Posted by Aaron Nelsen on May 17, 2008 in
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iPhone Here’s a complete list (as of 5/17/08) of all the countries the iPhone is currently sold in/soon to be sold in. Pretty impressive.
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Ireland
- India
- Italy
- Jordan
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Phillippins
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Various countries in Latin America
Couple that with the 3G iPhone launch and Apple might actually make their goal of 10m iPhones sold by the end of the year.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on May 15, 2008 in
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Rumors Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer announced that Apple would be using the relatively new Intel Atom processor in a future iPhone release. The new model reportedly would feature a larger display, correlating with past rumors about a mini-tablet (720×480) device to be coming from Apple.
English translation:
As part of an Intel event for the 40th birthday of the semiconductor company at Munich’s BMW World, Germany managing director Hannes Schwaderer confirmed today what has long been a rumor on the Internet: namely, that there is an iPhone with Intel’s new Atom chip. The device is slightly larger than the current version, Schwaderer said. That is not, however, because of the Intel chip, but because of the larger display used in the new iPhone.
While Schwaderer refers to the device as a larger “version of the iPhone”, it could easily be referring to the rumored mini-tablet device, that some¬† have suggested would be introduced at WWDC.
If Apple does release any product akin to a tablet or mini-tablet computer, I would buy one in 14.3 seconds flat. Though I might spend a little more time weighing the purchase if the the price is higher than $999, or if the specs are incredibly weak.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on May 11, 2008 in
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iPhone Further proof that the iPhone is the greatest phone on the planet‚ĶFirst a little back story, my girlfriend teaches a drama class, and said drama class was preforming a series of one act plays. At the last minute they realized that they didn’t have all of the sound effects they needed. Enter the iPhone.
They needed a dog barking. The iPhone has a ringtone of a dog barking.
They needed an old telephone ringing. The iPhone has it (actually named Old Phone).
They needed an old car horn. And you guessed it, the iPhone has it.
So using nothing more than default ringtones and an iPhone held up to a wireless mic I was able to provide sound effects at the last minute for a theatrical production. And that ladies and gentleman is why the iPhone is just so amazing.
For the life of me though, I cannot figure out why anyone would choose to include a dog barking as a ringtone…
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 29, 2008 in
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OS X There have been a series of ultra portable computers that have been graced with some sweet Leopard action, thanks to some ingenious tinkering, including the Eee PC and the Samsung Q1 Ultra, now you can add OQO’s 02 to the list. This seems to be one of the more complete installs out there, WiFi, sound, power management and Bluetooth all seem to be working.
While the OQO is a little clunky, it’s still a pretty sweet proof of concept. I’m definitely looking forward to the release of the full instructions on how to get it running, even though I don’t own a OQO.
oqotalk.com member trf has posted a short video demoing the OQO running Leopard, check it out after the jump.
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Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 29, 2008 in
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iPhone Foxconn (aka Hon Hai Precision Industry) has supposedly won the bid for the assembly of the elusive 3G-capable second generation iPhone.  They are expected to deliver up to 3 million of the next generation iPhone in June, with a total production run expected to be 24-25 millions throughout the life-cycle of the device.
This is all according to a report by the Commerical Times, who fanboys may remember accurately reported that Foxconn had won the contract for the original iPhones.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 28, 2008 in
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iMac In an unusual move, Apple switched things up by releasing the updated iMacs on a Monday.  Updated specs after the jump.
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Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 26, 2008 in
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Salesforce.com Salesforce’s contract with Dell is about to expire, and according to an insider at the company they’re opting not to renew it. Instead they plan on outfitting all of their 4,000+ employees with shiny new Macs. Cha-ching.
The tipster cited security as the primary reason for the switch:
“And why, you ask, Security! The resources it takes to defend against all the stuff the baddies throw at a PC, it’s just cheaper/easier to pay a few bucks more for a Mac and not have any of those issues.”
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 26, 2008 in
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iPhone At least in the UK… According to an O2 memo that Engadget got their hands on:
“Due to the highly successful sales of the Apple 8GB iPhone, supply chain have today run out of stock & will not be replenishing stock of this product as it has now gone to end of life.”
Yet another piece of the 3G puzzle seems to be failing in place.
Engadget is also reporting that the 3G iPhone will be sporting full fledged GPS, though breaking rank from the current trend, they’re reporting it could ship as “early as July”. Where analysts and fanboys alike are leaning more towards a June release.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 25, 2008 in
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Rumors Geeksugar is reporting that Apple is set to unveil an update to their iMac lineup as early as next week, and other industry insiders seem to agree. The ever modest folks over at Geeksugar were very quick to point out that they did correctly predict the last MacBook/MacBook Pro refresh, so this has to be legit…
Details of what the update includes are merely speculaive at this point, but it would seem logically that they would include the new Penryn processors, as well as larger hard drives.
Guess we’ll find out for sure Tuesday.
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Apr 23, 2008 in
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iPod touch Hot on the heels of their earnings call, Apple released the fourth version of the iPhone SDK beta. The SDK now supports OpenGL ES for the iPhone simulator.
The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.
You can grab the update by logging into the iPhone Developer Center and clicking the download link.