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iPhone 3GS SlashGear 02 r3media 272x204 customThe surest way for someone to generate attention is by making an Apple prediction. Apple has a cult following, and its product development and launch strategy is famously secretive, so the fact that your source is the lunch counter guy across the block from the Hon Hai factory in Taiwan won’t be discovered (or may even be considered authoritative!). Financial analysts are often the worst offenders – we have been promised an Apple tablet more times than I can count, assured that an iPhone nano was on the way, and where’s that iPod touch with a camera?

However, market analysts like me (and fellow SlashGear columnist Michael Gartenberg) rarely talk about specific products before they’re launched. Often, that’s because I can’t: vendors frequently tell me what they are working on ahead of time under non-disclosure agreements. Another reason that I don’t make specific predictions is that I simply hate being wrong: my job depends on my being both trustworthy and generally accurate, and I’m not about to jeopardize that for a bit of extra attention in the press.

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Verizon have launched an offensive against the iPhone, with a new campaign called DroidDoes.com for their upcoming Motorola Droid Android smartphone.  The handset, previously known by its codenames of Tao and Sholes, is being promoted as offering everything the iPhone eschews: an open development platform, the ability to run background processes, a flexible, open App Store and replaceable batteries, among other things.  Verizon have also set up a countdown timer which suggests that the Motorola Droid will arrive on October 30th 2009.

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app storeApple have tweaked their App Store policies to allow for in-app purchases in free applications [iPhone developer link].  Contrary to initial rules that only paid applications could offer users paid content, subscriptions and digital services within the software, the change now means that developers can release, say, a free “Lite” version with an option to upgrade, within the app, to the full title.

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With the proliferation of hacks for Apple’s smartphone it’s hard to keep on top of what’s most impressive, but we’ve a feeling that putting Expose onto the iPhone 3GS makes a decent argument for being near the top of the list.  It’s the handiwork of Steve Troughton-Smith, who you might remember from first identifying the iPhone OS 3.0 tethering hack and then going on to jailbreak the CDMA Palm Pre.

Update: Tom of Ocean Observations, a Swedish design firm, has been in touch to let us know that the original idea for Exposé on iPhone emerged from a video concept some of his team came up with.  Check out that video after the cut.

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Adobe have released Photoshop Mobile for iPhone, and as you’d expect from the title it offers straightforward on-device image editing for iPhone and iPod touch owners.  As well as basic crop, rotate and flip tools, there’s also saturation and tint control, exposure and vibrancy tweaking and various filters and effects.

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If you’re a player in the cellphone space then the J.D. Power Wireless Satisfaction Survey is your equivalent of the Miss World contest, and it looks like once again it’s Apple wearing the smartphone crown.  The iPhone took first place in the smartphone study, both in the consumer and business segments, and neatly keeping RIM’s BlackBerry range in second place.

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skype iphone1 540x437AT&T has come in for no small amount of criticism for its network’s ability to cope with avid iPhoners, both in dropped calls and tardy data, so we’re not sure the carrier’s latest news – that it has opened up VoIP support for the iPhone over 3G connections – is 100-percent good.  Pushing network capacity to one side for the moment, the announcement means that – assuming Apple approves their software applications – companies like Skype will be free to enable 3G VoIP apps on the iPhone.

What’s unclear from the press release (which you can read after the cut) is whether VoIP use will be included in the standard “unlimited” data package iPhone buyers sign up to.  Given one of AT&T’s arguments in the past has been that VoIP consumes significantly more network capacity and data than regular use, it’s possible that they could look to squeeze more money out of subscribers for its use.

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When you’ve got 85,000 titles to choose from, having some way of cutting through the selection and finding the right app goes from being a luxury to a necessity, and so Apple have cranked up their “there’s an app for that” offensive with “Apps For Everything“.  The new category system aims to further slice up the code-bloated App Store, introducing thirteen new sections.

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It’s not all Microsoft’s Courier grabbing tablet headlines today; Apple’s touchscreen tablet is also making waves, with iLounge claiming to have more insider news on the upcoming device.  According to their sources, there have been three separate prototypes of the device they’re calling the “iPad”, starting with a 7-inch display which was then junked for a larger, 10.7-inch capacitive touchscreen running at around 720p resolution.

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After Orange’s announcement yesterday that they would be offering the iPhone 3GS in the UK, now comes word that Vodafone will be the third carrier in the country to sell Apple’s smartphone.  According to UK paper The Telegraph, the Vodafone iPhone 3GS is likely to be £100 cheaper ($159) after analysts predict a price war between carriers.

Update: Vodafone have confirmed the news; the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS will launch in the UK and Ireland in early 2010. [Thanks Dion!]

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