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Amazon announces Cloud Music. Apple announces iCloud. Apple shows that iCloud is better than Amazon Cloud. Amazon announces some major Cloud Music escalation, including Cloud Player for web getting iPad support, unlimited storage for music, and free storage for all Amazon-purchased MP3s. Yeah.

“Customers are already enjoying Cloud Drive and Cloud Player and now for just $20 a year, customers can get unlimited space for music,” said Craig Pape Director of Amazon Music. “Additionally, we are adding free storage for all MP3s purchased from Amazon MP3, and support for the iPad. Our customers love Cloud Drive and Cloud Player and we’re excited to innovate these services on their behalf.”

It’s the iPad part that interests us the most, of course.

Also new, Cloud Player for Web on iPad. Cloud Player, combined with unlimited space for music in Cloud Drive, enables customers to play music stored in the cloud on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac, PC, and now on their iPad. Cloud Player for Web has been optimized to offer customers streaming playback of their Cloud Drive music using the Safari browser for iPad. To access Cloud Player for iPad, customers simply open their Safari browser and visit (www.amazon.com/cloudplayer) to start listening to their music.

Apple’s iCloud is in beta right now and will launch this fall alongside iOS 5. Whether or not Apple makes any changes in response to these Amazon’s announcement, iCloud will offer far more services for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users than Amazon can, including backup and restore, apps, documents, and more. But strictly for music, for users in the US, Amazon Cloud might just have gotten a lot more compelling.

[Amazon PR]

While there’s no word yet on whether these new features will come to the existing Facebook for iPhone app, or the upcoming Facebook for iPad app, Facebook announced new ways to keep in touch with your friends today.

• You get a new chat design that shows you the friends you message the most.
• Easy to launch group chat
• Skype-powered video calling

The video calling competes with both Apple’s FaceTime, and Google+’s Huddle, now on the web and perhaps coming soon in the Google+ iPhone app. Whether or not Facebook can get all this new junk into the mobile app’s trunk is the question…

[Facebook]

Shing Yin, a Citadel Securities analyst, thinks a Sprint iPhone deal may not be that far off, perhaps as soon as this year, which would likely mean a CDMA iPhone 5. After Verizon finally shipped the iPhone 4, we found out T-Mobile might be getting one, either on their own or as part of the ongoing T-Mobile and AT&T merger. That leaves Sprint sitting alone in the corner.

Interestingly enough, after Verizon ends unlimited data on July 7, 2011, Sprint will be the only carrier to still offer unlimited data. Yin things that may appeal to Apple.

With lower prices on plans, a Sprint iPhone could offer an attractive proposition for more price-conscious users (a demographic that we think is increasingly important to Apple following the rise of Android)…

I think it’s only a matter of time before Sprint picks up the iPhone. I’m not convinced they’ll receive the next hardware iteration at the same time as Verizon and AT&T but I could see a launch later in the year or early next year, the same way Verizon got the iPhone 4 roughly 8 months after AT&T.

Like with AT&T, eventually everyone on Verizon who wants an iPhone, even an iPhone 5, will have one, and selling into Sprint’s user base is the next logical step for expansion in the US.

Barron’s

If FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger is correct, in lieu of the much-rumored ipad 3 we may see another iteration of the iPad 2 this year, complete with a beefed up display. According to Berger, Apple is currently shopping around for quotes from manufacturers in China. The current iPad 2 sports 132 pixels per inch. The iPad 2 Plus will supposedly increase the pixel density to around 250 to 300 pixels per inch. (Though, as we’ve said repeatedly, Apple will have to pixel-double it exactly, the same way they did with iPhone 4, if they don’t want to cause headaches for developers.)

Considering new iPhone hardware hasn’t even been announced yet, and we’ll almost certainly see a new iPhone iteration before the end of the year, it’d be surprising to see another new iPad this soon after iPad 2. Apple knows how consumers work and upgrading a $500+ device more than once a year isn’t really going to fly for most average consumers. Since TiPb — and others — keep hearing about it, however, one possibility is that this new iPad isn’t designed to get existing customers to upgrade, but to get a whole new set of customers buying iPads for the first time. The question then becomes, what changes do they make to do that?

Boy Genius Report

Michal Bencur, has released his computer programming iPad app, Coders. If you’ve ever wondered what all that code does in the background of all your gadgets, you may want to check it out. It’s an extremely simple coding app with an easy to understand interface. There are a few sample programs built in for you to poke around and you can also create your own. Coders is based on the Lua programming language, which is a pretty easy language to learn.

• Tutorial on how to get started
• Lua programming language
• You can write code that draws on screen: points, lines, change colors…
• work with text, take input from user, write things out

This app isn’t meant for hardcore developers, nor should you expect to learn how to code iPhone and iPad apps. This app is mainly geared towards beginners that want to learn to understand the very basics of programming. Developers still may enjoy it even if it’s just to jot down quick notes while they’re on the go. And if all else fails, I had a lot of fun just creating little programs purely for entertainment.

Coders is currently priced at $4.99 in the App Store. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes Link]

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Meta

• ZENandTECH 6: De-cluttering
• Developer Spotlight: David Ashman of LockInfo
• Editorial: How long can Google and Android afford to remain silent on patents?
• iPhone 4: One year later

iPhone 5

• Apple preparing to ship thinner, lighter iPhone 5?
• How Apple stays years ahead of the competition

Verizon

• Verizon ending unlimited data, switching to tiered pricing on July 7
• Verizon dropping iPhone 4 price to $150?

News

• Why is AT&T asking if you want an iPhone with a hardware keyboard?
• iPad, iPhone enabling employees to surf porn at work?
• Dropbox updates ToS: What you need to know

Jailbreak

• JailbreakMe now available, jailbreak the iPad 2, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch on iOS 4.3.3
• Daily Tip: How to Jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 via JailbreakMe (including iPad 2)
• PDF Patcher 2 updated to close PDF vulnerability [jailbreak]
• Daily tip: How to enable iOS4 features on a iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G with WhiteD00r [Jailbreak]

Apps

• Hands on: Google's new Pool Party photo sharing app for iPhone
• Google+ iPhone web app gallery

Are the iPhone and iPad letting employees sneak a peek at porn while on the job? Recently, Harris interactive was commissioned by video surveillance company Qumu to survey 2,500 employees and ask them, “what do you search on your mobile device at work that you cannot do, or are afraid to do, from your work computer?” These are some of their top responses:

1. Look for another primary job
2. Watch pornography
3. Visit an online dating website
4. Research an STD

Harris also asked how employees sneaked a peek at their mobile devices while at work, and the most popular answers were:

1. Hiding their mobile device under the table
2. Excusing themselves to go to the restroom
3. Hiding their mobile device in their folders/notebooks/papers
4. Pretending to tie their shoes
5. Creating a distraction

While the results seem amusing, this is part of a growing trend affecting the workplace. A majority of Americans believe they should bring their own mobile devices to work to watch videos. This fits in the larger trend of a majority of Americans using more than one computing devices weekly, with 15% using 4 or more devices a week!

Obviously, Qumu’s intent is to generate interest in their video solution, but it’s not hard to imagine that democratized, popularized, ubiquitous internet connectivity will provide as many challenges for business as it does opportunities for individuals. Be that quickly scanning email at home, or the nudie-pic-of-the-day at work.

[Qumu]

AT&T seems to be conducting an online survey, asking customers if they’d like an iPhone with a hardware keyboard.

Which one smartphone, if any, would you most likely consider buying if they were all using the iOS (Apple) operating system.

Along with the traditional full touchscreen slab (think all iPhone models to date, four other options are presented:

1. Front-facing QWERTY (think BlackBerry Bold
2. Vertical slider (think HP Pre) 3 Horizontal slider (think Droid)
3. Extended front-facing QWERTY (think Droid Pro)

Apple hasn’t ever offered any type of hardware keyboard on any iOS device, and I doubt that’s going to change any time soon. iPhone 5 almost certainly won’t have a hardware keyboard, and even if Apple decides to pull the trigger on a lower-priced iPhone for emerging markets, it’s hard to imagine them putting a hardware keyboard on that either. So why exactly AT&T is testing these waters is unknown. (Unless Samsung is doing some stealth product research…)

[Thanks to Phil from Android Central passing this on.]

It’s not the wink-wink, nudge-nudge controlled leak we’ve come to expect from The Wall Street Journal, but according to their supply chain sources “familiar with the situation”, iPhone 5 might indeed have a new casing:

According to some suppliers of components to Apple, the new version of the iPhone is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera. One person said the new iPhone will operate on Qualcomm Inc.’s wireless baseband chips.

Though not the Qualcomm chips that run on LTE, as those aren’t expected to be small and power-efficient enough until 2012. The WSJ is also rumoring that Apple intends to manufacture 25 million of them. That is, if manufacturers can produce them fast enough. Despite Apple having nearly $70 billion in the bank, enough to finance factories, get cut rate prices, and lock their competition out of next-generation production techniques and components, they’ve struggled to produce enough iPad, iPhone 4, and iPad 2 units to meet the skyrocketing demand.

That, and not making a wafer-thin, anti-gravity iPhone is going to be the key problem for Apple to solve moving forward.

[Wall Street Journal]