7-inch iPad nano rumors — or 7-inch iPod touch maxi rumors depending on whether you measure up or down — are back, with Shanzai gossiping that the product is done and looks like an iPhone 4.

Yes there will be a 7" tablet, yes it's well underway in terms of product development and in fact it's a finished product. Yes 5 plus different designs have been floating around to help Apple protect itself from people discovering its next product look and feel but… the final design will in fact bear more resemblance to the iPhone 4 stylings than the original iPad design.

Supposed to be FaceTime ready as well.

Could Apple be planning to segment the iPod touch/iPad tablet space with a third form factor already? The iPod touch fits the pocket, the iPad fits the lap, where would the in-between iOS device fit? Apple is notoriously stingy when it comes to customer options — something that’s kept their lines clean, focused, and highly successful over the years. So if there’s any fire to this smoke, would a 7-inch device really just be for those who want a light, single book page view when in a bikini at the pool, or could Apple have something else up their sleeve?

[Shanzai via 9to5Mac]

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iPad owners seem to be loving their devices, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Overall consumer satisfaction with personal computers has grown 4% since last year putting people’s overall satisfaction level at 78 out of 100 points. When you break that down, iPads are leading the pack. Satisfaction with the iPad has grown 2% since the last survey. This puts iPad customer satisfaction at 86 points. This is higher than any other manufacturer and 9 points ahead of any other competitor. Dell, HP, and Acer all scored 77s.

CNBC looked into why this number may be so high for Apple and the iPad and they’ve said this:

"The iPad, even at this early stage, pulled up Apple's overall numbers – which makes it the highest-scoring product Apple has, and therefore the highest-scoring product ACSI has ever tracked."

Do you agree with CNBC’s reasoning or do you think there’s more to it? One thing is obvious, people love their iPads!

[CNBC via TechCrunch]

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In the video below the infamous Walt Mosspuppet shows us how to make a cheap and cheerful stylus for our iPad's. All you need is an old pen, a candy wrapper and some sticky tape and your all set. A bit of Friday fun, but this does actually seem to work.

[Thanks Mosspuppet]

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With the iPhone Configuration Utility you can set your iPad or iPhone carrier’s APN (access point name) manually in case your 3G networking isn’t working properly, which can sometimes happen for developers running beta versions of iOS. It’s a workaround to be sure, but if you need your device on-network for testing and can’t wait for newer betas, sometimes a work around is just what you need.

Follow on after the break for step-by-step instructions.

• If you haven’t already, download, install, and run the iPhone Configuration Utility from Apple for Windows or Mac OS X.

• Go to Configuration Profiles under Library in the sidebar and then hit New in the toolbar.

• Under General (Mandatory) enter a name for the profile you’re creating, and a unique identifier.

• Google your carrier’s APN settings. Take note of them.

• Scroll all the way to the bottom and, under Advanced, fill in your carrier’s APN info.

• Plug in your iPad or iPhone and then select it in the sidebar under Devices.
• Pick your profile and hit Install.

• Approve the installation on your iPhone or iPad.

• Enjoy functional 3G networking!

Again, this isn’t as good as having it work automagically, but it’s better than not having it work at all. If you’ve been having problems, hopefully this helps.

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What do you do when you’re an iPhone junkie and need to find an epic way to propose to your girlfriend? You make an awesome iPhone video your girlfriend with think is a commercial, coax the threatre you had your first date in to play it before a movie, and surprise the pants off your girlfriend!  That’s what one of our readers recently did.  Who could say no to that?

Here’s Chad’s story:

I proposed to my girlfriend by creating a mock iPhone commercial and having that commercial play on the big screen in the Movie Theater. She was completely surprised once she figured out what was playing on the screen wasn’t actually an iPhone commercial. I used a ton of apps in the making of the video such as: Google Earth, Skywriter, 3D Drum Kit, NLogFree, Animoto and others.

Congrats Chad and Vy! You guys have one heck of a proposal story to share with family and friends for years to come! Thanks for sharing it with all of us!

Video after the break…

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Mozilla has an interesting Seabird concept phone rendering posted to YouTube. It looks great but disappointingly it’s not real, contains technology that doesn’t yet exist at the consumer scale, and is built on top of Android.

The Android part makes me sad, not because it’s Android but because it’s not MozillaOS (GeckoOS?). Google is basically doing now with Android what Microsoft did with Windows in the 90s — providing manufacturers with something they can use pretty much off the shelf rather than rolling their own. So just like Dell, Lenovo, Sony, et. al never bothered to innovate or create great new PC OS, no one who doesn’t already have a mobile OS (Apple, RIM, HP via Palm, Microsoft) is going to bother making one any more. Even the so-called Facebook phone looks like it’s going to be built on top of Android.

That means, like Dell, Lenovo, Sony, et. al the innovation will turn to hardware, and differentiation will be left to software skins, bloatware, and stickers on the box. Impressive, perhaps, in the Alienware sort of way. But imagine if Mozilla was starting in the browser space now, would they just use Chromium instead of their own Gecko as the foundation for Firefox? Would Facebook have built their social network on the Twitter API?

For a while mobile OS were explosively innovative. We went from Newton to PalmOS to Windows Mobile to BlackBerry to Symbian to iPhone/iOS to Android to webOS and all sorts of experimental Linux-based OS that may or may not see the light of day. It was so much more exciting than the Windows/Mac/Linux pace of PC OS.

Sure it’s hard making an OS, even with BSD Unix or Linux at its core. Sure going Android would certainly save Mozilla or Facebook or Verizon (yeah, went there), a lot of time and money, but part of me hoped we were just at some mid-point in the mobile revolution, that we’d still have the chance to be blown away by an iOS or Android or webOS again. That we wouldn’t have to wait for the next big transition — to neuralOS or whatever it will be — before we get that feeling of everything being new again.

So great concept, great tech, spectacular vision, but that even in a video rendering this wasn’t running an amazing MozillaOS as thought-provoking in software as the device looks in hardware, depresses me. (I still want those pico projectors and remotes.)

Video after the break

[Android Central]

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