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Kindle App News: Update For iPhone, New App For Android

Amazon released its free Kindle app for the iPhone over a year ago, and it just received a new update. The latest version of the app now supports audio and video in certain titles.

Additionally, the iPhone app has been updated to display properly on the iPhone 4’s Retina Display screen. There are already books that support this function in the Kindle store — just look for titles labeled, “Kindle Edition with Audio/Video.”

This functionality is only available on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad — not the Kindle itself. Hopefully, though, this signals new functionality coming to the next generation Kindle, rumored to be hitting stores in August. The Kindle app’s natural competitor, Apple’s iBooks app, doesn’t yet support video or audio.

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Lawsuit Brewing Over iPhone 4 Antenna Issues?

A California law firm may be looking to build a class action lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone 4’s network reception issues, now known online as the iPhone 4 death grip. “If you recently purchased the new iPhone and have experienced poor reception quality, dropped calls, and weak signals, we would like to hear from you,” reads a notice on the Web site for the law firm Kershaw, Cuttiner and Ratinoff.

The Sacramento-based injury attorneys, who market themselves as “Lawyers Who Fight,” are only conducting an investigation into the iPhone 4, and have not announced a formal lawsuit filing.

iPhone 4 death grip may become Apple chokehold

Soon after Apple launched the iPhone 4 on June 24 users started complaining of cellular reception loss caused by gripping the new iPhone in the lower left corner. Unlike its predecessors, iPhone 4’s antennas for phone and data connectivity are integrated into the steel band encircling the device. The phone antenna appears to be located right where you would normally place your palm. So instead of improving signal strength–as the new steel band is meant to do–your hand ends up interfering with reception resulting in dropped calls and generally poor phone reception. PCWorld was able to replicate the reception issues during independent tests.

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