Over the past few days, we have been audience to a number of rumors and speculations about Apple's upcoming product announcements.
With the Apple media event set to get underway at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco in less than a few hours from now, here is a recap of all the possible announcements that may be in store for us.
Apple has just announced that it will be live video streaming tomorrow’s special media event.
This is the first time after many years Apple will be live streaming a media event.
Apple is using HTTP Live Streaming to stream the event, which means that you will be able to watch the event live not only on your computer but also on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Bloomberg is reporting that according to ‘three people with knowledge of the plans’ Apple will be unveil the next generation Apple TV at the special media event tomorrow.
According to Bloomberg, the next generation Apple TV will offer Netflix – TV shows and movie streaming service.
Folks at 9to5Mac have discovered YouTube videos showing the 3 cm x 3 cm touch screen of the next generation iPod Nano and the digitizer of the next generation iPod Touch, which are expected to be unveiled at Apple’s special media event tomorrow.
We have already seen photos of the touch screen, third party cases and a mockup of the next generation iPod Nano.
Macrumors is reporting that an executive at Mexican carrier Telcel is claiming that Apple will release a revised version of the iPhone 4 by the end of September to address the highly publicized iPhone 4 antenna issue.
When Steve Jobs had announced at the iPhone 4 press conference that Apple will be giving a free case to all customers who had purchased an iPhone 4 only until September 30, 2010, it had raised some eyebrows.
CNET claims that Apple could be extending the duration of the iTunes music previews from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
According to CNET, their sources have told them that an announcement regarding this could be made during tomorrow's media event and that the move follows complaints about the present system not offering users enough time to preview a song.
Microsoft has finally announced that starting today Hotmail will support push email, calendar and contacts with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS).
Hotmail users will be able to sync their email, calendar, and contacts to their iPhone using Exchange ActiveSync. So any changes made on the iPhone will be reflected on the web interface, and vice versa.
We had reported last week that iOS 4.1, which is currently in its third beta includes a fix for the proximity sensor problem reported by iPhone 4 users.
While not documented by Apple in the release notes, some users had reported that after installing iOS 4.1 beta, the proximity sensor on the iPhone 4 is far more reliable.
According to a recent report on M.I.C Gadget, China Unicom, the official carrier partner for the iPhone and iPad in China, could be offering official jailbreak service to their customers.
The website has published pictures of promotional posters on display at a China Unicom store in Dongguan that reads:
“Support Service: Free SIM-trimming, jailbreak, installation of more than 10 hot apps.”
The simple ringtone hack that was discovered almost three years back still seems to work with the latest version of iTunes.
It is based on the fact that iTunes differentiates a song file and a ringtone by the file extension. While we all know that the song file extension was AAC; the file extension for ringtones is "M4R".
All you need to do is take an m4a file, which is DRM free and not more than 30 seconds, rename it to m4r and add it to iTunes.
