The Sony PSP Go is Sony’s latest handheld to the market. It’s basically a new PSP but for some reason, seems to lack the hardware to make you go wow. Anyway, to cheer things up a little it appears that Sony will be pricing games on the PSN (PlayStation Network) starting at just ‚¬1 with a jump to ‚¬2 and finally ‚¬5 each.
This move brings the pricing in to the Apple App store price range and interestingly enough, Sony have been actively trying to get iPhone developers moving their games over to the PSP Go platform. [Read more…]
Apple recently rejected the new Google Voice app in it’s app store which caused a bit of a stir in the industry. The FCC jumped in to this last week. All that aside, it has started to annoy developers that Apple have such a heavy hand on this matter. It appears that more and more developers are moving over to an underground app store for the iPhone called Cydia. This is the app store which is home to apps that Apple doesn’t approve.
It appears from rumours that Rogers in Canada is starting to ship 8GB iPhone 3G S’ to their stores.
Eye-Fi are the creators of some very unique memory cards. Of course, the main feature of all Eye-Fi cards is that they have a wireless transmitter built in allowing them to connect up to wi-fi networks and transmit images direct to the internet or a PC over the said wireless network.
Spotify is becoming huge over the recent months and is now making it’s way to the iPhone. The spotify app has been sent over to Apple for approval to be added to the App Store. If approved it will allow you to create playlists and share them with others by creating a permanent URL for linking to. Services like ShareMyPlaylists are also handy here to see what other music tastes Spotify users have.
For a fun product management class over at Georgia State University, students decided to create a concept video showing what a MacBook Touch would look like. The presentation starts off with an old Mac from 1984 then quickly moves to the iPod in 2001 and then the iPhone a few years after that at which point the MacBook Touch is displayed.
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A rumour is out and about today indicating that iPod’s might be getting embedded video cameras built in. TechCrunch report that a huge order of cheap $10 cameras have been ordered by Apple. Apple are expected to sell 20 million iPhones this year and about 3+ Million iPods/month. If Apple were to include cameras on their range of iPod’s then that 3+ Million per month would give the low end video market a run for it’s money. 
For the last few years the GSM Association has been trying to get a charging standard across all mobile phones. Finally, the new standard has emerged with microUSB being the new way to connect a charger to your mobile phone. The roll out will start in Europe over the next few years where the large manufacturers which includes LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion, NEX, Qualcomm and TI. Strangely enough, there is no mention of HTC who have become big in the smart phone race. However, I believe that most, if not all, of their phones already use the microUSB standard to charge. 
Less then a week after the iPhone 3G S launch we have heard that the phone has now been exploited. This means that the phone will be able to be jailbreaked and unlocked in the very near future.
