iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours

CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S”

“We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has ever launched and we are thrilled that customers love iPhone 4S as much as we do.”

iPhone 4S will be available at all 245 Apple retail stores in the US beginning at 8 a.m. local time on Friday, October 14. Every customer who buys an iPhone 4S at an Apple retail store will be offered free Personal Setup service, helping them customize their iPhone 4S by setting up email, showing them new apps from the App Store™ and more, so they’ll be up and running with their new iPhone before they leave the store.

iPhone 4S includes iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features, and iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.

Pricing & Availability

iPhone 4S comes in either black or white and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the new 64GB model.* iPhone 4S will be available from the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and select Best Buy, Target and Walmart stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 4 is available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 3GS is available for free with a two year contract.

iPhone 4S will roll out worldwide to 22 more countries by the end of October including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

*Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year rate plan, sold separately.

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Wood and Brushed Metal: iPhone 5 Reignites Debate on Skeuomorphism

Skeuomorphism literally means “to have the shape of the vessel”, and for the majority of those reading an iBook for the first time, I’m sure having their reading experience look and perform like a real book is reassuring. Is Apple’s heavy reliance on skeuomorphism absolutely necessary, however, in moving their users digitally forward in life?

Hobbs provides the example of Kindle’s popular e-reader, in which Amazon’s designers did not feel the need to repeat the heavy dose of skeuomorphic features employed by iBook; rather, they relied on familiar layout, typeface and font styles to reassure the new digital book consumer. The user is expected to, once again, fall in love with the story she is reading, not with the app from which it springs.

It is in these small, systematic innovations that the wholly-open digital world opens up to designers, argues Hobbs, that we can uncover the incremental evolution of digital user experience, something he points out has been lacking in the last 20 years.

“The issue is that when people are critical and thoughtful enough to conceive new ways of instantiating interactions, truly interesting things start to happen.”

Just how emotionally tied to an app do we want to be, rather than the media it provides us? Another example Hobbs draws from is the wooden bookshelf UI used to put on display one’s iBooks collection.

Although familiar, warm and inviting, is it truly necessary to replicate this experience when displaying one’s virtual book collection? Why not the cover flow slider, or an absolutely new way of showing book cover thumbnails? The question becomes just how strongly we must cling to a carefully crafted wood and brushed metal schema, when we can create an entirely new world to hold our digital lives?

Hobbs is not alone in his consternation with the over-the-top recreated familiarity of Apple’s UI. Forbes’ Tim Worstall points to the Rolodex feel of Apple’s Contacts app, despite very few people holding an iPhone who own (or have ever used) the once-needed card-holding device.

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The Way to Re-Size iPhone 5 Keyboard

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Best free iPhone apps for cooks

From cooking a filet mignon to grocery shopping tips, there is a variety if free iPhone apps made just for cooks. Looking for a nutritious vegan recipe? Now you can have all of your culinary questions answered whenever and wherever you need. The best free iPhone apps for cooks offer flavorful recipes and advice for novice and even more experienced cooks.

Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List

This is a wonderful free app for cooks. Not only does it provide interesting recipes but when you choose a recipe, you can transfer the ingredients onto a shopping list. And even better – there are over 25,000 recipes to choose from. When browsing the recipes you can add and save to a favorites list so it’s easy to find. This cooking app is available for free for both the iPhone and iPad.

HarvestMark Food Traceability

Ever wondered where your bananas were picked? Maybe not, but the HarvestMark Food Traceability app is a nifty tool that allows you to trace your food to its source. The UPC can either be scanned or the number entered into your iPhone and the app will let you know not only where the food was grown but if there are any problems associated with the producer. The app only works on products with the Harvest Mark logo which is placed on many foods you buy in the grocery store. This app is available for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad at no cost.

Whole Foods Market Recipes

This app is similar to the Epicurious app – you search recipes and can add them to a grocery list. The Whole Foods Market Recipes app also lets you search recipes by preference including gluten-free and vegetarian.  A great addition to this app is the ability to enter ingredients you have on hand and it will help you come up with a recipe.  This free app can be downloaded to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner

To accompany one of the most highly used recipe websites, the Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner app allows you to scan the thousands of recipes available. You can scan the recipes by dish type, ingredients, or the cooking time. Just like on the Allrecipes.com website, the recipes are rated by people who have tried the recipe so you can see at a glance if the recipe is worth trying. Each recipe has a color photograph and cooking instructions. This app is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch at no charge.

Grocery iQ

The Grocery iQ app is one of the best free apps available for food shopping. With this app, you scan the barcode of the item and it’s automatically added to your grocery shopping list. The app will also find corresponding online coupons that you can print to save some money at the supermarket. The best part – you can sort the list to correspond with the isles in your grocery store. This app won’t help you cook the food but it will make grocery shopping day a lot more convenient. Grocery iQ is available for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free.

The Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook

Many a home cook has relied on Betty Crocker, whether its Betty Crocker recipes or Betty Crocker products. The Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook app delivers over 9,000 recipes with pictures and instructions. You can supply your ingredients on hand and the app will offer recipe suggestions. You can also receive coupons for different General Mills products. This app is free and compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

These culinary apps are perfect for in the kitchen and while shopping. They are useful, easy to navigate and best of all – they are free. If you are in a hurry, you will have everything you need right at your fingertips to find the perfect recipe for your dinner tonight.

12 Unknown Secrets of the iPhone 4

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My girlfriend recently was given an iPhone 4 for Christmas, and as a result I was interested in seeing if it was capable of doing any “cool” things. In doing a Google search for the “secrets of the iPhone 4” I came to find that there are actually MANY unknown secrets of the iPhone 4. Strangely enough, most of these secrets are not printed in the included instruction iPhone 4 manual, and from what I can tell they are not even necessarily found on Apple’s own website! Some of these iPhone secrets may come as no real surprise to you, but hopefully at least a few of them will immediately make you pull out your smart phone and check them out. Many of these tricks for the iPhone 4 actually work with previous iPhone models, as well as the iPod touch; so be sure to keep that in mind as well!

1. You’re iPhone can Read your E-Books and other Documents to You

This is certainly a strange thing that is implimented into the Apple iPhone 4 that most will never notice. While it does require the free iBooks application (which comes preinstalled on the iPhone 4), it is one of interesting and relatively useful tools that can make all e-books into audio books, and make going through tedious work and school documents a lot more bareable. All you have to do is turn on VoiceOver (the text-to-speech feature), open up your desired e-book or PDF document, double tap your screen, and listen to the voice read until you double tap again to make it stop. While the voice is rather robotic sounding, it is very bareable for most uses; and can in the least be pretty fun. One thing I did with this was write a piece of poetry, upload it as a PDF, then listen to the iPhone read it to me. This is a very practical application and amusing as well! This service is also excellent for someone with disabilities as well, which is why it is actually in the iBooks app to begin with.

Easy and Fast Method to Jailbreak and Unlock Iphone 4,4s,3gs Ios 5 Available Online

Finally an iPhone 4S/4 carrier unlock has been released for that works on the now infamous iOS 4.3.5/5 firmware. Now you are able to unlock the iPhone 4S/4 (and iPhone 3Gs running # and use it on any compatible GSM network.

Apple has recently released iOS 4.3.5/5 and most users upgraded, without noticing or wanted to upgrade, and they realised that they have their iPhone locked and blocked again. We have launch an solution for YOUR problem.

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By unlocking your iPhone 4 iOS 4.3.5/5 you unlock your iPhone to thousands of new opportunities that will help you make your iPhone experience a more memorable one. Once unblocked you have the ability to install free games, free themes, free wallpapers and many many other applications that will make your iPhone 4 infinately better than the factory shipped variant.

iOS 4.3.5/5 comes with many new features and updates for multitasking and storage. By unlocking and jailbreaking your iPhone you unleash unlimited possibilites to improved this already fantastic experience and utilize your iPhone to it”s FULL potential. Thousands of wallpapers, themes and apps can be utilized, in many cases, for free, after performing an unlock of your iPhone 4 using the unique solution exclusively available at BestUnlockiPhone .

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Apple iPhone 5 Release Date Rumors: Will Apple Be Forgotten for the Motorola Photon?

There has been a lot of speculation about the Apple iPhone 5 release date. Fans of the iPhone have many unanswered questions about the yet-to-be-confirmed device. Will the iPhone 5 release this year? Will it be 4G? Which wireless providers will carry the iPhone 5?

Additionally, consumers may want to know how the device will compare to other smartphones, like the Motorola Photon. Since the Apple iPhone 5 release date is supposedly not coming out until at least September, Motorola may try to take advantage of the iPhone lull and launch their worldphone, the Motorola Photon.

While it is obvious die-hard Apple fans will stand by their favorite product, will the Motorola Photon be a big enough contender to lure the less faithful iPhone fan away? Only time will tell, but both the Apple iPhone 5 and the Motorola Photon will likely sport enough great specs to put up a good fight–all to win the favor of a smartphone lover.

Transfer Cell Phone Data to iPhone 4: Susteen’s Mobile Genie is the First Data Transfer Tool to Support iPhone 4

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IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Susteen, Inc. announced today that Mobile Genie, a leading cell phone data migration tool used by cellular stores to transfer information from one phone to the next at the wireless points of sale, now supports iPhone 4. Mobile Genie is the first tool of its kind to support the new generation of iPhones.

Customers purchasing the iPhone 4 can transfer their data from old phone to the iPhone at any Point of Sale using Mobile Genie, including Best Buy Mobile stores and 5,000 other independent dealers. Mobile Genie is an easy-to-use migration tool, which enables cellular stores to transfer customers’ data from the old to the newly purchased handset no matter the make, model and wireless carrier – hence overcoming customers’ reluctance to upgrade which translates in increased number of activations and new handset sales. Mobile Genie supports most content types in the phone such as contacts, calendar, tasks, music, ring tones, pictures, wallpapers, video, and SMS.

“iPhone 4 support before its market release proves our ability to deliver product enhancements to customers at the right time. We are working on adding iPhone 4 to DataPilot supported phone list before June 24, the official iPhone 4 release date, so that consumers can migrate the data at their own convenience using their personal computers,” said Hirouki Maruyama, President and CEO of Susteen, Inc.

DataPilot is the leading cell phone synchronization solution, which enables consumers to backup, sync and transfer mobile phone content with a computer. DataPilot and Mobile Genie currently support over 2,000 different handset models. For more information please visit www.susteen.com or www.datapilot.com.

Susteen, Inc. is an international design solution provider, specializing in the area of data communications and mobile computing. Susteen strives to enhance data communications through multi-level applications, and to develop products that provide convenience to the client through technological innovations. Susteen’s vision is to ascend to the position of worldwide dominant player in the seamless data management software industry through the ongoing enhancement of product quality and complete satisfaction of the stakeholders involved. Susteen is based in Irvine, California.

Guide to Using Emoji Icons on iPhone

The recent release of iPhone firmware 2.2 has one hidden feature – Emoji icons. In this article, I will show you how to use them in your text messages and elsewhere.

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Emoji is the japanese name for pictorial characters, smileys and emoticons. The characters are similar to the commonly used emoticons but Emoji contains over 461 icons. These icons are standardized and built into most japanese handsets.

Don’t be disheartened if you do not live in Japan. The iPhone 2.2 firmware update will allow anyone to take advantage and use emoji in their text, email and even tweets.

Emoji in Text Messages

To enable emoji in text messages, we need to enable the international keyboard. Go to Settings>General>Keyboard>International Keyboards>Japanese and enable "Emoji."

When typing a text message, tap on the globe icon and you will see the grouped listings of emoji available. There are pages upon pages of icons (461 icons in all) so "flick" sideways to navigate to the next page.

Wasn’t that easy?

Emoji Everywhere

You must be wondering if it’s possible to use emoji in your email, IM or Twitter updates. Well, the answer is YES!

Unfortunately, Apple has not enabled this and we need to do it manually. These are steps for a jailbroken iPhone.

SSH into your iPhone and navigate to User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist. Edit it using a PLIST Editor and create a new boolean string KeyboardEmojiEverywhere. Set the boolean to True.

Most people don’t jailbreak their iPhone so a workaround has been discovered. This is a slightly different implementation but people who desperately want emoji can give it a go!

Conclusion

Do realize that not all devices support emoji so don’t be surprised if your friends see a strange character on their phones.

Make sure you have a recent backup of your iPhone before fiddling around the filesystem. Both methods have been tried and tested so you shouldn’t encounter any problem.

Have fun with the emoji icons! I bet your colleagues and friends will be impressed and wonder how you did it.

Overview of iPhone Application Development

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IPhone is a smart phone designed and created by Apple Inc. that has an iPod, a tablet Personal Computer, a digital camera and a mobile phone features embedded in it. At present, among all the effective mobile phones in the technological world, the name of Apple iPhone comes on top.

With impressive features and functionality, the Apple iPhone has emerged as a boon in the world of communication. The iPhone has features like digital multimedia or media player, touch screen, a digital camera, Internet browsing, more internal hard-drive, networking capabilities and so on.

Within an extremely short time, the iPhone software or application development market has expanded a lot. There are various companies, which hire iPhone application developers to provide the iPhone software development applications or services to their clients. Also, the mobile and website developers are creating the iPhone enabled applications and websites as a part of iPhone application development.

The various advantages of developing iPhone applications or Apps are:

Keeps the customers up-to-date with the latest technologies.

The iPhone Apps Provides a large number of value added services to its customers.

Helps in promoting the businesses all over the world, thereby boosting up the product’s sales.

The iPhone Apps involves potential prospects into the business in a persuasive way for its consumers.

Provides back the investments with greater returns and high ROI.

Enable to watch movies and listen radio

Game players can play various games of their choice like puzzles, quizzes, war games, racing games and a lot more.

The iPhone Apps customers can access their customized application on the web and manage remote work with the help of iPhone Apps.

The iPhone Apps users can get the latest news with news applications.

The User of iPhone can access travel related information while traveling, weather related information and sports updates.

Moreover, socializing is also possible with iPhone’s social media applications.

Thus, in brief iPhone application development is beneficial for both its developers and users.