News from category ‘Hardware’

Apple VP of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive discusses the philosophy behind everything from the iPhone to the iMac for the documentary "Objectified":

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This is a robot capable of playing Rock Band iPhone application. The setup is pretty much the same as the other robots that play these kinds of games.

More video and pictures:

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Ontrade China shows a new back cover of the fourth generation of the iPhone. Might be fake, so take it as rumors.

Obviously we can not know if the image is real. Analyzing the image we can see that the camera is much largerб ьшпре иу 5MP camera from OmniVision. The entire cover is very thin and easy to remove. It's available from today at $23.

via ispazio

Here's a one big table comparison between the most discussed phones. We're talking about the iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre, MyTouch 3G and the new Motorola Droid that will be available from November 9.

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U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has published a new Apple patent on a removable module designed specifically to add new features to the iPod Touch.

The Apple device can read the circuit cards (ICCs), the chip cards, memory cards, and even the SIM card. The operation is not simple and is not quite clear. Maybe some day we will ba able to use SIM cards in iPod and SD in iPhone?

via ispazio

One more iPhone stand, very easy to make:

via habrahabr, twitpic

Here is a nice Motorola Droid phone video review from CNet:

Christmas is approaching and if you love to play tricks on friends or relatives, you can rely on guys who have made fake iPhone 3G/3GS. It reproduces the true Apple devices. It has the same weight and the same consistency of a real iPhone, but it's a fake.

Fake iPhone costs $19.95 (approx. € 13.50) and you can buy it here.

How do you think iPhone 4G will look like? Isamu Sanada sees the upcoming iPhone in a iMac style, borderless with contrast of black and aluminum. The appearance is very compact, slim and well made:

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Apple has started selling the TomTom Car Kit in the US. The GPS enhancing, car mounted kit ships in two to three weeks - for free - and is going for $119.95.

Bell Keller, Executive Editor of the NY Times, let slip on the still unconfirmed Apple tablet in a speech last week.

The New York Times speech comes from an internal "all hands" meeting at TheTimesCenter, which was intended to be off the record. However, the video was also provided to the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. Skip to about 8:20, and you'll hear:

We need to figure out the right journalistic product to deliver to mobile platforms and devices. I'm hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate, or whatever comes after that.

Given the matter-of-fact way Keller refers to the slate, it sounds like a done deal versus a hypothetical.

via gizmodo, niemanlab

Apple created new "Get a Mac" advertising videos targeting Windows 7. The new ads can be viewed on Apple's site or below via YouTube. The first one is called "Broken Promises":

Here are two more videos "Teeter Tottering" and "PC News":

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