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The next generation of iphone appears set to claim exclusive access to advanced graphics core and video decoding technology, thanks to a secret licensing deal between Apple, mobile graphics leader Imagination Technologies, and Samsung, the iphone’s ARM “system on a chip” manufacturer. The result may be an [...]

Apple has posted a new Knowledge Base article about iphone/iPod Touch backups that is definitely worth a read. The article describes when backups occur, the difference between syncing and backing up, and how to restore from backups. It also details the process for deleting unwanted backups:

“You can also use iTunes to create a backup of [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s acquisition of PA Semi appears to fit well into the company’s plans to pioneer the development of a new WiFi mobile platform with the iphone and iPod Touch. Apple is certainly not the only company to see the vast potential in mobile devices. The market for smartphones and mobile Internet devices is [...]

The latest build of iphone OS 2.0 (5a258f), now available to developers who have been accepted into Apple’s $99 iphone Developer program, includes a feature dubbed “Import SIM Contacts” that presumably does as its name implies, extracting contacts stored on the SIM and copying them to the iphone’s internal storage. Theoretically, this would allow SIM [...]

AT&T introduced a new Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for the iphone today developed with the help of representatives from the hearing and speech impaired community. The plan was developed for people who are deaf, hearing impaired or have another speech or hearing loss disability.

The cost of the iphone only TAP is $40.00 per month. TAP [...]

Rogers Communications, the largest wireless carrier in Canada, will soon be carrying the iphone. Atypically, however, the announcement comes directly from Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, with no co-announcement from Apple and scant detail. Rogers’ statement reads only:

“We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iphone [...]

We’d like to welcome David Martin to the iphone Atlas editorial team. David has more than 20 years of experience in the industry as a programmer, systems and business analyst, author, and consultant. He cut his teeth on the memorable Commodore PET writing in BASIC doing advanced things with the POKE command, learned assembly language [...]

Though it’s somewhat buggy and a significant drain on battery, a new unofficial application distributed under the jailbreak umbrella allows users to replace the static wallpaper (background) image on their iphones with dynamic videos in the .mov format.

In order to use this application, dubbed vWallpaper, use our guide to jailbreak your iphone and get it [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s acquisition of PA Semi does not signal an entirely new direction for the company. Throughout its history, Apple has designed sophisticated custom chips for use in its computers, in addition to codeveloping complete microprocessors. According to those in the know, it appears that after acting to jettison its internal custom silicon efforts [...]

The iPhone music is making the long trip across to Europe. How will it fare? That is anyone’s guess but if we can judge by the reaction in the US then ‘pretty well’ will be a good answer.
Carriers have been chosen to represent Apple with the iPhone  in the UK, Germany [...]