Archive | September 11th, 2009
iPod Touch 3G teardown reveals spot for a camera
iFixIt was up to their old tricks today with their customary iPod Touch teardown. Not surprisingly, the internals reveal that Apple did indeed clear some room for a camera It appears that Apple left in room for a camera in the top of the device. There is a 6mm x 6mm x 3mm space between […]
Continue reading...“Flight Control” for the iPhone nets over 1.5 million downloads in less than 6 months
11. September 2009
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The popularity of the “Flight Control” app for the iPhone and iPod Touch has really taken off since its release last April. Bad puns aside, the game from the Melbourne, Australia based Firemint development studio has enjoyed almost unparalleled success in a relatively short period of time. Earlier this week, Firemint announced that their “Flight […]
Continue reading...More video footage from the iPod Nano
11. September 2009
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Check out this iPod Nano video footage of Bill Lonero straight shreddin’, courtesy of Jim Dalrymple of LoopInsight. Dalrymple notes that the new Nano “records video at 640 x 480 with millions of colors in the .mp4 H.264 format”, and at a framerate of 29.97 framers per second. And in case you’re curious, Dalrymple notes […]
Continue reading...Will a camera-enabled iPod Touch arrive by Christmas?
11. September 2009
Last we checked, the “new” iPod Touch’s have yet to hit any Apple Stores, and despite Steve Jobs assertions to the contrary, something’s afoot here. The most likely explanation is that cameras were, in fact, poised to be in the new iPod Touch models, but that quality issues forced Apple to readjust midstream and simply […]
Continue reading...iPod Nano teardown [Photos]
11. September 2009
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True to form, the folks at iFixIt wasted no time at all in ripping apart the new video camera enabled iPod Nano. Here’s what the front of the logic board looks like. Ohhhh…. ahhhh. And here’s what the entire thing looks like taken apart, bit by bit, and piece by piece. You can check out […]
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11. September 2009
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