Adding to recent rumors of the White iPhone 4 possibly shipping on April 26 come more from Engadget, this time in the form of images from a Vodafone UK customer who was lucky enough to get their hands on one a little early. After Vodafone realized one had gotten loose, they sent out a notice to halt all sales of the White iPhone 4 until next week.

we’ve secured a few images of a 16GB model from a separate source that has seemingly made its way into the hands of one lucky customer (read: bloke) over in Britain [...] Voda sent out a notice to halt sale of these gems “until next week.”

Apparently a Vodafone sales rep rang up the White iPhone 4 as a Black 16gb model in their point-of-sale system before the company told its employees not to sell units carrying the MC604B/A model number. The current UK 16gb Black iPhone 4 has a model number of MC603B/A, with the ‘4′ presumably representing the difference in color for that capacity.

Apple has repeatedly gone on the record saying the White iPhone 4 would come out “this spring”, but that window is quickly closing. With these new images could we actually be on the verge of seeing real unicorns White iPhone 4 units in-hand by the month’s end? Let us know what you think in the comments and hit the jump for more photos!

[Engadget]

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Twitterrific just received a huge update and brings many new features, improvements and bug fixes.

New Features

• Username auto-completion when composing a tweet
• "Report Spammer" option on user profiles (must not be following)
• Tap and hold on a user's avatar for quick access to report action
• Support for Cloud.app media uploads & URL shortening
• Camera support for iPad 2
• Settings option to toggle Global Trends on/off
• New Advanced settings
• Keep scrolled to top (if already at the top)
• Mentions by Strangers to limit mentions to only people you follow
• Quick View to open links in Safari instead of in-app browser

Improvements

• Timeline views in pop-overs now color coded properly
• Single tap and tap & hold actions re-organized for easier access
• Single tweet view eliminated for faster access to tweet actions
• iPad tap shortcuts: Double tap for conversation, triple tap to fave
• Switching accounts now returns directly to the timeline for faster loading (iPhone & iPod)
• Improved loading of multiple tweets in a conversation when selected
• Automatic updating of the timeline while the app is left running
• User profiles and lists appearances updated to "card style" to match the Mac
• User profiles now include total number of tweets from a user
• Text size settings now also affect text in the compose area and sidebar
• Large font size setting is slightly larger
• Improved error handling via new status bar notifications
• Timestamps now update in real time

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think!

[Free, with in-app purchases - iTunes link]

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Bible: Now with audio! [Free - iTunes link]

• iBooks: Update brings improved responsiveness and a few bug fixes. [Free - iTunes link]

• School 26: Kate 's parents insist that they've finally found the right town. It's not like she hasn't heard that line before, but something does feel different. Help Kate tackle a new school and discover herself. [$2.99, iPhone - iTunes link] [$4.99, iPad - iTunes link]

• Kindle: Updated for german users. [Free - iTunes link]

• Berzerk Ball: How far can a geek fly? Find out by joining gamers who have smashed the geek over 142 million times! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Do you update your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad apps? It might sound like a strange questions given Apple’s easy “Update All” button, but not everybody does. At least, I don’t. I never update an app unless it’s added a new feature or game level I want, or fixes a bug that I care about. I’m not a slacker — okay, I’m not just a slacker — I’ve had apps that worked perfectly in the past be totally ruined by a bad update, be it a horrible new feature or a really buggy release. (Insert your Twitter and Facebook jokes here.) So now I leave well enough alone and don’t update until I have to.

Am I the in the minority here? Do all of you update religiously or are some of you more hesitant (or lazy!) like me? At the moment I have 51 app updates pending for my iPhone 4, how many do you have?

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Mickey Papillon nailed the Verizon iPhone and the chipset it would be using a year before it was announced, so when he says LTE just might be coming to iPhone 6 in 2012 via the Qualcomm MDM9615, we’re going to pay attention.

Back in February, Qualcomm unveiled it's next generation of chipsets, including the MDM9615. This chip will provide enhancements in modem performance, power consumption, board area and BOM expense, exactly what Apple is looking for in its devices. The 9615 will support LTE (FDD and TDD), DC-HSPA+, EV-DO Rev-B and TD-SCDMA. This single chip [will likely live alingside] what we will all know as the A6 processor, and will be available in late 2011, perfect timing for Apple to start testing and ready them for production.

(If you’re not familiar with all those telecommunications terms, check out our networking glossary.)

So February 2011 introduced the stand-alone Verizon iPhone, fall 2011 will bring the dual-mode iPhone 5, and 2012 will crank this up with an LTE iPhone 6?

Sounds good to me. What do you think?

[The Cell Phone Junkie]

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Amazon EC2, their cloud hosting solution, has been struggling with outages over the last day or so, taking down a lot of popular web services including the Cydia Store for Jailbreak users, FourSquare, among others.

While Amazon’s EC2 status board shows things are back to normal, a bunch of Jailbreak readers (and some of our own #TeamJailbreak writers) still can’t access Cydia.

Hopefully whatever issues remain will be solved quickly. In the meantime if you were considering Jailbreaking, we’d recommend holding off until Cydia is fully functional again or you may not be able to get access to any Jailbreak apps or other Cydia resources.

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Hot on the heels of yesterday's news that Apple was ready to launch its iTunes music streaming service, All Things Digital is now reporting that Apple already has deals in place with two of the major music labels.

The deals are said to be in place with two of four largest labels, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony and EMI. They do not know which of the two the deals are with at this stage. One of its sources also claim that Apple content boss Eddy Cue will be in New York tomorrow to start finalising deals with the remaining two labels.

The industry executives I've talked to haven't seen Apple's service themselves, but say they're aware of the broad strokes. The idea is that Apple will let users store songs they've purchased from its iTunes store, as well as others songs stored on their hard drives, and listen to them on multiple devices.

Amazon launched its own music streaming and storage service last month without the approval of the major music labels. The way Apple is approaching the idea is totally different. A licence agreement with the music labels would allow Apple to store a single copy of a song on its server's, then share that to multiple users who own the music. This would massively reduce the storage levels needed by Apple and obviously reduce costs too.

The success of this service will be down to how much it costs the consumer, both in terms of any subscription pricing and more obviously data costs. Cell service providers seem intent on reducing our monthly download limits. For these type of services to succeed we need to see the return of unlimited data plans!

[All Things D]

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Samsung has countersued Apple for the infringement of 5 patents, this in response to Apple’s suit against Samsung for patent and trademark violations filed earlier this week.

“Samsung is responding actively to the legal action taken against us in order to protect our intellectual property and to ensure our continued innovation and growth in the mobile communications business,”

Apple’s lawsuit seemed focused on preventing Samsung from copying the look and feel of iPhone and iPad in the Galaxy S line of tablets and TouchWiz skins. Samsung’s seems focused on trying to match the patent portion. It will be interesting to see how they respond to the trademarks.

Anyone else thinking that if they continued to innovate, they wouldn’t be facing the trademark charges?

[Reuters]

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After sharing a tip on how to link Exchange and Mobile Me contacts, we were asked to cover how to link Facebook and LinkedIn contacts to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch as well. Done. Follow on after the break to see exactly what you can and can’t link, and some cautions on what you might and might not want to link.

To link your Facebook and/or LinkedIn contacts to your iOS contacts you need to use the free Facebook and LinkedIn apps from the App Store. Chances are you already have them, but if not grab them first:

• Facebook [iTunes link]
• LinkedIn [iTunes link]

LinkedIn

1. Launch LinkedIn
2. Tap on Connections, middle icon on the left
3. Tap on Download All, top right menu bar icon
4. Read the warning. It says LinkedIn doesn’t upload any of your contact info, only downloads contact info from LinkedIn
5. Tap on Download all new connections

Depending on how many connections you have in LinkedIn, it could take a while to download. Once it’s done, your LinkedIn contacts should be new or updated in your Contacts app. You can tell by the LinkedIn icon stamped on the bottom left corner of any new or updated contact.

Facebook

1. Launch Facebook
2. Tap on Friends, top icon on the right
3. Tap on the action button, top right menu bar icon
4. Tap on Sync Contacts
5. Toggle the Syncing slider to ON
6. If you want to sync pictures too, toggle the Replace photos slider to ON
7. Read the warning. It says Facebook will upload all your contacts to Facebook.
8. This scares the $#!+ out of me, so at this point I personally hit Cancel. If you and your friends are okay with this, however…
9. Tap Sync Contacts

Again, depending on the size of your contacts, it may take a while to sync. Once it’s done, your Facebook contacts should be available as new or updated entries in your Contacts app.

Note: If a you’re the friend of a colleague at work and they have a party picture up as their Facetime profile pic, hilarity might ensue the next time you get a business email from them…

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Rene, Georgia, and Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac talk Apple earning, 187 million devices, iOS 4.3.2 and Jailbreak, Apple sues Samsung, white iPhone, iPhone 5 in fall (again!), prototype folders and switching, and App Store rankings refresh. This is iPhone Live!

Announcements

• Developer Spotlight: Graham Clarke of Glasshouse Apps

iOS

• Apple releases iOS 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, iOS 4.2.7 for Verizon iPhone
• iOS 4.3.2 untethered jailbreak released [Updated]
• Apple releases iTunes 10.2.2 – bug fixes

Apple vs. Samsung

• Apple sues Samsung, accuses them of copying iPhone, iPad [Updated]
• Steal
• Apple has sold over 187 million iOS devices

White iPhone 4

• White iPhone 4 shipping in the next few weeks?

iPhone 5

• iPhone 5 release pool: Concord says late 2011, 8mp camera, A5 processor, Qualcomm baseband
• iPhone 5 release pool: Reuters says September

News

• White iPhone 4 showing off prototype iOS 4 fast app switching, folder UI?
• iPhone records your location information, stores it on your PC

Apps

• Tweetbot once again redefines Twitter for iPhone
• Compatible with ix.Mac.MarketingName?
• Apple makes changes to the App Store rating system

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• @markgurman (Mark)

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