed to add in more prices to their apps. For example with games they could charge you another 5 dollars for 10 more levels on a OTA type thing. No more "FREE" updates unless currently I don't know if there's any kind developer's out there (LOL), but my guess is no. To me it's dumb because I saw in the SIMS 3 demo, the person showing the SIM walking around the house and such, walking outside. But when he had to go to his living room he had bought a stereo for a dollar, a REAL dollar. Yup, if you buy the SIMS 3 for already the normal-expensive 10 bucks you get to be able to contribute more and more to them. Which is already a 10 dollar app could turn into 40 bucks, depending on what you do or "buy"
I know that I had seen the ESPN demo with a dialog box asking for 6 or so more months of subscriptions for about another 10 bucks or 5? This gives developers the chance to put a price on everything. Army based apps for example, $0.99 for a bazooka, $0.99 for a upgrade on a Hummer. Things like that, I don't really like, and I think it could turn out bad for the App Store as well too. I don't think that too many of the app store consumers are going to be happy about this.
With WWDC right around the corner we'll finally be able to see what's up apple's sleeve.
Sites around the internet are buzzing around saying that not only would us iPhone owners not only get the new 3.0 firmware upgrade at WWDC, but also the New iPhone (insert name here) to launch after WWDC? It's unlikely for me seeing as how Apple always and for the past two years has introduced the product then released it. The first gen iPhone being announced in January, and being available late June. As well as the iPhone 3G being announced at last years WWDC and being available in July. Apple always does suprise us though, and with Palm's Pre to launch today (June 6th 2009) Apple could possibly be wanting to have some competition. But let's face it, I doubt the Pre will do better than the iPhone for sure.
If you've ever experienced a small shock in your ear or something like that, it could be your iPod heasphones. Apparently a lot of people have experienced this as well but Apple Made a statement basically saying not to worry, because this could happen with any time of hardware/headphones
People listening to one of the devices in extremely dry air are most at risk of receiving a static electricity shock through the ear buds, according to a warning posted on Apple's Web site. The post likened the condition to the discharge that occurs when a person drags his or her feet across a carpet then gets a shock by touching a door knob.
"This condition is not limited to Apple hardware and static can potentially build up on almost any hardware and could be discharged using any brand of earbuds," Apple said.
Apple also helped with remedies by saying: the use of a humidifier to raise the moisture level of the air, hand lotions to moisturize dry skin, or an anti-static spray. The site also recommends users wear clothes made of natural fibers instead of synthetic fibers. When users are outdoors, Apple suggests users keep their device in a bag or a case to keep it out of the wind and refrain from frequently removing it from pockets as the rubbing may cause static buildup.
So as it turns out it was a 13 year old teen who won the conest, yup he won all that 13,000 dollar worth of apple goodies. The Macbook, The iPod Touch, and the 10,000 iTunes gift card! Makes me wonder what a kids gonna do with all of that! Oh well maybe apple will have another contest when they hit a trillion :). We can only hope right?
I am a big app downloader/user. And I'm always up to try a new app. (if I haven't tried it already! Haha) so twitter me(@irockish), or email me (mixtapeking1900@hotmail) some suggestions and I can review em!
Hope has finally answered the call! There's new software out for the iPhone to downgrade the Baseband back to 2.28 to use with yellowsn0w! (click for more info) Now the only that sucks is that if you have Bootloader 5.8. If your iPhone was manufactured before September 2008, you’re good. But if you bought it after then from what I read you are stuck with the option of having to use TurboSim which isnt bad! but still software unlocks are still better! Now if you are one of these people I highly recommend as I have bought from this seller on eBay is "ztb_888" (<-click). I purchased a Turbo Sim from him and works perfect! Internet and all!
