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.
I'm sure you all remember George Hotz, aka GeoHot, the one who first unlocked the iPhone(the original one). Well he did it again by unlocking the iPhone 3GS.
Now he did however use redsn0ws code and only changed around 10 lines of it. But still he has created the first jailbreak. So why isn't it released yet? Well I don't want to break anyones heart, but the dev-team is holding off on that. Here the blog post to see for yourself.
So GeoHot has the luxury of having the only jailbroken phone unless planetbeing does too as he just got a nice new 3GS as well, courtesy of all the followers.
The video below shows a guy at the pool recording and loving his new 3GS, when apparently his iPhone 3GS drops in the pool for a little swim. Look what happens
...It still works! I believe all he had was a rubber case, but still nothing had happened to it. As of yesterday 6-28-09 the phone is still in 100% working condition. His warranty is now in-effective but oh well. It might hurt him down the road like this guy who put his iPhone under running tap water.
But please don't go and try this with your lovely 3GS, I'm sure it was just a coincidence. One that should never be done to a iPhone (haha im only joking)
So besides the white iPhone "3G" cracking issues on it's housing. There seems to be another issue now, and that is as you can see above a 3GS, with brown on it.
The case with this one is that when the iPhone overheats with the white one apparently over a week of time, Today (Friday) being the one week launch of the iPhone "3GS". Only been one case and apparently it's already been sent in for analysis and could/SHOULD get a replacement phone
If you look on the pictures you can see where the battery outline on the phone, should've went with black buddy! :)
So AT&T put out a new video on last time because there's been some buzz and a lot of questions about the new iPhone, you know the whole how much is upgrading going to be? and stuff like that. This video answers most of those questions
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
So there are many posts on every tech site about the New iPhone thats like 100% surely going to come out now! I just bought a 3g back in March, but hopefully the Dev-Team can unlock this one faster than it took for the 3g one.
A lot of sites have their own specs listed but the top ones that people know are coming and the others ones that they HOPE are going to be included are as follows:
16 GB and 32Gb to replace the current 8 and 16
3.2 autofocus camera (I honestly think this is the one of the things that is lacking hardware-wise)
Same $199 and $299 prices (32 gb for 300? not bad)
Video recording with new 3.0 firmware
The metal band is to be discontinued with this new model
1.5 times better battery life (SWEET!)
OLED Screen
Double the RAM and processing power
Bult in FM radio (idk why? i barely listen to the radio plus there's apps that work over EDGE and 3G perfectly)
Apple logo on back to glow (why?)
Rubber backing
Built in Compass (I think this is a 99% percent Yes)
Sleeker Design
and last but not least Turn by turn directions (WOOO)
I hope most of these are true cause then there would be reason to update to the new iPhone instead of last year, when all the reason to change was GPS, 3G especially, and color?
I hope Apple worked harder on this iPhone but all we can do is pray and watch WWDC and wait for that all-knowing "one more thing" type of intro we always get.
Any other hopes you would like to have? Twitter ME "LOLZ"
Please fix the iPhone is a site that users get to submit there own problems that they want fixed for the iPhone.
PleaseFixTheiPhone is a technological ode to our favorite phone. A modern love poem. Sure, nothing is perfect, but this site brings together little musings and lustful tech haiku about the finest phone and how to make it even better. So take your favorite iPhone mantra and add it to the many wishes on the site in the hope that Apple will take notice.
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?
