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Because you can never have enough iPhone news... three more stories
While most of us at TUAW (in the US, anyway) are staring out the window, running down the clock to hit the lake or ocean or pavement in some manner, the intrepid bloggers of Engadget never take a vacation. Here are three* iPhone stories they posted today:Apple patent applications offer glimpses of haptic screens, RFID readers, fingerprint ID
Oh man, haptics on the iPhone would be so sweet, and finally give us a little more than annoying clicks when typing. RFID and fingerprints? Well, that I'm not so keen on.
Apple patching nasty iPhone SMS vulnerability
Good ol' security maven Charlie Miller poked into the soft underbelly of the iPhone and discovered a pretty gnarly SMS hack that could potentially have your phone activating GPS, the phone's mic, and other nastiness. Perfect setup for a Tom Clancy novel or totally scary vulnerability? Read the HotHardware piece and see for yourself.
iPhone facing potential trademark issues in China?
Yeah, who'd have thunk there would be a trademark dispute over the name iPhone in China, right? Funny thing is, Apple has a trademark on iPhone in China... just not on mobile phones. Oops.
[Thanks to the tipsters who sent these in a while ago, there's fresh beer in the fridge in the garage!]
*OK, four stories. MG Siegler over at TechCrunch has a linkalicious report on Facebook's upcoming new iPhone app featuring... video uploads! (gasp, applause, nausea, use as directed)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
joshuamarketis said 6:12PM on 7-02-2009
The iPhone isn't a mobile phone. It's a "mobile internet device" that happens to have a phone in it. Problem solved China :)
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Paul said 6:56PM on 7-02-2009
Ohh please this guy is getting annoying. Stories and not some kind of idiot blending and advertising its crap I don't think its a place on tuaw website ans pecialy more then several times the same sssss
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macboyinsf said 7:46PM on 7-02-2009
Speaking for myself ONLY. I do not want haptic on my iPhone. Is it really necessary? I guess if you can turn it on and off I can live with it. I guess some users just have to have it. I would be interested in other views on this. Is it a psychological thing or do people really believe things will work better with it?
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Dave said 8:13PM on 7-02-2009
Looking at the link about the facebook app, i cant believe that push notifications STILL isnt included, when i first see that push was coming, i was really excited about the possibility of not having to launch the facebook app just to see if i have any notifications or messages, or the ability to push a message to me via facebook chat.
grrr
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samu said 8:25PM on 7-02-2009
Man, be patient! From what I can tell, it's one guy working on the app under enormous pressure. I want push as well, but it's on the way. The new version of the app looks great, and I'd rather have what's ready now than wait till everything's finished. He's already worked his arse off to get video uploads in at the last minute.
In the meantime, you can get push chat notifications with Beejive or another Facebook-compatible IM app, and other notifications by setting up a free push email account with Yahoo!
Drifter71 said 8:56AM on 7-03-2009
Yeah, but is it FINALLY going to get landscape keyboard!
ErnieP said 9:59PM on 7-02-2009
Thanks, but I've had all the iPhone news I can take. It's getting so repetitive.
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gtdavemac said 2:44AM on 7-03-2009
Isn't that why TUAW has the "not iphone" button... to filter out iPhone posts? Yep.
cneisme said 10:05PM on 7-05-2009
Haptic sucks on every other device out today - we do not need that on the phone. It sucks battery life for little return. I hope it never makes it to the phone or if it does, it can be turned off. And please do not use a cheesy switch under the displace like some manufactures do!
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