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Apple Byte - Do you want a solar-powered iPhone 6?

2013-02-07
hey Brian sorry about the Super Bowl loss there i thought the owners are gonna you know so i thought they were supposed to win will you your favored in everything we're okay yeah pretty what happened next year next year Jim any idea what happened oh I don't know what happened next year you know what next year okay thanks man yeah texture great yeah we'll see next year when they play the ravens at you okay but I hate that guy what's shakin brian Tong here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple and yes I'm still getting over the Super Bowl loss but congratulations goes out to all you Ravens fans I'll two of you so let's get to the stories and really the big news this week was the official release of the evasion jailbreak for the iPhone 5 it's an untethered jailbreak and it's the first of its kind to work on all iOS 6.1 capable devices including ipods ipads and iphones even going as far back as the 3gs now the user reaction has been great with over 4 million unique devices using the cydia app store since the jailbreak release now in response apple recently updated their knowledge base article to warn of the side effects of jailbreaking such as iOS instability security vulnerabilities short and battery life and a potentially inoperable device now blurry vision shortness of breath or dizziness we're not included I have no idea where this came from now you know jailbreaking becomes a game of cat and mouse with every iOS update and Apple has already released their latest iOS 6.1 point 1 for developers there's no new major features here but improvements for maps for Japanese users and it possibly fixes the jailbreak from working all right sticking with iOS and 9to5 mac reports finding files for radio buttons in the ipad music app in iOS 6.1 the icon is similar to that radio icon that used to be in itunes for the mac and some of the files featured the word by in the fight names it lends some weight to the Apple music radio service rumors that Bloomberg predicted to launch in the first quarter of 2013 even though negotiations with music labels have been moving very slowly so we'll see if these are placeholders if the music deals are made also Apple rumor sites are seen web traffic logs from unidentified machines claiming to run OS 10.9 make a significant jump from a few dozen last month to thousands in the most recent month Apple is still on a yearly cycle of its Mac OS release around july so the timing of this could indicate a similar timetable for OS 10.9 hello kitty cat that's what they're calling it now an apple patent use the big a was just granted a patent relating to an integrated touch sensor and a solar panel configuration a screen would have both functions where when idle it can be used like a solar panel in a charging mode but once it detects an approaching object like a finger it would switch its function to a capacitive touchscreen now this is crazy stuff and doesn't prove it's coming but this would be a killer feature for any phone and it's worth keeping an eye on all right now if you guys want to quench your thirst for some apple TV news another patent filing from the big a also revealed a system that can adjust and enhance audio based on the user's proximity to the device it could be used for a phone tablet or laptop but the diagram shows a TV with multiple people as the example a multiple microphone array proximity sensors and facial recognition can also be used for a video conferencing function as well and Apple TV fans that are wondering when will Apple open their walled garden and bring more content to the platform to be happy about this news a Bloomberg report says the Cupertino kids are in talks with HBO to bring the company's HBO Go service to the apple TV now you'll have to be an HBO subscriber to use it and it's reported to be coming in mid 2013 all right we gave you guys a little bonus episode from the macworld show floor earlier this weekend you should check it out if you haven't seen it already but we also got the chance to sit down with music artists will I am to talk about his really expensive iPhone case he's pimping his connection to Apple and his amazement with my last name will I am one of the creative minds out there and really getting involved in technology also has pretty good hairstylist if you recognize that your last name is come tom yeah tomg downtown to downtown town that's good her i will so um you're here you're one of the first artists i got involved with technology companies from a creative side you actually have an iphone case under the IM plus line right the photo so show fullshow you know rock that yeah so this is my thing i created funded and put out Brett to market so it works like this it's a camera different lenses this is the fisheye lens my favorite we have a 360 lens panoramic lens zoom lens wide angle lens has a better flash and a battery and a keyboard so in the way it works is your iphone fits in it like a cartridge so this would be like your film like oh it's people like your cameras and it sits in closes snaps cannon boom that's how it works how much in a retail these guys for these are cheap it's like you know 7 g's just really okay no that's like a hundred ninety-nine dollars alright that's cool so will you be coming back to mac rolled in the future what do you think yeah i'm an apple fan i scare at my you know my mac OS every day making music like really yeah mac account for my email alright that's cool well there you have it will i am my striped hair brother from another mother yeah all right now you guys can watch the entire interview on its own but i definitely feel that he wants to be connected to the tech community and he's willing to prove it himself but will I am it's called an iCloud account iCloud not mac account who says stuff like that alright that's going to do it for this week's show send us your emails or tweets to the apple byte at cnet com I'm burr I and we'll catch you guys next week for another bite of the Apple all right let's get a pick-me-up oh here we go okay nothing makes me feel better than peanut butter and chocolate what come on come on hey what's wrong bra so upset about the niners but my candy it too bad what what are you doing re oh you doing I'm gonna get some D I'd like I like recently a lot well I just put in money for a rhesus did you well that's nice I'm sure you're gonna enjoy yours Wow right uh oh is that legit Jim Jim good to see this I got two of them hahaha see go Niners
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