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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
MacRumors: Apple today released iTunes 9.2 via Software Update and the company's website, bringing support for iPhone 4 and iOS 4 features, as well as several other enhancements. iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:
- Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
- Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1
- Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
- Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
- Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
- Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library
The update also brings several security fixes, as detailed in an associated support document. |
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
Apple Australia along with carriers Telstra, Vodafone and Optus are tipping "massive" demand for Apple's new iPhone after Apple in the USA said that they sold 600,000 iPhone 4 devices in the first two days of its pre-sale.
This is a new record for Apple and the sole US carrier AT&T who both sold out of the device, despite frequent malfunctions in both companies' ordering systems.
"Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration," Apple said in a statement last night. "We apologise to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock."'
The Guardian newspaper said that in Germany, demand for the new model, which was only unveiled by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs at the start of the month, is running 10 times ahead of that for last year's model, the iPhone 3GS, reported Deutsche Telekom.
By comparison, when the iPhone 3GS went on sale last year, 1m were sold in its first three days. But that debuted in eight countries, whereas the iPhone 4 has gone on sale only in five. |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
As the UK and France Apple Online Stores come back up and start taking iPhone 4 pre-orders again, it’s worth noting that Apple is actually offering them SIM-free in those countries. While this practice has been implemented in Australia from the start, this sets a useful guide to estimate the outright prices when they hit our stores.
When you purchase your iPhone from the Apple Online Store, you’ll get it SIM-free. So you can sign up for service with the carrier of your choice and change your carrier at any time.
It’s not cheap, mind you: £499/16GB and £599/32GB in the UK, and €629/16GB and €739/32GB in France. Canada will also have the SIM-free option but won’t be offering the iPhone until July. |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
The Apple Store was briefly down and now it's back up. While this is significant news for those in the US who can now order their iPhone 4, Australians get some good news...
Apple has quietly updated the Mac mini with a brand new design - available for $999.
Also, the iPhone 3G is now no longer available at the online store. Instead, a new iPhone 3GS 8GB has been introduced for $719 which replaces the iPhone 3G 8GB as the entry level iPhone. This will be available June 24th with iOS4 preloaded. Excited? Head over to the Apple Store and get it yourself!
We'll be keeping our eyes peeled over the next few weeks for an iPhone pre-order page somewhere on the Australian store. While it is currently only available in black for US consumers, hopefully Australians will get to see both colours available on the release date. |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
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National Australia Bank has launched a dedicated iPhone Internet Banking app, bringing all the features of the NAB iPad Intenet Banking app to the iPhone.
NAB Internet Banking has been optimised for mobile phones since September last year, but this is the first time that NAB has launched an iPhone specific Internet Banking App.
Sam Plowman, Executive General Manager for Direct Banking at NAB expects the iPhone app and its bigger brother the NAB iPad App will stimulate take-up of mobile banking with NAB.
“NAB is seeing a huge appetite for mobile banking, with 170 per cent growth in usage over the past six months.
“We expect even more customers to start banking on their mobile now that an iPhone app is available, with improved useability and added functionality,” he said. Read more... |
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Monday, 14 June 2010 |
MacRumors: This weekend Robert Scoble posted high resolution photos comparing the new display to the existing one (iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS). The images clearly show the increased readability of web pages while fully "zoomed out". Macworld's hands on also echos the sentiment:
We placed an iPhone 3GS and an iPhone 4 side by side. The results were readily apparent. Text on the iPhone 3GS, while quite readable, showed noticeable pixelation. We couldn’t pick out any pixels on the iPhone 4’s text; as Apple claims, this screen really makes text look like something you’d find in a book or a magazine, with none of the artifacts that we’ve come to expect from a LCD display.
Apple has claimed that the new display exceeds the limits of the human retina. While there has been some debate about the accuracy of these claims, at least one expert considers the claims close enough to reality. |
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