While the waiting and excitement might be over for some, they are reporting that the 2nd generation of iPhone (the one that will soon be hitting South African shores) may have screens which are ‘defective’.

In the picture below, it can be seen that the iPhone 3g has a noticably more yellow screen than its predicessor the iPhone “2g”. Speculation as to why this has happened revolved around what some say are Apples laxed quality control standards and their sourcing of screens from different vendors.

While that speculation may or may not be true, the word-on-the-street is that Apple have deliberately lowered the screens colour temperature in order to get richer colours, deeper blacks and generally more defined images from the screen.

Error or not, it is still a good idea to keep your firmware current through the iTunes restore updater.

It has been called for, for quite some time. Users wanted a way for them to be able to take pictures of the screen of the phone, from the phone itself.

Well, its available via the iPhones operating system (2.0) by pressing the Home & Sleep/Wake buttons together. The screen of the phone will then briefly flash and whatever was onscreen at that moment, will be saved to the Camera Roll.

This feature can also apparently be enabled on 1.1.4 through the use of a .plist file.

With the iPhone 3g’s release date still being unclear and with no official statement from Vodacom about it as yet … one wonders how long the calm before the storm is going to last and how many weeks they are away from being released.

Bling Bling … Bling Bling … Hello? – It’s a Gold Plated iPhone !

In other iPhone news… GoldStriker from the UK specialises in unique high-fashion mobile phone adaptations in 24ct Gold, 18ct Rose Gold and Platinum Plated products.

Goldstriker gives you “the opportunity to express your individuality, and stand out from the crowd” – all at a small price of course.

An iPhone (Generation One) 16Gb version in 24ct Gold will set you back around $599.95 (approx. R4620) to have the Bezel and rear Apple logo coated in gold.

I have seen that the company has a bit of material on its website (accurate at the time of publication) of the iPhone 3g, but these links don’t appear to be working, which I can only imagine has something to do with Apples in-store activation policy, which requires contract users to activate their contracts in store when they buy an iPhone.

Lets hear your thoughts… Has it all gone too far, is this too pretentious? or is it really a way to stand out from the crowd?
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