There are few companies more secretive than Apple.  Senior employees have been let go for inadvertently betraying the smallest details of unannounced products in the tech media.  That’s why my insider source for this incredible leak has chosen to remain incognito – I don’t even know the whistleblower’s name myself.  We spoke just once, but the source chose to disguise their voice with intense electronic signal processing, masking all trace of accent, inflection and even gender.  In other words, he called me from his iPhone.  I’m convinced that he’s the real deal, and the checks I’ve made with my other Apple connections have corroborated the details in the fax.

The document is the work of Apple’s superstar design-chief Jonny Ive and clearly bears all the hallmarks of his past designs.  It’s an electrifying glimpse into what the next year will bring from the tech world’s most famous brand.
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Yours, Peter.

9th Birthday competition entry from Peter.

To celebrate the launch of our new website we are giving away a BRAND NEW BLACKBERRY CURVE 3G 9300 and 5 runner up prizes. For your chance to win all you need do is CLICK HERE, enter your name and email address, that’s it!

The competition closes on the 31st October after which one winner will be selected at random.

*By entering this competition, you agree to receive the Clove email newsletter.

Twitter & Facebook

In conjunction with running a competition surrounding our new website we are too running a series of Twitter and Facebook only competitions. There are lots of prizes to be given away so check out http://www.twitter.com/clovetechnology and http://www.facebook.com/clovetechnology.

We are going to run a new competition on 247 each week for the forseeable future. All you need to do is send in a photo taken with your smartphone, tell us what phone it was taken with (and / or with which software) and the best one received each week will receive $10 of smartphone software of their choice. A new photo will be published every day and the decision on the previous week’s winner will be made each Monday. Photos needs to be sent to shaun (at) mailstm.co.uk. Good luck!

I will start you off with this one I took on my 3GS last week using the ShakeIt app which brings a touch of Polaroid to the party-

All you have to do is guess the total number of games that will be played and the nearest to the final number will take home the money. Simply add your number as a reply to this topic and we will see who comes out on top on Sunday. Come on Andy!!!

If the same number is chosen twice, only the first entry will be counted. All entries must be added before the match starts. The winner will be announced on Monday.

“A smartphone is an internet capable mobile device capable of running multiple applications in a true operating system environment. It allows the user to customize the interface, install additional applications and to create a personal mobile environment for their needs.”

A big thanks must go to Peter who donated the Diamond for the competition.

This is your chance to define what a smartphone is in under 50 words and the best answer will win a near perfect condition HTC Touch Diamond. It is not the newest of smartphones, but it is a good one and thanks go to Peter for donating it.

Just post your answers by replying to this topic and the closing date for entries is midnight (UK time) on 22nd January. Good luck and the winner will be announced on 25th January.

The winner of the competition to rename PDA-247 is Jennifer who came up with www.allmobileos.com.

Jennifer, I have emailed you so if you can respond we will sort out your prize with Clove. Thanks to all of you who took the time to come up with ideas- look out for a new competition very soon.