iPod Touch News
By dennis
October 16th, 2007 at 08:50pm
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A big argument is going on at the moment between Apple and wildlife defenders Greenpeace. The subject? Apple iPhone being toxic or not, reports our sister site iPhone World.
According to a Greenpeace report iPhone headphones cables appear to have 1.5% level of Phthalates (Wiki) — a toxic substance used in nail polish, caulk, adhesives, or other miscellaneous items that you’d normally not ingest.
But an Apple spokesperson said in response to this matter that “Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [Restriction of Hazardous Substances], the world’s toughest restrictions on toxic substances in electronics. As we have said, Apple will voluntarily eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008.”
At the same time it’s unknown whether the Apple iPod Touch, which should normally have the same headsets and internal components as the iPhone is suffering from the same problems, since not Greenpeace, nor no one else bothered to test it.
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By dennis
October 15th, 2007 at 11:48pm
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To all those concerned with iPod Touch models’ future: analysts from iSuppli predict that Apple will have sold 66 million units of iPod Touch and iPod Nano models within 2 years.
According to iSuppli’s projections, Apple will ship 20 million iPods of these two models by the end of the year.
At the same time, next year the same iSuppli expects an increase in demand for these models, yielding additional 40 million sold units for Apple in 2008.
iPod Touch is expected to be a hot selling item this holidays season, largely in part due to the fact that iPhone provided sufficient hype for touchscreen technology. Considering that not everyone wants to trade in his current phone for a contract with ATT, iPod Touch could become very popular as an alternative to the iPhone or an older generation iPod.
Thanks: Yahoo
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By Patrick
October 11th, 2007 at 11:48pm
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Apple released the new WebApps library/catalog today, as was earlier reported by iPhone World, adding a new listing of web apps optimized for the iPod Touch and iPhone. And though people were hoping for added support for 3rd party apps, or a wider welcome to them at the least, nothing new of the sort came out.
The new WebApps update is apparently just a listing, nothing more, of iPod Touch and iPhone optimized web-based apps. There is no added support for native apps that work outside the Safari browser. Apple’s iPodTouch/iPhone WebApps listing is located at www.apple.com/webapps.
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By Patrick
October 10th, 2007 at 11:45pm
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Although Apple took extreme measures to lock out third party iPhone/iPod touch native programmers with the recent firmware v1.1.1, the #iPhone-dev iPhone programmer-hackers’ community has already cracked the “almost unbreakable” iPod Touch OSX file system; though it remains to be seen whether these iPod Touch jailbreak hacks work fully or not.
As it was mentioned before, Apple iPod Touch is essentially based on the same hardware and can run the same third party native programs as the Apple iPhone, but the recent iPod Touch firmware upgrade took this ability away.
After hundreds of hours of work invested into this, #iphone-dev folks came up with two ways to jailbreak the v1.1.1 firmware iPod Touch devices:
#1: (earlier released hack) is done via a TIFF image file exploit in current Safari version (and people don’t like hackers for some reason….). This was tested and proved to be working with Apple iPod Touch.
#2: (latest hack) is via a native program that one needs to upload onto his iPod Touch. We could not independently confirm whether this method works with all iPod Touch devices.
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By dennis
October 10th, 2007 at 02:18am
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In tonight’s, October 10, 2007, Late Night iPod Touch Reading clipping of notable iPod Touch related articles from other news sources:
- Review: iPod touch with 1.1.1 update @ Playlist
When the iPod touch (3 mice) was first released, some models offered very dark or out-of-contrast video performance. But even touch models that did not have display problems couldn’t match the brightness and clean contrast of the iPhone. Apple released the iPod touch 1.1.1 update that fixed the former problem, but, regrettably, not the latter.
- Is iPod’s Hard Drive Days Numbered? @ BusinessWeek
But now evidence is mounting that hard drive-based iPods may be on their way to extinction. At least that’s one conclusion you might draw from an analysis of the components inside the latest iPod classic (the sixth iPod model to feature a hard drive) by market research firm iSuppli.
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By Patrick
October 9th, 2007 at 10:28pm
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MacNN reports that the first store to sell the iPod Touch in Japan yielded roughly 100 people standing in a line outside the doors waiting to get their gadget fix. The first person there was, is a man that arrived at 1:30 AM local time, waiting until 10AM to finally get in and buy one.
If this is any evidence of the Apple iPod Touch’s popularity, it’s quite possible it could sell out in both Japan and China, which are countries where a gadget has to be special to guarantee similar hype.
Thanks: MacNN
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By Patrick
October 9th, 2007 at 10:19pm
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As it’s known, the Apple iPod Touch, the iPhone-like touchscreen Wi-Fi version of the iPod media players family, is lacking in several features like image syncing, notes, lack of games, disk mode, and the ability to add or edit calendar entries.
Apparently, a MacRumors forum-goer named DavidJearly directly emailed Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO and head-honcho. Although not answering all of David’s questions about the previously mentioned lack of features, he did supposedly make a comment on the calendar features not working correctly as well as reasons as to why there are no games. Here shown is the email:
David,
Nothing can be done about the games. The new iPod touch is a completely different animal inside than the old iPods and the games just don’t translate. The inability to edit and add calendar events is a bug that will be fixed in a future software update.
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By Patrick
October 9th, 2007 at 09:41pm
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Previously, the iPod Touch had been locked by the latest firmware update (v1.1.1) and sent all hacking attempts back to the beginning. Though the new gadget as well as the iPhone had gotten this hardening treatment, they’ve both been broken in short order, albeit by very specific hacks.
A part of the dev. community, Niacin, over at Toc2rta, has managed to break the latest firmware’s grip on hacks. Using a TIFF exploit, he’s managed to expose the root partition using the symlink hack.
Not only has this affected the iPhone, but the iPod Touch as well. This is the same type of hack that was shown over at our sister site iPhone World, by TUAW.
Thanks Hackintosh
Overall, despite the next patch (due to how the hack is done) reverting all this work to square one, it doesn’t seem to be keeping many people away.
Thanks: TUAW
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