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Apple has just issued a press release about the availability of the iPhone 4:
“White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.”
Does this mean countries like Italy will get the iPhone 4 after July 15th, in white as well? We’re still waiting for an official release date.
The new iPhone comes out tomorrow, but iFixit has (as usual) managed to get a unit and tear it down. The result, unsurprisingly, confirms the rumored 512 MB of RAM, a bigger 3.7V 1420 mAh Li-Polymer battery and dual purpose steel frame / antenna.
Check out the full teardown here, and a few pictures after the break.
It happened with the iPad back in April, and it’s happening with the iPhone 4 now: Apple sent some review units to the most important blogs and the reviews are starting to come in.
Check out the excerpts we’ve collected after the break.
Insanely in-depth review of the iPhone 4 online on Engadget. I suggest you to Instapaper it, but let me quote just a few passages:
“The iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of gorgeous new hardware, that amazing display, upgraded cameras, and major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely formidable package. Yes, there are still pain points that we want to see Apple fix, and yes, there are some amazing alternatives to the iPhone 4 out there. But when it comes to the total package – fit and finish in both software and hardware, performance, app selection, and all of the little details that make a device like this what it is – we think it’s the cream of the current crop.”
We’ve talked about Byline 3 for iPhone before. It’s a great RSS application that features a brand new engine and a good looking UI design. The latest 3.2 update, just approved by Apple and available in the App Store, brings complete iOS 4 support to Byline.
Thanks to iOS’ task completion mutlitasking APIs, the app can now finish the syncing and caching process in the background. Like many other apps though, it can’t fetch feeds on its own. Also, restore state is used to bring you back to the exact location you were before closing the app. Last, Byline now supports the iPhone 4’s Retina Display.
Go get the app here.
Sometimes I happen to go out with some friends and enjoy a good beer over at a pub called “Porter”. Usually, a few pizzas go over with that beers.Then, when it’s time to split the bill and pay - nobody knows what to do. Should I just pay with my credit card and than take the money from my friends? Should we all put our cash together and pay the right amount? What about the tip?
Bistromath for iPhone really comes in handy in situations like the one described above.
Earlier today we posted a tutorial on how to jailbreak an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4 with an unofficial build of PwnageTool. Now, the Dev-Team has just release its official build of PwnageTool, read the blog post here.
PwnageTool 4 works on the iPhone 3G / 3GS and iPod Touch 2G. iPhone 2G, iPod Touch and iPod Touch 3G are not supported. The process of creating a custom firmware is the same we described this morning.
Enjoy your jailbroken iOS 4, folks.
Here’s a video comparison of an iPhone 3G running iOS 4 and another iPhone 3G running 3.1.3. No matter what, iOS doesn’t seem to play nice with the 3G.
Stay tuned for a similar post in a couple of months, when we’ll put the 3GS to shame against an iPhone 4.
So you’ve got iOS 4 installed on your iPhones and iPods and you want to know which apps in the App Store are already compatible with it. There are some great roundups around about it.
I’ve decided to put together a list of my favorite apps that are already using iOS 4’s new functionalities such as state-saving and multitasking. Plus, I’ve collected some of the “subtle changes” Apple has put into iOS, those little things that make you love Apple every time. Nik Fletcher has another similar collection too, check it out here.
What are your favorite apps and changes in iOS 4? Tell us in the comments below.
