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China Gets A Real iPhone 4 on September 25th

After months of speculation, debates with the Chinese government over wifi implementation in the iPhone 3G and a bunch of well-faked ripoffs, China is getting the iPhone 4. The real thing. Starting from September 25th Chinese Apple fans will be able to purchase the new iPhone in retail locations and Unicom stores, with a price tag of CNY4,999 for the 16GB model and CNY5,999 for the GB one. As Engadget reports, that’s about $743 and $892, respectively.

Apple is also opening a new retail location in Beijing on September 25th. Chinese MacStories readers: tips[at]macstories.net is open for you to send pics and videos of your line experience. Check out the full press release after the break. Read more

An Impressive DIY iPhone Microscope, For Just $10

This time I’m not going to say that the iPhone 4 is great and the Retina Display is magical, so let’s just go straight to the point: you can build your own iPhone microscope for just 10 dollars. It’s an impressive 45x microscope which is sold on Amazon at $7 on average  that, combined with a cheap hard plastic case, will allow you to snap pictures of your skin and flowers just like scientists do.

Check out the photo set over at Crabfu ArtWorks, and the embedded video below. Oh by the way, I somehow managed to say that the Retina Display is magical. Please add this iPhone microscope to the list of awesome things I must not mention every single day. Read more

iPhone 3G Users, Upgrade to iOS 4.1 [Video]

As soon as iOS 4.1 comes out this week (as announced by Steve Jobs at last week’s Apple music event) iPhone 3G users should feel safe to upgrade. In case you don’t know, iOS 4 for iPhone 3G wasn’t exactly “perfect”: to cut short, it was slow. I tried an iPhone 3G running the magical iOS 4: it was barely usable. Even a stupid task like unlocking the phone took a few seconds more than usual, not to mention springboard navigation and Safari. Everything was slow and slow-motion - at a point you couldn’t believe Apple shipped such a thing. Read more

The Ultimate iOS Pie Chart

At least, that’s what asymco claims. We knew that there were 59.6 million iPhones and 3.2 million iPads through June; at the music event last Wednesday, Apple announced that 120 million iOS devices were sold to date. So asymco assumed that Apple sold 8 million iPhones and 4 million iPads during July and August, and they came up with a 45.2 million iPod Touches sold to date estimate. That’s 37.7% of total units. Read more