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Now I know I missed the Roku Box, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but this was my first shot at an info graphic, if you like it, Digg it!
You can see my sources:
http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-31045_1-10429585-269.html
http://www.popbox.com/features.php
and other comparison sites:
http://newteevee.com/2010/09/01/comparison-apple-tv-vs-roku-vs-boxee-box/
http://ipod.about.com/od/decidingwhichipodtobuy/a/appletv_chart.htm
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]
Jan 2
So, now lala is now property of Apple. Did anyone notice what happened to the Apple’s website, specifically the iTunes section? They now have iTunes Preview. Basically if you don’t have iTunes or want to download it, but you want to hear a preview of the song your looking for, you can now hear it without having to have iTunes installed on your local PC. The only thing that doesn’t work is buying. You still have to have iTunes on your PC to make your purchase. So when you try to buy it, it links directly to iTunes and loads up the page inside of the app.
I must have missed the announcement, but still this cool to see iTunes online. Check out the Preview on apple.com/itunes
With the iPhone rumors a stirr, since there is a scheduled event that normally takes place around January every year, I figured I would give you one that I thought was rather interesting and seemed a bit more plausible for a June/July 2010 release. I assume that they would talk about it in the January event, and make us wait till June, like they have before. The tidbits that I am hearing is about a new 5MP camera that would shoot 1080p video. Now I find this plausible because of the source of the current iPhone’s camera, OmniVision seems to say they will be supplying Apple with a lot of these cameras for a summer release. To be completely honest, I would be more than thrilled to know that I waited 2 years for the 4th gen iPhone and skipped the 3GS. I would be even happier if AT&T would get off their duff and make the iPhone use its 7.2Mbps connection, or at least have 4G ready by then, and would make it a perfect union of 4′s! With this camera, it looks like you will also be able to shoot 1080p video! Does that mean we will finally be able to watch our HD versions of our movies?? Because I have a lot of podcasts that I watch everyweek, but I have to watch them on my PC b/c my iPhone doesn’t do HD. How about it Apple, you could blow M$ out of the water with an iPhone HD. The only thing is, the iPhone screen is still a crummy 320×480. I guess if they did a 5MP camera, they would also have to up the screen resolution as well.. that’s my take on it.
Merry Christmas!!
via [ArsTechnica] & [TUAW]
So I was on digg (as I am everyday..) and I was reading this article about Steve Jobs being a man of few words, and I absolutely LOVED it!!! This was a great read, but I had to laugh at his reply, it had the “Sent from my iPhone” signature attached! I remember reading an article somewhere saying that it was no longer o.k. to do that, and that you were just being a doucebag if you still had that on your emails.
Well, king of douchebags is still doing it, so I call it now, it’s still o.k.!
OK, so I was at BestBuy today and I saw some new cases for the NEW iPod Touch. I didn’t know that there was one. Even with the Apple store being down for a few hours this past week, I still didn’t see a refresh in the iPod touch line. Am I the only one that has seen this, or is Apple allowing these cases to go out for a future release of a touch with a camera???
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