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Vodafone has finally announced when the iPhone 4 in the UK is ready for order. Orders start tomorrow morning (June 24) at 7am where you can order online, in store or over the phone. It isn’t clear in the Vodafone message if you can actually get your hands on an iPhone 4 from Vodafone tomorrow (other than at the Apple store), but for those wanting to get one direct from Vodafone, 7am is the time you can start ordering.

It isn’t clear why Vodafone took so long to make this announcement right on the 11th hour so to speak, but alas, we now have the details. [Read more…]

iFixit got an iPhone 4 early and tore it down. The company determined that the front of the iPhone 4 is made of Gorilla Glass although the back glass on the iPhone 4 is not Gorilla Glass and instead, some unidentified hardened glass.

Engadget managed to get hold of a review unit about a week ago and within that week with normal wear and tear, the back seems to have received a few scratches.

The scratches are difficult to see under normal light, but if you hold it against the light they are clear to see. [Read more…]

Update: Pocket Gamer also reports the same details as Recombu.

The iPhone 4 UK launch is tomorrow. We still haven’t heard officially from Three, T-Mobile or Tesco Mobile although Recombu are reporting the Tesco Mobile iPhone 4 prices. We are unsure if they are official as there is no information on the Tesco website regarding the prices. As Tesco are late to the game though (not as late as Three and T-Mob) we thought we’d publish them anyway to give you an idea of what you might be paying.

Tesco has managed to offer iPhone 4 on 12 month contracts. £20/month gets you 250 minutes, 1GB of data and unlimited text messages. Handset prices on this tariff will set you back £349 for the 16GB iPhone 4 and £429 for the 32GB model. This is of course assuming that the tariffs are correct. [Read more…]

The iPhone 4 has already been torn apart by iFixit thanks to UPS or FedEx delivering some iPhone 4’s a couple of days early. Reviews of the iPhone 4 are now online.

Out of all the reviews we noticed the call dropping problem hadn’t totally gone away. All Things D said that the phones biggest downfall was with the AT&T network and even recommended carrying a second phone with you on another network if you wanted an iPhone but needed to make calls more than using data.

The iPhone 4 review at USA Today concludes…

Cutting through the hype, Apple has given longtime diehards, and first-time iPhone owners, plenty to cheer about.

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Before the official launch date, iFixit managed to legally get hold of an iPhone 4 to teardown so they could reveal what’s inside the production model.

The iFixit team had someone fly out to Japan to pick up an iPhone 4 first, but as UPS has been delivering iPhone 4’s early to some customers, they managed to borrow one from someone in Silicon Valley.

The teardown reveals that there is 512MB of RAM in this iPhone 4. Previous leaked models were believed to have 256MB, so the double amount seems to be a last minute decision. [Read more…]

We mentioned earlier today that it appeared that the iPhone 4 from Apple [AAPL] could be landing early in the US. We expected some to show up tomorrow which would make it a day early. However, it looks like some are being delivered today. A few photos have been sent in to Engadget that show an iPhone 4 being unboxed.

It is unclear why the iPhone 4 is shipping early in the US although some believe it could be related to potential activation issues after all the pre-ordering issues that happened last week. By letting some out early it could space the load out on the Apple and AT&T [T] servers making the official launch day run a little smoother. [Read more…]

Walmart appears to have received it’s batch of iPhone 4’s ready for sale on June 24.

The iPhone 4 pictured above (and below) shows what the box will look like when you can get your hands on it in a couple of days time.

The CDMA written on the box in the background is not an iPhone box, but rather an LG 290C which Walmart also stocks. We didn’t want you to get excited too quickly that a version for other carriers was being made available for launch. [Read more…]

Yesterday saw a pretty big launch in terms of OS upgrades. iOS 4 was introduced for iPhone 3G, 3GS as well as newer gen iPod Touch devices.

The 3GS managed to get all the features working but the 3G lacks a few things. One of the big ones was multitasking which we have known about for a long time. Another feature is backgrounds. This is one that a number of people couldn’t figure out as it is thought that using backgrounds wouldn’t require much from the iPhone 3G.

A Gizmodo reader called Erica decided to ask the top man himself, Steve Jobs at Apple [AAPL] about why this is the case… [Read more…]

iBooks for the iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch 2nd and 3rd gen has now arrived. The iBooks app requires iOS 4 to run and brings a number of new features to the iPhone.

The new features include the ability to read PDF files and sync with the iPad version or other versions such as the Touch version.

You can grab the app for free right now assuming you are running a compatible OS. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] is starting to send out emails to those who pre-ordered in time for a June 24 delivery of the iPhone 4. The email is worded in such a way that it indicates the iPhone 4 could be delivered a day early on June 23 (tomorrow).

Dear Apple Store Customer,

You recently received a Shipment Notification email from Apple advising you that your iPhone has shipped.

This email is to confirm that your delivery will occur on June 23rd. Although Apple and FedEx tracking information may currently indicate a later date, you can check the FedEx website the morning of the June 23rd to track your package to your doorstep.

In the event that you will not be available to accept delivery on June 23rd, it may be more convenient to use our pre-sign delivery option by visiting our Order Status website at

Sincerely,

The Apple Store Team

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The iPhone DevTeam yesterday launched a new unlock for iOS 3.1.3 that allows any iPhone running the now older OS to unlock the phone.

As well as releasing an unlock for the older 3.1.3 iOS, the team also launched the iOS 4 Jailbreak. The Jailbreak is only compatible on iPod Touch second gen and the iPhone 3G (not the 3GS just yet). We are expecting that the 3GS will be jailbroke soon though.

As with all iOS jailbreaks in the past, Redsn0w makes it simple in that you tether your phone, load up a program and the jailbreak is applied. [Read more…]

The iPhone 3GS and 3G 3.1.3 unlock has been released today. The unlock comes from the iPhone DevTeam who have managed to unlock basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04. iOS 4 also is unlockable although that particular unlock is not available just yet. We expect that to arrive shortly.

From iPhone DevTeam on Twitter…

“ultrasn0w 0.93 released! Cydia repo is repo666.ultrasn0w.com. Works with basebands 04.26.08 thru 05.13.04”

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