Daily Interesting iPhone News

The next upgrade for Apple’s iCloud may well have the company moving into the social networking realm once again with photo sharing in the same vein as ultra-popular photo application Instagram. This report comes from the Wall Street Journal whose sources say that the upgrade will be coming in the form of an iCloud Beta release first for developers at WWDC 2012.

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A key tenet of Apple rumormongering is that Apple history repeats itself repeatedly: If Apple has done X, Y and 42 so much as twice consecutively, pundits posit that Apple will do X, Y and 42 a third time.

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App developers got a brief glimpse into the workings of the review process yesterday when photos emerged of what appeared to be the work desk of an App Store reviewer. As ReadWriteWeb discovered, the photos—posted on a test Facebook account—showed an iMac, several Apple products, and what appeared to be app review guidelines.

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It’s always exciting when someone stands up to a bully—unless that results in jacking up of the price of the hottest phone even higher than it already is. That is very unexciting, actually. In fact, it sucks. And that is exactly what’s happening in this subsidy war between Apple and its wireless carriers, as these companies stand up to Apple’s subsidies, which it turns out, is good for them, but bad for you.

Read more www.theatlanticwire.com

Last year we already saw tons of iPhone 5 concept designs that revolved around a wedge shape. Then came “only” the iPhone 4S. This Fall the iPhone 5 is really supposed to come and sport a new design. How will it look like? Check out these artist renditions of the iPhone 5 below.

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Facebook tends to be tight-lipped about its projects until it’s ready to share them with the world, but early versions of what may be the Facebook Messenger for iPad app as well as a new video-chat-enabled version of the Facebook Messenger iPhone app appear to have leaked.

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We’ve been hearing a lot about Liquidmetal lately, mostly because of rumors that Apple could be using the alloy in its next iPhone. But what exactly is Liquidmetal? What makes it so special that Apple decided to license the rights to use it in its products?

Read more www.businessinsider.com

The next-generation iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III will be the two biggest and baddest smartphones on the market this summer. There’s no denying that.

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When Apple announced the details about the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference on Wednesday, it set tongues wagging – or, more accurately, keyboards clicking – all across the internet. While Apple’s announcement all but confirmed that iOS 6 would be announced (just as iOS 5 was announced at WWDC 2011), there was speculation about what else Apple might have up its sleeve. An iPad Mini? An iTV? The iPhone 5 (or iPhone 6 or, most likely, “new iPhone”)?

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BEIJING: A teenage high-school student in China sold his kidney for an illicit transplant operation and used the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad, state press said on Friday.

The 17-year-old boy, who was paid 22,000 yuan ($3,500), was recruited from an online chatroom and is now suffering from kidney failure and in deteriorating health, the Xinhua news agency said.

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Two interesting little rumours about the next generation of Apple‘s iPhone, what we assume will be called the iPhone 5. The first is that it will be made, at least in part, of metallic glass. The second is that it will arrive in October.

Read more www.forbes.com

A recruiter for Foxconn’s growing Taiyuan plant may have inadvertently spoiled some of Appe’s 2012 iPhone plans. When interviewing with TV-Tokyo [past 6-minute mark], the staffer said the plant was explicitly hiring 18,000 workers “for the fifth-generation phone.” He expected the phone to come out in June.

Read more www.electronista.com

Light Reading has dug up some very interesting job postings on Apple’s website. Apple is looking for telephony software engineers to work on iOS. Judging by the list of experience requirements in the postings, Apple is looking to add voice-over-IP (VoIP) capabilities to the iPhone and iPad operating system’s ever-growing feature set.

Read more gigaom.com

Apple is said to have yet another product in the pipeline with a Retina display, and this time it’s an iPhone with a really big screen, according to a report from Reuters.
Apple is purportedly already placing orders with suppliers for a 4.6-inch iPhone Retina display, Reuters said today, citing a report in South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper.

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A 51-year-old Colorado woman told Mashable her iPhone 4 burst into smoke just inches from her head last week — and she has the photos to prove it.

The woman — who spoke on the condition that her name not be used — says she was traveling on the East Coast and sleeping alone in a hotel room with the phone plugged in to an Apple charger on the nightstand “12 to 14 inches from my head.”

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The new iPad’s great contribution to the iOSsphere is how it’s already fueling new rumors about the iPhone 5.

This week, existential angst about The Name, new iPad’s revelations about the new iPhone, being unclear on Clearwire, and a formula for creating your own conclusion about The Date for iPhone 5.

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A powerful processor and 4G LTE support are among the new upgrades and features the latest iPad has brought to the table. And often the development of the iPhone and the iPad are in many ways intertwined. What new advances in the latest iPad will we see in the next version of Apple’s smartphone?

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One of the few surprises in today’s Apple event was the name of the main product it was announcing.

It’s the iPad.

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When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins.

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Recent rumors have alternately suggested that Apple is working on a quad-core “A6” or an improved dual-core “A5X” processor for its next-generation mobile devices. But buried within the yet unreleased iOS 5.1 are references to two unreleased mobile processors, suggesting Apple is actually working on both at the same time.

Read more arstechnica.com