Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Apple [AAPL] is holding an event today at 10am PDT. For the many people who cannot make it, but would like to watch events as they happen, Apple will be broadcasting the event over a Live Stream.
The live stream from what we understand, will only work on Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad or a Mac running Safari and OS X 10.6. It “might” work on Windows based computers, but for some reason Apple do mention specifics in their press release. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has purchased a social games developer called Social Deck. Social Deck is a company that makes games for both mobile and smartphones which indicates Google are moving in to games development.
The games built by Social Desk are generally multiplayer based that work across networks. Popular devices developed for include the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. [Read more…]
Hotmail is set to get an update either today, or sometime this week that will bring IMAP to the web based email service.
What this will do is give users the ability to sync up in Outlook with what’s in a hotmail account. This sync will work both ways meaning that any other emails that you have in Outlook could be uploaded to Hotmail and vice versa.
The other sync features work when you send emails or move them around on either the web based version, phone version of in Outlook. Each of them will be able to keep in sync with each other giving you the ability to manage your email from any device you connect via IMAP with. [Read more…]
RIM (Research in Motion) could be working on an external antenna design according to details found by BBLeaks.
One of BBLeaks sources sent in a picture showing a BlackBerry Pearl 9100 with an external antenna and also indicated that a lot of these devices with external antennas could be found at RIM’s headquarters in Canada.
The iPhone 4 launched back in June this year and also had an external antenna design that had a number of issues reported by the media and users of the phone. It isn’t clear why RIM would go down this path other than perhaps trying to get a more stable version of what Apple [AAPL] came up with. [Read more…]
Apple has released a new version of the iWork productivity suite. The new version is iWork 9.0.4 that is available for download today.
New features included with the update include some big fixes for the Keynote, Pages and Numbers software. Also the update brings the ability to export Pages documents in the ePub format so that content can be copied over to the iBooks app that is available for the iPhone running iOS 4 and the iPad. [Read more…]
Rumours about an iPod touch 4 have been going around for a while now. A number of leaks of the screen with a front facing camera have been published on the web along with iOS details that indicate the next gen iPod touch 4 will get email activated FaceTime calling abilities.
The next detail shows an iPod touch 4 case that has a cut out for a camera on the back that is slightly wider indicating that a flash will also be included.
Some design changes to the new device could include getting rid of the curved back and replacing it with a flat back. [Read more…]
The iPhone Dev Team has mentioned that iOS 4.0.2 and iOS 3.2.2 will not get a jailbreak.
The reasons are not due to them being stuck and not knowing what to do. Instead, they are waiting for a major release to be launched such as iOS 4.1 for the iPhone so that more iPhone users can take advantage of the exploit.
Now it’s a few weeks later, and Apple has closed the jailbreakme.com hole. They’re shipping devices with FW 4.0.2/3.2.2, impervious to this particular jailbreak. So now, people will begin to ask: will there be a jailbreak for devices that shipped with 4.0.2/3.2.2, out of the box?
No, there won’t be. FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole. With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the ‘cat & mouseĀ with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes.
Apple [AAPL] is to hold an event on September 1. Judging by the image above, they will be launching some music related services which could include a new iPod touch 4, iTV or Apple TV.
Other rumoured products include a 99 cents TV show rental service, possibly iTunes Cloud, CDMA iPhone 4 (doubtful) amongst a few other things. [Read more…]
The iCam app for the iPhone allows users to set up webcams in their home to view them remotely.
The system can be easily configured for push notifications so that when something moves, video is captured and relayed to the iPhone.
Over in Dallas a man received a push notification that a motion sensor had been tripped. When checking out the live stream on his iPhone he could see that he was being robbed. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is rumoured to be holding a media event on September 7. At the event it is expected that Apple will announced a new iPod touch 4, Apple TV (perhaps called iTV although a problem for the UK) and we hope that some details of iOS 4 for iPad will be announced.
The new iPod touch 4 is believed to follow the lines of the iPhone 4 in that it will have a front facing camera and perhaps a retina display. The Apple TV is rumoured to go on sale for $99 and mention of a 99 cent TV show rental service is doing the rounds at the moment. [Read more…]
ColorWare is a company we have mentioned before. They are responsible for changing the look of gadgets in to a list of many colour possibilities. Devices such as the iPhone 4, Xbox and many others are all possible to be recoloured.
The next on the list is the Magic Trackpad from Apple [AAPL]. ColorWare is giving customers the usual option of completely changing the look of it. The above blue is just one example although there are many other colours to choose from.
Price wise, it isn’t cheap as can be expected. If you order a Magic Trackpad from ColorWare and have it coloured by them, it’ll cost you $145. If you already own a Trackpad and want to send it in for colouring, it’s $75. [Read more…]
Visa is developing a system with Bank of America that will be tested in the next few weeks. The new system will allow contactless payments to be made with a digital wallet system. If successful, we could see these type of payments becoming main stream of the next few years.
The trials are being run next month in the New York area. Although these kinds of payments are not the common thing to see in the US or Europe, they have been working successfully in Japan for a number of years. We are basically left playing catchup with Japan like with all things such as HDTV. [Read more…]
