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The iPad is preparing for a nice launch after much anticipation later this month. But so much has risen up since its announcement, so here’s a compilation of stuff about the iPad, in short, digestible chunks.

iPad to Support Emergency Calls?

The iPad has an interesting feature – the ability to support emergency calls. Check the video below.

So yeah, the iPad may be able to make emergency calls, in order to comply with the FCC.

Wall Street Journal is Coming to iPad

Murdoch states that Wall Street Journal will be coming to the iPad. Celebrate. Quote below:

Mr. Murdoch said the Journal planned to be on Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet computer. “In fact, we’ve been allowed to work on one, and it’s under padlock and key. The key is turned by Apple every night,” he said in response to a question. “under padlock and key.”

A move to monetize and help control the quickly dying newspaper industry?

AT&T CEO states iPad will be ‘WiFi-driven, not 3G.’

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, states:

“When you think of the iPad and how that correlates with pricing, the iPad — it is going to be interesting to see the customer reaction to the iPad. Our expectation is that it is — there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for one more subscription revenue stream to put on our network, as a result of an iPad. We think it is going to be a largely Wi-Fi driven product. And that is why you see the pricing of the model to be one that is prepaid in nature.

We are going to be anxious to see what the customer response to this is and how customers use it. How much Wi-Fi versus wide area network, and what will have to happen with prices over time, I don’t know. It is going to be an interesting one to watch. We think it will be mainly a Wi-Fi driven product.”

Til later.

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A guess at how the tablet device might look.

Apple, as you may know are hosting a press conference in cupertino, California, tomorrow and they are supposedly releasing a new product: their famed ‘Apple Tablet’.

But still details about this apparent mythical device are unknown. New York Times calls for a tablet with ‘iPhone App’ compatibility and a screen roughly double the size of the iPhone. Other people seem to think it has a CD drive, and runs simplistic applications – without multitasking.

Then there’s the claim it’s 13″ – and it boasts a large screen running a completely custom OS, one that we’ve never seen before. And it’s going to be something completely game-changing to run hand-in-hand with the release of ‘iPhone OS 4.0′. Not only that, they claim this magical machine will somehow be paper-thin and have superior stats to even their Macbook range.

There’s so much flying about, but what if the rumour of it being an oversized iPhone is true? Apple have been long-since credited with innovation, so if it is really something like an oversized iPhone that runs apps one-at-a-time, then it’s nothing innovative. It’s little more than a large copy of their old project, and that is something that’s pretty disgraceful.

But yeah, the Apple press conference could be something we’ve never seen before, but it could also be something completely disappointing. We’ll just really have to wait and see.

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Vodafone just got the iPhone. You’d probably not expect to it to sell too many units, after all – the iPhone is on O2, Orange and Tesco Mobile, for roughly the same price. And vodafone launched their iPhone for roughly the same price – and somehow still managed to move 50,000 units, in just 24 hours.

It’s no surprise, considering the fact that the Nexus One only sold 20,000 – it just proves that the iPhone is not dead, yet.

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Now I’m not one to usually call a mockup sexier than thoughts of the real thing, but I feel I’m gonna be disappointed if the iPhone 4G doesn’t look like this.

Reeks of cool.

[Made by hdi. Via Gizmodo.]

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Yeah, you can manage MobileMe with this.

A new app has been released in the App Store. Normally nothing special, but hell – if you own an iPhone, or iPod Touch, and you have MobileMe, well… there’s an app for that, finally. It’s a free, Apple-made app called ‘MobileMe Gallery‘ (iTunes), and it lets you flick through your MobileMe photos in standard finger-swiping style, seen in Photos and the Facebook app.

Not only that, the app supports uploading photos, including taking them directly from the app using the iPhone’s camera and sending it straight to MobileMe. You can also browse your friends photos – and get updates when they upload new photos.

It’s a nice-looking app – with sliding tickers and the classic iPhone style all thrown in the package.

All you need is MobileMe, and an iPhone. Have fun!

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Google have recently appeared to have claimed their phone just isn’t a smartphone – it’s a ’superphone’ (how arrogant). But really, what? Can they honestly be trying to tell us that their phone is suddenly superior to every other phone on the market? Google’s claim has been something that hasn’t sat well in the blogosphere well so far.

Google claim that the statistics for today’s phones are no longer impressive, and something new and innovative is needed (they claim that smartphones today have ‘gigabyte storage’ – iPhone 3GS = 16GB, Motorola Droid = 4GB – hardly only a gigabyte?)

To be frank, their claim sucks. I don’t even understand their claim, but there it is. Superphone is little more than a marketing term.

The definition of a superphone…the difference between superphone & smartphone…the evolution of the platform is such that the openness, coupled with these marketplaces and these app stores, that makes it really easy for people to download 3rd party content; an ecosystem by which 3rd party developers can participate in the ecosystem; the Ghz processors; the more memory; the gigabyte storage…. these are all things that didn’t exist 2 years ago. So we thought that the industry needed another term to refer to these innovations. And again, this is as powerful as your laptop was 4 years go. If anything, you’re carrying these around in your pocket, they’re with you all the time they’re always on… these are all new. So we wanted to refer to it by something and we think that “superphone” is the right way to refer to it.

The bar is raising…These superphones are getting more and more sophisticated…everybody knows about Moore’s law…today’s superphone is tomorrow’s smartphone…

[Google's Super Phone via TechCrunch]

For Added LOL, http://super-duper-phone.com

Have fun.

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Concept...

iType is… simply put, a product that isn’t the most useful of things. It’s not portable. It’s huge. To make matters worse, it’s bulky and frankly, if you’re sitting at home, you’re gonna have a laptop or a desktop to type on.

... reality.

There’s pros to this device – it charges the iPhone, and I guess you can use it as a charging station if you use your iPhone to twitter a lot. Even better, if you’re going to a hotel or something for a while, and want to blog or write Twitter posts, and there’s no WiFi, you can use your iPhone’s 3G.

It’s going to be available in Black or Silver. Prices are unknown yet. It’ll be available in Q2 this year, for around £70/$112.

[iType via TheNextWeb]

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Something that’s incredibly annoyed me over the weekend is the recent Nokia activity. If suing Apple, Microsoft and various other companies isn’t enough, let’s sue Apple again.

Nokia, have recently lost out heavy market share, especially to smartphones such as the iPhone, Droid, and the upcoming Google Phone. Their products are losing innovation, it seems, and although they set the standard, their UI is boring, used and doubled with unattractive and clumsy. Their touchscreen phone went out with a whimper, and it’d seem they don’t really have the innovation to enter the smartphone market.

So, instead of work on a better product, they’re pulling everyone to the ground with them like sore losers. I don’t really know what kind of psycho bullshit this is going on about, but it claims to be breaching their innovations in camera, wireless, and power management technology. Basically, little itty bits that no one who doesn’t study their competition wouldn’t know about.

A statement from Nokia said in a statement: “This action is about protecting the results of such pioneering development. While our litigation in Delaware is about Apple’s attempt to free-ride on the back of Nokia investment in wireless standards, the ITC case filed today is about Apple’s practice of building its business on Nokia’s proprietary innovation.”

This time they aren’t stopping on iPhones – they’re moving on to claim it affects the iPod range, and even as far as the Macbooks.

Then again, it’s not like Apple are innocent to this. Who can remember what Apple did to Pystar? Yeah, Pystar are gonna feel that for months. I mean, they’ve degraded themselves to selling T-shirts for a living.

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Android, controversially, have stated that iPhones are stupid and girly, or ‘clueless models’. Well, it doesn’t say iPhones are, but it shows the iPhone in the ad, and it mentions ‘who wants a phone that’s just showy?’

Not only is this a little cheap but this is completely stupid  - insulting something like this directly and calling it slow and showy is plain cheap. What’s more – it doesn’t even advertise the phone in the slightest, it just slanders the iPhone.

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Before a panic occurs, let me emphasize. The worm does not affect those who have not jailbroken their iPhones, and does not affect those who have not installed SSH. The people affected are those who have jailbroken their iPhones, installed SSH, and forgotten to change the default password. This give the worm unrestricted access to the iPhone. Originating in Australia yet rapidly spreading, as of the moment, the worm simply changes the user’s background to a picture of Rick Astley, amusingly, and then passes itself on to other iPhones. The worm, however, could end up being used for a much more malicious motion, much like the sleeping bear of the Conficker virus.

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A festive attack from Verizon this Christmas – not only are they retaliating over the lawsuit proposed by AT&T for their ‘biased’ advertising showing 5x more coverage, but they’re making a stab at the iPhone — seemingly strange, pushing rumors about the iPhone coming to Verizon slim – albeit not gone, however. It seems strange that this entire tiff over their 3G coverage has been taking so far – however, it could just be ‘ole Verizon having a laugh at AT&T. We’ll have to see, anyway, whether Verizon get the iPhone next year.

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Yeah, there’s an app for everything, but now Virgin Media come with an application for another thing – combating fear of flying. Yeah, the Virgin Atlantic app iPanic Button, you simply press the button to get stress-relieving content, including an in-flight explanation of all the safety measures of planes, calming music, and good statistics that calm people down.

Richard Branson states that "Our first iPhone app will bring the benefits of our successful Flying Without Fear course to millions of people around the world who are now using mobile technology to make their lives better.”

We can only wait to see what this app can deliver, but once again – it’s very promising, and could be a new revolution of functions that the iPhone can do. It’s certainly great marketing for Virgin, too.

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