Apple field testing iPhone 4 for T-Mobile USA

BGR has nabbed a bunch of photos of a purported white T-Mobile USA iPhone 4 test unit. The phone looks virtually identical to the current iPhone 4 and runs a version of iOS 4. You can tell that it’s a test unit by the several field-testing settings and applications on the device. The device is obviously a prototype unit, not a production model, and that is evidenced by the prototype markings on the back of the device. There is no information on a release time frame or if Apple is going to release this thing to customers at all, but be sure to check out all 26 photos in the gallery.

Did Apple cut owners of decade old G3 Macs out of the iTunes Store?

A reader tipped us that Apple may have cut older versions of iTunes that are compatible with G3 Macs out of the iTunes Store. The iTunes Store used to work fine on iTunes 8.2.1, our tipster writes, but as of recently the store would refuse to open. Even though the jukebox software continues to operate normally on these machines, clicking the iTunes Store in the lefthand column puts up a warning to upgrade to iTunes 10, as seen in the above image. Our tipster explains:

Trying to go to the store’s home page, or searching the store, simply brings this page up again, although the ‘My Account’ page (accessed by clicking your email address in the top right) works fine.

While both iTunes 9 and 10 work on G4-powered Macs, they marked the end of the road for owners of decade old G3 Macs. iTunes 8.2.1, which can still be downloaded from Apple’s site, is the last version that supports G3 processors. “Looks like I’ll be using Amazon MP3 in the near future”, our tipster wrote. Of course, this could also be some kind of a temporary glitch. Is there anyone out there with a G3 Mac and iTunes 8.x who can corroborate this finding?

Facebook For iPad Is Coming, But Not Today

Today we have got some good new from Facebook, after Mark Zuckerberg event "launch something awesome" we all concluded that it will be a Facebook app for iPad will be coming, but we have got some news from TechCrunch Skype integration within Facebook is mostly likely on the agenda for today :

Given that news has already leaked out, it’s certainly possible that Facebook could surprise with talk of their iPad app or new Photos experience as well.

But until now we haven't any news except that Facebook for iPad is coming soon but not Today, so we are going to make you update with the latest news and updates as Facebook app for iPad is coming soon, Stay tuned.

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SpeedClock:The First iPhone Speed Radar [App]

The first and the most famous tweak you will ever see that records any car speed by using your iPhone video camera, just hold your iPhone camera and began recording, looks interesting right ? yeah SpeedClock tweak will record for you any moving object in the streets, also the developers behind SpeedClock have just update it and added some new features, like you now can record small fast objects like balls, the tweak is working for iPhone 3GS/4, iPad 2 and iPod Touch 4G.

speedClock feature Highlights:

* Accurately measure speed in m/s, km/h, mph, ft/s or knots
* Calculate and display distances in meters or feet
* Video motion-sensing automatically measures speed
* Sensitivity controls for optimal measurement in difficult conditions
* Carry a miniature radar gun and range finder in your pocket

Really you must try it on your iOS device, you can get SpeedClock from the App Store for $0.99, enjoy :)

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iOS 5 devices now transmit Album/Track/Artist data to Bluetooth Audio Devices

Yet another wonderful little feature of iOS 5: Now when you are sharing music (with your car audio for example) over Bluetooth, your iOS device transfers the album, track and artist data as well as the digital audio to the receiver for display

Audio equipment, like the Prius above, that can display this information now will. Excellent. Video below!

Thanks Tony and your Prius!

Apple updating server lineup as Mac Pro and Mac mini server supplies constrain

It looks like the next month or so is shaping up to be a fairly busy month for the Mac. In addition to OS X Lion, our sources are already expecting new MacBook Airs and Time Capsules fairly soon – due to supply shortages and now Mr. X tells 9to5Mac that Apple’s Mac mini Server and Mac Pro Server are constrained with no shipment date yet in place for new models.

With Apple pushing Thunderbolt and speedy Sandy Bridge processors into their iMacs and MacBook Pros earlier this year, it would be a safe bet that Apple’s next server products will feature Sandy Bridge Processors and Thunderbolt I/O to boot. The interesting part about both the Mac Pro and Mac mini server models become constrained simultanously is that Apple might be looking to completely revamp their server offerings, not just update each respective product.

Apple is currently prototyping a new Mac tower that is smaller than the Mac Pro. This could either be the next-generation Mac Pro or even Apple’s next flagship server offering. In addition, Apple discontinued the Xserve last year.

Concurrently, Apple’s Airport Extreme and Time Capsule supplies are still constrained. Perhaps those two products have something to do with Apple’s future server offerings. On the other hand, Apple also sells non-server versions of both the Mac Pro and Mac mini. That being said, the servers being constrained could be signs of the standard models being contained soon, too. In that case, Apple may just be pushing out new Mac Pros and minis. This might be the more likely case.

Surprise: iOS 5 bumps up video exports in apps from 720p to 1080p

Media framework strings in iOS SDK have added a new 1080p video export preset

In addition to the newly discovered ability to render 1080p videos on A4-powered devices by scaling down high-definition content on-the-fly, a tipster pointed out that the iOS 5 software development kit ups the maximum resolution for video exports from 720p all the way up to 1080p. The iOS 5 media framework now rocks a new video export option: A 1920-by-1080 full HD preset. Previously, programmers calling system APIs were only able to export video content in 720p. The change has been spotted in export preset strings of AVAsset, an abstract class of AV Foundation framework which has been around since iOS 4.

Programmers use the AVAsset class to work on a detailed level with timed media assets such as videos and sounds. It lets them examine, create, edit or reencode media files, get input streams from devices, manipulate video clips during realtime capture and playback and more. It is now clear that iOS 5 enables devices such as iPhone 4, iPad 1 and 2 and fourth-generation iPod touch (all powered by the A4 chip) are now able to both decode and encode 1080p content. This completes the picture and is another indication that the rumors of an eight-megapixel camera with 1080p video capture on iPhone 5 are likely true because there is no point in iOS 5 supporting 1080p video exports if users won’t be able to acquire full-HD content on their iPhone 5.

iOS 5 can render 1080p videos (try this out by emailing yourself a short 1080p clip) and third-party apps are no longer limited to exporting video files in 720p