During the Q1 2011 financial results call, while stating 16.24 million iPhones were sold, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer once again said they could have sold more iPhones if they’d been able to produce them. Having increased production from 14 million to 16 million, they’re still “boldly” investing in ramping things up further.

With the Verizon iPhone now announced, Cook added that Apple is working hard to get them into the hands of everyone who wants them.

Anyone care to guess what the Verizon numbers are going to do to overall iPhone sales?

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With Q1 2011 sales reported at 16.24 million iPhones, 7.33 million iPads, 9.75 million iPod touches (50% of total iPod sales), Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and COO Tim Cook revealed that over 160 million iOS devices have now been sold.

Apple previously announced 120 million iOS devices back on September 1 at their annual special music event, so this represents 40 million additional sales since then.

No Apple TV numbers were broken out but Apple had just previously announced 1 million is sales for their most recent iOS device.

Any way you slice it, whether old devices have been handed down or even fallen out of service, that’s one heck of an install base.

Any bets on when they crack 200 million?

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During the Apple Q1 2011 conference call today, Apple COO Tim Cook was asked about iPad competitors and remarked that current Android tablets were “bizarre products” and future ones were still “vapor”.

He based his comments on current tablets like the Galaxy Tab running a version of Android that Google itself says was not meant for tablets. Thus they have small screens and phone experience, which Apple thinks is a “bizarre product”. When compared side-by-side, Cook thinks a huge percentage of users will select iPad.

When it comes to future Android tablets, like those announced at CES running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, he doesn’t know. They aren’t shipping yet, lack specs and pricing, and as of today they’re still vapor. He’ll assess again when they ship.

He emphasized that Apple isn’t standing still, however, and has a first mover advantage, incredible user experience, as well as iTunes, App Store, and the Apple ecosystem.

Cook said Apple is very confident entering a tablet fight with anyone.

UPDATE: As a follow up, Cook said that they believe Apple’s integrated approach provides a better user experience than Android’s fragmented approach. Even Android app stores are becoming fragmented and users will be “pulling their hair out” trying to figure out where to update their apps. Repeating Steve Jobs from the last call, Cook said they don’t believe customers want to be systems integrators.

With iPad specifically, Cook said they’ve had 3 months without any significant competition.

We know iPad 2 is coming (the rumors won’t stop!) but we know RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook, Android 3.0 tablets, and PalmPads are all coming. What do you think? Is Apple confident or over confident?

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Apple is holding their Q1 2011 financial results call today at 2pm PST, 5pm EST. Q1 covers the holidays, traditionally Apple’s strongest quarter, and this year should see another record being broken for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad sales.

Juxtaposed against the news of Steve Jobs taking another medical leave of absence, the stock market today and the Q&A following the call itself, could be a mixed bag of hurt for Apple. Numbers vs. emotion, we’ll see what wins out.

• www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq111

Quasi-live updates of the call after the break!

• Peter Oppenheimer (PO) talking about Macs.
• PO talking about Mac App Store
• iPod sales down, iPod touch sales 50%, continues to grow. 70% share remains the same. Still top selling in most countries.
• 16.2 million iPhones. Handset and accessories $10.7 billion. $10.1 billion iPhones alone. 185 carriers in 90 countries. Strong growth, Asia and Japan doubling.
• 88 Fortune 100, 60% of FT Europe now testing or deploying iPhone.
• CIOs continue to add iPhone to approved devices. Wells Fargo, ADM, Dupont, Staples, Starbucks, Nissan, Standard Charter, Dannon and others have made it available.
• 7.3 million iPads. Over 3 million increase. 43 countries. CIO’s adding iPad at amazing rate. 80% of Fortune 100 deploying or piloting. JP Morgan, Cardinal Health, Well Fargo, ADC, Dupont.
• $4.4 billion in iPads
• 165 million iOS devices sold to date
• Pleased with iAds, expanded to other countries.
• Apple Stores still doing great. China highest traffic, highest revenue. 323 stores worldwide. 87 outside US. $12 million avg. per store. 69% increase.
• 75.7 million visitors. Increase 49%.
• $59 billion in cash
• Q&A time! Tim Cook is on (TC)
• Q: How to ensure sufficient iPhones for Verizon?
• TC: Made bold move going to 14 million production, now gone to 16 million. Working on increasing further. Takes time. Thrilled to offer it to Verizon, existing and new customers. Going to get into as many hands as possible.
• Q: How comfortable are you with iPhone, iPad supply. Shortages?
• TC: iPad increased dramatically last quarter. Expanded to 46 countries. Added 20 during quarter. Adding 15 more in January. Confident. Feel good. Demand is high. Demand from Verizon will be huge. Doesn’t want to give prediction.
• Q: Sequential growth is impressive, what’s driving that? How will it be sustained?
• TC: Identified China as top priority, put enormous energy into China. Results staggering. (Greater China as region, PRC, HK, Taiwan). $2.6 billion last quarter. Up 4x. Korea also very good market. Driven by iPhone, iPad. Other Asian countries doing well. Japan not in segment. By itself 83% year over year. Stunning. Placing more resource there. Looking for expansion.
• Q: How long is roadmap? 1 year, 2 year? (Trying to find out how far Jobs has been involved).
• TC: Apple magic. Don’t want anyone copying it. Apple is doing best work ever. Steve has made excellence a habit. Feel very confident. Have low market share of handsets, huge market. Believe iPad market is huge as well. In fast moving markets. Have best products they’ve ever done. Confident.
• Q: Could have sold more, how many?
• PO: Can’t run experiment both ways. Couldn’t make enough. Would have loved more.
• Q: Commodities?
• TC: DRAM favorable. Metals increasing. NAND, batteries, ODDs, LCDs, most others in supply/demand balance. Design components they believe they can innovate beyond market. A4 chip is example. Didn’t feel like they had to build fab. Good options for doing that. Focused on design.
• TC: Signed deal with NAND Flash suppliers because anticipated importance, wanted to secure supply. Fantastic use of Apple cash, Look for more of these. Identified another area. Come to agreements PO talked about. Pre-payments, capitol, focused on area they feel is strategic. Not going into details.
• Q: iPad different on historical margin pattern?
• TC: Number of factors. Don’t guide on product level on margins.
• PO: Good track record on lowering costs. Strong gross margins. Happy.
• Q: Other tablets
• TC: Android tablets shipping today, OS not designed for tablet. Google has said that. Not Apple dig. Makes size less than reasonable, won’t provide real tablet experience. Scaled up smartphone. Bizarre product. Enormous percentage will select iPad. Next generation of Android tablets. Nothing shipping yet. Doesn’t know. Generally lack performance specs, timing. Today they’re vapor. Will assess when they come out. Apple not sitting still. Have huge first mover advantage. Incredible user experience. iTunes, App Store, ecosystem. Very confident entering fight with anyone.
• Q: Moving to multiple carriers ASP impact, other large carriers without iPhone, CMDA based? More?
• TC: Not releated to US or specific carrier: Always looking, assessing.
• TC: Signed multi-year non-exclusive deal with AT&T. Happy to have 2 carriers in US.
• TC: No contractual exclusivity anywhere in the world anymore.
• iPad cannibalization of Macs?
• TC: Yes but also halo effect. Look at the growth.
• Q: iPad influencing Mac?
• TC: No “not invented here” in Apple groups. Very low walls. Great ideas are great ideas. Uses MacBook Air as example, instant on like iPad.
• TC: Steve had phenomenal insight. MacBook Air is how to compete with iPad.
• Q: iPad new to the brand? Any numbers?
• TC: We collect it, of course. iPhone numbers been for a while. Doesn’t need numbers. Look at Asia numbers. Incredible.
• Q: Established tablet market vs. emerging, more about consumption vs. creation?
• TC: Tablet market large everywhere.
• Q: Supply again
• PO: Working hard to increase, won’t come overnight
• Q: Any other observations on Android and BlackBerry since Steve spoke last call?
• TC: Could have sold more iPhones. Suggests they grew faster than market. Working around the clock to meet supply. Increasing countries and carriers. Enormous enterprise traction. Mind-blowing. Highest customer ratings in industry. Largest App Store. Now sold over 160 million iOS devices.
• TC: Integrated approach provides better experience than fragmented approach. Fragmented app stores will make users pull their hair out. Updates will be hard to track. iOS is off charts on percentage of people who have latest OS version compared to other guys. Verizon will help Apple in the US. Just repeated Steve. Nut nut is their integrated approach is better for the end user, takes out the complexity. Doesn’t make user a system integrated. Doesn’t know many users who want to be SI. More iPhones they can get out, the more people love them. Think they have bright future. Same thing about iPad. Same set of issues. Difference is they’ve been running 3 quarters without any significant competition. iPad also off the charts. None of that new. Apple is in a very good position.
• TC: Thanks to iOS SDK can make an app and run your whole business off an iPad. Numbers incredible. iPad started shipping in April, already up to 80% of largest companies deploying or piloting. Unheard of at least in his dealings. Usually much slower, more cautious. Seen productivity, creativity advantage.
• That’s it! Thanks everyone!

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Apple has just reported their Q1 2011 financial results — the always lucrative holiday quarter — and they don’t disappoint: 16.24 million iPhones, 7.33 million iPhones, 19.45 million iPods, $26.74 billion in revenue.

"We had a phenomenal holiday quarter with record Mac, iPhone and iPad sales," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We are firing on all cylinders and we've got some exciting things in the pipeline for this year including iPhone 4 on Verizon which customers can't wait to get their hands on."

Their conference call will be starting soon and we’ll post up any and all iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Apple TV, and other news as it comes in.

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I got a chance to look at the brand new version of LockInfo a bit early so I’ve put together my thoughts for you guys to check out while you (im)patiently wait for the public release.

For those of you that don’t know, LockInfo is a great little jailbreak app that makes up for the poor (read: lack of) notification system Apple has left us with under iOS. I wrote a LockInfo setup and walkthrough a while back and now we’re going to look at the newest version of LockInfo by David Ashman.

As you can see from the screenshot above, LockInfo has gotten a pretty big face-lift in 3.0. You now have the option to select different themes within the app. The themes provided are much cleaner than the add-ons in Cydia as well. As of now, you’ve got the option of classic, dark, light, and iOS. All of them look exceptionally good. I also like the fact that you don’t have to respring in order for a theme change to take effect. You do, however, need to exit out of settings.

Besides themes, you’ll now notice that LockInfo has added support for in-line images. When you receive a Facebook notification, the Facebook icon will appear in your notification feed. Same with Twitter, Boxcar, games, and pretty much anything you get notifications for. E-mails and texts also have in-line image support as well. It just makes the entire notification feed look more streamline. Less Windows today screen like and more iOS like. Along with in-line images, you’ll also notice that text will wrap instead of cutting off. Extremely nice for reading a whole text message from the lockscreen. Obviously longer messages or e-mails will cut off at some point, but the preview is significantly longer.

Another new feature is the addition of favorites which aggregates all your favorite contacts from your phone book into LockInfo. I honestly don’t know how I’d live without this feature after using it. To be able to just tap a favorite contact from the lock screen to call or text them is a breath of fresh air. It’ll aggregate all your favorites so all you have to do is swipe left and right in order to page through them, just as you do on your home screen already.

The settings panel hasn’t changed much except for the addition of themes. Everything will be exactly like your used to. It wasn’t a huge transition from the last version. All your current settings and tweaks should still be there when you upgrade so no re-configuring everything.

Overall, LockInfo 3.0 is an amazing improvement to an already great application. It’s obvious David Ashman has put a tremendous amount of work into making this version the best release of LockInfo yet. It’d be wise of Apple to take a look at programs like LockInfo and learn from them. LockInfo brings the iPhone to a whole new level of usability for me and bringing it to mainstream users should be inevitable by now. But if iOS 5 doesn’t bring a new notification system with it, I’ll be perfectly content with LockInfo 3.0.

LockInfo currently runs for $7.99 in Cydia. You can also follow the developer, David Ashman, on Twitter as well at @Stimpy5050.

To all you jailbreakers out there, let us know what you think!

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A new app called AirView has appeared in the App Store today, which enables you to use AirPlay from one iOS device to another. The two devices have to be on the same local network or you can stream direct from iTunes. AirView allows you to stream video from an iPhone to an iPad, iPod Touch or another iPhone or any combination of two.

All you have to do is install AirView on the device you wish to stream to, fire up the app then launch the video on the streaming device. When you play the video the usual AirPlay icon appears and you can select the device that you wish to stream it to. As if by magic, the video starts to play. This works with videos played in iTunes on a Mac or PC too.

I have been testing the app for a short time today and it works perfectly. Unfortunately it only supports video at the moment. The app is available free in the App Store and you must have iOS 4.2 on both devices.

[iTunes Link]

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TiPb brings you a full glossary and dictionary of common iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV terms

New to iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Apple TV and looking for a glossary of terms or dictionary to help you know what all this tech-talk really means? From iOS or MobileMe, from Jailbreak to SSH mean, look no further, we've got you — and every definition we can think of! — covered below!

(Are we missing something? Add any additions or corrections to the comments below!)

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• Achievements: Some iOS games reward you with bonus points with specific achievements (See Game Center)
• ActiveSync: Microsoft’s Exchange push mail, calendar, contact, etc. protocol licensed by Apple for Mac OS X and iOS’s Mail app, and by Google for Google Sync.
• Ad hoc: A way to distribute apps outside the app store. Limited to 100 UDIDs (devices) per developer account.
• AirPlay: Let’s you stream video from iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or iTunes on a Mac or PC to an Apple TV, and audio to an Airport Express or other compatible speaker system
• AirPrint: Let’s you print from any iOS device from an AirPrint compatible printer
• Android: Google’s open-source mobile operating system. It’s used primarily in smartphones but also can be found on tablets, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) or even in kitchen appliances and automobile navigation. (see AndroidCentral.com)
• API: (Application Programming Interface) Part of the iOS SDK provided by Apple to developers that allows them to access official, publicly available functionality in their apps.
• App: Short for “application.” The programs you download and run on a smartphone. Can be free, or for sale. Most apps come from Apple's iTunes App Store but some can be made specifically by and for businesses or schools, and some are made expressly for the Jailbreak Cydia app store.
• App Store: Part of iTunes on Windows and Mac and a built-in app on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, App Store is the only place to buy 3rd party apps and games for iOS. Introduced in 2008 alongside iOS 2 and iPhone 3G.
• Apple: Pioneering personal computer company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, one of the most popular consumer electronics companies, and maker of iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV (among other things).
• Apple Store: A retail and online powerhouse that sells, and in the case of retail, services all Apple products including iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
• Apple TV: Apple’s original, Mac OS X Tiger-based living room set-top box designed to buy media from the iTunes Store or stream it from Mac or Windows iTunes.
• Apple TV 2: iOS-based second generation set-top box focused on streaming via Home Sharing or AirPlay, renting from the iTunes Store, and Netflix subscription content.
• AT&T: One of the four major U.S. carriers. Formerly the exclusive carrier of Apple's iPhone in the US, still the only GSM carrier with iPhone in the US and the only carrier providing service for the iPad 3G.

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• Baseband: The Modem Firmware of your iPhone
• Blog: (weB LOG) a ongoing internet-based publication, in chronological format, often focusing on a mix of news, commentary, and analysis, with frequent links to other sites on the web. (TiPb is a blog.)
• Bluetooth: A short-range radio build into smartphones that lets you connect headsets, speakerphones or even computers to your smartphone.

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• Calendar: One of Apple’s built-in apps, it handles events, invitations, and reminders on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
• Camera:: Built-in Apple app that handles the taking of photos and videos on iPhone and iPod touch 4.
• Carrier: A company that provides cell phone service.
• CDMA: One of two major standard for cell phone communications. Is used by Sprint and Verizon in the United States, and by a few nations elsewhere. Is largely seen as a dying standard. (See also GSM) CES: North America’s largest consumer electronics show, held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
• Cocoa Touch: Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Objective-C-based API framework. Used to create iOS apps in Xcode.
• Cook, Tim: Chief Operating Officer at Apple. He makes sure things run on time, on budget, all the time. Cook ran Apple during Steve Jobs’ leave of absence.
• CSS: (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to style and control the formatting of HTML documents such as web pages.
• Cydia: Created by Jay Freeman (Saurik) in March 2008, Cydia is an application for jailbroken iOS devices that allows for the purchase and installation of 3rd party extensions or apps that Apple does not allow in the App Store.

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• DFU Mode: Device Firmware Update mode, most commonly used to exploit and gain access to iOS in order to Jailbreak. Requires holding down the Sleep/Wake button for 3 seconds, then also holding down the Home button for 10 seconds, releasing Sleep/Wake and continuing to hold Home for 5 or more seconds until the screen goes black.
• Dock: Special row of icons (or Folders post-iOS 4) along the bottom of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that do not change when you swipe between Home Screens.
• Dock port: Apple’s proprietary 30-pin interface used to connect iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to a Mac or Windows PC via USB for syncing, or to connect to a variety of accessories for charging, audio, video, and more.

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• Early Termination Fee: Also known as an ETF, it’s what a carrier chargers you to break out of your contract. Usually are prorated.

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• Facebook: Currently the largest social network on the internet, built on the concept of friend-to-friend connections. One of the few, and the biggest, places on the web Google is excluded from.
• FaceTime Apple’s video calling service. Requires Wi-Fi and is currently only supported via phone number on iPhone and Apple ID email address on iPod touch 4 and Mac (beta).
• FairPlay DRM: Apple’s DRM (digital rights management) security, used to protect iTunes movies, TV shows, music videos, apps, and iBooks from piracy. FairPlay can be authorized on up to 5 Windows and Mac machines at one time and a similar number of iOS devices.
• Fast App Switcher: Apple’s multitasking dock, hidden behind the regular dock and accessible under iOS 4 and later version by double clicking the Home Button.
• Folder: An icon representing a group of apps. Introduced in iOS 4 they are created by dragging on app on top of the other in Jiggly Mode, and deleted by removing all the apps. iPhone and iPod touch can currently hold 12 apps per Folder. iPad can hold 20.
• Force Quit: In the Fast App Switcher, tapping and holding an app will put it in Jiggly Mode and tapping the X badge will force it to quit. Built-in apps like Mail and Messages will automatically and immediately restart while 3rd party apps will restart the next time you launch them.
• Forstall, Scott Senior Vice President of iOS software, came to Apple from NeXT with Steve Jobs. He’s in charge of everything that makes your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV run.

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• Game Center: Apple's gaming portal where you can discover new games and share your game experiences with friends from around the globe
• Genius Bar: A counter located in Apple Retail Stores where Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad users can make appointments and get service for their products.
• Gmail: Google’s web-based e-mail service. Can be set up as an Exchange account on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
• Google: The biggest company on the net and the provider of the maps data, YouTube videos, and Gmail for iOS users.
• GSM: One of two major standard for cell phone communications. Is used by AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States, and by the majority of carriers worldwide. (See also CDMA)

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• Hack (Hacking): Modifying a Jailbroken iOS device in order to change or enhance functionality.
• Home Button: The physical hardware button on the front of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, beneath the screen. Used to wake, return to the Home Screen, cycle between the Home Screen and Spotlight Search screen, open the Fast App Switcher, and optionally enabled Accessibility features.
• Home Screen: The front end of Apple’s Springboard app launcher that consists of 11 screens that hold app icons, Folders, the Dock, the Fast App Switcher, and the Spotlight Search screen.
• HTML: (HyperText Markup Language) is a standard for structuring text, images, and other content for display in web browsers such as iOS Safari. Tags are used to mark the beginning and end of elements that are then either styled by CSS or turned into actions like web links.

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• iBooks: Apple’s eBook reader, available from the App Store. It handles the standard ePub format protected by FairPlay DRM, and PDF. Introduced in 2010 alongside the iPad.
• iBookstore: iTunes for iBooks, it allows you to browse, search, and buy iBook format eBooks.
• iPad: Apple’s first tablet device, announced in January 2010 and released in April of the same year. It runs a modified version of iOS optimized for its larger, 9.7″ screen.
• iOS: Apple mobile operating system and the software that powers the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV.
• iOS SDK: Apple’s official Software Development Kit for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad containing Cocoa Touch frameworks, APIs, development tools, and other elements necessary to create iOS apps.
• iOS 2: Originally called iPhone 2.0 it was announced at the first ever Apple Preview Event in 2008 and was released alongside iPhone 3G on June 29 of the same year. Major new features included an SDK for developers, and App Store for 3rd party apps, and support for Apple's MobileMe service.
• iOS 3: Originally called iPhone 3.0 it was announced at the second Apple Preview Event in 2009 and released prior to the iPhone 3GS on June 17 of the same year. Major new features included copy/paste, MMS, and tethering (unsupported by AT&T).
• iOS 4: Announced at the third Apple Preview Event in 2010 and released prior to iPhone 4 on June 21 of the same year. Major new features included multitasking, folders, and FaceTime video calling.
• iPhone 2G: Original iPhone announced at Macworld 2007 and released June 29 of the same year. Major innovations included the multitouch user interface.
• iPhone 3G: Second iPhone announced at WWDC 2008 and released July 11 of the same year. Major new features included a 3G radio and an all new design.
• iPhone 3GS: Third iPhone announced at WWDC 2009 and released June 19 of the same year. Major new features included faster processors and video recording.
• iPhone 4: Forth iPhone announced at WWDC 2010 and released June 24 of the same year. Major new features included an A4 processor, Retina Display, front facing camera, and an all new design.
• iPod touch G1: Apple’s first generation multitouch, full screen, internet enabled iPod released September 5, 2007.
• iPod touch G2: Apple’s second generation iPod touch, it added volume buttons and a built-in speaker. Released September 9, 2008.
• iPod touch G3: Apple’s third generation iPod touch, it added more RAM and faster CPU and GPU. Released September 9, 2009.
• iPod touch G4: Apple’s fourth generation iPod touch, it added a Retina Display, front and back facing cameras with FaceTime, and a gyroscope.
• iTunes: Mac and Windows software used to activate and sync iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Also used to manage music, movies, TV shows, apps, books, and other media, and access the Ping social music network. Currently on version 10, released September 2010.
• iTunes App: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad app used on-device to access the iTunes Store and Ping social network.
• iTunes Connect: Apple’s developer portal. Used to submit apps for review by Apple, and to manage them by developers, including setting price and availability.
• iTunes Store: Online store run by Apple for purchasing music, movies, TV shows, and apps, and downloading podcasts and other media. Accessible via iTunes on Mac or Windows or the iTunes app on iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

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• Jailbreak: Breaking open the root jail Apple uses to secure iOS, allowing a user to customize the device and install apps outside of the App Store. Also required for AT&T carrier unlock.
• JavaScript: Scripting language, not at all related to Java, used by web pages to program enhanced functionality and interactivity.
• Jiggly Mode: Tap and hold an app and it will begin to “jiggle”, indicating you can move them around the Home Screen, from screen to screen, put them into folders, delete them by tapping their X badge (App Store apps only), or Force Quit them if they’re in the Fast App Switcher.
• Jobs, Steve: Co-founder and CEO of Apple and product visionary behind iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, etc.

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• Kernel: The basic Unix building block of iOS. Like Apple's Mac, iOS devices are based on the BSD-derived Darwin kernel.
• KHTML: The original Linux browser technology WebKit, and hence Apple’s Safari comes from.

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• LDAP: (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) can view and search contacts on your company or organization's LDAP server

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• Mail: Built-in Apple app for handling POP3, IMAP, MobileMe, and Exchange/ActiveSync email accounts.
• Messages: One of Apple’s built-in iPhone apps that handles SMS text messages and MMS multimedia messages.
• MMS: (MultimediaMmessages), introduced in iOS 3 and support images, videos, sound, contact cards, and location. Sent and received via the Messages app on iPhone to other mobile/cell phones.
• MobileMe: Apple’s push mail, calendar, and contacts service for iOS. Also includes galleries, iDisk, and Mac-only services like Back to my Mac, Mac Sync, and iWeb pages.

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• NeXT: Company founded by Steve Jobs after he was ejected from Apple. Ultimately purchased by Apple, prefacing the return of Jobs. NeXT technology, like NeXTStep evolved into the foundations of Mac OS X and iOS.
• NeXTSTEP: Objective-C programming framework purchased by Apple as part of the NeXT acquisition and evolved into Cocoa on Mac OS X and Cocoa Touch on iOS.
• Nitro: Apple’s JavaScript rendering engine used in the WebKit-based Safari browser for Mac, Windows, and iOS.

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• Objective-C: Apple’s superset of the C programming language used as part of the Cocoa Touch APIs to create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps. Derived from NeXT’s NeXTSTEP.
• Open GL: An open source 3D graphics library used in many devices, including iOS devices Open Source: Software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.
• OTA: (Over the Air) The act of moving data to your phone — downloading, really — without having to plug it in. iOS devices can buy music, download apps, sync data, etc. OTA.

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• Photos: Built-in Apple app that handles the camera roll for iPhone and iPod touch 4, and synced photos and videos for iPhone and all generations of iPad and iPod touch.
• Ping: Apple’s social music network launched in September 2010 alongside the fourth generation iPod touch. It lives inside iTunes on Mac, Windows, and iOS and is hooked into Twitter.
• Private API: An API that may or may not be used by Apple but isn’t finished, polished, or otherwise approved for developers to use in App Store apps. Apple will reject any app that uses a Private API.
• Public API: An API approved by Apple and made available in the iOS SDK. Public API’s are a guarantee by Apple that developers can use them and not worry Apple will make changes, which could result in apps crashing or having experiencing other bugs.

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• QuickTime: Apple’s 2D graphics layer, used to play movies and other video on iOS.

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• Respring: Relaunching iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad’s Springboard. Typically used by Jailbreak apps after installation or changes to Springboard.
• Retina Display: 960×640, 326ppi display available on iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4.

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• Safari: Apple’s web browser, both for Mac OS X and iOS (sometimes called Mobile Safari). Based on KHTML/WebKit renderer and the Nitro JavaScript engine.
• Schiller, Phil: Senior Vice President of Marketing at Apple. When Steve Jobs was on leave of absence, Schiller stepped in to the Keynote hot seat.
• SDK: (Software Developers Kit) a set of tools, including API, frameworks, interface elements, etc. used to create software, i.e. apps.
• SHSH Blobs: (Signature HaSH) is a 128-byte digital signature generated by Apple and used to verify firmware on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Since Apple will not verify older firmware, SHSH blobs are typically saved to Cydia or services like Tiny Umbrella by Jailbreakers so they can rollback to older firmware.
• SIM card: The little card used in GSM phones (AT&T, Rogers, O2, etc.) that connects the phone to the network.
• Sleep/Wake Button: Physical hardware button on top of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Used to power on, wake from sleep, put to sleep, and power down iOS devices.
• SMS: (Short Message Service) Text messages sent from the Messages app on iPhone to other cell/mobile phones.
• Spotlight Search: Part of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Home Screen system, accessible by swiping left to right or clicking the Home Button when on the primary Home Screen, or inside Apple apps like Messages, Mail, Contacts, iPod, etc. Performs text-based search and shows results for contacts, apps, music, podcasts, videos, audiobooks, notes, mail, calendar events, and SMS messages.
• Springboard: The internal name of the program Apple uses to run the iOS home screen, including the app launcher and fast app switcher.
• Sprint: One of the four major U.S. carriers.
• SSH: (Secure SHell) is a secure network communication protocol used to communicate between Mac or Windows and a Jailbroken iOS device. Apple defaults all iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad SSH passwords to “alpine”, which should be changed for security reasons if SSH is enabled.

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• T-Mobile: One of the four major U.S. carriers.
• Tethering: The act of using your iPhone's data to provide Internet access to another device, such as a laptop. Can be done via Bluetooth or via a USB cable.
• Twitter: One of the most popular social networks built around a follower/following system rather than friends, and limited to 140 characters (think micro-blog meets SMS).

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• UDID: (Unique Device Identifier) The series of numbers and letters used by Apple and developers to uniquely identify your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Your UDID needs to be registered with Apple’s developer program to run beta versions of iOS and needs to be included in developer’s provisioning files to run Ad Hoc apps.
• USB: Stands for Universal Serial Bus. Is a method of connecting devices to a computer. Apple iOS devices connect via dock port to your computer's USB port.

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• Verizon: One of the four major U.S. carriers. Currently the only CDMA carrier in the US to offer the iPhone 4. Also currently offers the iPad + MiFi combo.
• VPN: (Virtual Private Network) provides secure access over the Internet to private networks, such as the network at your company or school.

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• WebKit: Apple supported open source HTML browser rendering engine that forms the foundation of Safari on Mac, Windows, and iOS. Also used by Google’s Chrome, Palm webOS, Nokia, and others.
• Wi-Fi: A trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, commonly used to refer to 802.11g (pre-2010 iOS devices) or 802.11n (post-2010 iOS devices) wireless networking.

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• Xcode: Apple’s IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used to write Objective C code and create native App Store apps.

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• YouTube: Google’s web-based streaming video service. Accessible from iPhone or iPod touch via the YouTube app, or iPad either inline or via the YouTube app.
• YouTube app: One of Apple’s built-in iOS apps that allows searching, browsing, and playback of H.264 format YouTube videos.

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The white iPhone 4 has shown up in Best Buy and Vodafone Germany’s order processing systems with an availability date of February 27.

Of course these hints are always hit and miss as retailers sometimes create placeholder entries based on the same type of rumors you read right here on TiPb so take this with a white iPhone 4 sized grain of salt.

Apple’s only official word on the White iPhone 4 has been “coming this spring” so February might be a touch early. However with the Verizon iPhone set to ship on February 10 and an iPhone 5 almost certainly following in June the window for a white iPhone 4 is already very small. (Even Leanna has gone after market!)

What do you think, will we finally see the white iPhone 4 soon and if so, too late or better late than never?

[MacRumors, Engadget]

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Installed some Cydia apps onto your Jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and curious how to delete them? Tried the regular method of tapping and holding and making them jiggle but not seeing the handy App Store app “delete” icon in to corner? Don’t worry, if your Cydia apps or extensions aren’t working, are causing conflicts, or are simply no longer desired you can delete them as well. We’ll show you how after the break!

With Cydia there’s a few more steps involved in deleting an app than the App Store method but it’s still rather easy

1. Launch Cydia.
2. In Cydia, tap the ‘Manage’ tab along the bottom toolbar.
3. Tap ‘Packages’ at the top of the Manage pane.
4. Scroll through the alphabetical list to find the app you want to remove.
5. Tap the app to be taken to its respective pane.
6. Tap ‘Modify’ in the upper-right corner.
7. From here you’ll have the option to reinstall the app or remove it altogether. Tap ‘Remove’.
8. Tap ‘Confirm’ in the upper-right corner.

Cydia will then perform some magic and wipe the app from your iDevice, and you’ll no longer see the app icon on your springboard. If you’d like to reinstall the app, simply launch Cydia and search for the app you just deleted to reinstall.

Bonus Tip: If you’d like to remove jailbreak apps the same way you remove App Store apps, go into Cydia and search for CyDelete. CyDelete is a free extension and won’t install any app icon, but instead allows the user to tap-and-hold Cydia apps on the springboard in order to remove them by tapping the ‘x’ once in wiggle-mode. We’ve tested CyDelete on 4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.1, but haven’t confirmed it working on 4.2.1 yet so let us know if you have it up and running.

As always, if you have any questions or run into an issue, let us know and we’ll do our best to help out in the comments below!

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