This is an exclusive preview of the new iPhone 5 by TechWacky, set to have much improved reception compared to the iPhone 4.
Guess you can hold this one without signal loss. You can hold it anyway you want, it’s an Apple product!!! There is, off course, a minor risk of getting radiation burns, and also a slight risk of permanently erasing any hard drive in a 100 feet radius… But that’s Ok, because I’m sure uncle J. will tell us that all we have to do is keep it away from other electronic devices. Apple always knows how to innovate! I could think of a lot of other ways to use that antenna.
Now i can say like the iphone 4 vs HTC evo video…. “No. I don’t care. I want the iPhone 5. With the bigger Antenna’s.” lol
If you haven’t watched the video here is it again:
It’s finally here: Mozilla has released the first beta for Firefox 4.
The new iteration of the world’s second most popular web browser, which can be downloaded here, has been hotly anticipated for almost a year. Today however, it transitions from concept to reality, with many more betas to come until its official release at the end of the year.
As we have reported in the past, Firefox 4 is a major upgrade from its predecessors. It not only includes a redesign of the user interface (tabs are now on top except for the Mac version), but a wave of additional features, including enhanced HTML5 support, hardware-accelerated HD video, WebSockets and enhanced add-on support via Jetpack.
There’s a lot more to Firefox 4, most of which you can see in this feature spotlight the Mozilla team put together to highlight the many upgrades the new browser contains. However, we want to stress that this is an early beta of the browser — it will crash and frustrate you, which is exactly what Mozilla is hoping to catch now before its final release.
Mozilla needs Firefox 4 to be a winner; in recent months, Google Chrome has been stealing browser marketshare at Firefox’s expense. The new version could either reverse the downtrend or accelerate its fall.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs kick-started the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco with the announcement of next generation iPhone model – iPhone 4. After the infamous Gizmodo and Vietnamese showcase, Apple has stuck to its plans and announced the fourth generation iPhone model. The iPhone 3G is no more, just like iPhone (first generation) was killed and iPhone 3GS would be sold for $99 with two years contract.
Clad with wonderful new features, Apple will start selling iPhone 4 starting $199 with two years contract in US from June 24. The iPhone 4 would be available in 16GB version for $199 and 32GB version for $299. Before we start off with the iPhone 4, let’s get one thing straight about the operating system. Apple has renamed the iPhone OS 4.0 for iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch devices to iOS4. Coming June 21, the iOS4 upgrade would be available free for all devices.
Design:
The all new iPhone 4 is just 9.3mm thick and is 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS. It’s pretty much similar to what we saw in the leaked photos that soared on the web. On the top, the iPhone 4 has 3.5mm headset jack, secondary Mic and the sleep-wake up button. At the bottom, the iPhone 4 sports primary Mic, speaker and Apple’s proprietary 30-pin connector port. Of course we have the volume controls on the sides.
Design-wise, Apple drops the rounded hinds design and adopts box like structure for the new iPhone 4 model. Apple has used stainless steel rims binding the iPhone 4 body, as a part of antenna system. It has integrated antennas and acts as a bonding agent to hold two glass panels on the front and the back of the iPhone 4.
Display:
With the new iPhone 4, Apple debuts new display dubbed as ‘Retina Display’. This 3.5-inch multi-touch display offers 960×640 pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch. This means crisper images and more amazing graphics display while playing games. Apart from that this IPS technology based panel will offer 800:1 contrast ratio that would be four times better than the previous generation iPhone devices.
So you can comfortably watch 720p HD movie on this 960×640 pixel display and with more accurate colors. Apart from that, both front display and back panel would come coated with fingerprint resistant oleophobic coating.
Processor:
If you can recollect the mysterious Apple A4 System-on-Chip processor used in iPad, then you won’t be surprised to discover that Apple has used A4 processor. Yes, it’s the same processor that powers the iPad’s snazzy interface. Apple claims this chip to be power efficient and hence conserves power to add up to the battery life.
Camera:
Apple has added 5 megapixel sensor with backside illuminated sensor and LED Flash. This new camera will also offer five times digital zoom and tap to focus options. Not only that, this 5 Megapixel camera sensor is capable of recording 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. The LED Flash will stay illuminated for recording better quality picture in videos.
The iPhone 4 has front facing camera that enables video calling dubbed as FaceTime that works even when WiFi is turned off. No setup or installation is required as FaceTime works out of the box. Apple has build FaceTime using bunch of open standards like SIP (Session Initiation Protoco), H.264, AAC and so on.
Apple will also introduce new iMovie for iPhone app for video editing that will include options like scene transitions, themes, editable titles, and much more. This App will be available at a price of $5 after iOS4 is rolled out to everyone.
Will iPhone 4 turn out to be killer o Flip Mino HD and alikes? We’ll wait and see.
Gyroscope:
Apple has added three-axis gyroscope, a device maintaining orientation or measuring it based on the rotation mechanism of the object. In this case the iPhone 4 which is clubbed with Accelerometer to make it 6-axis motion sensing. Wow! Sony’s PlayStation 3’s game controller has gyroscopic motion sensing. It’s quite possible that in near future, we may see touchscreen apps supplementing the game controllers.
Battery life:
One of the major issues of all iPhone users has been the battery life and hence Apple has put a larger battery in the iPhone 4. The lithium-ion rechargeable battery promises to offer up to 7 hours of talk time on 3G networks while 14 hours of talk time on 2G Networks. Also one can listen to music for 40 hours or watch videos for up to 10 hours. Most amazing part is that users can now browser mobile web for up to 10 hours on the iPhone 4, that is as much as offered by new Intel Atom Pine Trail platform based netbooks.
Bumpers:
Since Apple would be using outer rims as part of its antenna system, the company has come out with its own set of cases to protect the iPhone. Apple has introduced iPhone 4 protection cases dubbed as Bumpers that would be available in white, black, green, blue, orange and pink. Made out of moulded plastic and rubber, these cases are meant to keep the antenna system as well the glass panels safe.
Other features:
-Quadband HSDPA/HSUPA
-WiFi (802.11n)
-Assisted GPS
-Accelerometer
-Digital Compass
-Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
-iBooks App as free download
-Microsoft’s search engine Bing officially added to search engine options.
-Micro SIM just like the ones used in iPad
Quite a lot of features like multi-tasking and folders utilities will arrive with iOS4 update but iPhone 4 will come preloaded with it. The iPhone 4 will require iTunes 9.2 so we can anticipate that iTunes software upgrade in coming weeks. Apple iPhone 4 will be available in white and black colors. Pre-orders begin June 15 and phones will start shipping on June 24 in the US France, Germany, UK and Japan. Apple will roll out iPhone 4 to 18 more countries in July, 24 more in August, and 40 more in September. So Let’s hope that UAE would be considered during August or at least September roll out of iPhone 4 device.
Here is the Video that apple made for iPhone 4.
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Apple iPad has been selling like hotcakes and in fact the iPad 3G version is due to come out this week.
No offense to Apple iPad owners, we dedicate a whole section in our Top iPhone Resource site for iPad news.
WePad Tablet
WePad tablet computer from Germany has an interesting concept. Check out their opening lines which takes a direct hit at Apple.
Some of the WePad specs are here
11.6” Multi-touch 1366×768 pixel display
1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M processor
1 GB RAM
16/32GB, extension with SDHC card up to 32GB possible
1.3 Megapixel camera
Upto 6 hours battey life
Wepad is based on Android and Linux and has some impressive hardware specifications. In fact, you can see how WePad compares with Apple iPad in a chart provided conveniently by Wepad people.
WePad hopes to stand out from the competitors with their interactive reading experience from WeMagazine ePublishing Open Platform.
Most of the website besides the WePad page is in German so I wasn’t able to gather more information about the background of the company behind WePad. If anyone fluent in German does so, please leave your thoughts in the comments.
Is WePad the iPad Killer?
Like the proverbial ‘iPhone killer’ now everyone is starting to talk about a iPad killer. Again, I really really like that Apple isn’t the only one making tablet computers and that there are several good competitors coming out.
However, Apple has an unique advantage and headstart over the others with the App Store ecosystem with over 180,000 apps and the iTunes managing the media delivery to the tablet.
I am excited that Android’s app store is catching up steadily and look forward to more Android based tablets bringing more choices to us, consumers.
The 50 startup presentations are over, the judges votes are in, Michael and Jason chewed over the top contenders, and the winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 is RedBeacon. The startup aims to help consumers find local service providers such as plumbers, bakers, and contractors. As we described in our initial write-up:
RedBeacon is a new service making its public debut today at TechCrunch50 that further streamlines this process by bringing the OpenTable model of online transactions to much broader spectrum of services.
Email. Twitter. Instant Messaging. Facebook. Those are just four of the most popular ways to communicate online. And actually, the average 23-year-old has 6 different accounts that they check for messages each day. Maintaining and keeping up with that is either basically impossible, or flat-out impossible. That’s where Threadsy comes in.
Launching its large beta today at TechCrunch50 as a free web app, Threadsy wants to take all of your online communication and shove it into a single service. All of the messages directed at you (email and Twitter @replies, for exmaple) will be put into a single stream of message, called the “inbound” column. Meanwhile, all of the activity streams that you simply follow (Twitter, Facebook, etc), will be put into a single activity stream, the “unbound” stream. The result is one service to rule them all.
This is an exclusive preview of the new iPhone 5 by TechWacky, set to have much improved reception compared to the iPhone 4.
Email. Twitter. Instant Messaging. Facebook. Those are just four of the most popular ways to communicate online. And actually, the average 23-year-old has 6 different accounts that they check for messages each day. Maintaining and keeping up with that is either basically impossible, or flat-out impossible. That’s where 
