How Many iPhones Did Apple Sell Today? A Sh*tload. [IPhone]

By Kyle Wagner Oct 14, 2011 6:37 PM 20,850 43

I guess you guys weren't all that disappointed in the iPhone 4S after all. AT&T's already broken their record for single-day iPhone sales, and it's on pace to double the old record. And with Verizon and Sprint on top of that, well, that's kind of a lot.

AT&T looking like it's going to double its single-day record is especially impressive because this is the first iPhone launch where it's had to share the mic with Verizon and Sprint. Put another way, take last year's (AT&T-only) iPhone launch, double it, and then on top of that pile on whatever Verizon and Sprint sell today—which will be a lot. Especially considering Sprint's already reporting its best day of retail and web sales ever. That's crazy. [AT&T]

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Report: Sprint's Total Equipment Protection Won't Cover iPhones [Sprint]

By Kyle Wagner Oct 10, 2011 8:58 AM 3,113 6

It looks like Sprint iPhone users will have to buy AppleCare+ like the rest of us if you want a safety net for dropped, submerged, and otherwise demolished handsets. SprintFeed got its hands on a slide saying Sprint's Total Equipment Protection plans won't cover the iPhone.

Here's the thing: the $100 for AppleCare actually comes out to well under what the $7/month Sprint's Total Equipment Protection plans cost over a two-year contract. And the slide only specifies that the non-offering is planned "at launch" for now, so it could change. But with Sprint pinching pennies all over the place lately, it wouldn't be that surprising to see it just up and outsource all iPhone insurance nonsense Apple's way. [SprintFeed via Engadget via Techmeme]

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This Is Why the iPhone's Screen Will Always Be 3.5 Inches [IPhone]

By Jesus Diaz Oct 8, 2011 4:07 PM 181,708 718

Why does the iPhone have a 3.5-inch screen? Why do larger smartphones feel awkward on your hand? Dustin Curtis has an answer, and I think it is spot on:

Touching the upper right corner of the screen on the Galaxy S II using one hand, with its 4.27-inch screen, while you're walking down the street looking at Google Maps, is extremely difficult and frustrating. I pulled out my iPhone 4 to do a quick test, and it turns out that when you hold the iPhone in your left hand and articulate your thumb, you can reach almost exactly to the other side of the screen.

His graphic shows this clearly. It makes total sense. And that is exactly why we would never see any larger screen iPhone. That 3.5-inch screen will be the ideal size until all humans are 7-feet tall and have hands the size of frying pans. [dcurtis]

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What's So Great About the iPhone's New Camera? [Video]

The camera in the iPhone 4S is going to be better. We suspected as much, but now we know exactly how it's going to be better.

It's faster. Much faster. We're talking half a second in between photos, so if you missed the moment you won't have to wait for an eternity for another try. Most of the other leading camera-phones take two to three times that long.

It's bigger and brighter. The images it takes will be 8 megapixels at 3264x2448 pixels. That's some nice resolution right there. But, as we've said before, ISO is as important as megapixels. Sometimes adding more pixels into the same, small area actually decreases the image quality if the sensor can't handle it. Thankfully, the image sensor is going to be backside illuminated (like the iPhone 4, the myTouch 4G Slide, and Sony's newer Xperia phones), which will get it 73 percent more light (more than the iPhone 4, too). In other words, photos you take when the lighting isn't great will suck less. It's got a larger, f/2.4 aperture, too, which isn't much bigger than the iPhone 4's, but it will give it another little boost.

It's sharper and more vibrant. The five element lens should give you a cleaner image, theoretically. It should make it 30 percent sharper than the iPhone 4 (which had a four element lens). They also included a hybrid infrared filter. This is the kind of thing you usually just see on DSLR cameras. It should give you more accurate and more vibrant colors, and reduce red ghosting and chromatic aberrations which sometimes happen around light sources.

It's cinema-ier. Video hasn't been left out. It will shoot 1080p video at up to 30 frames per second, which means it should look good on your HDTV and not be stretched unnaturally. However, when a small camera shoots at 1080p sometimes the edges get warped, and there can be a pesky flicker due to the rolling shutter effect. We'll have to see if this is continues to be a problem on this camera. Either way, it will definitely take advantage of the backside illuminated sensor, but it remains to see what the bitrate will be, which has a large effect on the resulting quality. Anyway, welcome to 2011, Apple!

UPDATE: Now with video (see above).

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Prisoners Don't Like to Put iPhones Up Their Ass [IPhone]

According to a Folsom Prison guard, the iPhone is not a very popular cellphone among convicts. It's hard to smuggle it inside the prison because "they take too much... real state."

The question now is: would the new iPhone 5 form factor increase Apple's market share in the US prison system? And how popular is the 5.3-inch Samsung Note? [Twitter]

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