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News of the week - New iPhone in the works
The iPhone as a media message amplifier? via flickr.com
One of my personal favourite and most reputated Mac sites, MacRumors, have triggered the crazyness in the iPhone community. They reported last Saturday that developer Pandav has spotted usage records for an unreleased iPhone in their app's analytics.

"iPhone3,1" was first spotted in Pandav's usage logs in November. This "iPhone3,1" identifier does not match up with any shipping iPhones. The last iPhone released to the public was the iPhone 3GS which carries the identification string "iPhone2,1".

References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. At the time, the usage was similarly focused in the San Francisco Bay Area where Apple is located.

via macrumors.com

The response in their forums and twitter has been very positive and I get the feeling some are getting too excited. As MacRumors makes clear, last time records of a new hardware type were found, it took Apple eight months to deploy in into the markets.

Isn't it absolutely normal that Apple tests new products? Because we are all willing to see more iPhone updates, but for me, this information only means that someone has been using 3rd party apps with a hardware model not official. This could be a jailbroken device, a new concept (tablet anyone?), a new iPhone OS version and of course, new iPhone hardware.

If you look back to January, PinchMedia provided reports of an 2.1 iPhone and now they do the same with 3.1. Data was gathered at the beginning of the month, so what's the point of releasing it now? Is it because this was a Black Friday weekend? You tell me about it.

UPDATE: This is trending topic now at Mashable

 

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Posted 3 months ago

iPhone now makes up 33% of all touchscreen phones | Electronista

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The iPhone now represents almost exactly one third of all touchscreen phones in the US, new comScore info says. Of all touch phones in the country, 32.9 percent are iPhones while all others trail significantly behind. Most of the runners-up are Verizon devices and include the LG Dare and Voyager at 8.7 and 7.8 percent respectively. The BlackBerry Storm has just seven percent, while the T-Mobile G1 is both the most popular Android and T-Mobile phone on the list with 3.6 percent.

Apple's success comes as the touchscreen field itself has swelled dramatically in the past year. The number of phones in American hands has jumped 159 percent from 9.22 million in August 2008 to 23.84 million just one year later. By comparison, the entire US smartphone market grew by 63 percent to 33.78 million, or enough for touchscreen phones to represent a large section of the smartphone business where they were just a minority before.

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Posted 4 months ago

Adobe talks a little smack on iPhone's inability to play Flash | 9 to 5 Mac

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If you try to go to a Flash site on your iPhone, you are often taken to Adobe's "Get Flash" page because the site thinks this is an option for you. It obviously isn't, of course. But for those who go to the "Get Flash" page on their iPhone, Adobe is adding some sass to their "iPhone doesn't support Flash" message.

This message has been around for awhile (as far as we remember) but it has only lately specified iPhone. Perhaps to differentiate between mobile Webkit browser that support Flash like Android and Blackberry will and those that don't.

via 9to5mac.com

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Posted 4 months ago

Are You an iPhone App Addict? 1% are, says Flurry

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Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, says that in September, about half a million people among the 40 million users it tracked used apps more than 100 times per month.

via gigaom.com

1,2% of appfreaks use an one more than 100 times a month.

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Posted 4 months ago

PC: Let's got to commercials - Mac: we are commercials

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Mac and PC going to commercials

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Posted 4 months ago

Copy is the sincerest form of flattery


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