In a fitting tribute to a technology that he had a hand in creating, entrepreneur and sailing yacht racer Philippe Kahn recently used a satellite hookup and his iPhone 4 to make a FaceTime call to his office from dead-center between Santa Cruz, California and Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Folks at Ars Technica and Engadget carried out some tests to find out whether Android 2.2 Froyo’s browser is faster than iOS 4’s Mobile Safari browser.

They carried out the tests on Google’s Nexus One and Apple’s iPhone 4 to find out which one is the world’s fastest mobile browser. If you’re an Apple/iPhone fanboy then you will be surprised by the results.

Ars Technica carried out SunSpider and V8 benchmark tests to find out the JavaScript performance of the mobile browsers. Ars Technica reports:

The results show that the Android device delivers significantly faster JavaScript execution than the iPhone, scoring over three times better on V8 and almost twice as fast on SunSpider.

Engadget were not satisfied with just the JavaScript performance tests so they carried out some tests to find out real-life performance of these browsers. Engadget observed that:

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If you were thinking of buying a bumper for your shiny new iPhone 4 then you might want to think again.

Folks at iFixyouri, an online repair shop for iPhones have performed a drop test on the iPhone 4 with Apple’s bumper case to see if it can prevent glass and LCD damage.

iFixyouri report:

We’ve have known for a little while now that iPhone 4 bumpers do not offer all of the protection needed because customers have called in an told us. Although it does not take a video by iFixyouri to inform you that dropping your new iPhone 4 on concrete is a bad idea, hopefully this video squashed any doubts as to the bumpers effectiveness.

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TUAW fans who watched Erica Sadun’s proprietary “Strength” app in action yesterday saw proof that there is a degradation in signal quality on the iPhone 4 when it is handheld. The so-called iPhone 4 “death grip,” which consists of Read more…

Thanks to Obama Pacman, here’s a neat (audio muted) video comparison of web browsing speed over 3G on an iPhone 4 (shown on the left) and an iPhone 3GS (shown on the right).

The test was done using only mobile 3G with Wi-Fi turned off, and it shows a variety of sites using Safari in a head to head comparison. In almost all the tests, the iPhone 4 was much faster in Web browsing.

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Oh come on. You knew it was coming, ever since the iPhone 4 was announced. And here it is. There’s not much to say — you know what’s going to happen. Just watch and enjoy.

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Remember applegirl002, the Korean girl who sang a song accompanied by her iPhone apps a while back? Turns out she’s gone pro — after 4.2 million views of her clip across the web, a South Korean record label has reportedly inked a deal to record her own songs and make some more professional videos. She’s classically trained, and Read more…

Natalia Luckynova is half of Imangi Studios. Along with her husband Keith Shepherd, she makes iPhone and iPod games, including the popular Harbor Master and a few other titles.

We got to meet up with her at WWDC last week, and she was able to show off their latest title, Max Adventure, due out for the App Store in just a few weeks’ time. The game was heavily improved since I last saw it in action, and it’s shaping up to be a quality dual stick shooter — a little kiddy, but with a fun element of exploring a nice mix of environments and an actual story to follow.

You can see the game above, and once you’ve checked it out, be sure to head after the break, where Luckynova tells us how the company’s first iPad game is doing, what they think of iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0, and how she learned what a Kraken is.

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We are not sure if this is a bug or a feature but if you try to push the power/sleep button for three times in a row on the lockscreen, the iPhone goes right into flashlight mode showing bright white screen.

I have also tested this and it appears to be working on iPhone OS 4 Beta 4.

Could this be one of those useful little things like “Screenshot Capture” in iPhone which Apple is so good at implementing? Most likely yes.

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The iPhone rumor mill is working overtime with less than a week to go for WWDC 2010 Keynote address, where Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the much awaited new iPhone.

Folks at iPhone Portugal have published videos of the next generation iPhone chassis/edge casing.The fourth generation iPhone parts were apparently bought by one of their readers in China.

iPhone Portugal claims:

These parts were purchased in China by one of our readers (weren’t stolen or found) then delivered to us. We will not reveal the price. Are those parts genuine? We can not know but we can tell for sure those parts are perfect, have no defects, not faulty at all, there is not even one single difference between the 2 copies we have.

There is no way to confirm the authenticity of the parts but they’ve shot a video to show the high quality of the parts:

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Last time we wrote about “Android on iPhone” bits was when hackers had successfully ported Android to an iPhone 2G. We also posted a complete step by step guide on how to install it on a jailbroken 2G.

But the problem was that it was only for the iPhone 2G, not for the 3G version which is more widely used now than the original iPhone EDGE model.

Things are shaping out to be quite good for the Android on iPhone 3G. It wont be long before we see full blown version of Android running on iPhone 3G. The hackers/developers have already finished writing up a multi-touch driver for the iPhone, which would open a gateway for multi-touch support on Android in iPhone. According to the blog post:

I finished writing a driver for the Zephyr2 on the iPhone. It’s the same multi-touch solution that Apple has used starting from the first generation iPod touch and up to and including the iPad.

Now, of course this shouldn’t be construed as a promise to support the iPad eventually, but this multi-touch driver is definitely a concrete milestone that is important for pretty much all of Apple’s mobile Internet devices.

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Apple’s next generation iPhone OS – iPhone OS 4.0 includes several features such as multitasking and folder management that are very popular among jailbroken iPhone users. 

Apple has also included support for Bluetooth keyboard in iPhone OS 4 for iPhone and iPod Touch that was possible using jailbreak iPhone apps like BTStack Keyboard.

Folks at 9to5Mac have released a nice video walkthrough that showcases the Bluetooth keyboard support in iPhone OS 4.0.

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Hacker David “Planetbeing” Wong has posted a video of Google’s Linux-based Android OS running via OpeniBoot on the iPhone. Obviously, it’s way off of Apple’s reservation, but Read more…

iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 was pushed to developers yesterday and it mainly brought API improvements, increased performance and bug fixes.

Apart from this, Apple has also added a new faster and smoother animation for switching between apps during multitasking. This carousel transition rotates apps in a wheel-like form. Video after the jump.

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