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An email was sent out today to all Vodafone customers about the release of the iPhone on their network today. Vodafone has 
joined the other 3 carriers of the iPhone in the UK (O2, Orange and Tesco Mobile.)
According to Vodafone, they estimate they will be able to sell 50,000 iPhones by the end of the day. If they achieve this they will beat Orange’s launch record of 30,000 and outsell the Google Nexus One, which only sold 20,000 in it’s first week.
Samsung has just announced a new 64GB memory moviNAND that could be used in the next-gen iPhone, which is 
rumored to be out this summer, as with Apple’s usual iPhone release time.
The chip measures 1.4mm in height and it’s composed of 16 30nm-class 32Gb MLC NAND chip and a controller. It’s expected that we might see this new chip, as each new iPhone is shown a bigger size is released so 64GB could be on the table for the iPhone 4G.
Toshiba, meanwhile announced the upcoming release of 64GB NAND chip, so it might be either Samsung or Toshiba.
Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010)
January 2010
The Soloist – January 12th 2010
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard – January 14th 2010
The Men Who Stare at Goats – January 14th 2010
Fired Up! – January 14th 2010
Shrink – January 21st 2010
Solitary Man – January 21st 2010
Leaves of Grass – January 21st 2010
The Final Destination – January 26th 2010
Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball – January 26th 2010
City Island – January 26th 2010
Shorts – January 26th 2010
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – January 28th 2010
The Stepfather – January 28th 2010
This Is It – January 2010
February 2010
The Informant! – February 2nd 2010
500 Days of Summer – February 4th 2010
Whiteout – February 9th 2010
The Time Traveler’s Wife – February 9th 2010
Couples Retreat – February 9th 2010
The Invention of Lying – February 16th 2010
The Informant! – February 16th 2010 (Second Date)
Amelia – February 18th 2010
Into the Blue 2: The Reef – February 18th 2010
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead – February 18th 2010
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – February 23rd 2010
The Blind Side – February 23rd 2010
Tooth Fairy – February 25th 2010 (Second Date)
Daybreakers – February 2010
The Greatest – February 2010
March 2010
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove – March 2nd 2010
A Christmas Carol – March 4th 2010
The Invention Of Lying – March 2nd 2010 (Second Date)
Fantastic Mr. Fox – March 4th 2010
The Marine 2 – March 4th 2010
Ninja Assassin – March 9th 2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – March 11th 2010
Where the Wild Things Are – March 23rd 2010
Surviving Evil – March 25th 2010
The Cabin in the Woods – March 25th 2010
Sherlock Holmes – March 30th 2010
The Wolfman – March 2010
Motherhood – March 2010
Shutter Island – March 2010
Triage – March 2010
April 2010
Paranormal Activity – April 6th 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox – April 14th 2010 (Second Date)
It’s Complicated – April 20th 2010
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – April 25th 2010 (Second Date)
The Road – April 2010
The Boys Are Back – April 2010
The Thaw – April 2010
Creation – April 2010
May 2010
Preacher’s Kid – May 4th 2010
Date Night – May 6th 2010
Valentine’s Day – May 18th 2010
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps – May 20th 2010
June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
Up in the Air – June 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – June 2010
Invictus – June 2010
The Wolfman – June 2010 (2nd Date)
July 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
She’s Out of My League – July 2010
Updated: 14th January 2010
For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates
Notes: Avatar R5 was removed as the release has been delayed for an unknown reason, probably pulled by the studio due to it’s popularity. Also there is no New Moon R5 date yet and no sign of one as of yet.
Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.
So with all the rumours over the past few months I’ve been thinking what I’d love to see from the next iteration of the 
iPhone. Although some of the points maybe wrong if you believe the rumours, we have been wrong many times before but this is just what would make the iPhone 4G the next killer device.
The iPhone runs pretty well on its current CPU, but having a dual core more powerful CPU would help make the phone snappier and along with the PowerVR SGX545 GPU we could be looking at desktop quality games and HD content.
With HD capability we could play games at a whole new level, surpassing any current portable gaming device on the market. Along with HD playback and hopefully HD video recording.
The rumours say that Apple is going to include a 5 Megapixel camera in the next iPhone and possibly Flash but a lot of phones these days are pushing up to 8MP and with bigger capacities why not?
This would help bring more products in to one, the iPhone 3GS does a good job of video recording at VGA but 720p would make that video look even better.
There has been a recent job posting looking for someone who would be able to work with 802.11n WiFi so it would be nice for the people who use it.
For some people they must have all their video and music collection with them and so we need to increase the size of memory as usual, obviously Apple controls the prices on flash memory so I’m sure they can offer it.
We’ve been slowly progressing, the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G both had 128MB or RAM which isn’t good when you have to reboot your device to play games, the 3GS made up for it with 256MB but why not add in a little overhead for those jailbreakers who multi-task?
This is a feature that was rumoured for the 3GS but never happened, the technology has been around for years. I had a Sony Ericsson phone about 5 years ago that could video call, it was one of the first 3G devices in Europe but still the technology is there and it would make taking self-shots easier.
This would make a nice feature, not only because it looks better but because it saves on battery life which is something the iPhone really needs ever since 3.0.
As most iPhone users will tell you, unless you have a battery pack with you, your phone will not last the day. The jailbreak are trying at the current time to certain daemons from running and this apparently does increase battery life, but Apple should really sort this issue out.
So many people ask me you have bluetooth right? And I reply the truth, Yes. But of course then I have to tell them how it’s crippled and how I can’t even send them a picture over Bluetooth.
These are just my personal hopes for the next iPhone, obviously I know not all of them will come but hopefully Apple fits some in there. And one last thing, headphones that last longer than 4 months, I’ve been through 3 pairs in under a year.
A Korean newspaper has recently said “The next iPhone will be here in limited supply in April, and be more power than 
previous models”. They believe that Apple will be test running the next-gen iPhone to corporate sponsors as soon as April.
Many other blogs are skeptical about what the Korean newspaper said, as Apple never usually test run devices except for workers at Apple working on the product.
The report also talks about how the next iPhone will have the ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, which could offer speeds up to 2GHz which is a lot faster than what we have now. All of us expect the device to improve as it must for Apple to appeal to users with a prior iPhone. But a dual core CPU would work well with a multithreading GPU and would help push those HD graphics.
Rumour has it that Apple has caused a shortage of OLED screen components, possibly for their upcoming tablet or possibly for the iPhone 4G.
“We were told that Apple pre-ordered them all. All 10 inch LCDs, and all 10 inch OLEDs too,” an anonymous designer commented during CES.
Another rumor from last year said that the tablet had been delayed because Apple was waiting for OLED components for the device. It seems plausible then that Apple could be behind an OLED shortage, as they can usually control component prices due to the bulk in which they buy. As they have done with flash memory in the past for iPods and iPhone’s.
The source also says there is also a shortage of LCD screen components of the same size, hinting that Apple may offer an LCD model alongside the OLED model, maybe as a low end option. Only time will tell but it’s not long now until the event where the tablet it due to be unveiled.
Last Friday at the CES show in Las Vegas a new graphics chip was announced by the company who provides the chip 
for every iPhone. The HD-capable chip, the PowerVR SGX545 GPU has full OpenCL and OpenGL 3.2 support and can render 40 million polygons per second at 200MHz. Rumour has it that this chip will be found in the new iPhone 4G, this of course all makes sense as Apple market the iPod Touch and iPhone as both gaming devices and this would certainly make for some interesting games.
The PowerVR SGX545 GPU not only has HD-Capablity but also supports multithreading, so to enhance the performance it could me installed along side a multi-core CPU such as the ARM Cortex-A9, which is rumoured to be in the next generation of the iPhone.
Combining our many years of experience in the embedded, mobile and PC-based DirectX graphics worlds, PowerVR SGX 545 takes the possibilities of hand-held graphics to a new level by delivering a full DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.x feature set as well as delivering GPU powered OpenCL heterogeneous parallel processing capabilities for the mobile and embedded markets. This makes PowerVR SGX545 a compelling solution for application processor SoC designers targeting the next generation of netbook and MID mobile products demanding exceptional graphics capabilities.
So we will be seeing a multi-core HD iPhone? Only time will tell.
Apple today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by iPhone and 
iPod touch users worldwide. Thats around 5.5 million downloads per day!
“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries worldwide can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.
There have been rumors about a 8GB iPhone 3GS going around since the summer. But a man in Hamburg, Germany who recently bought a refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G was supirsed to find on the label that it said “iPhone 3GS v2.2, 8GB.” The model and part number are for the older model, but “iPhone 3GS” appears on other places on the packaging as well, implying that the label wasn’t just a typo but an actual part label for an existing or soon to be existing iPhone model.
Back in August, screen caps from an internal website for the Canadian iPhone provider, Rogers Wireless were posted to the internet showing a 8GB iPhone 3GS and stores were apparently under strict orders to sell out their current stock of 8GB iPhone 3G to make room for the new 3GS, which never appeared in stores.
Customers who had used the controversial unlocking service, iPhoneUnlockUK.com recieved an unexpected email recently informing them that the company had been using unlicensed software and that their personal details, including email and physical addresses has been compromised.
The hackers had broken into the web server back in February, where they gained access to the personal information of several users who had illegally unlock their iPhone. The hacker sent emails that the software iPhoneUnlockUK was selling for profit had been stolen, suggesting the customers demand a refund from the fraudulent company. Some people might of thought the iPhone Dev Team, who put a huge amount of work into unlocking the iPhone could of been involved but the hacker made it clear that they were not.
The breach in February is the only one currently known, when the hackers copied the personal details of customers and defaced the website. Since then, iPhoneUnlockUK moved web hosts and claim they have not suffered any more attacks. No financial details were believed to have been compromised during the breach, as all the credit card transactions were handled by a third party company.
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