Apple has released a new iPhone 3G S ad just before Christmas called 12 Days of Xmas. It shows 12 apps that range from card sending, to cooking, gift sending and other such holiday traditions. It ends with an app that can light up your Christmas tree. Now, that is cool!
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The purplesn0w unlock for iPhone 3G S is finally available now by George Hotz. Here are the instructions to unlock your iPhone 3G S:
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Video recording and auto focus equipped 3.2 MP camera in iPhone 3G S are the main reasons why people are upgrading to it. Video editing is built in the iPhone OS, and it also opens up video capture for other applications. iPod Touch seems to have been left far behind. But, TechCrunch has gotten some information from their sources in Asia:
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Facebook announced their new app for iPhone, version 3.0 with a hefty feature list. Missing in the list was video capture and upload. Joe Hewitt, a Facebook employee working on the iPhone app tweeted a day after, that video uploading has been implemented in the new Facebook iPhone app – but there’s a catch. You won’t be able to watch your friend’s Facebook videos yet on the iPhone because Facebook videos are encoded in a very high bit rate which the iPhone doesn’t play. This might change in the future though, either through updates to the iPhone OS, or changes made by Facebook to encode videos in an iPhone compatible bit rate.
Even without the playback, it’ll be great to use your iPhone 3G S to record and upload videos directly to Facebook. Expect the new app to appear in the App Store this summer.
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The first ever iPhone 3G S Jailbreak application has finally been released by Geohot. It can be downloaded at http://purplera1n.com/. Keep in mind that it wont work in Vista or in Vista 64 bit either. You’ll have to change the compatibility settings to XP.
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Apple has seeded iPhone OS 3.1 to developers for testing and development purposes. The main improvements in this update are:
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The biggest reason to upgrade to the new iPhone 3G S is obviously its new 3 megapixel camera with video capture. Video is recorded at a good 30 fps VGA resolution. This is the perfect resolution to publish videos on Youtube. Along with the built in video editor, and one click share via email, Mobile Me, MMS or Youtube, iPhone 3G S will really raise the bar for video recording on mobile devices. Even though Apple is really late at video recording for the iPhone, but they sure have done it in the best style.
But just how good are the videos recorded by the iPhone 3G S? As I was wondering this myself, TechCrunch posted on why the iPhone 3G S should have been called iPhone 3G V for its video recording features. Here’s a video they’ve put up that shows off the video quality:
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