The DevTeam and others have been checking through the iPhone 4, and have noticed the baseband runs a completely different OS than on previous models. The iPhone 3G and 3G[S] both ran Nucleus OS on the PMB8878 baseband CPU (aka XGold 608), where the iPhone 2G ran the PMB8876 (aka S-Gold 2). iPhone 4 uses the PMB9800, or X-Gold 618 – running a separate OS – ThreadX, an RTOS by ExpressLogic. Read more…

Although it isn’t going to change your life, it looks like a few iPhone 4s are coming off the assembly line with reversed volume buttons.  Reader Eric sends us his which he says works like it should if the buttons were reversed.  The ‘–’ increases the volume, while the ‘+’ makes the sound quieter.

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Steve Jobs gave Russian President Dmitry Medvedev a gift of a new iPhone 4 during his visit to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Medvedev became the first Russian to get the handset that thousands are desperately trying purchase today.

According to the Russian mobile operator Beeline, the brand new device may appear on the Russian market no earlier than September. Read more…

iLounge has taken the time to measure how long you can FaceTime video chat on your iPhone 4 before its battery dies.

Three hours and 10 minutes, give or take a little, from a completely charged iPhone 4. That’s via Wi-Fi, as compared with a promised 7 hours of voice-only talk time over 3G, and 10 hours of standard data time over Wi-Fi—the difference is attributable to iPhone 4’s camera, mics, speaker, video and audio encoding and decoding capabilities all being used at the same time.

iLounge tested this on two devices and saw an average battery consumption of 30% per hour.

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iFixYouri has performed a drop test with the new iPhone 4 to see how easily the device gets damaged.

We told everyone that once we have a full iPhone, functioning, we’d be posting a video of us drop testing. The test was completed on a sunny afternoon in Florida, behind our repair facility. The area where it was dropped was free of pebbles and/or small rocks. It was a flat surface out in our parking lot. The height it was performed at, was about the level where you would be holding the phone out in front of you.

Take a guess at how many drops it takes to destroy the phone then watch the video below…

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Today was suppose to be that special day, the day I receive my iphone 4 one day early but it came at a cost. Getting an iPhone 4 early isn’t all that great after all if your camera app doesn’t work, one of the main features including face time and hd video recording are not available to me due to a major software glitch. As you can tell from the video above the camera on my iPhone 4 is useless. Read more…

Could this be the reason Apple is selling those rubber bumpers? Check out the video above and watch the iPhone 4‘s reception bars visibly drop. A magic trick? No, apparently skin and antennas are not BFF’s. In fact, reception drops once your hands cover the metal bits of the iPhone 4. Metal bits which happen to be the antennas. Read more…

We can’t say for sure that it’s an indication that Walmart will be stocking the white iPhone 4 come Thursday, but we find it pretty interesting that all of a sudden the white 16GB model shows up on its retail store as “available in store.” Could this possibily mean that the white iPhone will be available for purchase — at least at Walmart — on D-Day?

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You might as well throw your sleeping bag and Coleman stove back into the attic, as AT&T as just announced that due to incredibly strong demand, it will not have any iPhone 4 units for sale in stores until June 29th. Anyone who pre-ordered for in-store pick up or home delivery will get their device on launch date provided they ordered before that infamous cut-off. Read more…

At least one person has received their iPhone 4 early, but San Diego-based lawyer Gil Cabrera says he can’t activate his new phone yet.

“Xmas has come early because my #iPhone4 just arrived,” Cabrera tweeted earlier. But he later said, “Oh cruelty! Apparently, the #iphone4 arrived in error early and I cannot activate it until tomorrow! That’s just wrong!”

Here’s a few pictures of the phone that Cabrera uploaded to TwitPic. Read more…