The Apple Iphone 4G Blogs

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Apple confirmed Tuesday that it will hold a press event on Oct. 4 at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Expected to be the star attraction: The long-awaited iPhone 5.

It’s been 15 months since Apple’s iPhone 4 went on sale, making this lag between new models the longest since the iPhone debuted in 2007.

As always, the next-generation iPhone has been the subject of intense speculation. Almost daily, blogs and news agencies offer up new tidbits based on supposed leaks from hardware component makers or iPhone case designers to glean any information about what the next device could look like.

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iPhone app translates foreign-language signs

Augmented-reality applications have promised to revolutionize the way we live on the go with our smartphones, but none have fully delivered yet.

This may be changing. A new free iPhone app called Word Lens shows remarkable promise for helping international travelers.

Word Lens uses the phone’s video camera and processor to interpret printed words and almost instantly translate them between English and Spanish.

Those traveling abroad could hold the phone in front of their eyes to decipher a foreign-language street sign. The app projects the translated words onto whatever sign at which you point the phone.

This could be a leap forward for augmented-reality apps, which normally employ cameras and GPS systems to merge the physical world with information compiled about people and places on the internet.

Word Lens is the fruit of two-and-a-half years of work from a small outfit called Quest Visual, run by Otavio Good, a former game developer, and John DeWeese, who worked on the Electronic Arts game “Spore.”

“The tourism market is really very large,” Good told CNN in a phone interview Monday. “I want to sell this to all the tourists in the world.”

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Glitch will make iPhone alarms late Monday

(CNN) — Not forgetting Sunday morning’s time change is hard enough.

But Apple iPhone users in the United States must also remember to delete and then reset their phone’s alarm clock — otherwise they may be an hour late for work on Monday morning.

A glitch in the iPhone’s operating system will cause recurring weekday alarms not to ring on time on Monday morning because of the end of Daylight Saving Time, which occurs at 2 a.m. on Sunday in the United States.

The phone’s alarm app doesn’t recognize the time change and will ring an hour late if users don’t go into the program and manually reset the alarms.

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