Apple iPhone 4 Release Date – June 24 in 5 Countries

June 7, 2010 by 3 Comments

Apple [AAPL] just announced that the Apple iPhone 4 will be made available on June 24 in five countries which are the US, France, Germany, United Kingdom and Japan.

The US pricing has been announced at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Each capacity model will come in either black or white as previous leaks have revealed.

International pricing is not known just yet although we suspect that will be either announced on the Apple site today, or closer to the pre-order date which start on June 15. [Read more…]

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Apple iOS 4 Release Date – June 21

June 7, 2010 by 50 Comments

Apple [AAPL] will be releasing iOS 4, formerly known as iPhone OS 4.0 on June 21. It will be a free upgrade to all users. iOS 4 will be made available on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G (with some features missing) and the iPod Touch (not 1st gen model). As previously mentioned, iOS 4 will not be available for the Apple iPad until later this year.

When made available you’ll be able to download it from iTunes when you sync up your phone. We are in the process of creating a list of all the features that will be included in iOS4 and what it will bring to your iPhone 3GS and 3G and what the differences are, ie – what will be missing on the 3G version.

Stay tuned and we’ll have all the details soon.

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Apple iOS 4 – New name for iPhone OS 4.0

June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Apple [AAPL] has announced the iPhone 4 today (more on that in a few moments). As well as announcing the iPhone 4 (not iPhone 4G or iPhone HD), they also announced that iPhone OS 4.0 was being renamed to just iOS 4.

The new iOS 4 brings over 1500 new developer API’s allowing those developers to tap in to a variety of features such as multitasking. Other features included in iOS 4 includes a unified inbox, app folders and a whole range of other tweaks and changes. [Read more…]

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Apple iPad External Camera Spotted

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The Apple iPad lacks a few things. One of those things is a camera which would make it a perfect device for video calls. A company has decided to make an external webcam for the Apple [AAPL] iPad. It comes from a company called Photofast and right now in prototype form, uses a regular Microsoft [MSFT] webcam connected to the dock port. We do hear that when launched it will look very different.

What it will allow the iPad to do is make video calls using services such as Skype. Note that the details in the photo show a camera capable of 640 x 480 pixels with a 200 meg sensor. I think they mean it has a 2 megapixel sensor. [Read more…]

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HP ePrint Web Printer Service Announced

June 7, 2010 by 1 Comment

Earlier today a new series of HP email-able printers were mentioned. No specific details were given other than that they could have email addresses where you simply email the printer what you need printing.

HP has now launched the official announcement of the service including details of how the system works and what you will be able to do with the new printers. The new printers are called HP ePrint. The HP ePrint is web-connected and cloud aware.

What web-connected and cloud aware means is that you can access your printer from anywhere in the world. Documents can be stored in the cloud and printed when needed. Also the printers can connect up to services such as msnbc.com and automatically print out today’s news stories. [Read more…]

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Google Music Could Compete with Apple iTunes

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Google [GOOG] a few weeks back at the Google I/O event, gave a very brief sneak peak at a new web-based music service that would tackle iTunes that Apple [AAPL] run.

On June 4, a logo was found on the Google servers showing that the service could be called Google Music. The logo is above in this post (note that the logo has now been removed from the servers).

It is expected that Google Music will be part of a new section in the Android Market and that some sort of streaming will be made available for users. When we say streaming, it isn’t confirmed just yet if streaming will be made available, or if music you like can be just downloaded direct from Android Market on to your Android device and then played back. [Read more…]

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Dell Streak Rooted

June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The Dell Streak launched last week on the O2 network in the UK. We now hear that someone has successfully managed to root the device.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Dell Streak, the device is an Android tablet device with a 5 inch multitouch screen. It has the ability to make calls, but is primarily designed to surf the web and send/receive email as well as handle multimedia such as video quite well. With it having a smaller form factor than the larger tablets such as the iPad, it easily fits in your pocket allowing it to be carried around.

Rooting the Dell Streak allows a number of things to be done with the tablet which normally cannot be done on a restricted device. [Read more…]

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Apple iPhone 4G Upgrades at AT&T – Eligibility Dates Change

June 7, 2010 by 2 Comments

If you currently have a contract at AT&T on an iPhone, go and check your upgrade eligibility date. You will probably find it has been changed and that a new message indicates that you will soon be able to upgrade to a new iPhone for a fee of $18 when signing up for a new two year contract. That isn’t to say that the iPhone 4G will cost you $18, that is the upgrade fee.

If you are an AT&T [T] customer, head on over to wireless.att.com and click on the Check Upgrade Options when logged in. At this point you should see a message similar to the one below (if you are eligible)

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Deal of the Day: Proscan 32 Inch 1080p HDTV – 33% Off

June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Amazon currently have a deal on the Proscan 32 inch 1080p HDTV that gives a 33% saving from the original $449.99 price tag bringing it down to $299.99. As well as the 32 inch model having a discount, the larger 40 inch model also has a saving of 26% knocking $161.99 off the price dropping it to $468.

Both TV’s are fairly standard in what they offer. Each has 2 HDMI inputs, each can display full HD at 1080p (1920 x 1080) and has a contrast ratio of 1300:1 although the larger is rated a little higher at 2000:1. [Read more…]

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Motorola DROID Android 2.2 Download Available – Unofficially

June 7, 2010 by 5 Comments

If you are willing to root your Motorola DROID and manually install a new firmware, then in the next 30 minutes you could potentially be running Android 2.2 on your device.

Android 2.2 brings a number of enhancements to Android smartphones including performance increases, Flash 10.1 and a few nice features including wireless tethering.

If you are unfamiliar with how to install the Android 2.2 upgrade then follow the instructions over at MyDroidWorld which also includes links to where you can download the Android 2.2 Froyo update along with other things you need to get it going, and the instructions too. [Read more…]

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Apple iPhone 4G Expected to be Announced Today

June 7, 2010 by 1 Comment

Today, June 7, will hopefully bring an end to all the Apple iPhone 4G leaks and rumours we have been hearing and seeing for the last few months. The main leak of the iPhone 4G from Apple [AAPL] was when Gizmodo managed to get hold of a prototype a couple of months back. Since then we have seen leaks spring out from a few countries around the world including Vietnam.

Now that we have seen the insides and outside of the iPhone 4G (or iPhone HD, or whatever it will be called), we are now expecting to hear official word from Steve Jobs himself today at WWDC.

Things that we expect to hear about the device are as follows…

The iPhone 4G is expected to have a 960 x 640 resolution effectively giving it four times the amount of pixels that the current iPhone 3GS has. The display is said to be similar to the iPad in that it will use IPS (in plane switching) along with another new technology called FFS (fringe-field switching). This could also get interesting in terms of apps for the Apple Pad… could the new iPhone apps optimised for a higher res look far better than they do now when scaled up? We hope so. Read on for more… [Read more…]

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Metro PCS to get Android 2.1 Phone

June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Metro PCS is rumoured to be getting a new Motorola [MOT] smartphone that runs the Google [GOOG] Android 2.1 operating system.

The Android handset has a slide out QWERTY keyboard that has four rows of keys with the addition of a .com button to the left of the space bar. On the front of the device looks to be some sort of unique home button which could be encircled by some sort of funky control pad.

Other features include a 600MHz processor, a 3 megapixel camera and from what we understand, it will run the MOTOBLUR overlay. [Read more…]

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