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So you have your swanky new iPhone 3GS, and one of the first things you do is check out the video recording on your new toy. Unfortunately for this guy, he manages to drop his shiny new 3GS into the pool while he's filming... Uh oh. Incredibly, the iPhone 3GS takes it like a champ and not only continues to record, but manages to function long enough for him to get the video off the phone and upload it onto Youtube for all to see. Some eagle-eyed commenters have said that it's not an iPhone as they don't come with lanyards. You be the judge.

Ever since the iPhone 3GS launched with all it's video-capturing and uploading goodness, Youtube has seen a massive 400% increase in the number of mobile uploads. I'd have to say that most of them would be people "just testing" the feature, but it's like the Flickr camera-phone revolution all over again, innit?

Speaking of wanky, The Chasers managed to gatecrash the iPhone 3GS launch at the Sydney Apple Store, saying "We just wanted to make sure everyone was wanky enough".

You can tell that the graphics in the iPhone/iPod Touch are of a huge importance to Apple, because they just upped their stake in Imagination Technologies to 9.5%. Imagination Technologies is the company behind the PowerVR chips inside the iPhones which make all those pretty colours - they're the ones with the special sauce to make things scroll like butter.

Got a new iPhone 3GS? Found you're not getting as many gees-of-three as you were on your old iPhone 3G? Macworld try and pry apart this oddity. More interestingly, you can enable what seems to be a "Field Test" mode on your iPhone 3G or 3GS simply by entering some combination of numbers, stars, and hashes in the Phone application. I just tested this on my iPhone 3G with Telstra, and have to say I have no idea what any of it meant, but it could be useful to those in the know.

Gizmodo says that the new Snow Leopard developer build comes via Software Update on your Mac, not via the usual channels. It also adds the Dock Expose feature - what else are you waiting for?

Again on the not-yet-released software front, a new build of 10.5.8 has been seeded to developers. Those code monkeys are working overtime at Apple, I tell ya.

If you're one of the lucky people who have managed to score a shiny new MacBook Pro with included SD card slot, the folks over at Macworld show you how to create a SD card startup disk for your new toy in case things go awry. Extremely handy in case of emergency.

If you're the type who is after porn from the App Store, you're SOL. Apple have released a statement stating that they "will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography". You'll just have to find your delights somewhere else, gentlemen.

Lastly, if you've been gifted with a new iPhone 3GS, try not to tax it too much - Engadget Mobile is reporting that some 3GS models actually experience discolouration when overheated, and it ain't pretty. If that's what the French get when they use their networks, I wonder how the 3GS will fare with Telstra's blazing speeds?

[Brains]

What, no mention about the disaster some people are experiencing with EFI Firmware Update 1.7 breaking support for non-Apple drives?

[Pollnadger]

Originally Posted by decryption

Ever since the iPhone 3GS launched with all it's video-capturing and uploading goodness, Youtube has seen a massive 400% increase in the number of mobile uploads. I'd have to say that most of them would be people "just testing" the feature, but it's like the Flickr camera-phone revolution all over again, innit?

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Has the 400% increase really been caused just by the iPhone or is it a coincidence? That would be really impressing.