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Check out a purported photo of the iPhone 5 battery (on the right) compared to the iPhone 4S battery courtesy of  the repair company iResQ.

Key differences between the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S battery:

1. The iPhone 5’s battery is slightly less than a half an inch taller than the iPhone 4S. The thickness appears to be identical.

2. The iPhone 5 is 3.8V/5.45Whr while the iPhone 4S is 3.7V/5.3Whr.

3. The connector on the iPhone 5 is not only different, it is placed on the opposite side of the battery to accomodiate its new position within the iPhone.

All Things D receives a statement from Apple:

The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we provided it to the FBI or any organization. Additionally, with iOS 6 we introduced a new set of APIs meant to replace the use of the UDID and will soon be banning the use of UDID.

Meanwhile the FBI also disavowed any involvement with the reported leak/theft of UDIDs:

The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs was exposed. At this time, there is no evidence indicating that an FBI laptop was compromised or that the FBI either sought or obtained this data.

The rumors were true, folks. Apple today sent out invitations for a special event for September 12 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10 am. It’s widely believed, if not all but guaranteed, that Apple will be taking the wraps off of the highly anticipated iPhone 5.

 via The Verge

The Japanese website iLab has posted an additional photo of what the iPhone 5 might look like built from an assortment of scattered leaked parts. Below is what the white iPhone 5 may look like and we gotta say that it looks unbelievably sleek.

But also note that the industrial design – notably the silver bezel on the outside – doesn’t exactly jibe with earlier photos posted by iLab a few weeks ago. Also note that the photo above has black strips on the top and bottom of the device where the antennas are located whereas previous photos suggested white strips. We think the photo above is much more elegant.

But hold, folks. There’s more.

The French language Mac site NowhereElse recently posted a photo via iColorOS which purports to show what the iPhone 5 form factor looks like measured up against the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G. So clearly we can look forward to something much thinner, sleeker, and of course, taller on account of the device’s larger screen.

FOSS Patents reports that Apple has made a few filings in its two federal lawsuits against Samsung in the Northern District of California wherein they are seeking to get the Galaxy S III, the Galaxy Note, and the Galaxy Note 10.1 added to the list of Samsung products it’s looking to get a preliminary injunciton for.

The addition of the S III is a formality. Apple already tried to add the S III to the preliminary injunction motion targeting the Galaxy Nexus, but thought it prudent to refrain from an assertion that could have complicated that particular process and possibly even delayed the trial of the earlier lawsuit. It was always clear that outside the preliminary injunction process, the S III was going to be a issue in this lawsuit since it was launched not long after the filing of the complaint, making a timely amendment of the list of accused products an option that Apple definitely going to choose.

Check out the full story over here.

Might you be looking at Apple’s revamped headphones?

The photos emerged from a blog post and video (since removed) with the translation of the video reading as follows:

In my hands are the new earphones for the iPhone 5 that is about to come out – Apple’s next generation of iPod [sic]. These will replace the current earphones that are on the market. These are manufactured at Phax Co factory in Vietnam. They have the appearance of a horse’s head, not like earbuds. When they are worn, they have a much smaller profile. They have the appearance of a fully integrated, single unit – there’s no part that looks like it would come apart – not like earbuds; the integrated design is characteristic of Apple products. Here I have the old earphones for comparison. The new ones are much smaller; when they are worn, they do not hurt the way earbuds do. You can see on the old ones the surface is a separate part that looks like it can be detached – not like the small surface of the new one. The old earphones were mostly made in China, with some in Vietnam. But the new ones are clearly made in Vietnam. (Reading from the wires): “Designed by Apple in California, assembled in Vietnam.”

Interesting design, to be sure, and given that I can’t stand/wear Apple’s current headphones, hopefully these will be a lot more comfortable.

via MacRumors

Apple’s legal efforts against Samsung in the US have clearly been going well, but with ongoing battles in jurisdictions at all corners of the globe, not everything is turning up in Apple’s favor these days.

This past Friday, a court in Tokyo ruled that Samsung’s accused products do not infringe upon Apple’s patents regarding the syncing of mobile devices and computers.

“We welcome the court’s decision, which confirmed our long-held position that our products do not infringe Apple’s intellectual property,” Samsung explained in a statement to the press.

Good news for Samsung, but that of course pales in significance to the $1.05 billion judgement in Apple’s favor handed down by a jury last week. Samsung has vowed to appeal and fight the ruling, but their cowboy stance wasn’t enough to prevent shares of the company from dropping rather precipitously last week when Samsung shares fell by nearly 7% in early morning trading, representing the company’s largest one-day decline in nearly four years.

In other Samsung/legal news, the South Korean company has reportedly promised to sue Apple immediately the second they release an iPhone model with 4G LTE functionality. And with the iPhone 5 launch date rumored for September 21, it stands to reason that the legal fire between Apple and Samsung will keep on burning for the foreseeable future.

via Reuters

A new report is claiming that heretofore unreleased iMac models have begun showing up in Geekbench benchmarks. The rumored iMac, with the model noted as iMac13,2, reportedly comes with a quad core Intel i7 clocked at 3.5GHz.

A similar model of iMac with more memory also showed up in late July with a score of 13,405, but this model was equipped with 16GB RAM, whereas the model that was tested yesterday had 8GB RAM. The new iMac13,2 benchmark was also conducted on an iMac running OS X 10.8.1, the latest public release of Mountain Lion, whereas the previous benchmark was conducted on a machine running OS X Lion 10.7.4. One other difference was the memory clock speed, with the memory on the latest benchmark running at 1333MHz compared to the previous benchmark which showed memory at 1600 MHz.

It’s been quite a while since Apple revamped its iMac lineup – May 2011 to be exact. It was then that Apple upgraded its desktop Macs to include Intel’s quad-core Sandy Bridge processors and highspeed Thunderbolt ports.

So when might we see an all new iMac hit the scene?

Well about two months ago reports emerged claiming that mass production on brand new iMacs was set to commence sometime during the Summer with an anticipated launch window penciled in for October.

As for an iMac with a Retina Display, we might have to hold out on that one. Retina Display’s aren’t cheap, especially when we’re talking about 21.5 and 27-inch screens. Further, Instapaper developer Marco Arment heard through the grapevine that Apple’s 2012 iMac lineup won’t be graced with the Retina Display treatment, a sentiment that has been echoed by other industry analysts.

via AppleBitch

Following a report that Sharp was struggling to get its iPhone 5 display production up and running, it now appears that Apple may have learned its lesson. Bloomberg is reporting that when it comes to Apple’s anticipated iPad Mini, the Cupertino-based company has tapped LG and AU Optronics to provide the displays.

Apple will use screens from AU Optronics Corp. and LG Display Co. for a smaller version of the iPad to be released in October, according to four people familiar with the plans. TPK Holding Co. and Yeh Cheng Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, will supply the lamination coating for the device that will measure 7.85 inches diagonally, said the people, who declined to be identified because the plans haven’t been made public…

Offering a smaller tablet may help Apple hold onto share of a market it dominates in the face of new devices from Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The orders will mark the first time AUO, a maker of panels for Apple’s MacBooks and Sony Corp. TVs, is supplying screens for Apple handheld devices.

While some initially believed Apple would be announcing its new iPhone and a new iPad model at the same event in September, recent reports suggest that the iPad Mini will be the recipient of its own event sometime in October.

“With a new iPhone and a new, diminutive iPad in the pipeline, Apple has two opportunities to commandeer the tech news cycle ahead of the annual holiday shopping binge and it’s going to take them both,” All Things D reported just a week ago.

With Apple’s expected iPhone 5 unveiling just days away, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sharp, one of the three companies Apple has tapped to produce iPhone 5 displays along with LG and Japan Display, hasn’t begun the manufacturing process yet.

Sharp, a major supplier of liquid crystal displays to Apple, had planned to start shipping iPhone screens by the end of August, the people said, but mass production has been delayed in part by manufacturing difficulties. It remains unclear when the company can start shipping the LCD panels, one of the people said.

It’s worth noting that Sharp had also delayed shipments for the screens used in the iPad 3 (oh woops, I mean the latest iPad) and that this did not have any discernible affect on iPad availability.

Remember that the iPhone 5 will reportedly utilize in-cell touch technology which will result in a thinner screen. The in-cell touch technology works by integrating the touch sensors into the LCD panel itself, thereby removing the need of having a separate touch-screen layer. The end result is a thinner screen and higher quality imagery as well. But as the Journal notes, in-cell touch panels are “more difficult to mass produce compared with conventional LCD panels.”

With a rumored 4-inch screen and 4G support, the iPhone 5 – rumored to launch on September 21 – is poised to be Apple’s most successful iPhone yet.

And below is a video of assembled iPhone 5 parts purporting to show what the finished product may very well look like.

via WSJ

Marco Arment, of Instapaper and Tumblr fame, found a few interesting device data strings show up in his stat logs the other day. One was for an iPad2,5 while the other was for an iPad2,6.

As a quick refresher, when Apple introduces a major product revision, it increases the first number by a factor of one. For minor revisions, the second digit is increased by a factor of one. So are what are we to make of the iPad2,5 and iPad2,6 data strings?

Arment writes:

The much more likely explanation is that iPad2,5 and iPad2,6 are the new “iPad Mini” in Wi-Fi and GSM, and I haven’t recorded the likely iPad2,7 CDMA version yet.

If so, this suggests that the iPad Mini is, effectively, an iPad 2: an A5 with 512 MB of RAM and enough GPU power to drive the Gruber Display, but not a Retina Display.

It’s a textbook Tim Cook supply-chain move: selling the last generation’s hardware at a lower price point to expand marketshare.

But this time, it’s more dramatic. Rather than just sell the original iPad 2 with a price cut, they’ve made a new product designed to be far less expensive from day one by combining old and new parts: the 32nm iPad 2’s guts, larger-cut iPhone 3GS screens, a smaller case and battery, and the new iPhone’s low-power LTE chip for $100 more.

This is all speculation, of course, but I’m convinced: like the leaked Dock connector, this move is so ingenious that it’s most likely to be what Apple has really done.

Not a bad prediction at all.

Eduardo Saverin, one of four Facebook co-founders, famously sued Mark Zuckerberg years after the social networking site went mainstream – a point later popularized by Aaron Sorkin’s film “The Social Network.”

But way back in the day, when Saverin was still acting CFO and business manager of the company, the Brazilian born was tasked with pitching Facebook as a legit advertising medium to advertisers.

Earlier this week, Digiday published a number of slides Saverin used back in 2004 in an effort to sell ads. At the time, Facebook had 70,000 users at about 20 colleges.

Below is the media kit Saverin was using to pitch potential advertisers that spring, obtained from a New York-based marketer he met with personally. Saverin was asking for ad commitments of around $80,000 for targeted display ad placements that would reach “thousands” of users.

Check out the full pitch over here at DigiDay.

http://www.digiday.com/platforms/how-eduardo-saverin-sold-facebook-ads-in-2004/