Author: Sajin Seethi

BGR has managed to get a notice issued by Apple to its employees asking them NOT to offer any free bumpers to those customers who has issue with signal reception on their phone. The recently launched iPhone 4 has been causing several signal reception issues to the customers. The new design of the phone puts the antenna into that stainless steel band running around the edges, so covering the black strip at the lower left corner makes the bars drop.

The notice reads like a script for the AppleCare folks. They have to tell people that gripping almost any mobile phone in certain places will reduce its reception. No warranty service, and escalate only if the trouble shows up when the phone is not being held. Then the line everybody is quoting, “We ARE NOT appeasing customers with free bumpers – DON’T promise a free bumper to customers.”

So the advice stays what Apple told us last week, avoid gripping that corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip, or simply use one of the many cases out there. Which means buying the Bumper yourself at $29. AnandTech put up their iPhone 4 review today and even they say Apple should be giving that bumper away with every phone sold. Will Apple change its mind?? Stay tuned.

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Finally the wait is over. Users across the world has been eagerly waiting for the iOS4 release and its finally here. It’s just been a few minutes since the update has gone live. Go connect your iDevice now to iTunes. Please Note:- –>You need iTunes 9.2 to upgrade your firmware to 4.0 –>iPad will not get this update today. Apple says iOS4 for the iPad is coming sometime in the Fall, no date fixed yet, so iPad owners have to sit this one out. –>Its free and works on the iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4 and the 2nd and 3rd gen iPod touch. –>If you are on a 3G or a 2nd gen touch, dont get too excited. Multitasking and custom wallpapers need atleast a 3GS or a 3rd gen touch.

Apple is counting over 100 new features plus 1500 new APIs for developers. The ones you’ll play with first are multitasking, folders (drag one app on top of another and it names the folder for you), a better Mail, deeper enterprise support and the new iAd platform. The build is 8A293, same as the Gold Master developers got.

While you are in iTunes, grab iBooks too. Its free and now runs on the iPhone and iPod touch, 9.2 will sync your books across, and it can open PDFs straight out of Mail. We are pulling it down here on a 3GS, first impressions coming soon. Stay tuned.

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Today Google announced an improved experience for writing emails on Gmail web interface for iPad. When you write an email you’ll now get a big full screen compose window instead of splitting the screen between your inbox and the compose view. More text is visible at once and there are no more distractions with messages on the side. Thats straight from Googles mobile blog, from Craig Wilkinson on the Google Mobile team. They’ve also fixed the problems that prevented scrolling on long messages, and they thanked everyone who reported that through the Send feedback option at the bottom of the screen. So yes, complaining does work sometimes!!

Now the catch. The new interface is only in US English for now, so if your Gmail is set to something else you’ll have to sit tight. Nothing to install either. Just open Safari on your iPad and go to gmail.com.

Google is calling this series The Iterative Web App and this compose window is the first item on it. They say they are still experimenting with the large touchscreen and tablet form factor and want more suggestions. Gmail only got its iPad look in early April when the iPad went on sale, so things are moving quick here. Stay tuned.

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With its sleek aluminum design, a removable bottom panel for easy access to memory, and a space-saving built-in power supply, Mac mini is pretty incredible. No matter how you look at it. Mac mini features an all-new, 1.4-inch-thin aluminum enclosure. It’s called the unibody — a seamless enclosure carved from a single, solid block of aluminum. Apple says thats 20 percent less system volume than before, mostly because the power brick is gone.

But look at the footprint. The old mini was 6.5 inches square and 2 inches tall, this one is 7.7 inches square, so it spreads wider on your desk. Not so mini anymore !!

Inside its a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of DDR3 you can take to 8GB through that bottom panel, a 320GB drive and NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with 48 processing cores, up to twice the graphics of the last mini says Apple. The two new ports are what got us excited, HDMI (an HDMI to DVI adapter is in the box) and an SD card slot. Theres four USB 2.0 ports now where the old one had five.

Price is $699, up from $599, and the Snow Leopard Server version with a 2.66GHz chip, 4GB and two 500GB drives is $999. Both are shipping now. Apple is also calling the $699 one the world’s most energy efficient desktop at under 10W idle, 25 percent less power than before. More soon, stay tuned.

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Finally Nimbuzz has heard us. Nimbuzz, one of the best multi chat client available in the mobile space did not shine well on the iPhone platform as it did on the Symbian platform. Some of the main reasons were: –> It was incredibly slow on iPhone 3G and iPod Touches except the third gen. –> It crashed far too often. –> And the sign in took ages.

Well, thats sorted now. Nimbuzz rolled out version 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch today, free as always. Andi from the Nimbuzz team says sign in and reconnect are much faster and the crashes some of you were experiencing are fixed.

The design got a polish too, new icons and a fresh look. The phonebook opens right from the keypad tab now, and theyve redone the keypad layout so typing numbers is easier. Best of all is the dual view for the contact list, keep the normal style with the big avatars or switch to a basic style with no avatars, which loads quicker. And you can change your email, phone number and password right from the settings menu now, and NimbuzzOut users can check their credit from the same place.

Nimbuzz is asking for suggestions in the comments, so if you were wondering whether they listen, they do. Go grab it !!

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When Apple announced the iPhone 4 with 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi or called it Retina Display, we didn’t really get it how much exactly that would be apart from the assumption that its got to be good. But when we saw these snaps posted on 9to5Mac, we really got blown away. What do you see in those pics ?? Robert Scoble took a snap of the iPhone 4 screen on June 7th, the day it was announced, with a professional DSLR and put it on Flickr today, and 9to5Mac posted it along with a new vs old shot. Even at that magnification the pixels look absolutely microscopic, and as they put it, you can try counting how many pixels fit across one line of a fingerprint. Then you look at the old iPhone next to it and like 9to5Mac says, what a difference some extra pixels make.

Now the numbers make sense. The 3GS packs 480 by 320 at 163 ppi, so the iPhone 4 has four times the pixels on the same 3.5 inch screen. Jobs said at around 300 ppi the eye cant make out individual pixels anymore, and he claims text will look like it does on a fine printed page. If you were wondering whether Retina Display was just another Apple marketing name, these snaps pretty much settle it. The phone ships June 24th, so expect more of these close ups soon. Stay tuned.

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Nokia Notifications gathers missed calls, voicemails, messages, and missed calendar alarms and presents them in one list for you to manage at your convenience. Adding the widget to your homescreen removes the need to acknowledge individual notifications that may otherwise get in the way of doing other actions on your device. The background of Nokia Notifications comes from the Nokia E-series phones and the way they show notifications at the bottom of the screen, and the team calls this a new and improved version of that for the N97 and N97 mini.

Thats the catch. Its the N97 and N97 mini only for now, and the missed calendar alarm bit needs device software newer than week 46 of 2009. Nokia say its a short trial to catch whatever bugs are left before the app goes up on Ovi Store, and all feedback is welcome but only the most critical items will be addressed. You have to be signed in at Beta Labs to download it.

The comments filled up the same evening with people asking where their phone is. E-series owners, 5800 XpressMusic, X6. A few also want it to show the next calendar item instead of saying no events, which sounds right to us. One user said they sacrificed their music widget to make room for this, so homescreen space is still the real problem here. We are installing it now, stay tuned.

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