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Seriously Apple, what’s up with the patent application bender? Over the past week, we’ve seen a whole gaggle of new apps, though the latest few just might be the most intriguing. In essence, Apple engineers have outlined plans to integrate object recognition, face detection / recognition, a text message filter (for the parents, you know) and a new, smarter messaging interface that could remind you of unread messages before allowing you to make a call and spout off unnecessarily. Moreover, we’re told of a new voice output selection that could enable Oprah or Cookie Monster to read your turn-by-turn directions, bedtime stories or recipes. Suddenly, iPhone OS 3.0 feels so… antediluvian.

[Via Unwired View]

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Read – Face detection application

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Apple dreaming of object identification, new messaging UI in iPhone OS patent originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, Apple — you know that inspiration you’ve been looking for in order to concoct a proper iPhone nano? We just found it. Over in some seedy warehouse in the depths of Shenzhen, the aptly titled iphone nano has emerged. As you could likely surmise, this completely improper knockoff gentle combines the best features from Apple’s iPhone and the iPod nano to create a singular, if not awkward device. Heck, there’s even a 5 megapixel camera, which easily trumps the 3.2 megapixel shooter on the iPhone 3GS. It’s all yours for just 90 bones, and you don’t even have to sign your cellular soul away to AT&T. Look out Apple, we get the feeling this thing’s going to be huge.

[Thanks, facelessloser]

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXI: Apple’s iPhone and iPod nano hook up, combine originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While Apple may have moved on to selling the 4th generation iPod nano, consumer protection agencies are still focused on gen-1. For good reason too, apparently, as there’s mounting evidence that those early white and black plastic players have a tendency to overheat, swell, and possibly burst into a nasty chemical fire. Responding to four formal consumer complaints made between December and June, the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards sent a request to Apple on June 25th recommending that Apple “aggressively” collects first generation iPod nano with Lithium Ion batteries made by the Chinese company ATL. Initially, Apple agreed to replace faulty units as they did in Japan upon request by the consumer. However, KATS is now reporting that Apple will recall the players under its own initiative making this the first formal iPod nano recall we can, uh, recall.

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Apple recalls faulty first generation iPod nano players in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s Mac shipments were up 25 percent in May, compared to only 1 percent growth for the rest of the PC industry, according to an analyst report.

Look Apple, your copy and paste feature is pretty intuitive and all but let’s face it, you’re late to the party. About two full software revisions late we’d say. And listing it as one of the “pretty incredible things” in your latest ad about the iPhone 3G S iPhone 3GS is kind of silly since it’s available on your previous models too. Maybe you’re just being ironic?

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Video: iPhone copy and paste is a ‘pretty incredible thing’… for 1999 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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