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The announcement for the new iPhone 3GS handset was made at the company's annual developers conference in San Francisco. Apple claims iPhone 3GS would make common tasks, such as launching applications much faster than previous version. Another big addition is it's new capability to record 30fps VGA video with audio from within the camera app - even edit your videos right on the handset.
It's said the rush to launch iPhone 3GS was to tackle new competitor Palm Pre from gaining ground. The pricing of new 3GS seems targeted at Palm Pre: The iPhone 3GS will sell for $199 - 16GB version, and $299 - 32GB version. The existing iPhone 3G will now be available at a price of $99. This is $100 cheaper than Palm Pre's current price at $199. Feature wise the competition is heating up:
See the cool comparison chart by PCWorld here The new handset goes on sale in the US, parts of Europe and the UK on the 19th of June.
The South Korean electronics firm, Samsung today unveiled the I7500, a new smartphone based on Google's Android software.
The I7500 will be available in major European countries starting from June, the company said. Samsung did not reveal pricing nor when will it be available in other markets worldwide.
Samsung I7500 can connect to mobile phone broadband services through HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) as well as Wi-Fi, and would feature 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera and 8GB of internal memory. At 11.9 millimeters thickness, this could be a serious competition to the other Android phines from HTC and T-Mobile launched earlier.
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Nintendo has claimed to have sold more than 10 million units of the Wii Play in the United States since its release about two years ago. They attribute it's success the great collection of mini-games bundled alongwith the Wii remote control.
"Even if you believe people are buying Wii Play solely for the controller, that indicates that there are now more than 10 million people who have an extra Wii Remote controller in their homes," says Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo's executive VP of sales and marketing.
Nintendo quoted this milestone from the February sales figures for the video-game industry released this week by market researcher NPD Group. As of February, Nintendo has sold 19 million Wii consoles in the United States since release in November 2006. Nintendo plans to release it's next big model - the DSi - in the US by April this year.
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung has unveiled the world's first solar-powered mobile phone called 'Blue Earth'. The phone is designed in the shape of a shiny pebble, and uses a small solar panel to provide solar power, apart from the normal plug-in power.
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With Android becoming an open source mobile OS, many impressive products are turning up from virtually unknown companies. One such product, which created a buzz in the CES 2009 was the Giinii Movit - a mobile internet / entertainment device.
With a screen size of 4.3(7" in the works!) - 480 x 272 pixel touchscreen - Movit may pose a new competition to iPod Touch. The device uses Wi-Fi for connectivity and allows to browse the web and share content on top social networks like Facebook & MySpace. You can watch streaming videos (that are large enough to really see) and use the built-in video camera as a mini-web cam(iPod touch misses out here
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Acer is reportedly launching it's extension of Aspire One netbook with a 10.1 inch screen sporting 1024 x 600 screen resolution, up to 2GB of RAM and is said to run the same internals as the 8-inch model, which means Intel Atom CPU and Windows XP for the operating system.
The pics for Acer Aspire One released by Macles look fabulous esp. the red model seen below
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Samsung Electronics has been reported to have announced its first Google Android mobile phone in 2009. The phone will be sold through T-Mobile and Sprint, and will feature a touchscreen and the other major apps like Google Maps, G-Talk, GMail, Google Search and Calendar). Pricing and additional information has not been disclosed.
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You must have heard of Vertu from Nokia being one of the high-end (read 'for-the-super-rich') mobile phones. Now here's some competition for Vertu...
Peter Aloisson, an Austrian jeweler has created an iPhone which, hold your breath, costs close to USD$2.50 million! Aloisson has apparently crafted the iPhone with 139 brilliantly cut diamonds of the best quality to make it truly out-of-ordinary
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We're keeping our ears wide open. There have been rumours already that Apple has been experimenting internally with large form tablet devices for years, but they feared users wouldnt like the device. What's different now is the iTunes app store, which has thousands of games and other apps that are perfect fodder for a tablet. But now Techcrunch has some lead that there's definitely something brewing at Apple. Here's what TC said:
"Weve got this from three independent sources close to Apple: expect a large screen iPod touch device to be released in the Fall of 09, with a 7 or 9 inch screen. Prototypes have been seen and handled by one of our sources, and Apple is talking to OEMs in Asia now about mass production
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According to a report, Interphone is about to announce the results of their largest-ever study to investigate whether cellphones cause cancer next month.
Interphone researchers have analyzed the results gathered from studies on 6,400 tumors sampled from patients in 13 countries. If the final results mirror the preliminary ones, we'd need to seriously rethink about our mobile usage. Israeli researchers participating in Interphone found that people who use cellphones regularly are 50% more likely than non-users to develop brain tumors. They also reported a 40 percent increase in tumor risk in people who use cellphones for more than a decade; they found no risk for people who have used cellphones for less than 10 years
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