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The French website Nowhere Else has gotten a few spy photos of the new iPhone that will be revealed shortly. So, we thought we’d share with you guys:

Want your iPhone to control your receiver, DVR, TV, cable and whatever the hell else you have in your home theater setup? Waltham, MA-based Thinkflood thinks they have the answer for you with their new RedEye app.

“Consisting of a small, production-grade hardware device and a free downloadable software beta application, the RedEye system transforms an iPhone or iPod touch into a universal remote control, allowing consumers to control an almost unlimited number of home entertainment devices,” ThinkFlood said in a press release.

The press release added: “Once downloaded, the iPhone/iPod is able to communicate with the RedEye hub using Wi-Fi, meaning no line of sight is required and control is possible from any room in the house. RedEye receives the iPhone’s commands and sends out infrared signals to control the designated devices.”

This. sounds. awesome.

We know that we have five friggin’ remotes at the Inked Up headquarters and it is absolutely maddening. One of our five remotes is a damn universal remote that doesn’t quite do everything, so you still need the four others. So this app better be a real substitute or it’s just another 70%-effective universal.

The app is still in beta mode.

According to analysts, Apple could sleepwalk through their next generation of iPhone and competitors still couldn’t catch up. Wow. These other companies need to get caught up before Apple owns the entire mobile market. That is….when other carriers are available on the iPhone. Some still don’t want any parts of AT+T.

“I think the Pre holds up very well compared to the current second-generation iPhone 3G,” said Roger Entner, analyst at Nielson Mobile. “But the third-gen iPhone will most likely up the ante again…. If you only follow Apple, you will never catch up.”