Apple’s sales estimates of the new iPhone is quite aggressive. It told us to prepare to help the company meet its goal of 25 million units by the end of the year,” said another person at one of Apple’s suppliers. “The initial production volume will be a few million units… we were told to ship the components to assembler Hon Hai in August.

It’s been also rumored that the new iPhone will be almost the same as the current iPhone 4 but more thinner and lighter, although Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn/Hon Hai is having difficulties on the new device due to it being “complicated and difficult to assemble.” Two of the people, however, cautioned that shipments of the new iPhone could be delayed if Hon Hai can’t improve its yield rate as the new iPhone is “complicated and difficult to assemble.

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Priced at $190 USD, both Canon and Nikon mounts are available now through Photojojo.

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According to sources, the iPhone 5 should be in stores by September 2011, as Apple has placed the order with Pegatron Technologies, the same Taiwanese developer who built the iPhone 4 and the Playsation 3.  No confirmed specs are yet available, nor is it known of how much of an upgrade the iPhone 5 will be in comparison to the current generation of the Apple smartphone. We will have up to the minute updates regarding features and availability as they surface.

Source: designboom

Russian security firm Elcomsoft is behind this crack and the team over there is smart. They took a brute-force password cracker and bundled it with a decryption tool that uses established methods to crack iOS devices. The firm is now selling the toolset commercially to individuals, governments and law enforcement.

If a thief gets a hold of your iPad or encrypted iTunes backup, don’t worry about it spilling all your secrets. Elcomsoft will only sell the decryption tool to official agencies like law enforcement and the system needs both your backup and the iOS device to get any sensitive information.

Yeah, the password cracker may be available to anyone with a credit card, but a thief would have to be pretty hard-core to wait for a brute-force attack to guess the right combination. That’s assuming you didn’t take the easy was out by using a simple passcode like 1-2-3-4. [Ars Technica]

Watch the magic unfold:

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The app can also spell words in reverse or even erase words from a picture. As you can see, the translation isn’t perfect, but it’s way better than nothing. This single app justifies the existence of a smartphone with a camera. And it is available right this instant – you can grab Word Lens at the iTunes App Store now. The app itself is free, but the language packs cost $5 (USD) each and are in-app purchases. Currently only two language packs exist, Spanish to English and English to Spanish, but you can bet that Good and DeWeese will add more. Star Trek fans will no doubt wait for the Klingon pack.

[via TechCrunch]

It’s an augmented-reality, OCR-capable translation app, but that’s a poor description. A better one would be “magic.” World Lens looks at any printed text through the iPhone’s camera, reads it, translates between Spanish and English. That’s pretty impressive already — it does it in real time — but it also matches the color, font and perspective of the text, and remaps it onto the image. It’s as if the world itself has been translated.

Impressed? You’re not the only one. John Gruber of Daring Fireball puts it best: “[It's] as though near-future time travelers started sending us apps instead of Terminators.”

We’ve tested the app, and it works just as shown in the video. In demo mode, it can rearrange (or blank out) any text in the camera’s field of vision. You need to purchase translation packs to do the actual translation.

In our tests, it worked smoothly, although the words had a tendency to wiggle around a bit, switching between English and Spanish and flipping between alternate translations. You could get the gist of a sentence, but not read it clearly. Holding the camera very steady helped mitigate the “wiggling” effect.

Word Lens is a taste of science fiction, something like a visual version of the universal translator or the Babelfish. Only instead of being a convenient device to avoid movie subtitles, it’s a real, functioning tool.

Word Lens is free, and will do some fancy rearranging of words to show you how it works. The Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionaries are in-app purchases, for $5 each, and the app runs offline — perfect for when you’re traveling. You can pick your coffee back up, now.

Word Lens download [iTunes]

Word Lens product page [Quest Visual]

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