'third generation'

New MacBook Air shipments reach 400,000-500,000 in June

By: |Jul 21st, 2011 at 08:40PM
Filed Under: Computers, Rumor
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Suppliers already shipped between 400,000 and 500,000 units of Apple’s refreshed MacBook Air in June, and shipments aren’t expected to slow anytime soon according to DigiTimes. Reportedly, the high volume of shipments is expected to remain just as strong in July and August, and “series sales” could top 14 million units this year. Apple officially took the wraps off of its updated MacBook Air on Wednesday. It has the same form factor as previous models, but it now offers a Thunderbolt I...

Third generation iPhone goes for a spin in Hong Kong?

By: |May 31st, 2009 at 12:18PM
Filed Under: Rumor
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Here’s the scenario: Two guys hit the streets of Hong Kong at 3AM in their sports car and snapped a bunch of pics of the yet-to-be-announced third generation iPhone. Sure it sounds crazy, but crazier things have certainly happened. The shots of the next generation iPhone purportedly show off the auto-focus feature of the camera, shown above (note the blue box), which can apparently be fine-tuned by touching the object of interest on the screen. Also shown is the compass application, the new battery mete...

New iPhone OS hints at new iPhone

By: |Jan 29th, 2009 at 09:07AM
Filed Under: Rumor, Software
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No, it’s not exactly a mystery that the world can expect Apple to release the third iteration of its iPhone this Summer. A little hint of confirmation here and there never hurt anyone however, and it looks like Macrumors dug up a nice little morsel present in 2.2.1 and even earlier builds of 2.x firmware. A string of code refers to a new iPhone model, iPhone2,1, and identifies the new handset with product ID 4756 and vendor ID 1452. The current iPhone 3G is referred to as iPhone1,2 in firmware so this i...