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With this week's announcement that Google's Nexus One would be 'coming soon' to Sprint, this completes all of the 'big four' cell carriers that the device will be available on. The Android phone is currently available on the T-Mobile and AT&T networks, and is 'coming soon,' but officially announced for Verizon and now Sprint.
Sprint's announcement hinted that a subsidied price would be available and would work with it's Sprint Everything Data 450 $69.99 plan. However, you will not be able to walk into a Sprint store and pick up a Nexus One. From the Sprint press release:Google's online consumer channel was created to provide an efficient way to connect online users with selected Android phones. Nexus One will not be available in any Sprint retail channels. It will be available directly from Google at google.com/phone. The online experience of Google's web store is designed with a focus on simplicity allowing consumers to match a phone with the service plan that best meets their needs.Verizon continues to list a vague 'sometime this spring' availibility and not even a hint at plans or pricing.
Google has sold around 135,000 Nexus One smartphones since its release in January, considerably less than the Motorola Droid or the original iPhone did in their first two and a half months.
Apple today announced the iPad, a device that seems to resemble a large iPhone or iPod Touch. Designed for email and web browsing, with heavy emphasis on consuming media such as newspapers, photos, video, music and games.
Key Features:
- 16 GB of internal flash memory
- 9.7 inch LED-backlit, display: The high-resolution, 9.7 inch LED-backlit, IPS display is remarkably crisp and vivid, making it perfect for web browsing, watching movies, or showing off photos. It's also been designed to work in any orientation--portrait or landscape.
- Multi-Touch capabilities: The Multi-Touch screen on the iPad uses the same revolutionary technology that's in an iPhone. But for iPad, the technology has been completely reengineered for the larger surface, to make it extremely precise and responsive.
- IPS (in-plane switching) display technology provides a wide, 178-degree viewing angle, enabling you to hold it almost any way you want and still get a brilliant picture with excellent color and contrast.
- Powered by A4, Apple's next-generation system-on-a-chip: Designed by Apple, the new A4 chip provides exceptional processor and graphics performance along with long battery life of up to 10 hours. Apple's advanced chemistry and Adaptive Charging technology deliver up to 1,000 charge cycles without a significant decrease in battery capacity over a typical five-year lifespan.
- Built-in Wireless-N Wi-Fi: With integrated 802.11n networking, the iPad can take advantage of the fastest Wi-Fi networks. And it will automatically locate available Wi-Fi networks, which you can easily join with a few simple taps.
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR enables you to connect to devices like wireless headphones or the Apple Wireless Keyboard.
- Powerful, built-in speaker produces a full, rich sound, and the iPad also comes with a headphone jack and a built-in microphone.
- 30-pin dock connector on the bottom of the iPad allows you to dock and charge it. It also lets you connect to iPad accessories like the Camera Connection Kit or the Keyboard Dock.
- Up to 10 hours battery life: To maximize battery life, Apple engineers took the same lithium polymer battery technology they developed for Apple's notebook computers and applied it to the iPad. As a result, you can use iPad for up to 10 hours while surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos, or listening to music.
Apple just announced minutes ago the iPad, a device that seems to resemble a large iPhone or iPod Touch.
With a 9.7" IPS LCD multitouch screen, wifi, Bluetooth, accelerometer, compass, speaker and microphone, it can run any iPhone app. 10 hours of battery life is claimed. 3G will be available as well on some models.Designed for email and web browsing, with heavy emphasis on consuming media such as newspapers, photos, video, music and games, as well as cloud based applications.
iBooks will be available from the new iBook store.
If you're like me, your RSS feeds have been clogged with rumors and endless chatter about the unannounced new Apple "tablet". After tomorrow we'll be able to put rumors to rest but I couldn't help but get in on the speculation:
-10" tablet device, possibly OLED
-Gaming a heavy component: "the entertaining-est?" Apple device ever?
-EBooks will be a key component
-It will run a slightly modified version of iPhone OS 4.0
-It will be a subsidised device with 3G and wifi capabilities
-Don't expect it to have Phone capabilities, but rather will rely on audio and possibly video chat capabilities
-Your subsidy will also cover some content, but it will be limited in some way, perhaps limited to getting one complimentary subscription to the NYT or the WSJ
-You will be able to subscribe to magazines, and if you've seen what Google has done with their fast flip, expect something VERY similar to interact with your magazines, which will include integrating Internet content. Think embedded advertising. You don't think that Apple bought that mobile ad company JUST for the iPhone did you? They will be making money on all aspects.
-It will have the ability to integrate with your Mac as an input device, think Photoshop finger painting!
-New version of iTunes will be announced with wifi syncing over your home wifi network
-New version of iTunes will stream your content to the tablet
What features or functionality do you anticipate with tomorrow's announcements?
image credit: MacDailyNews
-10" tablet device, possibly OLED
-Gaming a heavy component: "the entertaining-est?" Apple device ever?
-EBooks will be a key component
-It will run a slightly modified version of iPhone OS 4.0
-It will be a subsidised device with 3G and wifi capabilities
-Don't expect it to have Phone capabilities, but rather will rely on audio and possibly video chat capabilities
-Your subsidy will also cover some content, but it will be limited in some way, perhaps limited to getting one complimentary subscription to the NYT or the WSJ
-You will be able to subscribe to magazines, and if you've seen what Google has done with their fast flip, expect something VERY similar to interact with your magazines, which will include integrating Internet content. Think embedded advertising. You don't think that Apple bought that mobile ad company JUST for the iPhone did you? They will be making money on all aspects.
-It will have the ability to integrate with your Mac as an input device, think Photoshop finger painting!
-New version of iTunes will be announced with wifi syncing over your home wifi network
-New version of iTunes will stream your content to the tablet
What features or functionality do you anticipate with tomorrow's announcements?
image credit: MacDailyNews
From Twice News Daily:
The latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, will debut in U.S. stores June 19 with double the wireless-download speeds and more memory capacity than current models, Apple announced today at its worldwide developers conference.
The 16GB version of the iPhone 3G S will retail for $199, and a 32GB version will retail for $299, when purchased with two-year AT&T wireless contract and eligible service plans. The current 8GB iPhone 3G remains in the line but at a price that was cut immediately to $99 from $199. The existing $299 16GB iPhone 3G will be dropped from the lineup when current supplies run out, but its price has been reduced in the interim to $149.
The price moves put pressure on competing touchscreen-equipped smartphones, including the Palm Pre, which debuted June 6 on the Sprint network at $199 with 8GB of embedded memory and no memory card slot.
The 3G S will be available through AT&T, Apple, Best Buy and Walmart stores.
The new 3G S features the iPhone 3.0 OS, which will also be available for free downloading to current iPhones on June 17.
The 3G S looks like the current 3G, but besides the previously announced upgrades enabled by the 3.0 OS, the iPhone 3G S adds 7.2Mbps high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) cellular-data technology. The AT&T network technology doubles theoretical peak download speeds from the 3.6Mbps available to the iPhone 3G, whose actual throughput averages 700kbps to 1.7Mbps.
The new models also add:
* upgraded camera with 3-megapixel resolution, autofocus, auto white balance, macro focus, low-light capability and a “tap to focus” feature in which users tap on an object in the display to adjust focus and exposure;
* digital compass integrated with map displays;
* voice control of phone functions, applications, and dialing;
* reduced application launch times;
* longer battery life;
* OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for improved 3-D graphics; and
* built-in communication with the optional $19 Nike+iPod sensor to track miles run or sync with the latest generation gym equipment.
On the iPhone 3G and 3G S, the 3.0 OS delivers cellular downloading of purchased or rented movies, plus TV shows and music videos, from the iTune store. The OS also enables a remote-wipe feature, which lets subscribers remotely delete all stored data from a lost iPhone. A Find My iPhone feature lets users push messages to lost phones to notify the finder to call the owner at a certain number. If the iPhone is returned, wiped-out data can be restored by connecting to the iTunes site.
Other previously announced features of the iPhone 3.0 operating system include ability to support GPS applications that deliver turn-by-turn driving instructions. Here at the conference, TomTom unveiled its driving-direction application for the OS.
More than 100 other features enabled by the 3.0 OS, also available for downloading to the iPod Touch, include:
* 30 fps video capture with ability to post videos to the web or send them by email or MMS (multimedia messaging service); AT&T will enable iPhone 3G and 3G S MMS in the summer;
* the ability to cut and paste text across multiple applications;
* searching for keywords across multiple applications;
* background notification of text and instant messages via sound, text or badge alerts;
* cellular MMS (multimedia messaging service);
* camcorder capability;
* stereo Bluetooth;
* peer-to-peer Bluetooth connections;
* shake to shuffle;
* automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots;
* access to Google and Yahoo shared calendars;
* the ability to forward and delete multiple messages;
* parental controls for TV shows, movies and apps from the iTunes Store; and
* the ability to view email in landscape mode and type emails on a landscape-mode virtual keyboard, not just on a portrait-mode keyboard...
The 3.0 software is available June 17 as a free software update to existing iPhones but costs $9.95 for Touch users.
The latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, will debut in U.S. stores June 19 with double the wireless-download speeds and more memory capacity than current models, Apple announced today at its worldwide developers conference.
The 16GB version of the iPhone 3G S will retail for $199, and a 32GB version will retail for $299, when purchased with two-year AT&T wireless contract and eligible service plans. The current 8GB iPhone 3G remains in the line but at a price that was cut immediately to $99 from $199. The existing $299 16GB iPhone 3G will be dropped from the lineup when current supplies run out, but its price has been reduced in the interim to $149.
The price moves put pressure on competing touchscreen-equipped smartphones, including the Palm Pre, which debuted June 6 on the Sprint network at $199 with 8GB of embedded memory and no memory card slot.
The 3G S will be available through AT&T, Apple, Best Buy and Walmart stores.
The new 3G S features the iPhone 3.0 OS, which will also be available for free downloading to current iPhones on June 17.
The 3G S looks like the current 3G, but besides the previously announced upgrades enabled by the 3.0 OS, the iPhone 3G S adds 7.2Mbps high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) cellular-data technology. The AT&T network technology doubles theoretical peak download speeds from the 3.6Mbps available to the iPhone 3G, whose actual throughput averages 700kbps to 1.7Mbps.
The new models also add:
* upgraded camera with 3-megapixel resolution, autofocus, auto white balance, macro focus, low-light capability and a “tap to focus” feature in which users tap on an object in the display to adjust focus and exposure;
* digital compass integrated with map displays;
* voice control of phone functions, applications, and dialing;
* reduced application launch times;
* longer battery life;
* OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for improved 3-D graphics; and
* built-in communication with the optional $19 Nike+iPod sensor to track miles run or sync with the latest generation gym equipment.
On the iPhone 3G and 3G S, the 3.0 OS delivers cellular downloading of purchased or rented movies, plus TV shows and music videos, from the iTune store. The OS also enables a remote-wipe feature, which lets subscribers remotely delete all stored data from a lost iPhone. A Find My iPhone feature lets users push messages to lost phones to notify the finder to call the owner at a certain number. If the iPhone is returned, wiped-out data can be restored by connecting to the iTunes site.
Other previously announced features of the iPhone 3.0 operating system include ability to support GPS applications that deliver turn-by-turn driving instructions. Here at the conference, TomTom unveiled its driving-direction application for the OS.
More than 100 other features enabled by the 3.0 OS, also available for downloading to the iPod Touch, include:
* 30 fps video capture with ability to post videos to the web or send them by email or MMS (multimedia messaging service); AT&T will enable iPhone 3G and 3G S MMS in the summer;
* the ability to cut and paste text across multiple applications;
* searching for keywords across multiple applications;
* background notification of text and instant messages via sound, text or badge alerts;
* cellular MMS (multimedia messaging service);
* camcorder capability;
* stereo Bluetooth;
* peer-to-peer Bluetooth connections;
* shake to shuffle;
* automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots;
* access to Google and Yahoo shared calendars;
* the ability to forward and delete multiple messages;
* parental controls for TV shows, movies and apps from the iTunes Store; and
* the ability to view email in landscape mode and type emails on a landscape-mode virtual keyboard, not just on a portrait-mode keyboard...
The 3.0 software is available June 17 as a free software update to existing iPhones but costs $9.95 for Touch users.
From Macworld:Apple on Wednesday introduced the next generation iPod shuffle. The shuffle has always been Apple’s smallest iPod, but now it is nearly half the size of the previous model at 1.8 inches tall by 0.3 inches thin.
The new iPod shuffle bumps storage up to 4GB and features VoiceOver, which enables the iPod to speak your song titles, artists, and playlist names. The shuffle can speak 14 languages: including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, told Macworld that the iPod shuffle will automatically recognize what language it should speak. If you have a preference of which language you would like, it can be changed in iTunes.
According to Apple, the third-generation iPod shuffle holds up to 1,000 songs encoded at 128 Kbps.
PC sales are in free fall as the weak demand for Windows desktops and full-size notebooks in a poorly performing global economy is being compounded by an influx of low cost netbooks, which are gobbling up the remains of profitability in the PC industry.
According to an IDC report issued last week, worldwide PC processor unit shipments in the fourth quarter of 2008 declined –17.0% quarter over quarter and –11.4% year over year. Those tragic numbers were buoyed somewhat by sales of mini-laptop netbooks running low powered processors. Take out Intel's Atom chips that power netbooks, and processor unit shipments declined by –21.7% over the previous September quarter and –21.6% over last year's holiday quarter.
read more | digg story
According to an IDC report issued last week, worldwide PC processor unit shipments in the fourth quarter of 2008 declined –17.0% quarter over quarter and –11.4% year over year. Those tragic numbers were buoyed somewhat by sales of mini-laptop netbooks running low powered processors. Take out Intel's Atom chips that power netbooks, and processor unit shipments declined by –21.7% over the previous September quarter and –21.6% over last year's holiday quarter.
read more | digg story
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