Thursday, January 28, 2010

Apple Special Event now online.

Download the movie in three different sizes here.
I couldn't help but notice the lack of Flash when Steve Jobs demonstrated the New York Times page. You'd have though that he would have picked a page without any Flash content.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Kindle owners, go and get your money back now.

So the iPad is finally here and yes,  I want one. Even though I already own the two products it sits inbetween - an iPod touch and a MacBook Air (both 1st-generation mind).
I was expecting the new device to be at least £600 and be far too expensive for most people, like a flat new Cube. But for the price of their cheapest model ($399), they've well and truly targeted the eReader market (and possibly the laptop market too). To make an eBook reader with such a clear screen that shows an open book as it actually looks in real life is one thing, but to be able to use the same device to play games, watch movies, read new, surf the web, edit photos, play apps, write emails and use iWork is mind blowing. Amazon, Sony and every other eReader producer will have to reinvent their whole product line. That Kindle DX with it's 9.7" monochrome screen now really does look like something from over a decade ago (like a slimline Speak & Spell redesigned by the people who created the Amiga-500), and it's priced at $489.
Few things surprised me during the unveiling, it does everything an iPod touch can do, just bigger, and all the things you wished the iPod touch could do, if it had a bigger screen, like read books through the iBook app . The remainder of Apple's own applications (Mail, Contacts, iPhoto, etc.) have been tastefully redesigned for the 9.7 inch screen. One thing that did surprise was that it's powered by a 1GHz A4 chip that was custom-designed by Apple's own engineers (watch your backs, Intel).
Like it's smaller brother the iPod touch, it has Wi-Fi, comes with 18, 32 or 64GB of storage and attaches to your Mac with the usual 30-pin connector; not that you need too. You can also connect the dock to an optional camera connection kit or keyboard dock. Unlike the iPod touch an extra $130 gives you 3G connectivity.
It's missing a few things, like a USB port, SD card port and an iSight camera for iChat, but it seems that, for once, Apple has given the world what it had hoped for.

This is it...


The iPad.

From http://live.gizmodo.com/

Monday, January 18, 2010

The invites are sent. 27th Jan sees Apple's 'creation'.


This just in from Engadget - at 10am (Pacific time), at the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts Theatre in San Francisco, all eyes will on Apple. Unless they've been beavering away on some other piece of hardware (a touch-screen iMac?), they'll be introducing the world to the latest in tablet computing. And from the look of the invite, it'll be a lot more colourful than Amazon's monochrome Kindle.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

'iSlate' gets its own Facebook fan page.


The recently opened Fan Page has links to all the latest news about Apple's upcoming tablet, rumoured to be launched on the 27th Jan. Now that Apple is reported to have hoovered up the world's supply of LCD and OLED displays, the rumours must be true. There's a gap in the eReader market that needs to be filled by a handheld viewer that has a full colour display that can do everything a iPod touch can. As names go, I'm sticking with iView... or perhaps iTab... or iTouch, the unofficial name of the iPod touch, but that is what it'll be - a big iPod touch... with more greasy fingerprints... for the price of a MacBook.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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