8 megapixel in iPhone 5
It have come rumored that Apple iPhone will get an 8 megapixel camera from Sony, and with the recent outage in Japan due to earthquakes can Apple’s new smartphone to be properly delayed.
Howard Stinger, CEO of Sony, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal that their best sensor technologies are in one of the manufacturing facilities affected by the stop and that they should be sent to Apple. Even if iPhone 5 is not mentioned explicitly as many believe that it is the model that will get the sensors.
Already in April 2010 wrote one analyst that Sony would provide sensors on 8 megapixels to the iPhone 5.
Apple has not confirmed the use of sensors from Sony and will probably not do so until the present of Iphone 5. But now it is confirmed that the production has stopped in Japan and deliveries will be delay.
If there is an 8 megapixel sensor, it does not mean that the images will be better than current iPhone, but it gives a hint on what improvements Apple trying to do.
Photoshop Express for Iphone and Ipad
Are you taking lots of photos with your mobile phone?
Photoshop Express 2.0 is then an excellent app, and its free.
The app is only available for IOS machines, not for Android, a think its little weak, given Android’s growth over the past year.
The app has a wide variety of basic editing tools like, cropping, straightening, flipping and rotating. It is also possible to adjust color levels, saturation and brightness. A number of filters and special effects and a lot of frames that can be added around the pictures.Its also possible to share the edit pictures with other IOS devices.
The mobile version of Photoshop will never be a replacement for the desktop version of the software, but for a mobile app, it is incredibly impressive.
New iPad on the way
Just as expected, announced Apple today in San Fransisco that iPad2 are coming soon. More surprising was that Steve Jobs was the one who entered the stage in San Francisco.
First Steve Jobs said that,was that iPad1 have sold 15 million units in nine months and that there are now 65 000 apps that are working for iPad.
IPad has dual-core processor, (the first surf board with it). The graphics will be much better than iPad1.
As it is rumored, iPad2 will come with 2 cameras, one front and one back. Of course, the cameras are supporting Photo Booth (which were previously only available on Apple computers) and video-call feature Face Time. New iPad is also thinner, only 8.8 millimeters, which makes it thinner than the iPhone 4th Batterytime remains at ten hours, although the plate become thinner. IPad2 will be sold in two colors, white and black.
The price for the smallest model that has wifi is $ 499, and will be released on March 11 in U.S..
With the new iPad2 comes the next version of IOS, 4.3 which has a number of innovations. Most interesting is the extended capabilities to stream media over the network at home and that you can use the Iphone 4 as a wireless network router.
On the accessories side, Apple offers an interesting cord that is holding out for 1080p HDMI and you can have it directly into your TV, the cable costs $ 39. Another accessory is the smart covers, a flexible sleeve that barely takes any space. Using magnets is to held cover in place. Smart covers come in several colors and costs $ 69.
iPhone for 200 dollar
One iPhone for 200 dollars. Without subscription.
Google’s success in the mobile market with Android OS have make Apple, to think again. Now will the company start to investing in the market, for sheep phones.
The figures for the fourth quarter was not much fun reading for those who are at Apple. Android almost triple its share of the global smartphone market and its have now passed Apple by a wide margin. Android have now 32.9 percent against Apple’s 16 percent.
That is one of the reason that got Apple on other thoughts, and are now planning a counterattack. According to informed sources, are Apple now working with a low-cost version of the hit iPhone, writes Bloomberg News.
The new model will be the a third size of the existing iPhone, and work on multiple wireless networks and the price is said to be around $ 200, without requiring a two-year contract as the current models in the U.S., regarding to the source.
A cheaper version of the iPhone would also put further pressure on Nokia with their Symbian-based low-cost mobile that have been a great success on the European market.
Apple is also working on a new technology, a universal SIM card, which will result in the mobile user does not need to commit to a specific operator. It is unclear if the technology is part of the new phones.
New iPhone in June… Or not?
According to analysts, Apple released new iPhone in June.
- I expect a new phone that has a new design and high performance, “say Ezra Gott Heil on firm Technology Business Research.
Three years in a row, Apple has unveiled a new model of the iPhone at WWDC conference develops. The indications are that this event also will happen this year.
- Apple has traditionally worked well so far, and many expect the company will release a new iPhone model once a year, “said Ezra Gott Heil according to the magazine Macworld.
The analyst firm Technology Business Research, which expired with the June 6 is a fairly secure date for the launch of new iPhone.
“New design”
No one knows, however, which features the new phone will have. But rumors say that it will have a whole new look, new radio and antenna, a digital wallet and the bigger screen.
- I expect a new phone that has a new design and high performance. It will be interesting to see what Apple did with voice recognition, an area the company is not done as much in the past, “says Ezra Gott Heil.
No one knows even if it is Steve Jobs, who is currently on indefinite sick leave, will be on that show Apple’s new mobile.
Soon will iOS 4.3 arrived
From today, can customers in the U.S. mobile operator Verizon buy a special model of the iPhone 4 suitable for CDMA network. And David Pogue of The New York Times has written a review in which he says that he think that the IOS 3.4 released on 13 February and it then will be possible to create a so-called “human hotspot”.
A “human hotspot is about to use the iPhone as a base station for the wireless network. And then you can connect up to five things on the phone’s 3G connection.
That IOS 4.3 is released within two weeks is already known, the update is required to manage digital subscriptions to the App Store and this must be in operation by 16 February. Then newspaper The Daily, will not longer be free
The German site MacNotes even believe that Apple intends to organize an event presenting the news in IOS 4.3. Perhaps with a preview of the second generation iPad as “One more thing”?
My tip will be “Not” to A preview of the iPad 2, this will proberly lead to reduced of sales for the current model, and this does not sound like Steve Jobs as genius in marketing that he is.
10 Largest IT flop in 2010
Buzz
There was no bigger buzz surrounding Google’s try to challenger Twitter. After a launch, which was lined with issues surrounding user privacy, this was never any successes.
Apple Ping
Apple succeeds with almost everything it takes for itself in recent times. Almost. The social music service, Ping, did not to success. A social network that only works in iTunes, and have not led to greater usage.
Google Wave
Google Wave was supposed to revolutionize how we communicate with each other. The service was a mix of email and chat, almost no one understood how it could be used. Google Wave was closed just three months after launch.
Privacy on Facebook
Despite Facebook’s rapid growth the company has big problems to protect user privacy. The service has also been hit by several incidents and bugs that made it possible for third parties to collect private information about users.
McAfee’s False Alarm
Security company McAfee did a smash gaffe when released an update to one of their programs, that rated as a system file in Windows as malicious. The result: thousands of Windows computers crashed and the users had serious problems getting the computer to function normally again.
Palm Pre and WebOS
Palm hoped that Palm Pre and its operating systems, WebOS, would be a worthy contender to the iPhone. Sales have unfortunately gone so bad that most analysts do not even mention Palm Pre in their reports.
Surf Boards with Android
2010 was the year when surfing on Android-plates would take over. Even so, Apple iPad dominated sales, accounting for 95 percent of the market. The only real challenger is Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Iphone 4 Antennagate
Whether antenna problems Iphone 4 are justified or not, but Apple has a snap on the nose that shows how much the company’s customers expect from its products.
White Iphone 4
After months of promises from Apple, it has still not been a white model of Iphone 4th The latest bid is that it will be released sometime this spring. It might be better to drop the plans completely and instead go for a white model of the iPhone 5
Microsoft Kin
Microsoft attempts to create a socially mobile phone was doomed from the start. The only thing you could call “socially” was that you could use facebook on the phone. Microsoft Kin was closed just six weeks after launch.
Iphone clone stopped by Apple
Since 2007, Meizu made a cell phone called M8 similar to the iPhone and certainly also infringe some patents.
After several warnings and threats of court from Apple, have the company now decided to stop production of the model. But Apple also want the M8 phones that already are on the market, should be withdrawn. but this will not Meizu do, they will continue to struggle to sell off the remaining copies.
Adobe Flash – Now for iPhone
Apple has changed the rules, and opens up the Flash to the iPhone. At least for applications that are constructed with the program.
Apple has changed the rules for the type of applications they allow for the Iphone. Now, developers no longer need to use the developer tools that Apple provides. In practice this means that developers using Adobe Flash can have their applications approved for the App Store. It does not mean that the iPhone will support Flash in general. You will not be able to view Flash content available like on the web in your Apple phone.
Adobe announces that “Packager for iPhone” is available in Flash Professional CS5 to make it easier for developers to deliver their programs to the iPhone. Apple will also release the guidelines for what happens when the company approves applications.
Motorola Droid X vs. Iphone
Today, Thursday, July 15 Motorola released their new smart phone Droid X.
First up in the U.S. to begin selling Droid X is in the U.S. operator Verizon Wireless
The Android-based handset has received good reviews after a series of previews.
With a 4.3-inch screen, good multimedia features and a relatively long battery life compared to many competitors. Although it is unlikely to be so Droid X comes up in sales levels for the iPhone, but it have been showing signs of a great interest in Motorola’s new mobile. Zeus Kerravala, who is an analyst at Yankee Group, says that the earier release of Droid X that is to use all the bad publicity Iphone 4.
Verizon has not been slow to exploit antenna problems of Iphone 4, as a consumer magazine Consumer Reports recently warned. In the ads, the company produced exclusively to Droid X “dual antennas” which allows the user to “hold the phone how you want” and use it from anywhere to call.
Given that the iPhone sold four of 1.7 million copies the first three days, it is clear that it is the product of focus when it comes to competitors. U.S. retailer Best Buy have stopped all advance orders, and Verizon Wireless expects that the mobile phone runs out of stocks.
Droid X are using the operating system Android 2.1, an one update to Flash 2.2 and 1.10 later this year.
Talibans + Apples iPhone= ♥
Departmenten of defends worldwide are concern about the Taliban in Afghanistan starting to use smart phones like the iPhone.
The Taliban once again started to gain ground in Afghanistan.
According to Matt Yanopoilos of the Australian Department of Defence and he claims that this is because the Taliban have begun to invest in modern information technology.
Matt Yanopoilos says that the Taliban use the iPhone and various apps to collect relevant data.
It is well known that the Taliban, like Apple’s mobile. A year ago you could read that Mullah Zaif (known Taliban) used his iPhone to all sorts of things, Mullah Zaif should have said “it is easy to use and modern and I love it”
U.S. Army has now also become curious about the iPhone and other mobile solutions from Apple. High generals and military researchers have cautiously try to begun a partnership with Apple.
Success for Opera Mini
On the App Store’s top-10. Opera Mini is located in the top in all countries except one.
Opera Mini was released last Tuesday, and the Norwegian browser has become a huge success. This app is number one in virtually all countries, Australia is the only country that ranks in second place after the game Bird Strike.
Apple ♥ Opera
It took 20 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes for Apple to approve Opera Mini for iPhone and iPod tuch.
I have previously written about this, see here.
We should not take to much notice, that it took 20 days, it register lots of apps every day.
So now it is to download it to your device and see if it is as good as Opera says, for if it would be so, then I can not see one that will work with
safari in the future, one thing is for sure, Opera for PC is very good.
Opera wants to take over the Web on the iPhone
Norwegian Opera has now submitted Mini mobile web browser to the App Store.
If Apple will approve a competitor for iPhones Safari remains to be seen.
Analysts believe that Apple will stop Opera, so Apple can continue maintain control over the user’s surfing, say the news-agency Reuters.
Opera showed first up to Opera Mini for iPhone during the Mobile World Congress earlier this year. The developers say it is “rocket fast.” and claims that Mini load Web pages up to six times faster than the Apple iPhone’s default browser Safari.
The developers say it’s because Opera do compress data by up to 90 percent before it is sent to your mobile. This is an advantage, reducing costs for users that surf without a data plan with a fixed monthly fee, or if you use your iPhone abroad, says Opera.
Operas mini-browser is already available for several other mobile operating systems and will be available in more than 50 million handsets worldwide.
On Opera Mini’s page can you follow the time to see how long time ago it was submitted to iPhone for approve, this looks little like a PR-thing but quite cool if I can say that.
Apple Vs. Google
Some time ago Apple sent a subpoena requests in 20 potential patent states that have been done by HTC. Patent infringement is alleged to have been made in the iPhone hardware and software. Apple writes, for example, the finger used to unlock phones with the operating system Android is stolen from the Iphone. Phones that would infringe the patent Appels include Nexus One and HTC Hero.
HTC has not commented on this before. But during an interview with CEO Jason Mackenzie, Jason says the following:
“HTC strongly disagrees with Apple’s allegations. We will use all legal tools we have to both defend ourselves and to correct any misunderstandings. We feel confident in our innovation and our ability to defend ourselves in this case. ”
Exactly how the company intends to defend itself will Jason do’t says anything about, but Jason, have mentions that a written formal statement will show up sometime in the next few weeks. Furthermore, said Jason Mackenzie, that it took some time depending on the HTC was taken by surprise by the allegations, business representatives found out of whats happened when the press called.
Analysts have speculated about a posteriori that this, really is an indirect attack from Apple to Google underlying operating system in most of the phones in question.
Google was when it came to light, quick to say that the company stands behind HTC and Android.
Steve Ballmer don’t like iPhone
According to the American magazine, the Wall Street Journal…Are iPhone a very popular mobile phone of the employees at Microsoft, claiming that more than 10000 of the 100 000 employees, then ten percent. It is widely known that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did not appreciate when employees choose something other than a mobile phone with Windows Phone (formerly known as Windows Mobile). In this context it may be time to recall the classic interview in 2007 with Steve Ballmer is laughing and waving away the iPhone’s chances in the mobile market. He does not have enough today, according to the latest statistics, it appears that Apple now has 25.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, and Microsoft “only” has 15.7 percent. |
Is Sony Ericsson really that stupid???
Sony Ericsson’s new Swedish CEO Bert Nordberg has in a interviuv, made some strange statements. It seems that he has not understood anything about today’s mobile market.
That he condemns the Iphone is fully in line with what Sony Ericsson had done since Apple started making mobiles.
“Shall some fuckers to newcomers come here and think they can make better phones than us,” was Sony Ericsson’s statement
But the fact is that lots of buyers choose Iphone infront of Sony Ericsson’s mobile phones, the answer to this, according to SonyEricsson is, that they have younger buyers, this is a weird comment, today we see iPhone-users in virtually all ages.
Further says Bert Nordberg that he does not believe in Apple’s business model. Sales figures should tell their distinctive language on this point. Apple has only made money on their mobile phones since they started, 2007th, Sony Ericsson has not earned any money but instead has made large losses and kick people, since 2007.
Looking forward to another apple product, iTunes, which has sold 7 billion songs, well, same thing can be said here. Sales figures should tell their distinctive language on this point.
But Bert Nordgren says one thing that I think many may agree with, iPhone is technically not as good than many other mobiles. But not all agree with this. I do, and im using iPhone, and as I feel now, I will never change to another mobile operative system.
If the rest of the lead in the Sony Ericsson thinks that Bert Nordberg, and believe that customers think it is so important to be able to change the battery when the phone is old, than they will choose Sony Ericsson instead of Apple. But the last years mobile-market has says different. Then Sony Ericsson can probably count on even more losses, and fired more people.
Opera is six times faster than Safari on the iPhone.
The Norwegian browser Opera claims that their mobile browser is six times faster then Safari, on iPhones.
This was presented during the Mobile World Congress where the Operating system used a developer version of the iPhone in order to demonstrate the high speed.
However, this super-fast Web browser will proberly never be used by ordinary users, Apple does not currently allow third-party browser for iPhone.
