Steve Jobs - LAST KNOWN PHOTO of HIM!

STEVE JOBS 1955 - 2011

UPDATE: 10/10/11 -SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Steve Jobs died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer which had spread to his other organs, according to a his death certificate.

The death certificate, released on today Monday October 10, 2011 by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, states Jobs had a metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor for the past five years. It listed his immediate cause of death as respiratory arrest. 

Below is said to be the LAST known photo of Steve Jobs taken in late August 2011 by pacificcoastnews.com

He is pictured here with a friend looking VERY frail and being assisted in standing.

Also pictured below are photos of Steve Jobs biological father Abdulfattah Jandali seen holding an iPhone. The 80-year-old works as the general manager of the casino outside Reno, where he has a staff of around 450 workers. Mr Jandali said in that in the past year he has written a few simple emails to Mr Jobs such as 'Happy birthday' and 'I hope your health is improving.' He said he received two short supplies. The last one came six weeks before Mr Jobs died. It just said 'Thank you.'

Mr Jandali only learned that Mr Jobs was his son one year later in 2005. He saids he owns a Mac computer, iPhone and an iPad and considers himself as a 'computer dunce'. As for his son, Steve, he said " 'I honestly look at these things and cannot believe Steve created them. Steve Jobs was a genius.' (The Wall Street Journal)

Steve Jobs lost his battle with pancrotic cancer today, Wednesday October 5, 2011. He was 56.

We look back at 56 years of a man and his vision.

A TIMELINE:

A LIFE WELL LIVED -

A VISION HE SHARED WITH US ALL

Steve Jobs - His LIFE & Legacy on Dipity.

THE iphone 4S - VIDEO of Actual Phone in Use

HERE WE GO
IPHONE 4S
SPRINT   -   VERIZON   -   AT&T

UPDATE: 10/11/11- Pictures of an actual iPhone from a customer in Germany.

UPDATE: 10/10/11 - (Reuters) - More than a million people placed early orders on Friday for Apple Inc's latest iphone development, the last product that the company debuted before the death of its co-founder Steve Jobs.
UPDATE: 10/10/11- Below is a video of an actual iPhone 4S in use. Be the first to see it and compare it to other ones.

UPDATE: October 8, 2011- SOLD OUT. ALL Carriers & the Apple Store are now sold out of the 16gb version. We'll have to wait til Oct. 14 to get in stores or order on-line.
UPDATE: 5:16pm edt - I just want to say a BIG THANK-YOU to all those who joined this Blog update. The response was SO overwhelming we crashed the coveritlive.com web site.(as also I heard cnet, mashable & others also crashed) 

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UPDATE:11:49am RECAP Today, October 4, 2011, in Cupertino,CA Apple announces the Iphone 4S. NOT an Iphone 5. They told us all along, if they were going to call it the 5 they would have announced it on OCTOBER 5! Here is the features that will be on the iPHONE 4S Also available on the SPRINT NETWORK!
The iPhone 4S will cost $199, $299 and $399 for 16, 32 and 64 gigabyte versions, respectively. The 8-gig iPhone 4 goes to $99 and the 3GS will be free, all on 2-year contracts. The date? October 14th, with a pre-order on October 7th.

IPHONE 4S FEATURES

• Apple-designed A5 Processor
• Dual-core graphics, up to 7x faster than the iPhone 4
• 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours 3G browsing, 9 hours on WiFi
• Intelligent antenna switching to fix the “antennagate” problem
• HSDPA data, for up to 14 mbit download speeds
• CDMA and GSM in 1 device makes it a “world phone”
• 8 megapixel camera
• 1080p video recording
• Screen mirroring, akin to the iPad
• Siri intelligent voice assistance

WHO'S DISAPPOINTED?

UPDATE: 11:37am Pre-orders on the iphone 4S October 7th, and then launching on the 14th.

So that’s the iPhone 4S. Black and white, 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299, and 64GB for $399. 64GB is the first time in an iPhone.”

“The iPhone 4S is not the only phone in our lineup. The iPhone 4 will now be available in Black and white for just $99. The phone 3GS in 8GB: free.”
UPDATE: 11:27am Apple brings us Siri voice control, not available until the spring.  “Compose and dictate email right to Siri. Set timers. Look up contacts, create notes, search the web, search Wikipedia. It’s absolutely blow-away. Well, who is Siri? Just ask!” Siri: “I am a humble personal assistant.”
UPDATE: 11:20am  With the announcement of the iphone 4S from Apple...Stock PLUMMETS over 3% on the Nasdaq
UPDATE: 11:12am The Iphone 4S has TWO antenna's in case you hold it wrong!
UPDATE: 11:06am New camera on the iphone 4S. “What’s the new camera on the iPhone 4S like? It starts with an 8 megapixel sensor.”CMOS backside illuminated sensor — gets 73% more light than the iPhone 4 sensor, and 1/3rd faster. On top of that, we place a high-end IR filter for greater accuracy and uniformity.”

“We have an amazing lens system, five lens elements. It’s now a really wide f2.4. Compared to most point and shoots we can let in a lot of light.”

UPDATE: 11:00am APPLE ANNOUNCES THE iPHONE 4S....BIG Disappointment “You’d think if you put a CPU like that you’d sacrifice battery life.” Increased to 8 hours talk time, damn! “Fantastic battery life.” Data can now download up to 2x as fast. Theoretical max performance used to be 5.8 up and 7.2 down — now doubles to almost 14.4Mbps down.
UPDATE: 10:56am Finally, THE iphone...“Of course it starts with the Retina Display. But inside it is all new. The A5 chip is now making its way into the iPhone.”  “Dual-core CPU, 2x as fast at CPU tasks. Also dual-core graphics. Up to 7x faster in the previous iPhone. One area you really see it scream is in games.”

UPDATE: 10:53am Updates to the ipod - It comes in 7 colors, now the iPod nano is 8GB for $129, and 16GB for $149. Available today.

Next: iPod touch. “It’s our most popular iPod, and it’s incredible.” Phil Schiller

UPDATE: 10:46am  Reviewing iTunes Match service. BORING!
UPDATE: 10:41am Eddie Cue is up to talk iCloud now. Talking about docs in the cloud, edits in Pages on the iPhone updated across devices.STILL in Apple pat themselves on the back of stuff they ALREADY told us!
UPDATE: 10:37am STILL talking about the ios 5...Mail enhancements. Next up: PC-free. “We have a lot of customers who want to use the iPad or iPhone as their only device.” Well, now you can, and it ain’t too shabby. “These are just ten of the new features in iOS 5.”
iOS 5 will be available October 12. 

UPDATE 10:33am STILL NOTHING on the iphone. Talking about  “We’ve integrated Twitter into many of our built-in apps. Tweet photos, web sites, videos, locations from maps. Deep integration from Twitter.”

UPDATE 10:23am iOS has 43% of the mobile market. 500,000 apps in appstore. 140K made just for ipad. 18 billion apps downloaded in 3 years. 1 billion apps downloaded per month
UPDATE 10:20am Now talking ipad. Steve Cook giving us a Apple Company inventory pat on the back.
UPDATE 10:17am Wow, iPhone 4 accounts for more than half of all iPhones ever sold. Cook says iPhone is the #1 selling iPhone. 93% of fortune 500 co's testing iPhone. People love their iPhones. 70% are very satisfied. iPhone has 5% of the Worldwide Mobile Phone market.
UPDATE 10:12am 1:11PM The Mac platform has grown by 23 percent since last year. The PC? Four percent.
UPDATE: 10:10am Steve Cook: You have Downloaded over 6 million copies of Lion
UPDATE. 10:06am Sprint logo on Apple's site right now! You know what that means: Sprint iPhone basically confirmed.

 UpDATE: 10/4/11 10:00am Here we go...
UPDATE:10/4/11 9:58am. Crowd ready

UPDATE: 10/4/11- Reports have it that it will be called the iphone 4S

JOIN ME for a "LIVE" blog (BELOW) and ALL the news coming out of the event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. at 12:30pm est.. 9:30am pst. You can also follow me on Twitter @ubtalkin for the latest updates!

Tim Cook, Apple's new CEO, will attempt to fill Steve Jobs' shoes by unveiling Apple's latest gadget to the technology world.

But what will it be?

ALL indications and reports suggest it will be the iPhone 5.

It's been about 16 months since the last iPhone came out on AT&T, and nine months since it hit Verizon Wireless.

Some say that Apple will be unveiling not one but two iPhones, a future-leaning iPhone 5 with slimmer body, larger screen and better everything, and a new $99 variant of the iPhone 4, made with cheaper parts.

Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier, reports say that they will be getting the iphone as well. Also it has been reported that they will be offering "unlimited data" plans, something Verizon and AT&T have done away with.
Still other reports say that Sprint will get the iphone 5 "EXCLUSIVELY" and that Verizon and AT&T will get the iphone 4S

Sprint is making a multibillion-dollar gamble that access to the iPhone will be the ticket to a turnaround. Sprint has committed to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones, even though it would likely lose money on the deal until 2014.

ENOUGH with the RUMORS!

Again come back tomorrow at 12:30pm est.....9:30am pst for LIVE coverage and the latest FACTS coming out of the event being held at the companies headquarters in Cupertino, CA.

Or maybe we should wait for the iphone 6?

iPhone 4S Data Plans: AT&T, Verizon or Sprint Compared

Which Carrier should we use?????

Here's what I know so far....Stay tuned as I will UPDATE as details become clearer!

 UPDATE:10/7/11- Well pre-orders have started on AT&T, Verizon and yea SPRINT! At exactly 3:01am edt, well close to it anyway), all sites started taking orders for Apple's latest iPhone the 4S. I stayed up to monitor and found both AT&T and Sprint as well as apple.com all DOWN or assessable! Verizon was sporatic at best but could be done.

• As for SPRINT: They are offering this price plan's:

from $79.99 per month when you add up its 450 minute Everything Data plan which includes a $10 per month smartphone fee, everything is included including Messaging & data. A 16GB model will set you back $199.99, a 32GB model will cost $299.99 and the new 64GB model will be $399.99. BUT, hold on, if you are a NEW customer there is a $36.00 activation fee as well.

• As for VERIZON:

an iPhone on Verizon price for the phone is the SAME as the others and requires at least a $39.99, 450 minute talk plan only, $59.99 for 450 talk & Unlimited text and $30 data plan for the lowest 2GB

• As for AT&T: 

The iPhone 4S is the SAME price as the other carrier's and also requires a data plan. Plans start at 450 w/Rollover Minutes at $39.99, data plan of 200mb $15.00 and $20.00 for unlimited messaging on AT&T.




Now that we know the latest edition of Apple's hugely popular iPhone is set to be launched on October 4 at an event on the companies Cupertino,CA. campus headquarters, the real question is what carrier do we use? AT&T, Verizon or Sprint?

YES! I said SPRINT.

Rumers abound that Sprint will be joining the cellular companies that will carry the iPhone. Word out is that Sprint will join AT&T & Verizon in the battle for the iphone market.

But word is that Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, will have a competitive advantage over it's rivals in the fact that they will be offering, "Unlimited Data" plans to everyone, unlike AT&T or Verizon who have stopped offering such plans and now have a tiered rate.
At the end of the second quarter 2011, Verizon had 106 million subscribers while AT&T had 99 million and Sprint had 52 million. Sprint's messy merger with Nextel in 2005 certainly didn't help its position either. In addition, both rivals offering the iPhone gave those companies a little extra edge that Sprint will now obtain.
Little information is available so far as to the exact pricing and details of what Sprint will be offering but Sprint already offers unlimited data plans for smartphones such as Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)’s BlackBerry and HTC Corp. (2498)’s Evo, which runs on Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android operating system. Sprint’s unlimited voice and data service costs $99.99 a month. I have heard that it may be as little as $79.99 a month
IPhone vs. Android
The iPhone may not lead to more data use per customer than Sprint already sees from customers who have Android phones. In the first quarter, Android smartphone owners in the U.S. consumed an average of 582 megabytes of data each month, compared with 492 megabytes for iPhone owners, according to Nielsen Co.’s analysis of nearly 65,000 cell-phone bills.

AT&T and Verizon

AT&T and Verizon charge for data service on top of voice- service plans. AT&T, which has unlimited voice service for $69.99 a month, offers 200 megabytes of data for $15 a month, 2 gigabytes of data for $25 a month, or 4 gigabytes of data for $45 a month. Verizon’s data plans for the iPhone start at $30 a month for 2 gigabytes and rise to $80 for 10 gigabytes, in addition to unlimited voice service for $69.99 a month.

T-MOBILE

Oh, by the way, as for T-Mobile, or as some WANT to call it; AT&T-T, they are NOT getting the iphone anytime soon!

As you all may know, back in March this year, AT&T announced its intent to purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom AG for a whopping $39 billion dollars. This would be the merging of the United States’ the second largest cell phone service provider (AT&T) with the fourth largest (T-mobile). The resulting merger would vault past Verizon Wireless and become the nation’s largest cell phone service provider.
BUT the United States government filed court papers in Washington, D.C. to block the deal. According to the report, the Justice Department feels that the deal would "substantially lessen competition" in the wireless space. In fact, it boldly stated the following: "AT&T's elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low-priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.

Troy Davis - IS DEAD...LAST WORDS

UPDATE:11:34pm 9/21/11 

• 10:52 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 11A317 DAVIS, ANTHONY TROY V. HUMPHREY, WARDEN

• 10:57 State Attorney Generals office notifies MacPhail's mother Anneliese "[Davis] is on the gurney, the needle is in."

• 11:08 Davis pronounced dead.

 Troy Davis was put to death at 11:08pm est for the death of Police Officer Mark MacPhail on August 19,1989. 
HIS LAST WORDS:
"I'd like to address the MacPhail family. Let you know, despite the situation you are in, I'm not the one who personally killed your son, your father, your brother. I am innocent.
The incident that happened that night is not my fault. I did not have a gun. All I can ask ... is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth.
I ask my family and friends to continue to fight this fight.
For those about to take my life, God have mercy on your souls. And may God bless your souls."
UPDATE:10:23pm 9/21/11 US Supreme Court DENIES Stay of Exucution of Troy Davis.....There were NO dissents...Word is that the Execution is NOW under Way.

As I write this I have ALL three news channels on TV...Have Demorcracy Now Web cast on.....Breaking News web site....Just to name few.

Troy Davis was supposed to be executed at 7pm East Coast time in Jackson, Georgia, 47 miles from Atlanta this September 21, 2011.

But a last ditch effort plea to the US Supreme Court has delayed this for an VERY unusual amount of time as the nine justices here this case for a stay of execution of Troy Davis as his lawyers say they plan an appeal.

"It is killing me, to tell you the truth. I don't know what to expect anymore," said Anneliese MacPhail, mother of Mark MacPhail, the man Davis was convicted of killing in 1989.

Though Davis' attorneys say seven of nine key witnesses against him have disputed all or parts of their testimony, state and federal judges have repeatedly ruled against granting him a new trial. As the court losses piled up Wednesday, his offer to take a polygraph test was rejected and the pardons board refused to give him one more hearing.

(AP Photo)

Troy Anthony Davis (born October 9, 1968 - September 21, 2011) is an American death row inmate convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King when he intervened to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot. During Davis’ 1991 trial, witnesses testified they had seen Davis shoot MacPhail, and two others testified that Davis confessed to them. Although the murder weapon was not recovered, ballistic evidence presented at trial tied bullets recovered at or near the scene to those at another shooting in which Davis was also charged. Davis was convicted of murder and various lesser charges, including the earlier shooting, and was sentenced to death in August 1991.

iphone 4S OUT on AT&T, VERIZON & SPRINT!

 .....OCTOBER 7, 2011 - Pre-Order
.....OCTOBER 14, 2011 - Available in Stores

UPDATE:10/7/11- 3:25am edt I have been trying to get on the Sprint web site now to see if I can Pre-Order the iPhone 4S from Sprint with UN-Limited Data and see how much the plans would cost compaired to my current carrier, Verizon. BUT I can NOT access the iPhone arear at all. Either everyone is trying to get on, or Sprint is NOT used to this kind of a MAJOR increase in traffic to there site.

UPDATE:10/3/11-  Reported in The Wall Street Journal that SPRINT, the No. 3 wireless company, that the carrier agreed to purchase at least 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years—a commitment of $20 billion at current rates—whether or not it could find people to buy them, according to people familiar with the matter and that Sprint would likely lose money on the deal until 2014.

iphone 5 Invites

UPDATE:-9/27/11 Apple has officially announced its iPhone event, to be held on Oct. 4. The event will take place at Apple’s Cupertino Campus in California, beginning at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), according to press invitations issued by Apple on Tuesday. Some reports say Apple will release two phones during next week’s conference. An iPhone 5 and a less expensive model, possibly called the iPhone 4GS.
(NY Times)

UPDATE:-9/26/11 Apple’s iPhone 5 event on Oct. 4 will take place at the company’s Cupertino campus, not in San Francisco where all the previous iPhones and iPads have been announced.
UPDATE-NEW INFO:-9/21/11 Apple’s Next Event is to be held on October 4, Starring Its New CEO. Apple's iPhone 5 will make its debut Oct. 4, with new CEO Tim Cook taking the stage to host the unveiling, according to a new report by AllThingsD. That’s the day Apple is currently expected to hold its next big media event, according to sources close to the situation, where the tech giant will unveil the next iteration of its popular iPhone.

UPDATE:9/20/11- T-Mobile executive says no iPhone 5 in 2011 for them. “We are not going to get the iPhone 5 this year.” said T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman speaking at a town hall meeting on September 15.

That is the date I am hearing. While chatting with French reporters at a business conference, France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard said the iPhone 5 will debut on that day.

Appleinsider.com has reported that Apple has reportedly informed its AppleCare division to expect an influx of iOS-related inquiries from customers beginning Monday, Oct. 10, perhaps signaling when the company plans to release iOS 5 to existing device owners. Could then this mean that latter in the week the iPhone 5 will then be released?

New York Times reports that according to an Apple employee who did not want to be named, iPhone 5 announcement is just weeks away, in line with what some of the rumors have suggested.

One can ONLY hope so....

Never has there been such a build up of rumors, leaks, reports, anticipation etc over anything. I for one is
getting SO fed up already I'm on the verge of getting a Blackberry.........NOT!
Apple is REALLY building extraordinary hype this time, or the iPhone 5 is just not quite ready for launch.

Here's whats been going around the "Tech" world".


The biggest news out there is that "SPRINT" will not only be getting the iphone but according to a report by Bloomberg, Sprint is planning on offering its customers unlimited data plans for use with the iPhone 5, which is widely speculated to be launching in early October.
The report claims that Sprint wants to differentiate itself from rival carriers AT&T and Verizon, both of which currently do not offer unlimited data packages for use with the wildly-popular iPhone handset. A leaked Sprint memo informs the carrier's employees of a vacation blackout from September 30 through October 15 due to the "possibility" of a major phone launch.

To me this is HUGE. I for one currently have Verizon as my carrier. My contract has LONG since been up, so a jump to Sprint for "Unlimited Data" seems to be a no brainier.

The iPhone 5 is also supposed to be bigger & thinner then the iPhone 4. Leaked pictures of cases hit the web and  Macrumors.com commissioned ciccaresedesign.com to create high quality drawings made as closely as possible to the original leaked case designs. The final dimensions of the new design are calculated to be: 4.33″ x 2.36″ and .27″ thickness at the top and .21″ at the bottom In comparison, the iPhone 4 dimensions are: 4.5″ x 2.31″ x .37″. So the new design is actually shorter than the existing iPhone 4, but slightly wider and thinner.

Compaired to iPhone 4

On Sept. 14, unwire.hk posted a group of pictures of the would-be screen protector of iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 will have larger display and wider home button, leaked screen protector suggests.

iphone 5

Best Buy employees have been informed that pre-orders for the iPhone 5 will begin this week in time for a release in the first week of October.
A Best Buy source released a document to BGR.com, which shows that the store is anticipating the pre-sales.

On September 12 Vodafone spills the beans  U.K. carrier Vodafone briefly lists the iPhone 5 on its Web site in both 16GB and 32GB editions and in black and white.

NY Times reports that according to an engineer familiar with the new iPhone, it will:

• be fairly different from the iPhone 4 — including on the inside
• come with an eight-megapixel camera
• have a faster A5 dual-core processor

I will continue to scour the web and my sources and bring you the very latest news on when the iPhone 5 will FINALLY be a reality!
STAY TUNED!