Who didn’t see this coming from a mile away? Apple and US carrier AT&T have been slapped with a class action lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Maryland, with the defects on the iPhone along with general negligence, and fraud by concealment. Ouch.
iOS icons recreated only using CSS
What an interesting find we have here. These, of course, are the icons you will find in iOS. However, these ones above are not images, all of them were created just using normal HTML code and CSS3. Wait, what?
iPhone 4, meet the microwave
Get ready for some more iPhone 4 carnage – and if you don’t like seeing the iPhone 4 being destroyed, you should look away. Instead of meeting the blades of a blender, it faces the burning power of the microwave. Put in the microwave for 62 minutes and one second, and on full power, the iPhone does really make a nice crispy sound when microwaving. And yes, it does get destroyed – if not, why post it?
Mac OS X to become iOS Desktop?
Scary as this may sound, Mac site Hardmac (hardmac.com) has posted quick article that brings to light a very sad, yet very exciting idea that is bobbing around with the heads of the Apple. According to the article, Apple appears to be interested in a complete ‘iOS’ marketing range that comes in different ‘flavours’ (Unix grass roots anyone?). Such a move could create flavours of iOS Desktop, iOS Server and iOS Mobile. While the letter ‘i’ has been long associated (ok, twelve years maybe) with Apple, such a move could prove fatal towards die-hard Mac fans (from which Mac comes from).
Another iPhone, another blending video
Can the iPhone 4 be blended into dust? Another Apple product comes out and trust the guys over at Blendtec to test their blender with the iPhone. This time, it takes a couple of digs at the Gizmodo-Apple feud over the phone’s leak, especially with the phone being lost in a bar. Of course, the important thing: does it blend? Yes, it does blend the iPhone 4 to dust. See it for yourselves after the jump. As well, for a special treat, we have also added The Gruen Transfer‘s discussion on this popular YouTube video series – which also features the iPhone 3G one.
iTunes Find: Fading album art
Just to let all the valued readers here at TG know, there is a new easter egg [feature, thanks Luke] in iTunes 9.2 . When playing a song with the album preview pane open in the lower left hand corner, the image now fades between Now Playing and Selected Item. Pretty neat.
Rumour: Telstra selling iPad on contract
RUMOUR MILL: We recieved a news tip that Telstra is trialling selling the iPad under a contract in one of the Telstra reseller stores for two weeks. Our tipper, Mick, has not specified a location, because his friend has signed a confidentiality contract. If you also experience the same thing as our tipper has found out, please let us know – either by tipping us or putting a comment. (Thanks Mick!)
iOS 4: 9.00AM Pacific, 2.00AM AEST
Just a quick reminder that iOS 4 is expected to come out really early tomorrow morning (June 22 at 2.00AM AEST), 9.00AM Pacific Time (or so the rumors around the interwebs say). So don’t forget to mark your downloaders, iTunes, iCals, Alarms and whatever else wakes you up at 2 in the morning to get the latest iOS!
MobileMe gets a Facelift, Find My iPhone App as well.
What a way to end the week. On top of the news that there has been over 600,000 iPhone 4 orders, a new Mac mini and a FCC inquiry into possible anti-competitive practices by Apple, the big fruit has updated its MobileMe Web Interface and launched a new Find My iPhone App.
Mac Mini Updated. Now with HDMI
Yes folks, you heard right. The Mac Mini has been updated this week and now boasts the following tech specs:
- Unibody enclosure – now matches the new iMac and MacBook Pro lines
Two arrested in trying to get iPad by trading marijuana
Some go on eBay, some use their credit cards, but two people in Arizona have decided to get an iPad by trading their iPod touch and some marijuana in order to get the latest it device. This sounds like a story that could have been run by the Onion, but it is seriously – and unfortunately – true.
Report: FTC to investigate Apple on app tatics
The Federal Trade Commission is said to be opening an investigation on whether Apple has been using its position as the mobile application market to harm its competitors – including those in the mobile-advertising market, where Apple is set to open its own mobile ad provider iAd in July – according to several publications.
Foxconn reported to shut down Chinese factories
After numerous reports of suicides and after trying to attempt to stop it, Foxconn – the Taiwan-based manufacturer for Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, Sony and other technology companies – will be shutting down its operations that could axe 800,000 workers from their positions
WWDC: iPhone OS renamed iOS, iAds comes out on July 1
In his keynote at this year’s WWDC, Steve Jobs has brought out some new changes and more information about its iAds platform it talked about earlier in the year, alongside its iPhone 4 announcement.
WWDC: iPhone 4 officially confirmed, goes out on June 24
Apple has made official what we have seen in leaks before – the iPhone 4 is real. Billed as the “thinnest smartphone ever”, it features several improvements to the iPhone predecessors – the 3G (which is getting axed) and the 3GS – including a five megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video recording, and an improvement in battery life.