iPad By Davis: “Foundation Dock hits Kickstarter, a strong and flexible docking solution for iPhone” plus 11 more |
- Foundation Dock hits Kickstarter, a strong and flexible docking solution for iPhone
- Follow iMore on Twitter and win, plus your last chance at a bonus entry this month!
- Rumored new earbuds for rumored new iPhone caught on video
- Apple pushes out new, card-based iOS 6 App Store search interface
- Weekly Wrap: Final Draft, handcuffs, and other Apple news
- Labor Day Sales: Marware Offering 25% Off Sitewide, Including Some Great iPad Cases
- Hands-on impressions of iPhone 5 dummy unit
- TechHive: In praise of Carcassonne
- Best Free iPad App of the Week: iTunes Festival London 2012
- The Macalope Weekly: The sincerest form of jerkery
- 10,000 Comments and a Few Site Milestones
- Video of iPhone 5 dummy at IFA 2012
| Foundation Dock hits Kickstarter, a strong and flexible docking solution for iPhone Posted: 02 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT
The cradle can be used with or without a case and fully supports the weight of the iPhone in any position you choose. You can also get an in-car charging accessory which offers a 12-volt in-car charger which has been designed with a recessed USB port to keep the cable rigid and your iPhone rock solid in your car. Should the iPhone 5 arrive with the expected smaller dock connector, the Foundation Dock will also be available to support that too. The Foundation Dock is certainly a very interesting docking solution and unlike anything I have seen before. If that cable is as strong as it looks then it could be a really nice flexible docking solution or car mount. If you like the idea of the Foundation Dock, you can become an early adopter with a pledge of $45 or more to secure one cable and aluminium base should they make it into production. The Foundation Dock currently has around $10,311 of pledges and it needs to hit over $37,000 to gain enough to be funded; it still has 30 days to go. What do you think of the Foundation Dock? Could you see your iPhone sitting in one of these at your desk or in your car? Source: Kickstarter 
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| Follow iMore on Twitter and win, plus your last chance at a bonus entry this month! Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:50 PM PDT
Here's the deal -- you follow iMore on your favorite social networks, and we give you awesome accessory prizes... EVERY MONTH!All you have to do is follow iMore on Youtube, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook and as a thank you for doing so we're going to pick a lucky winner each month from among our iMore followers / subscribers / fans on each of these sites to win some great iPhone prizes! That's four winners each month - one picked at random from each site. All you need to do is click the links below to follow us on each site, and just keep following us! We'll pick our four winners on the last day of each month and announce them around the first day of the new month along with the prizes to be won for the new month. You can subscribe to all of Youtube, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook to maximize your chances of winning. This month we're going to help you keep rocking til the end of summer with awesome Bluetooth speakers! See the list below for links to the sites and the prize you could win on each one.
And don't forget to follow our sensational staff on Twitter -- they often have extra accessories and apps so you never know when they'll surprise you with something special -- @imore, @reneritchie, @GeorgiaTiPb, @llofte, @iMuggle, @chrisoldroyd, @bla1ze, (me!) @phishgirl3! We'll send out a reminder each week with ways to earn extra entries, so make sure to watch the blogs! Thanks for following, spread the word and good luck!! Twitter bonus entry!Looking to win a bonus entry on Twitter and an extra shot at the Mr Handsfree Blue Beat Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Speaker!? It's your lucky week! After you follow iMore on Twitter, send this tweet to your followers:
Winners for August will be chosen and posted early next week, when we announce the new prizes for September! Good luck! 
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| Rumored new earbuds for rumored new iPhone caught on video Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:50 PM PDT If the most recent of rumors are to be believed -- and yes, we're getting flooded with them these days -- Apple might be getting ready to release redesigned earbuds alongside the expected iPhone 5 and iPod refresh this fall. This according to tinhte.vn, which has gotten their hands on prototype Apple equipment in the past. Now, when it comes to the stock Apple earbuds included with every iPhone and iPod, there's little love lost between them and many users (including iMore staff. Inflexible, intractable, and just plain uncomfortable, they've been around since the early days of Apple's music business and seemed destined to remain around forever. But maybe not? Check out the video above and let me know -- what do you think of this design? Real, fake, or really fake? 
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| Apple pushes out new, card-based iOS 6 App Store search interface Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:08 PM PDT
Back at WWDC 2012, Apple promised a new look to the on-device App Store and iTunes Store in iOS 6. Details have been sketchy since then, but changes to the search algorithm, and rumors of Apple integrating their recent Chomp acquisition have persisted. Now Carlos Henandez posts that Apple has pushed out just such a Chomp-inspired update to iOS 6 beta testers. Now, when searching within the iOS 6 App Store, you reported sly a card for each search result (below). You can swipe horizontally, right or left, through the cards. This is in stark contrast to the vertical list view that's used now to display search results under iOS 5.
9to5Mac also reports that Genius and Purchased features have been turned back on, which hadn't worked previously under the beta iOS 6 software. Looking at the images, while the new card-style search layout is appealing from a visual standpoint, I'm wary about how functional it will be in real life use. It's more interactive but less visually dense. Instead of long list of apps on one screen, you now see only one app per screen. Instead of being able to quickly tap the seventh app on the first screen, for example, you'd now have to swipe through to the seventh screen to get to that app. The current list view is just as easy to scroll through, and much more efficient in presenting apps. The fundamental problem with the App Store has never been presentation but discovery. A fancy, full screen card does very little to help discovery. The current iteration of the App Store under iOS 5 worked fine for browsing. Unlike iTunes on a Windows or Mac PC, when mobile speed and efficiency are far more important than leisurely browsing through a slow, card-like view of apps. Instead of a smooth experience that allowed you to find what I was looking for quickly, the new version, if indeed it survives to the release version, seems slower if anything. More like CoverFlow in the music app, but unescapable even by switching back to portrait mode. What do you think of the new single-app-per-page view? Amazing, unboring refresh to the iOS interface, change-for-change's sake, or a setp backward? Source: Carlos Henandez, 9to5Mac 
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| Weekly Wrap: Final Draft, handcuffs, and other Apple news Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT  As inevitably as one second follows the next, you know that Macworld's Weekly Wrap will once again appear come week's end, offering up pointers to some of our biggest stories from the past seven days.
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| Labor Day Sales: Marware Offering 25% Off Sitewide, Including Some Great iPad Cases Posted: 01 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT
Holiday weekends always bring a number of great sales on iPad apps and accessories. EA kicked things off for this Labor Day weekend with their now-standard massive sales on their range of leading iPad games. Marware is one of the first big iPad accessory vendors I've seen with a major sale this weekend. They're offering 25% off everything at their site. This includes a number of impressive iPad cases – including the C.E.O. Hybrid for the new iPad, a great all-rounder sort of case. The Marware sale is already going on and runs until 11:59PM EST on 9/3.Check it out at the Marware site. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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| Hands-on impressions of iPhone 5 dummy unit Posted: 01 Sep 2012 09:16 AM PDT
Today at an undisclosed location in Berlin, Germany, Mobile Nations' own Alex Dobie and Richard Devine got some hands-on time with a dummy unit for Apple's next iPhone (iPhone 5,1). Dummies are mock-ups put together by accessory manufacturers to test product on in advance of actual hardware. Basically, they want to be ready to launch with the new iPhone, but they're left as much in the dark as anyone else outside of Apple. So, based on rumors, leaks, connections, etc. they build these dummies, which may be dead-on accurate, or dead-wrong. They confirm nothing more or less than a case-maker trusts them enough to build product based on them (which some did last year, and got it wrong to the tune of $10,000 in loses). With all that in mind, here's their report: While the unit we saw was non-functional, if this dummy is indeed accurate to the release hardware, it repeats several aspects of the product's design that have previously been reported based on parts and other leaks. The iPhone 5 dummy is approximately as wide as the current 4S, only taller, and sporting a widescreen display. There's a smaller home button underneath. The fake front on the Home screen sports five rows of icons on account of the extra real estate. As iMore reported earlier, there's a new, smaller Dock connector down below, in addition to a 3.5mm headphone jack. The bottom face of the design is peppered with a large speaker grille, alongside those other components. Around the back, there's a brushed metal rear panel decorated with a shiny Apple logo. Essentially, again, it looks like every leak we've seen over the past several months. The pictures we've seen from factory leaks and other sources are an almost exact match for the dummy device we saw today. While nothing with Apple is ever truly final until it's held up on stage, if this dummy is based on accurate information, does indeed look like we're in for a widescreen iPhone with a new dock connector and a redesigned chassis in just a few weeks. As iMore first reported, we're expecting a Sept. 12 announcement and a launch in the first wave of countries by September 21, with the second wave to follow on or about October 5. Update: Tons more on these dummies, and how widely they're available, in our previous post Image: GSM Israel News 
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| TechHive: In praise of Carcassonne Posted: 01 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT  Dan Moren loves the mobile adaptation of the Carcassonne board game and explains why over at TechHive.
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| Best Free iPad App of the Week: iTunes Festival London 2012 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:50 AM PDT
One of the best things about using an iPad is the great apps that we can run on it. There are excellent apps for just about any purpose you can think of. Better still, there are lots of great free apps for the iPad. Our Best Free iPad App of the Week posts celebrate these apps. This week's pick is iTunes Festival London 2012, Apple's companion app for the annual iTunes music festival – which is being held in London again this year. Here's a slice of its App Store description:
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| The Macalope Weekly: The sincerest form of jerkery Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:15 AM PDT  Samsung copied Apple? Pff! Whaa? Get out! Stop it! Go on!
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| 10,000 Comments and a Few Site Milestones Posted: 01 Sep 2012 07:35 AM PDT
Yesterday this site reached 10,000 approved comments. I'd been watching the site dashboard pretty closely for a few days as it approached this number, just because it's a big, round number and it feels like a solid number to have hit since the site launched in January of 2010. What I most like about the 10,000 comments number is that we have had such a very high percentage of useful, constructive comments. Quality comments and good discussion – and very, very few comments that are troll-like or nasty and attacking. I'm sure the quality of the comments enhances the quality of the posts here. While I'm here I'll quickly mention a few other site milestones that I feel quite happy about: – We've published over 3,200 posts – We now have over 20,000 followers on RSS and social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. – iPad Insight is on track for over 6 million page views this year. Huge thanks to all of you who visit the site and have made these milestones possible. Thanks for reading, thanks for sharing, and thanks for all your great participation in the comments. I have a ton of fun running this site, and I look forward to working harder at making this an enjoyable and useful place to visit for insight on all things iPad. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us
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| Video of iPhone 5 dummy at IFA 2012 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT We've seen case manufacturers put together dummy Apple products before, and while they're not always perfectly accurate, they can often be based on actual parts or specs smuggled out of the supply line. The above video was filmed at IFA 2012 and shows a quick hands-on with one such dummy, in this case an iPhone 5 by GSM Israel News. Take it as an approximation of what the iPhone 5 might look and handle like, but don't take it as anything more than that. The video shows the iPhone 5 dummy in an unmarked skin case. Once removed, it looks pretty much identical to the assembled parts leaks we've seen shown off previously, complete with iPhone identifier and markings on the back. It remains taller, with a 4-inch, 16:9 screen and a centered FaceTime Camera. And it remains primarily metal-backed, with RF-friendly glass sections above and below so it can connect to networks and other devices via cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The 3.5mm headphone jack remains at the bottom, and the new, miniaturized Dock connector is in full view. As is a curious little oblong between the rear, iSight camera and the LED flash. Update: Our own Alex Dobie and Richard Devine have now had some hands-on time with the iPhone 5 dummy live at IFA 2012. Here are their hands-on impressions:
Update 2: We've swapped out the Hebrew language video with the English version they've just posted. Enjoy. Update 3: digital.sina.com.hk may have scored some time with a similar unit. (Only one Home screen is shown in both pictures, so it's hard to tell if it's more than just another dummy/mock up/assembly.)
Update 4: According to HDBlog.it, mockups just like the above, which is apparently causing all sorts of fun over on the Chinese microblogs, aren't that hard to find in China. Translated:
September 12 is less than 2 weeks away. Thank goodness. Source: GSM Israel News, digital.sina.com.hk via @jameshilltaiwan, HDBlog.it 
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