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The Loop is a silicone wristband for the sixth-generation iPod nano that promises to turn your device in a “high end timepiece.” Its sleek, stylish design does away with the unnecessary bulk and aims to showcase your iPod nano rather than drawing attention away from it.

Features:
- Comfortable silicone material
- Sleek profile design
- Full access to earphones, control buttons, and dock connector for charging and Nike + accessories
- Full access to multi-touch display
- Stainless steel buckle

You can purchase The Loop in Graphite, Black, Blue, Green, White, and Red for $19.99.

[via - iClarified]

The Wall Street Journal has just confirmed that Apple is indeed preparing to break away from its existing 3.5-inch panels in favor of a display measuring “at least 4 inches diagonally.” iPhones have been of the same 3.5″ panel right from the beginning when the first gen iPhone were launched way back in 2007. It’s going to be a different story for the next iPhone — often dubbed the “iPhone 5’, however, with “people familiar with the situation” claiming that Apple has already ordered screens of “at least 4 inches” from its Asian suppliers.

Production is set to begin next month for the screens, which measure at least 4 inches diagonally compared with 3.5 inches on the iPhone 4S, the latest phone from Apple, the people said. Manufacturers say Apple has placed an order for larger display screens for the next generation of iPhone. The WSJ’s Juro Osawa tells Deborah Kan about what’s in store for the new device.

The move suggests that Apple is trying to make its popular smartphone more appealing amid intensifying competition from rival Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea. Samsung, which became the world’s biggest cell phone maker in the first quarter, recently unveiled its new flagship smartphone with a 4.8-inch display, one of the largest smartphone screens.

A new iPhone with a larger screen wouldn’t necessarily mean that Apple is making changes to its products because of what rivals are doing, said Mizuho Investors Securities analyst Nobuo Kurahashi.

[via - WSJ]

This app usually costs 99cents but is free for a day. Give it a try if you trek occasionally. Heres the App Store link. Basically this Altimeter determines the height using a digital elevation model. ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) provides digital elevation data with an accuracy of ±10m. Alternatively, you can also only use GPS for height determination. The GPS altitude is less accurate.

Please note that ASTER only delivers the topographical elevation. Example: When ballooning, ASTER does not provide the height of the balloon, but the elevation of the underlying ground

Sometime back iLounge reported that Apple is seriously looking to move to a 4-inch display in iPhone 5 by just increasing the height of the screen and keeping the width the same as iPhone 4S. There is this website Ciccarese Design started by Macrumors which has shared some higher quality mockups of how this taller iPhone 5 might look like. Its pretty interesting:

Macrumors goes on to say that, increasing the diagonal measurement of the iPhone display from 3.5 inches to 4 inches while maintaining the same width as the current display adds approximately 11 mm (0.45 inch) to the height of the display. With iLounge’s report indicating that the new iPhone’s body will measure in at approximately 125 mm, which is 10 mm taller than the iPhone 4S, the spacing for the components above and below the display would remain roughly the same.

The mockup also shows a smaller dock connector as has been rumored by several sources, as well as a flat metal panel in the central portion of the rear shell of the iPhone, in line with iLounge’s claims.

Part leaks from iPhone 5 are beginning to show up, with component vendor SW-BOX.com having recently added a new headphone jack claimed to be from that very iPhone 5 device (via Cydia Blog). The new part joins a claimed micro-SIM tray that surfaced on the site several weeks ago and home buttons that appeared on several sites late last month.

The site claims the new component is compatible only with an “iPhone 5″ device, and claims the cable is “clearly for the new iPhone.” The component can be purchased for $7.71.

The same site showed off a SIM tray claimed to be from Apple’s next-generation iPhone earlier this month. That component sported subtle differences when compared to the SIM tray design found in the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4

If this part turns out to be legitimate, it will be a significant departure from the component organization in the current iPhone. In the iPhone 4 and 4S, the headphone jack, volume buttons, and mute switch are grouped together on a single component, while this new part associates the headphone jack with the earpiece speaker and Wi-Fi cabling.

It is not terribly unusual for Apple to tweak the organization of components, and the new part leak offers essentially no information on any potential changes to the device’s form factor, but with part leaks beginning to accelerate it may not be long before more substantial parts begin showing up.

Source – iMore

Run, jump and fight your way through a vast world to defeat the spreading corruption, is the new hack-n-slash fantasy RPG from Touch Foo. Swordigo is a well-designed, tightly-controlled game that is certain to appeal to any action or RPG genre fan. In fact, it’s almost a best-in-genre game, held back only by some highly derivative elements. Give it a try, here is the App Store link. Free for just a day.

A GREAT ADVENTURE
• Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.
• Gain experience and level up your character.

I discovered this interesting iPhone app called Echoer yesterday. With social networking chocking everyone with information and communication overload, one rarely stops and considers a new app that aims to ‘amplify’ thoughts and ideas. It solves the problem of working out which thoughts are worth hearing; elevating the most recent and popular content above the noise. And its been designed to allow you to easily make an impact, either by adding your own voice or amplifying others. Here is the App Store link, its Free.

Basically you are about to step into a restaurant for the first time and would like to learn about the best dish served in there, or perhaps what dish to avoid. Through Echoer, you can read thoughts of people sitting in that restaurant in real-time. This works for any physical location around you, be it the airport, subway, amusement park or a music fest in your town.

The developers behind this app has this say, “It solves the problem of working out which thoughts are worth hearing; elevating the most recent and popular content above the noise. And its been designed to allow you to easily make an impact, either by adding your own voice or amplifying others.”

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Death Rally is an action packed COMBAT RACER with GLOBAL MULTIPLAYER, STUNNING VISUALS and more than 10 HOURS of CARS, GUNS and EXPLOSIVE FUN. Usually costs 99cents. Give it a try. Here is the App Store link.

Race against incredible boss drivers like DUKE NUKEM. Upgrade and level up you cars and guns in a thrilling single player career mode or global multiplayer! Lock and load and enter the Death Rally, humiliate and destroy your opponents or sabotage the race. You choose how you win, NO TRICK IS TOO DIRTY!

Apple released a minor update to iOS for iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. ArsTechnica says that this update mostly fixes issues regarding taking HDR photos from the lock screen camera shortcut, occasional issues with streaming video over AirPlay, “Unable to Purchase” alerts, and more. But if you are running a jailbroken phone, you’ll definitely want to hold off, since this will ruin your jailbreak:

This 54.4 MB update includes: improved reliability for the HDR option when accessing the camera app from the lock screen and a number of other fixes for bugs affecting AirPlay video playback; the ability to switch between 2G and 3G networks on third-gen iPad; and, an “Unable to purchase” alert.

• Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut.
• Addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks.
• Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances.
• Improved reliability for syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List.
• Fixes an issue where ‘Unable to purchase’ alert could be displayed after successful purchase.

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Rope’n’ Fly 3 – From Dusk Till Dawn has become FREE for a day. Rope’n'Fly – From Dusk Till Dawn is basically a sequel to the Rope’n'Fly. Here is the App Store link to download.

Use your ropes to swing a destructible ragdoll from one skyscraper to the others. You have full control over your ropes, touch on a building to throw your rope there, touch again to release it and fly through the sky. Perform various kind of jumps to get achievements, attach to flying planes or ballons and try to beat your friends or all other players by competing with them for the best score.

Dailymail from the UK is reporting that according to a Korean press the next iPhone will appear in the summer and will have a 4.6-inch high-resolution display. Apple has already started to order panels of providers, says newspaper Maeil Business Newspaper , citing unnamed industry sources:

Korean sources are often reliable indicators of the likely form – and date – for upcoming devices, as Korean plants supply screens and processors for many hi-tech companies, including Apple. Apple has decided on the bigger 4.6-inch display for its next iPhone and started placing orders to its suppliers, the Maeil Business Newspaper said, quoting an unnamed industry source.

I still dont believe that Apple might resort to 4.6″ or even 4″ screen, if they do this will be a major change as till date Apple retained the screen diagonal of 3.5-inch from the phone’s launch in 2007.

iLounge shared some fresh iPhone 5 rumors which might come true. Jason Horwitz writes that the next-gen iPhone will come with a larger 4inch screen that will have the same width of 4S but a taller height sporting a new aspect ratio for the iPhone.

What we’ve learned: the new iPhone will indeed be longer and thinner than the iPhone 4 and 4S. Approximate measurements are 125mm by 58.5mm by 7.4mm—a 10mm jump in height, nearly 2mm reduction in thickness, and virtually identical width. According to our source, Apple will make one major change to the rear casing, adding a metal panel to the central back of the new iPhone. This panel will be flat, not curved, and metal, not ceramic. Our artist’s rendition provides a rough idea of what this change will look like; it echoes the current-generation iMac design, to be sure.

Check this mockup:

Horwitz goes on to say that the iPhone 5 make use of Gorilla Glass 2, a material which provides as much strength as the Gorilla Glass with a thinner form factor. The report also notes that Apple’s next iPhone will introduce a new and smaller dock connector.

Apple will also introduce its new Dock Connector on the new iPhone. The new port will be a little larger than the bottom speaker or microphone hole on the iPhone 4/4S. It’s believed to have fewer pins than the prior 30-pin Dock Connector, perhaps only 16, and the shape of the hole is apparently closer to a pill shape than the prior rounded rectangle. It will be used on all upcoming devices, including an update to the iPod touch that’s expected this year, and will almost certainly feature a similarly updated screen and CPU.

Lets wait for October 2012.. Yeppieee

Source – iLounge