iPhone Live 176: iPhone 4S

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Rene, Seth, Leanna, and Matthew from TheNextWeb.com talk Cingleton, iOS 5 redux, and then dive into iPhone 4S, the launch, Siri, that new camera, and the Apple A5 chipset. This is iPhone 4S Live!

Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)

Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)

Leanna Lofte (@llofte)

Matthew Panzarino (@mpanzarion)

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Instapaper for iPhone and iPad receives makeover

Instapaper, the popular iPhone and iPad app that saves online material for offline reading, has been updated to 4.0. The interface has been complete redesigned, there is a new search subscription available for searching for the full contents of every article you’ve ever saved, and much more!

Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don’t have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you’re commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.

Here’s the update notes:

Instapaper is available on the iPhone and iPad for $4.99.

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Mobile Nations Monday Brief for October 17, 2011

CTIA Enterprise & Apps 2011 from San Diego! Ice Cream Sandwich statue arrives on Google campus [updated with video] HTC Amaze 4G Hands-On	RIM suffers Global BlackBerry outage – Get all the details here Will RIM allow themes for QNX devices or are those days over? Gameloft unleashes six new BlackBerry PlayBook games in BlackBerry App World
Android Central Podcast CrackBerry.com Podcast PalmCast Podcast WPCentral Podcast iPhone Event Preview & iPad Live Podcast	HP leaning towards un-spinning-off PSG Bing Maps update brings Enyo support to the webOS masses, Troy impressed by giant wooden horse CyanogenMod 7 enjoying dual boot Android alpha glory on TouchPad
iPhone 4S: Everything you need to know iOS 5 for iPhone and iPad walkthrough iPhone 4S Forum	ChevronWP7 Labs unlocker a few weeks from launch, new details released Microsoft’s giving away Windows Phones to those frustrated with BlackBerry Andy Lees talks dual-core CPUs and 4G LTE

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Apple sells four million iPhone 4S in three days

Apple has announced that they have sold four million iPhone 4S handsets in the first three days of sales, doubling the sales figures of the iPhone 4 in the same period.

“iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “iPhone 4S is a hit with customers around the world, and together with iOS 5 and iCloud, is the best iPhone ever.”

In addition Apple has also announced that 25 million users have upgraded to iOS 5 and 20 million of them have signed up for iCloud as well.

Full press release below. Did you expect it to sell this well? Were you one of the 4 million who got an iPhone 4S this weekend? Or if you took a pass and thought it was going to be a flop, what are your thoughts now?

iPhone 4S First Weekend Sales Top Four Million

CUPERTINO, California—October 17, 2011— Apple® today announced it has sold over four million of its new iPhone® 4S, just three days after its launch on October 14. In addition, more than 25 million customers are already using iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, in the first five days of its release, and more than 20 million customers have signed up for iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free cloud services that automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices. iPhone 4S is available today in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK, and will be available in 22 more countries on October 28 and more than 70 countries by the end of the year.

“iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “iPhone 4S is a hit with customers around the world, and together with iOS 5 and iCloud, is the best iPhone ever.”

iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

Samsung seeks to ban iPhone 4S in France and Italy

The Samsung-Apple relationships is a classic example of a love-in-hate tech relationship. Both firms do a lot of business with each other and Apple is Samsung’s most important client, but both firms also are fierce competitors, battling it out in the very same markets. Up until recently, the relationship was based on mutual benefits but this seems to have taken a turn for the worse this year when both of them began an all out war against each other. Apple has accused Samsung of “slavishly” copying its iPhone and iPad, while Samsung has retaliated claiming that Apple has violated a variety of its patents. All this is also part of the wider iOS Vs Android war. Now, Samsung wants to take the battle to the next frontier by trying to ban the sales of the iPhone 4S in France and Italy.

As it stands, both companies have sued each other in 10 countries and are set to meet in courtrooms around the world including the US, Netherlands and South Korea this week. So far, Apple seems to have the advantage, successfully getting the Galaxy Tab banned in Germany, Netherlands and Australia. However, Samsung is no toothless tiger, and while it may not be able to put a huge dent on Apple’s operations, it may be able to inflict significant damage, especially at a time when Apple is struggling to maintain its position within the industry. In fact, Samsung is already closing in on Apple’s sales and may very well be able to overtake the company in the third quarter thanks to its well performing Galaxy S II and the growing popularity of Android, which already controls 48% of the total market share.

Now the ultimate question is how far both these companies are going to push each other. Apple is extremely important to Samsung but its true the other way around as well because changing suppliers now would cost Apple a lot of money in the near-term. Hence, it would be safe to assume that while neither company wants to lose face in this legal battle, they would not want to see each other fall too hard either.

Starbucks launches its free iTunes download offer in the UK

Starbucks has extended its free iTunes “Pick of the Week” give away into the UK; the offer was previously only offered within the United States. Now, any visitor to Starbucks in the UK can take advantage of totally free Wi-Fi as well as a free download from iTunes.

Brian Waring, vice president of marketing and category for Starbucks UK and Ireland, said: “Digital offers are very important to us and making WiFi freely available across our stores is the foundation for many other plans we have moving forward…Content partnerships are key and we also have an extremely exciting digital programme ahead for 2012.”

To qualify for the free download, all customers have to do is purchase a product in one of Starbucks’s 700 UK stores. They are then given a “Pick of the Week” download card which can be redeemed for the weeks pick. Customers have 60 days to download the pick. The first free download will feature James Morrison’s “My Dreams” track as well as a free iBook “Limitless” by Alan Glynn.

Source: The Telegraph

 

 

Report: Apple Stores Begin Selling Contract-Free Unlocked iPhone 4S

When the iPhone 4S pre-sale started back on October 7th, the Apple Store noted that sales of the unlocked contract-free iPhone 4S would go on sale starting in November. The online store remains unchanged, but we are seeing reports from 9to5 Mac that some Apple retail stores have already begun selling the unlocked models.

After purchase, users simply plug-in to iTunes to activate and will be notified that the iPhone 4S has been unlocked. Freedom to use any microSIM does come at a steep price. The iPhone 4S is priced at 16GB/$649, 32GB/$749 and 64GB/$849. The unlocked iPhone 4S also comes with an AT&T microSIM card.

So, anyone dropping close to a grand on a 64GB iPhone 4S?

Source: 9to5Mac