Everyone’s favorite touch screen phone makers, MP3 player and even desktop computer and laptop maker has turned a new cheek and have made their own site where they are selling game for a variety of platforms such as the iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone and even the iPad. So far the prices vary from Free to 99 cents, I am 99% sure that the games will use motion sensitive and touch sensor advantage to gain an advantage in the mobile handheld gaming sector (No the DS does NOT count as a MOBILE handheld, its only a handheld).

Considering that the population of Apple iProduct users (see what I did there?) is HUGE there is very little doubt that people should be blasting the site right now for a good game to put on their iPad or their new iPhone 4, according to Mobclix there are about 47,624 available right now, from mobile games all the way to games for your iMac’s and MacBook Pro’s. Those are quite a lot of games already considering that this is probably the sites first day. With such amazing prices and great games at disposable its clear that the era where Mac was considered the Anti gaming platform might finally be over. Steam has also ported their games to the Mac and now this site will help bring Mac’s to the gaming level.

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It was announced yesterday, in the city of China that the iPhone 4 smartphone would be available for purchase beginning on September 25 on 8:00 AM. The device will retail for a price of CNY4,999 (~ $745) for a 16 GB model and CNY5,999 (~$894) for a 32 GB model. China also noted, that their mobile carrier company, China Unicom, will be selling the devices on a 2 year contract and would be providing subsidies on it.

For a full press report; after the break.

CUPERTINO, California—September 19, 2010—Apple® today announced that iPhone® 4 will be available to customers in China beginning Saturday, September 25 at 8:00 a.m. at Apple Retail Stores including the new Apple Store® Hong Kong Plaza in Shanghai and the new Apple Store Xidan Joy City in Beijing opening on the same day. iPhone 4 will also be available on Saturday at China Unicom retail stores for qualified buyers with a new two year contract.

iPhone 4 features FaceTime®, which makes the dream of video calling a reality, and Apple’s stunning new Retina™ display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in super crisp text, images and video. iPhone 4 also features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time—in a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world. iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes over 100 new features. The revolutionary App Store℠ provides access to more than 250,000 apps including the new iMovie® app built just for iPhone 4.

Customers who buy their iPhone 4 at an Apple Retail Store will receive free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their new iPhone by setting up their email, loading their favorite apps from the App Store, and other tips to get up and running before they leave the store. In addition, Apple Retail Stores will host special workshops throughout the day to help customers learn more about iPhone 4. Every Apple Retail Store is staffed by a highly trained team of passionate employees who deliver innovative services like these, plus free technical support at the Genius Bar®.

Pricing & Availability
iPhone 4 will be sold in China through Apple’s retail stores for a suggested retail price of CNY4,999 for the 16GB model and CNY5,999 for 32GB model without a contract. At China Unicom stores, iPhone 4 will be available for qualified buyers with a new two year contract, sold separately. For pricing and tariff information please visit www.10010.com. The new Apple Store Hong Kong Plaza is located at 282 Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai. The new Apple Store Xidan Joy City is located in the Joy City shopping center at 131 North Xidan Avenue, Beijing. For more information please visit www.apple.com.cn.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Press Contacts:
Natalie Kerris
Apple
nat@apple.com
(408) 974-6877

Amy Bessette
Apple
abessette@apple.com
(408) 862-8012

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A Jailbreak for iOS 4.1 may be available really soon which is good news for those willing to jailbreak their Handhelds running on the Latest iOS. Sn0wbreeze developer, iH8sn0w has confirmed they are planning to release Sn0wbreeze 2.0 soon for iOS 4.1. DinoD7, A member of the DEV team, DinoD7 has also posted a video which shows that it is possible to jailbreak iOS 4.1 using the latest Sn0wbreeze 2.0 Jailbreaking tool.

Proof Of 4.1 iPhone Jailbreak

It seems like the new Sn0wbreeze 2.0 will be able to jailbreak iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 2G MC Model, iPhone 3GS with older bootrom and iPhone 3GS and iPodTouch 3rd generation with newer bootrom if it’s still on iPhone 3.1.2. Unfortunately, The jailbreak will not be available for the iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4G but they will add support for them too as soon as the Chronic team release their SHAtter Jailbreak.

The SHAtter jailbreak progress has been updated by the Chronic DEV Team and according to them it should be able to jailbreak all existing iOS devices.

Many people in the comments are asking for a progress update. Any kind of update that we could actually give would be too technical for anyone to understand anyway, not to mention potentially reveal the exploit. Just know that things are going swimmingly and we are working as hard as we can. Any demos, screenshots, or *cough* download links will be posted to this blog before anywhere else, so keep an eye out!

Some other news regarding the Sn0wbreeze Jailbreak.

Sn0wbreeze Jailbreaks iOS 4.2 on iPhone 3GS.

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See, as HTC Desire HD becomes capable of performing calls, surfing the web and navigating maps, with instant boot, while iPhone 4 continues to boot.

iOS 4.2 which has already been jailbroken on older iPhone’s with the pwnage tool for Mac but now it has been confirmed that its also coming on the Windows which is some great news for PC users and that too with Sn0wbreeze.

The dev iH8sn0w of the Sn0wbreeze revealed that the iOS 4.2 has been jailbreaked on iPhone 3GS but he also mentioned that jailbreak App Stores Cydia, Icy and Rock (which recently merged with Cydia) were not really working for now. But dont worry because he said that they are working on it and they will work soon.

There was also a video revealed by DinoD7 which shows a iPhone 3GS (old bootrom) jailbroken with Sn0wbreeze. You can view it below.

VIDEO….

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Chronic Dev-Team’s member P0sixninja has been working on the GreenPois0n jailbreak for quite a while which will be used to jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. A few days earlier it was reported that a new bootrom exploit to jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G and iPad found by Pod2g who’s also from the Chronic Dev-Team and now the site http://greenpois0n.com/ has got an update.

The reason behind not releasing the GreenPois0n jailbreak was because Chronic Dev-Team and iPhone Dev-Team decided to work on JailbreakMe. The update is that Pod2g has confirmed that GreenPois0n works fine to jailbreak iPhone 4 on iOS 4.1. MuscleNerd also reported that iPod Touch 4G and iPad are also vulnerable to the exploit.

The Chronic Dev-Teams site has been updated with a new logo which shows that GreenPois0n will arrive soon from the team and will Jailbreak iOS 4.1. The jailbreak will work on both Windows and Mac OS X.

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We all know about Blackra1n, the famous jailbreaking tool by Geohot for jailbreaking iPhones and iPods alike on iOS3.1.2. After iOS4 got released the rest of the jailbreak methods used by other hackers have not been as effecient as blackra1n was.

Now though, there is a new jailbreak tool under development known as SHAtter. Its the same jailbreak method that Geohot talked about as pwned4life before he left the jailbreaking community. The unique thing abt SHAtter is that unlike Jailbreak me and other tools, this exploit can only be patched by a hardware update of all iOS devices. As a result until Apple can update their whole range of iOS devices, this exploit (when released) will forever jailbreak all iOS devices including the iPod Touch, iPhone 3G/3GS/4 and even the iPad!

The famous “iPhone Dev Team” together with “Chronic Dev Team” is working on the exploit as we speak and hopefully we will have the released version of SHAtter on our Apple Devices soon and say goodbye to all our jailbreaking worries!

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iOS 4.1 has brought some new features to the iPhone 4 and one of them is arrival of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography from your iPhone 4. The new HDR features allows you to take much more detailed pictures/photos than normal camera photos. The basic principle of HDR is that it takes three individual pictures with in a few seconds (one properly exposed, one overexposed and one underexposed) and after taking the pictures, Joins those three to give a single detailed photo, hence making it better than normal photography mode.

iPhone 4 comes with a 5 Mega Pixel camera so this feature is better suited for it only, But this iPhone 4 exclusive feature may soon arrive on your Jailbroken iPhone 3GS and 3G just like the other iPhone 4 features such as wallpapers and multitasking.

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When the new iPod Touch got unveiled at Apple‘s September Media Event, everyone was impressed with new added features including front and rear cameras, gyroscope, a new processor and a retina display similar to the iPhone 4.

Now it seems that in an attempt to make the iPod slimmer (or decrease the price) there are two drawbacks. Firstly the rear camera which shoots video in 720p can only take photos at 0.7MP whereas the iPhone can take 5MP photos.

Now according to 9 to 5 Mac, the retina display isn’t exactly the same as the iPhone 4. If you were to go to Apple’s website and compare the technical specifications of the iPhone 4 vs the iPod Touch you will notice that the although the iPod has the same pixel density as the iPhone 4 but it doesn’t specifically say that the iPod Touch has a “Retina display” and there is no mention of the contrast ratio either.

For further proof of this watch the video below, at 00:15 you can see that the iPod Touch’s viewing angle is not as wide as the iPhone 4′s:

As you can see below the differences become evident once you look at both devices from a difficult to see angle:

After seeing the initial specifications of the iPod Touch, I was quite impressed that Apple had managed to include all of those exciting new features and even so offer an iPod for as low as $230. Now though the situation is not so rosy, the drawbacks mentioned here are quite substantial and although anyone looking for portable device will buy the new iPod Touch without a second thought, I can’t say the same for people who already have the older versions of the iPod. I for one don’t see myself upgrading to the new iPod Touch due to these drawbacks.

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A comparison has been done between the iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.1 to see which one runs better and faster on the iPhone 3G. Well Apple this week announced along with other things that the iOS 4.1 will fix the performance of the iPhone 3G. Well to see if it really helps, You can check it out yourself in the link below which shows iOS 4.1 put against the iOS 4.0 on the iPhone 3G:

iOS 4.1 vs iOS 4.0 test on iPhone 3G. [VIDEO]

A few note’s here as the source says that they only had one iPhone 3G to work with and couldn’t run through the trials at the exact same time. As a result, some of the actions are not perfect, but they nonetheless demonstrate some performance differences between iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.1. Also that the iOS 4.1 is not available on iTunes yet but the 3G in the video is running on the final release of iOS 4.1.

Here are the results as revealed from the video:

• Messages: iOS 4.1 Wins (By a Little)
• Maps: iOS 4.1 Wins (By a Lot)
• Photos: iOS 4.1 Wins (Just Barely)
• Safari: iOS 4.1 Wins (Just Barely)

Well Apple were true that the iOS 4.1 is indeed faster than the iOS 4.0 but its still much slower than the performance you get on the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 but UI response time is now much better and people will sure love too switch to iOS 4.1 from iOS 3 and 4.0.

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