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Archive for April, 2010
Monday 4/19 – Apple wants its iPhone back
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Ok, so this whole day has turned into a crazy iPhone news day. In case you haven’t heard, the iPhone (4G – 4th gen, not 4g internet) was publicly released today as a leak. Apparently this guy Gray Powell who is working on the baseband software for the iPhone went out for a few drinks the day after St. Paddy’s day and got a little too drunk. In his drunkenness, he completely left the prototype phone at the bar. The guy who found it tried calling Apple, because it was remotely wiped and he had never seen one like it. A few weeks later it ended up in the hands of Gizmodo and the media hayday ensued.
There is now physical proof that this is the true thing, since Gizmodo was contacted and politely requested to turn the phone in by Apple.
The fun part is, they had it for quite a while and was able to give us some major details. There is a front facing camera, there is a flash. There is larger resolution screen; they don’t know the resolution, but it was obviously better. It uses a micro-SIM instead of the regular. The power button and the volume up and down buttons are all metallic and the phone is flat. There seems to be a mic next to the headphone jack (maybe noise cancellation). They also tore this thing apart and found a bigger battery. The backing also seems to be a clear plastic or glass (allowing cell signals to pass through).
NOW, the thing is, to see how Apple does damage control. Will this be the final phone that we see announced in June? Or will they scrap the whole thing and start over? Will thy change a few things?? What is to come???
Oh wait.. Here is Steve’s RE:
via [Gizmodo]
CNET News answers where the new iPhone is
0I’ve scoured the major websites for my only one question that I wanted to be answered about the new iPhone 4.0 release. Yes, we get multitasking; yes we get the unified mailbox; yes, we get the game center; yes, we finally get folders; but what about the freaking hardware update??!! There wasn’t any, “One more thing…” today.
I realize that all this stuff is GREAT for the 3GS and 3rd gen iPod touches, but what about a LARGE number of people who skipped the 3GS? We don’t want to have to upgrade to, um the 3GS 2. I was really hoping that today they would announce a hardware update, so we would be wanting this thing for the next few months, but all I got was multitasking.
So I searched everywhere, and after hearing this from CNET, I felt really retarded:
OH!!! WWWDC!!! I completely forgot about that. Does that mean that the new hardware will be announced at the end of June, and I will have to wait until like August or September to get it, or do you think it will be ready on announcement day??
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XBOX 360 gets USB Thumbdrive Support
01 year ago
by RustyG
in Technology
Microsoft released an update to the XBOX 360 today to allow for up 32GB of external storage through the use of two 16GB thumbdrives on the system’s two USB slots in the front. This update is free for XBOX live users who connect to XBOX Live and can be downloaded once your signed into your Live account. This recent update has also started SanDisk to start selling some XBOX branded thumbdrives as well.
iPhone OS 4.0 coming soon…
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It’s finally official, the new iPhone OS has been announced and we will see what all the hub-bub is about this coming Thursday at 10AM PT. There is rumored to be a new iPhone in the works as well. The only thing we know, there is a new software update around the corner and June seems to be the 1 year life cycle of each previous iPhone. There is also rumored to be multi-tasking finally enabled on this phone, a 5MP camera, a front facing camera and a new Apple processor to compete with the Snapdragon, currently running the Google Nexus One. We won’t get every thing confirmed until Thursday afternoon, but oh the anticipation for us iPhone 3G holders who skipped the 3GS. I will be up on my contract just in time for the new phone!!!
Before anyone asks, that is a picture mock-up from Redmond Pie
via [Engadget]
Blu-ray expands to 128GB via BDXL
01 year ago
by RustyG
in Technology
The Blu-ray Disc Association is now adding in a new disc spec, 128GB! as if the 50GB wasn’t enough for you now, you will soon be able to expand! This new disc won’t even be able to be played in the latest blu-ray players or your PS3. There will be a stronger laser needed to be able to access the quad layers on this disc! These discs will be 128GB on a write once, and in a re-writable format @ 100GB.
via [Engadget]
