BGR has leaked a bunch of photos of a purported white T-Mobile USA iPhone 4 test unit. The internal model is N94 while the one on Verizon is N92 and the standard GSM one is N90. You can tell that it’s a test unit by the several field-testing settings and applications on the device.
Nobody can perform SIM unlocking procedures for AT&T, for example, or for any other networks that allowed unlocking a week ago. This is a normal thing to occur since tens of thousands of iPhone owners desperately rushed to have their terminal unlock as soon as possible. Eventually, it was proven that all this happened in an unofficial manner, therefore without Apple being aware of it.
Apple released a minor update to its iBooks e-book and PDF reading app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. iBooks 1.2.2 includes “important stability and performance improvements” that should make the app more responsive as well as fix a series of issues reported by users in the previous versions of the app.
Apple released iOS 4.3.2 a week ago which was supposed to solve the bugs seen in the iDevice especially ipad with the wi-fi issues. The famed Apple critic John Gruber of Daring Fireball believes that the much talked about tracking down of user’s location data on the iPhone is likely an oversight or a bug, which is mostly likely going to be fixed in the next iOS 4.3.3 / 4.4 update.
According to Reuters, Apple is ready to roll out a new cloud-based music storage service for iTunes users and plans to beat rival Google to the punch in the process. The article claims that Apple’s reason for the tardy launch of their cloud service is due to last minute discussions with major labels.
9 to 5 Mac have reported that Apple seeded select gaming developers with iPhone 4 devices featuring the new A5 dual-core processor. That processor can be found in the iPad 2. The graphics performance of the A5 processor is said to be as much as 9 times faster than its predecessor.
Last week many sites were claiming to unlock the iPhone remotely through IMEI number. The websites which offer remote IMEI unlock could not guarantee permanent unlock to users as promised. Veeence,of iPhone dev team confirms that Apple has the fixed the hole of their system which allows user to make requests for unlocks.
Apple has announced its earning of second quarter earning of 2011,Profit up 95%, $24.67 Billion in revenue. Apple sold 18.65 million iPhones in the second quarter compared to 8.75 million units in the same quarter last year and sold 4.69 Million iPads. iPod sales were down came in at 9.02 million units, down from 10.89 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2010 and 19.45 million last quarter. Revenue for the second quarter came in at $24.67 billion and Apple recorded $5.99 billion in profit, up 95% from $3.07 billion in the same quarter last year.