iOS 4.3 Beta 1 Suggests New iPhone And iPad Models. Apple Might Remove The Home Button On Gen Devices Post from: FSMdotCOM Apple pushed iOS 4.3 beta 1 yesterday, and today Engadget reports that if you dig far enough into iOS’s code, you’ll eventually come across iPhone3,1, which is the AT&T iPhone 4, and the analogous iPhone3,2 (i.e.  Verizon iPhone ). It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but then along comes iOS 4.3 with a handful of new mystery identifiers to spurn speculation — namely, two new-generation iPhones (4,1 and 4,2) and three iPads (2,1; 2,2; and 2,3). Speculate all you want, but there isn’t much else at all we can say definitively here, but if we had to take a guess, it’s the GSM and CDMA variants of the next-gen models (plus a WiFi-only iPad). In other news, BGR reports that Apple just added multitouch gestures for the iPad in the latest iOS 4.3 beta is because the iPad will be losing the home button. Yes, we are told that Apple, at some point in time, will remove the home button from the iPad’s design. Instead of button taps, you will use new multitouch gestures to navigate to the home screen and also to launch the app switcher. That’s not all, however. In addition to the home button disappearing from the iPad, we’re told that this change will make its way over to the iPhone as well. Additionally, Apple’s popular photo-taking application, Photo Booth, will be appearing on the next iPad. It’s also very possible that we’ll see iLife apps for iOS unveiled around the iPad 2 release as well.

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Two new iPhones have surfaced in the firmware for the AppleTV device. The current iPhone 4 is 3,1 according to Apple and the new devices in the firmware are listed as 3,2 and 3,3. Research has surfaced that was conducted by CoolBrands Council and it has found that the iPhone had been knocked out of the coolest brands mark by Aston Martin. Even James Bond likes Aston Martin; it’s a hard brand to beat. Rumors floating around are suggesting that the official Google Voice app for the iPhone may be imminent. The app was submitted after Apple relaxed app guidelines for the App Store.

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So we’ve had the iPad, the iPhone 4, new Macs and a Magic Trackpad to keep us all occupied for the last few months, but now those are all established, or at least real, products, what’s next on the agenda from Apple?

So we’ve had the iPad, the iPhone 4, new Macs and a Magic Trackpad to keep us all occupied for the last few months, but now those are all established, or at least real, products, what’s next on the agenda from Apple?

One thing that would certainly be nice for the iPhone, is some sort of feedback when you press an on screen key. The answer to this, is dilemma, is haptic feedback. This technology has already made it

via Ars Technica

In the last several weeks, rumors and speculation about the upcoming 3G version of the iPhone have greatly multiplied. The reasons for this sudden increase in noise could could be any number of things, but seasoned Apple-rumor-followers know from experience that an increase in chatter almost always indicates that something is about to hit, regardless of whether any one chatterer was entirely accurate.

So, we know it’s coming, but what else? Here, we try to differentiate between what we know, what we don’t, and everything in between.

What we know

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The recently released iPhone SDK Beta 3 continues to give up juicy hints as to Apple

According to Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, Apple has ordered 10 million iPhones made to operate on 3G networks, based on the rumours he has heard in Asia. This is an additional 10 million, to current gen phones which Apple hopes to sell by the end of 2008.

Dulaney also said that 3G iPhone uses an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display which would lead to a thinner phone and longer battery life

Are you excited about iPhone 2.0 firmware just as we are? Now thanks to some folks from Hackintosh and Gizmodo, we have a video and some pics of how it looks.

There are quite a bunch of new features in it like Parental Controls, Mass mail delete, App store, Exchange support, advanced calculator Cisco VPN support and more.

Video is a bit blurry but it might satisfy the hungry ones:

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