Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Yeah, we’d seen those fine mechanical workings from the back, but Ulysse Nardin has just taken the wraps of its entire Chairman handset, which they bill as a “hybrid smart phone” — and actually seem to mean it. Ulysse Nardin surprisingly hasn’t skimped on specs here, with a 2.8-inch multitouch screen, finger print reader for phone unlock, 5 megapixel camera, WiFi and the inclusion of an email app and a browser. There’s also that fancy kinetic rotor system for passive charging of the phone, but no word on how much battery life that will actually get you. Ulysse Nardin is currently showing off the phone in Rose Gold, Rose Gold & Blue, Rose Gold & Steel, Stealth Black and Steel & Blue trims, so there should be plenty of options to set you apart from your other billionaire friends. The device is currently on display at BASELWORLD; no word on price, but if you have to ask…
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Would it be too cruel to say we’re shocked it lasted this long? Apple’s iPhone Bluetooth Headset never was too popular outside of the hardcore Apple faithful, with a litany of respectable (and let’s face it, far superior) alternatives available for a fraction of the $99 MSRP. To that end, Cupertino has seen fit to discontinue the peripheral, though prospective customers can apparently still buy ‘em until supply runs dry. Here’s a tip, though — wait for the fire sale.
[Thanks, Richard]
Gallery: Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset now discontinued
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
ARM has been talking up its Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors for a little while now, but according to the company’s graphics product manager, Remi Pedersen, they’re now finally on track to land in some actual products, and the first cellphones using ‘em could show up as soon as winter 2009. While Pedersen unfortunately didn’t have anything to say about those phones themselves, he did make some pretty bold claims about the processors, which are able to run OpenGL ES 2.0 and can supposedly pump out 16 million triangles per second and 275 million pixels per second. Those numbers apparently apply to both the Mali-200 and Mali-400, although the later is multicore scalable (up to quad-core at 300MHz), and even able to produce 1080p resolutions. To bring all that home, ARM has whipped up a port of the original Project Gotham Racing game to demo at GDC, which reportedly runs just like the original Xbox game performance-wise, but “feature-wise it looks like an Xbox 360 title.”
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
Google has announced a new application for the Apple iPhone 3G, which should be available in the iPhone’s App Store any day now. The free application will add speech recognition technology to the iPhone, allowing users to simply speak a question and receive search results directly from Google.
The application allows users to ask things such as ‘Where is the nearest Starbucks,’ which the application will then save as a digital audio file and send to Google’s servers. The servers will attempt to determine the words in the message, and pass the converted information along to the Google search engine.
Search results may include local information, such as the Starbucks example, or may simply be information, such as the number of people who live in San Francisco.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
You might be lapping up all the coverage on the newly announced BlackBerry Storm, but Apple has snuck in through the back door and taken RIM’s number two slot in the smartphone stakes. Research firm Canalys has reported that the Cupertino boys are now the second biggest pusher of smartphones in the world after the success of the iPhone 3G in Q2. Apple has garnered 17.3 per cent of the worldwide market, pushing RIM into second place with 15.2 per cent.
Symbian still top. However, phones running the Symbian system are still looking the best bet on 46.6 per cent, though that figure represents a 21.5 per cent slide in market share… Nokia’s purchase of the OS could make or break its fortunes in the next year. It appears the business-minded among us are all over the iPhone, discarding their BlackBerries to the back of a desk drawer and marvelling at being able to swipe through their contacts.
Lucky RIM has got the Storm, Bold and Pearl 8220 coming out this quarter, eh?
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Apple’s success with the iPhone hasn’t seemed to dampen its enthusiasm from keeping all other companies away from its precious device, as it has apparently rejected the Opera browser from its App Store.
Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner told the NY Times in a recent interview that Opera’s engineers have developed a browser capable of running on the iPhone, but Apple won’t let the App be released as it competes with Safari Mobile.
It seems strange that Apple would be so protective over a certain aspect of the handset. It happily lets multimedia playing applications through the App Store, even though the iPhone is so heavily built on the iPod structure.
Perhaps this is Apple’s way of keeping its powder dry until the Mobile version of Firefox releases? Many within the industry believe the new browser is going to be pretty good, and although Safari Mobile is still one of the best ways to get the internet on your handset, the Mozilla effort could be the one mobile phone users are clamouring for in the next year.
Or maybe Apple just doesn’t want to play with any of the other kids… seems equally plausible really.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Google’s reputation as the open-source brand has been somewhat tarnished as it has been revealed the company has a kill switch to delete any app it chooses.
In the terms and conditions, it describes the kill switch: “Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement … in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion.”
In fairness to the Google-y ones, the kill switch is explained openly in the terms and conditions, and given that the Android Marketplace is unmoderated makes sense, compared to Apple’s approval system for all Apps which can then still be ‘killed’.
And Google will also try and recover any money lost buying the bogus app too, albeit from the original developer. If not all the money can be recovered, whatever is reclaimed will be distributed among the wronged users.
And if you don’t like the app you’ve downloaded, Google kindly lets you refund your money within 24 hours of purchase, which means you can try all the probably rubbish location based ‘find your friend’ apps without worry.
Tags: Android Marketplace, app, Apple, device, G1, Google, Google Android, google application, mobile phones, phone, smartphone
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Apple has listed the iPhone 3G in its Hong Kong online shop as unlocked, able to be activated on any of the local carriers. Although Hong Kong is technically part of China, it is still maintains mostly separate communication networks. China Mobile has revealed that its iPhone 3G would be lacking 3G and WiFi, but it appears as though those sold in Hong Kong will be fully equipped.
Pricing for the iPhone 3G in Hong Kong is HK$5500 (US$694) for the 8GB, or HK$6200 (about $797) for the 16GB version. The online shop states that you must insert your SIM card into the phone before connecting to iTunes for activation.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Apple iPhone is expected to be finally launched in Korea market in October, according to a market watcher. The source said iPhone will be available for between 200,000(KRW) and 300,000(KRW) with two years contract.
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