developers are reporting that iOS 4.1 beta (full release next week) is showing the iPhone 3G running faster then the 3G running 3.1.3. This is great news for us 3G users who have had phones that would constantly crash and freeze on iOS 4. This problem was however, overshadowed by the iPhone 4′s antenna issue and so hasn’t had much publicity.

The developers are saying how there is no keyboard lag anymore and the whole OS just feels nippier and more usable. here’s a video of beta 3 that I found

Did apple even bother testing iOS 4 on the 3G, or was it a stunt to persuade people to bin their 3Gs and buy iPhone 3G s or 4s? Whatever it was, the fix is coming in 5 days!

iPod Shuffle with buttons AND voiceover $49

Multitouch iPod nano! 24hour audio playback. Built in FM radio $149 8GB $169 16GB

NEW iPod Touch, front and rear facing camera, retina display and HD video/facetime 8GB $229 32GB $299 64GB $399

Good effort apple.

It will include all the iOS features plus wireless printing! Very useful for me!!! This is through the ‘print center’ application

Another feature is called ‘airplay’ this will stream audio/video/photos over wifi to all your apple devices!

Release in November! Free update

That’s what big steve says!

Join me and watch it live at http://apple.com

Well, well, well… That rumored touch screen square iPod nano is looking pretty solid right about now. Thanks to our lovely friends in manufacturing in Asia, 3rd party cases have started showing up online for the new iPod nano device. We’re not talking just one either, more like a whole heap — every color possible, too. In addition to cases, there is also a mockup along with sizing dimensions that has surfaced as well. We have to ask, is an incredibly small touchscreen iPod nano something that interests you, or will you stick to an iPod shuffle? Image of one of the cases after the break!

UPDATE: As one of our readers points out… what if this is just Apple’s new Shuffle? Would be pretty amazing, right?

Too many headlines have focused on iTV and new iPods for the upcoming Apple event that the cloud-based iTunes has almost slid into obscurity. Almost.AllThingsD‘s sources say to forget about a streaming service, and start thinking social.

Citing industry executives, Peter Kafka scribed today that while Apple hasn’t yet inked deals with the various record labels for new licenses for a streaming service, they still very much have iTunes on the brain. In fact, what they’re supposedly working on now is a web-based iTunes where users can share their love of choons with one another, but not actually stream songs or share songs.

In other words, it will be a social recommendation version of iTunes where you can’t actually listen to songs. It could pair up with Twitter, Facebook et al, allowing for pesky “Kat Hannaford is listening to Copacabana by Barry Manilow on iTunes, download it here” type updates.

AllThingsD has also heard whispers of some form of wireless-syncing of music and media, enabling even easier transfer of songs from MacBooks to iPhones. No cables?

Apple has just started sending out invitations for a special event — it’s annual special music event typically involving iTunes and iPads — on September 1, 2010.

A new iPod touch 4 (with FaceTime and Retina Display?) is a given, as is iOS 4.1— perhaps with some new, previously unseen features? — and maybe new versions of Apple TV/iTV (for $99 running iOS and TV rentals?), iTunes (with some cloud streaming services?), and iLife (with an HTML5 content creation app?)? What about iOS 4.x for iPad and news on white iPhones?!