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What’s the deal with the iPhone 3G? I mean, I updated it and I’m still dropping calls like U.S. Olympic batons!

Bad Seinfeld jokes aside, Roughly Drafted has some information from “a source close to AT&T” as to why you may have updated your iPhone 3G and still don’t have your reception problems fixed.

Check it out after the break.

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Apple has shoveled a bunch more coal onto the fire that is the mythical Apple tablet by filing for another patent published for “Gestures for Touch Sensitive Input Devices.”

The patent is clearly for a device with a screen larger than that of the iPhone or the iPod Touch, but small enough to be portable. That’s a long way of saying the MacBook Touch, or at least that’s what I’m going to call it.

Details after the break.

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Thanks to a tipper on the MacRumors forums, we now know how to access the rest of your iPhone even when locked with a password.

The hack requires that you have iPhone 2.0.2 installed, and have at least one favorite in your contacts list.

Instructions (and now, new info on this security hole straight from Apple) after the break.

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Adium has long been my favorite chatting program on the Mac. Sorry Apple, but iChat just doesn’t cut it for me. It’s kind of like TVs; you don’t know how bad your TV looks until you’ve seen a 1080p in person.

This week, Adium released an official update to their slick chatting program, clocking its version number at 1.3.

Details after the break.

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Does the lack of buttons on the iPhone leave you less than stunned about the state of gaming on the devices? Hope may be on the horizon for your button craving thumbs.

Details after the break.

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MacRumors is collecting some rumors in one article about a possible date for Apple’s next new product announcement. All sources seem to converge on September 9th.

Originally, MacRumors had listed this event as an unverified rumor and didn’t pay a lot of attention to it. But since Kevin Rose, ArsTechnica, and Brian Lam from Gizmodo have all voiced their info and have pretty much agreed on September 9th, they, and we, are paying a little more attention.

Find out to what else the rumors point after the break.

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Gizmodo has posted an interesting list supposedly from Verizon about their talking points regarding the iPhone 3G.

Jump past the break to find out why they feel they’ve got more to offer than the iPhone 3G.

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You may remember my favorite Tetris clone, Tris, that was released in the App Store in the second week of August. In my opinion, it is the best Tetris clone available, and quite possibly the best free game on the App Store as of this writing.  But, that’s not going to last. No, soon it will not be the best free game on the App Store; mostly because it won’t be available.

Find out why after the break.

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Western Sweden’s largest newspaper, Göteborgs-Posten (or The Gothenburg Post for us American’s who have no idea how to pronounce words with dots above them), says there is nothing wrong with the antenna inside of the iPhone 3G. They were curious to check out just how well the antenna actually performs, so they did.

They used a testing chamber made by a company called Bluetest. The chambers are used by cell phone manufacturers to see how well phones receive and transmit data under certain circumstances without actually needing to go into the field.

Check out their findings after the break.

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Last week, we reported on some rumors via Digg’s Kevin Rose about a possible iPod Nano redesign. MacRumors is providing some more evidence for that rumor with some pics and details from a semi-reliable Chinese website.

The website, iDealsChina, has been right before. They leaked the case redesign for the iPhone 3G. This time, they are claiming they have leaked 3D renderings of a possible 4th generation iPod Nano redesign. At right, you can see one of these 3D renders.

Details and a juicy iPod touch rumor after the break.

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