According to Goldman Sachs’ Robert Chen, it won’t lack new features. “Apple’s going to put a lot of innovation, not just on the hardware, but also on the software of the new iPhone,” he said.

Specifically, this might mean a better camera (which is a very safe bet as far as predictions go), but also a sensitive back case, similar to the touch panel used for the Magic Mouse. A couple of days ago, Motorola introduced the Backflip, an AndroidAndroidAndroid smartphone that can be controlled via a touchpad on the back of the screen; dare we dream of something similar on the iPhoneiPhoneiPhone?

Apple, of course, doesn’t comment on “rumors and speculation.” But according to Chen, the new iPhone will go into production in April and should be available to consumers in June or July — just enough time for the rumor train to go into full speed.

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What’s important now is that Apple maintains their strategy and ensures that it stays ahead of the Google Nexus One. Although, latest reports state, “In the Google phone’s first week, it was outsold by the iPhone by a factor of 80 to 1″, so I don’t think Apple needs to worry too much!

The mobile took 10 months to create and was commissioned by an “Australian gold mining magnate” who clearly had a lot of money on hand now that the value of gold has reached new all-time highs.

The Supreme has 22K solid gold casing, and the front bezel is studded with 136 diamonds. Hughes adds that the “rear logo has 53 flawless diamonds and the front navigation button is home to a very rare diamond at 7.1 cts.”

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Features:

• Three Steps: Import, Preview then Export. Done.
• Convert virtually any audio format into an iPhone ringtone
• Extracts audio out of video
• Choose which section of the audio you want to hear
• Adjust ringtone length, volume, fade in, fade out and loop gap
• Export to iPhone ringtone format and import right into iTunes
• Export to iPhone using SCP/SFTP and skip using iTunes
• Use audio effects: Delay, Flanger, Boost, Reverse, etc.

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Since the launch of this portal in Sep 2008, we‘ve been promoting this unconventional bootstrapped venture throughout the world and we’re quite intrigued with the support shown by the blogosphere. Bloggers from all the continents have participated in this venture. We have received our 2,000th registration this month and as a big “THANK YOU”, we’ve decided to give away 30 iphones (3GS) to 30 lucky twitter users in 15 days. We’d like to thank our official sponsor Hostgator for the tremendous support they’ve shown by sponsoring a part of this campaign.

- Contest begins from July 29th, 2009 and ends on Aug 12th, 2009.
- Once chosen as a prize winner, one is not eligible to win another prize during this   giveaway. One may enter a contest as many times as one would like via Twitter
- To participate, one must send out a tweet from his/her Twitter account with the   #HGBW hashtag included. Each tweet sent with   #HGBW   included will be considered an entry into that day’s giveaway.
- Entries using automated tweets will be disqualified.
- A winner will be chosen, at random, each day at 6pm EDT and announced via   Blogertizeworld’s official contest page and Twitter account   (www.twitter.com/blogertizeworld or @Blogertizeworld). All tweets sent after 6pm EDT,   will be considered an entry in the following day’s giveaway.
- Winning prize will be a $199 gift certificate to the Apple store, which may be used   towards the purchase of an 8GB iPhone, or towards any other official Apple products or   services.
- In case the winner wants us to purchase the prize (iphone3GS-8GB) on his/her behalf   we shall have it shipped directly to his/her door anywhere in the world. (You must prove   ownership of the winning entry and your shipping address). We will dispatch the prize   by Sep 15th 2009.
- Should the daily winner choose to purchase an iPhone with their gift certificate, he/she   will be responsible for establishing and paying for their own cellular/data network plan   through AT&T (or whichever provider supports the iPhone in their country).
- No purchase is necessary to enter (i.e. one need not be an existing Blogertizeworld   customer in order to be eligible to win the daily prize).
- Once contacted, winners will be responsible for providing Blogertizeworld with a mailing   address. Gift certificates/iphones will be mailed/shipped out by Sep 15th.
- Entrants’ personal details will be used by Sitemaker strictly in accordance with   Sitemaker’s privacy policy

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