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Rumors about the new iPhone are heating up today with a new report from 9to5Mac. According to their internal Apple sources, the new iPhone won’t have a 4″ screen.

Instead it’s going to have a 3.95″ screen with an entirely new aspect ratio. The new screen is going to be much taller than the existing screen on the iPhone. 9to5Mac is predicting that the resolution will be 1136 x 640, or about 15% taller. Read more

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No one knows what Apple plans to do with the next iPhone, but that’s not stopping everyone from speculating. The WSJ joined the fray this morning with some old rumors.

The iPhone has had a 3.5″ screen ever since it debuted in 2007, but the rumor going around right now is that the next one will have a 4″ screen.  According to the Journal’s sources, the larger screen will give the iPhone a better shot against Android smartphones, which have been steadily been getting bigger. A 4.8″ screen is not uncommon and the Samsung Galaxy Note even has a 5.3″ screen.

The WSJ has more details:

Until now, Apple has never changed the size of the iPhone’s screen, which has always been 3.5 inches from the first model that debuted in 2007. For the next iPhone, which analysts predict will come out in the fall, Apple is working with multiple screen makers including South Korea’s LG Display Co., Japan’s Sharp Corp. and Japan Display Inc., a new company created last month by three Japanese companies and the government, some of the people said.

I myself think the screens are too big in the 4.8″ range, with the 5.3″ Note simply being ridiculous. But would you buy a larger iPhone?

iLounge is reporting today that the new iPhone, which at this point is nothing more than a rumor, is going to have a larger screen and a new docking port.

Here’s more from the article: “What we’ve learned: the new iPhone will indeed be longer and thinner than the iPhone 4 and 4S. Approximate measurements are 125mm by 58.5mm by 7.4mm—a 10mm jump in height, nearly 2mm reduction in thickness, and virtually identical width. According to our source, Apple will make one major change to the rear casing, adding a metal panel to the central back of the new iPhone. This panel will be flat, not curved, and metal, not ceramic. Our artist’s rendition provides a rough idea of what this change will look like; it echoes the current-generation iMac design, to be sure.”

What do you think of the rumored design? I don’t care either way – just so long as it works. The design of the iPhone 4, which was the first to depart from the lozenge shape, was intensely unpopular in some quarters due to the change in the design. I cared more about the fact that Apple came up with a design that clearly had an issue with the antenna (go look at how Steve Jobs held the iPhone 4) yet Apple shipped it anyway. That is what concerns me, though it is unlikely that the iPhone 5 will have a similar flaw.

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Socialcam has rocketed to second place on AppData’s Top Free App leaderboard, displacing its competitor, Viddy. In the App Store, Social Cam highlights a blurb describing the app as “Instagram for Video.”

The Socialcam app lets you quickly upload video from your iPhone (without a 15-second restriction, like Viddy), adding filters that can make your video look like a black & white film or a scene from Tron or a Super 8 home movie. You can also add music and themes that range from Action to Reporter to MTV to Country. TechCrunch has more about the battle between two popular video apps:

Socialcam still has just three full-time employees, compared to Viddy’s twenty-some, though Seibel tells me his company is looking to hire “aggressively” in the weeks ahead. Viddy has raised $6 million in Series A funding and is said to be in the process of raising some $30 more at a sky-high $370 million valuation. Socialcam, again, is staying mum on its exact funding numbers.

Do you get frustrated typing the same long words, email addresses or difficult names in your iPhone or iPad?

You should add a shortcut to speed up your typing and make your life easier. Below, we’ve listed the simple steps to add a typing shortcut on an iPhone or iPad. Do you have a favorite typing shortcut?

1. Click on the settings on your iPad or iPhone. Click on the “General” tab. Then click the “Keyboard” tab toward the bottom of the menu (see the image embedded above for a visual).

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The iPhone will lock down your phone if someone enters 3 wrong passcodes, and you can even wipe all your data remotely. But if that’s not secure enough, you might want to consider waiting for the new iPhone. The developers at Aatma Studios have come up with a new idea for securing a phone. It works under the theory of “If I cannot have it, no one can”. This is just a concept, but it’s still cool.

The following video is a senior project for a graphic design student. You can’t get any devices or apps capable of doing it yet, but it is still cool.

Don’t you wish your iPhone had an app that could do this? I do.

Yesterday I brought you a video of a fake iPhone 5. The video was made by someone who clearly felt deeply about the iPhone, so much so that he put the time and effort into faking a video. Today I will show you something even more surprising.

The video above was made by a team of bloggers who were so obsessed with the new iPhone that they coughed up the funds to make a design prototype. This isn’t the new iPhone, and given that they don’t have the plans it’s possibly not even close to looking like the real thing. But this prototype is their best guess of what the new iPhone will look like when it is unveiled next week. If you like, you can read their post on what the prototype feels like. I won’t; I prefer to stay away from the crazy people.

It’s true, kids today really are growing up on digital devices. Educational app development company StudyPad has a new math app that does away with paper math homework and puts it all on an iPhone or iPad.

Splash Math Grade 1 is an iPhone/iPad app that comes with a series of comprehensive math worksheets for first, second and third graders. And the company is pitching teachers to use these worksheets in the classroom in lieu of traditional print workbooks.

The $4.99 app includes exercises and games to teach basic math skills such as addition, time, money and measurements. The app also gives parents weekly progress reports of the child’s strengths and weaknesses every Saturday morning via email.

An iPhone 5 fansite has posted a video that it claimed showed the new iPhone. Unfortunately, this video wasn’t quite as well made as it should have been. When you watch the video, stop it at frame 0:00. Note that you’re looking at Quicktime playing a local video file and then note that the images changes to show the “website”.

This was almost an interesting bit of news. Sorry, folks, but as cool as this might look it’s not real.

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