Hot off the Dow Jones Newsire comes a report that, according to their CEO Dan Hesse, Sprint is throttling the top 1 percent of data users, including their new iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S subscribers.

“For those that want to abuse it, we can knock them off,” Hesse said at an investor conference Thursday. He said Sprint pares back data use for about 1% of users, a practice known as throttling.

Sprint was initially gung-ho about offering unlimited data to iPhone subscribers, so what’s the deal? If they’re throttling data users, then their “Truly Unlimited” network isn’t actually unlimited at all. It sounds as if Sprint may be falling in line with all the other major U.S. carriers — or at least publicly taking steps to get there.

Anyone care to take a guess at how long it’ll be before Sprint rids their “unlimited” data plans altogether?

Source: Dow Jones Newswire

You can now purchase and watch the Harry Potty movies on your iPhone and iPad with The Harry Potter Film Collection: App Edition. When connected to Wi-Fi, you can stream the movies instantly, or if you download the movies to your device, you can watch them locally without a connection – perfect for long car and plane rides!

Relive the magic and download The Harry Potter Film Collection: App Edition to stream the first five minutes of Years 1-6 and Year 7- Part 2, and gain access to a sample of extras. For the complete experience, buy the Full Version and unlock the movie with all the extras or purchase Years 1-6 together as a bundle and save! Experience the films in the language of your choice PLUS gain access to over 100 extra videos with exclusive behind-the-scenes, special features, deleted scenes and more. Immerse yourself in the wonder of Harry Potter with more than 200 photos including movie scenes, production stills, wallpapers, and posters from Years 1-6 and Year 7- Part 2, that can all be saved as wallpapers and shared with friends. You can download the movies to your device for offline playback or stream whenever you want! Available exclusively for iPhone®, iPod touch®, and iPad™.

• Offline playback: Download a movie directly to your device to playback at anytime
• Streaming playback: Stream a movie instantly over WiFi*
• Extras: Enjoy bonus video features that take you behind the scenes with filmmakers and cast
• Art gallery: Explore posters from Years 1-6 and Year 7- Part 2, wallpapers, movie stills, and production stills
• Multiple languages: Watch the film in your language of choice**
• Real-time news: Live Twitter and Facebook updates
• Explore the magic: Go further into the world of Harry Potter with related content available to download on iTunes

The Harry Potter Film Collection: App Edition is available on the iPhone and iPad for free. Each movie is available for $9.99 (except for Deathly Hallows – Part 2 which is $16.99) or you can download the entire collection for $47.99.

• App Store link

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Now that iPhone 4S has come and launched, iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple ends up calling the next generation iPhone), concept designs are once again starting to pop up. This one comes from designer Antonio De Rosa, who created the above iPhone concept and has given it the title of iPhone SJ, as it is Steve Jobs inspired. He imagines it having an A6 processor, a 10 MP camera, and a polycarbonate body. I don’t particularly feel that an A6 processor or a better camera are out of the question for the next iPhone.

I don’t think polycarbonate would be a bad choice for the body as it’s extremely lightweight. It would allow Apple to create an even larger device and subtract weight. I’m not sure I would want a larger screen as that has its disadvantages too. Overall, I think the design is great but I’m not sold on Apple making a larger screen that would inhibit one-handed use. You can visit ADR Studio’s site for more images of his design.

Source: ADR Studio

iPhone and iPad are the first mainstream mobile platforms — of geeks and for geeks but not only geeks. Apple and Steve Jobs worked relentlessly to make computing more mainstream and more accessible, and they’ve succeeded. For some, iPhones and iPads are still the traditional mobile devices — letting us stay in touch and get things done on to go. But they’re also more — they let us do everything from gaming to photography to music to medicine in ways never before possible. Because of that, beyond simply buying a phone or learning how to use a tablet, our community has grown to encompass so much more.

From concept to realization to rapid expansion, as Apple announced the iPhone, as they made it manifest, as they added iPod touch, Apple TV, and iPad to the iOS family, we’ve gone from Phone different to theiPhoneblog to TiPb. We’ve endeavored to bring you more of what you care about — news, reviews, how-tos, apps, accessories, podcasts, videos. Everything.

You’ve seen some of that already. In addition to our flagship iPhone and iPad Live podcasts, shows that have always brought you the very best news and industry opinion, we’ve added Iterate for mobile designers, ZENandTECH to help center our inner geeks, Stock Talk and Enterprise for those in the markets and in IT, and we have more great new shows to come. We’ve started running developer spotlights, like DVD extras for the apps you love, and our Weekly Mods that show you how to change batteries, cameras, screens, and fix your own gadgets, and we have more great columns to come. We’ve started new iPhone and iPad in action forums, so you can discuss and get help with everything from videography to eBook reading to food spotting, and much, much more.

Steve Jobs believed that Apple stood at the crossroads of technology and liberal arts. We believe our community stands right there with them. More than technology, more than devices, we’ve come to lead mobile lives. We’ve come to do and need more. And with this new, faster, lighter, and more flexible site design, and more encompassing and meaningful name, we’re going to bring you even more. More news, more reviews, more how-tos, more apps, more accessories, more shows. More everything.

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TechCrunch is helping shed light on an iMessage bug that’s causing problems for iOS users trying to send SMS messages to ex-iPhone users who have switched to another platform, such as Android.

What happens is, the iPhone attempts to send the SMS to the ex-iPhone user as an iMessage — just like it always did before the recipient switched devices. But since Android doesn’t support iMessage, the text ultimately fails.

Simple, if naive solution:

1. Don’t let your friends switch away from iPhones.

Complicated, if realistic solution:

1. Tell them to go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
2. Log in with their Apple ID.
3. Click on "edit products"
4. Click on the "x" to the right of the product.
5. Click "unregister"

According to a tipster in Apple’s support forums, this should resolve the issue entirely. Unfortunately, this is just one of several iMessage related bugs we’ve been tracking lately. New service or not, Apple needs to get on top of this so users don’t have to go through steps they ought not have to go through.

Source: Apple Support Communities via TechCrunch

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Triple Entendre is a riddle and puzzle game for iPhone and iPad. Each level is a combination of text, photos, and other clues that provide hints to the answer or even the question. Most questions are intended to require some research, so there’s a built-in browser that makes it easy to switch between the web and the game.

I’m a total sucker for riddles and totally addicted to Triple Entendre. It’s extremely challenging and half the time I’m cursing my iPad for my wrong answers, but boy does it feel good to pass a level.

If you’re looking for hints on the levels, we’ve got a thread in our forums dedicated to asking and giving hints for Triple Entendre.

If you’ve ever played an online riddle like notpr0n, godtower or qwyzzle, you’ll love this game. The first riddle game of its kind for your ios devices. Triple Entendre is a riddle, a puzzle, a quiz, and a trivia game all rolled into one. Each level includes a combination of clues and photos where you need to figure out not just what the answer is… but what the question is. Unlike traditional trivia games where a simple internet search will give you a correct answer, your problem solving skills will be needed to even start a web search. Web searching is encouraged in Triple Entendre and we have even taken advantage of your 3g or WiFi connection by building in an internal web search. We hope that your brain power and useless trivia knowledge will be truly tested.

Currently 50 puzzles long, but we have frequent updates planned with more puzzles. Triple Entendre supports Game Center with achievements and a leaderboard. Who will be the first to finish Triple Entendre?

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Triple Entendre is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99. There is also a lite version available for free.

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Following the hack that allows fullscreen apps to run on the Apple TV, developer Jack Perry, known as @Jackoplane on Twitter, decided to try porting his own apps to the bigger screen.

A quick preview of Frequencies for AppleTV… Waiting for @stroughtonsmith to test it on a real device.

The tweet was followed up by Steven Troughton-Smith showing the app running at full 720p on an actual Apple TV.

Some Beautiful AppleTV apps coming together right now; this one from @Jackoplane is nice.

The app, Frequencies, is a simple internet radio tuner, but demonstrates how the idea of fullscreen apps might work on the Apple TV. And it’s really quite exciting.

Source: @stroughtonsmith, @Jackoplane, Jackoplane Blog

Hello everyone and welcome to TiPb's weekly celebrity iPhone and iPad sightings roundup! Time to take a little break from your daily routine and relax with some gossip from the world of the rich and famous. What do all of these celebrities have in common? They all were spotted with an iPhone or iPad, of course. Check out a ton of pictures after the break, and if you spot a celebrity rocking an iPhone or iPad, drop us a note at news@tipb.com so we can include them in the next roundup, next week!

Please note: Some pictures may from time-to-time be NSFW (Not Safe For Work) so use discretion when viewing.

Reese Witherspoon hangs out on the beach with her iPhone in a pink bunny case.

Miley Cyrus keeps her iPhone safe in an orange case.

Singer Mickey Avalon tweeted a picture of himself with his iPhone on New Years Eve.

Lorenzo Martone, ex-fiance of Marc Jacobs, runs on the beach in St. Barts with his iPhone.

‘N Sync member Lance Bass hangs out with friends.

Twin Playboy Playmates Karissa and Kristina Shannon match their outfits to their iPhones.

Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel spent time in Hawaii with friends.

Paraguayan model Claudia Galanti shows a creative way to stow your iPod when you don’t have pockets.

Dylan McDermott does some house hunting on his iPad in American Horror Story.

Pod2g has decided to share a little more information on the hopefully soon to be released iPhone 4S and iPad 2 jailbreak. In a blog post, pod2g has answered a couple of questions that may have been on your mind as you await its release. One of the questions is how he has managed to get an untethered 4S and dev teams still haven't released tools to achieve this at home?

The exploit I used to inject the untethering files to the 4S relies on having a developer account, and can't be released publicly.It's the same reason why @MuscleNerd has an iPad 2 tethered jailbreak but couldn't distribute it. So, we need to find a distributable exploit to remount the system partition read/write and to set Corona files at the correct places.

It looks like the jailbreak may not be as imminent as we expected. Until this last hurdle is out of the way, it can't be released publicly. We will let you know as soon as we hear anymore.

Source: Pod2g Blog

If you are a user of iTunes in the Cloud and only keep part of your music collection on your iOS device and all of your collection in iCloud, you may want to retrieve some extra music from iCloud or even delete some music on your device. It is all very simple to do, keep on reading and we will show you how.

How to Download Music from iCloud

• Open up your Music app

• You will see the complete list of music that is available in iCloud. If the track or album shows a cloud icon next to it, this means it is not on your device but is on iCloud
• To download the music from iCloud, select one of the tracks or albums with the iCloud icon

• You will now see the tracks with individual iCloud download labels, clicking on one will download just that track to your device

• If you want to download a whole album, scroll down and you will see a Download All button. Click on that and all the tracks will download to your device

• When it's finished downloading, you will see that track or album no longer has the cloud icon as it is now on your device and it can be played instantly

How to delete music from device and leave it on iCloud

• Open up your Music app

• You will see the complete list of music that is available in iCloud. If the track or album shows a cloud icon next to it, this means it is not on your device but is on iCloud

• If it doesn’t have a cloud icon, it means the track is stored on your device
• To remove the track or album from your device and leave it in iCloud simply swipe right to left along the album or track

• A delete box will appear, click on it and you will see the cloud icon immediatey appear next to the track or album

• This means the album is no longer stored on your device but is available to download again from iCloud.

That is all there is to it, a very easy way to manage your music on your iOS device using iCloud.

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Bloomberg reports that Verizon Wireless sold 4.2 million iPhone units during the last quarter.

The demand suggests Verizon Wireless is winning an increasing share of new iPhone users, after gaining rights to offer the handset to its subscribers last year. In the third quarter, Verizon added 2 million customers for the device, trailing the 2.7 million iPhone activations at AT&T Inc. (T), which has offered the handset since 2007.

This will no doubt reflect well on Apple’s next quarterly earnings call scheduled for January 24th — which is also, as usual, predicted to be their highest quarter in terms of revenue.

Source: Bloomberg