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Sony PSP Gets A Wireless Store
Sony wants to turn the games purchase into an easy and approachable experience. The company has officially announced they are developing a wireless store for the PSP consoles, during the GDC conference. The store is expected to be similar to the wireless iTunes, located on iPhone and iPod Touch. Unfortunately, Sony has dropped the availability details, so i guess we all have to wait impatiently for any future announcements.
[via slashgear]
LG Introduces Conceptual Watch Phones In Barcelona
LG Electronics unveils the next futuristic mobile phones concept at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new “Watch Phones” lineup featuring cellular capabilities with voice recognition, SMS text messaging and Bluetooth connectivity for a full hands-free dialing. No info concerning price or availability.
[via aving]
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Macworld 2008: iPod Touch Gets Some Updates
In addition to all the new features that firmware 1.1.3 can offer, Apple added 5 new applications to the iPod Touch players, including Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather and Notes. Regretfully, this is not a freebie, and you will have to pay 20$ in order to get ‘em.
Macworld 2008: iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 Gets Official
We’ve already seen couple of videos, introducing some of the elements that firmware 1.1.3 features. Now it gets official and here are some further details:
- Maps: application is able to pinpoint your location, thanks to the triangulation technology that uses WiFi access points to locate your exact location.
- SMS can be send to multiple people, at once.
- Bookmark add-on for web sites, displayed as an icon on your home screen.
- Re-arrangement of home screen icons.
- Creating up to 9 home screens, with the ability to flip between them.
- Video chaptering.
- iTunes music lyrics display.
- iTunes movie rentals available.
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[via engadget]
Macworld 2008: Apple Introdued iTunes 7.6 Movie Rentals Service
Now it is official, Apple announced on movie rentals service for iTunes, that includes titles from major film studios, like MGM, Miramax, Lions Gate, Fox, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Paramount, Universal, Sony and Touchstone. The service will offer 1000 films with the price tag of 2.99$ for older versions, 3.99$ for new ones and 4.99$ for HD movies. The rental is available 30 seconds after you picked up your favorite movie and it will last up to 24h.
[via gizmodo]
Macworld 2008: Keynote Summary
Macworld’s opening day answered all our anticipations, with 5 major announcements from El Stivo. The keynote introduced us as follows:
- iTunes Movie Rentals Service.
- iPhone & iPod Touch Firmware Updates.
- Time Capsule.
- Apple TV Take Two.
- MacBook Air.
It’s not that we were strangers to most of the new announcements, on the contrary, most of them already leaked weeks before, and you could read about it in this blog. Lets view some of them in a nutshell:
iTunes Movie Rentals Service
As we already posted, a week ago, Apple teamed up with all major film studios, such as Paramount, Lions Gate Entertainment, Walt Disney, Miramax, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and more, to bring the top movie titles into iTunes, and to enable users renting a film directly from their iPhones or their iPod touch devices, for 3.99$ per 24h.
iPhone & iPod Touch Firmware Updates.
iPhone - As we reported several weeks ago, Apple officially announced on Firmware update 1.1.3 which includes:
- GoogleMaps application is able to pinpoint your location.
- SMS can be send to multiple people, at once.
- Bookmark add-on for web sites.
- Re-arrangement of home screen icons.
- Video chaptering.
- Music lyrics display.
iPod Touch - This one wasn’t known to us up till yesterday. Apple released some new add-ons to the Touch players. The new update features Mail program, Maps, web clips, stocks, weather and notes. BUT, this is not a free update, this one will cost you 20$.
Time Capsule
To make it simple, this is a wireless backup server. To make it complicated, it is a full Airport Extreme base station with 802.11n wireless and a server grade hard drives that enables to backup all Leopard OS Macs in your network. The Time Capsule comes in 2 configurations:
- 500GB for $300.
- 1TB for $500.
Apple TV Take Two
The major improvements in Take Two TV is that it requires no computer, renting movies is much easier and you can have them in HD Dolby 5.1 format. The Take Two edition supports audio, video and photo browsing threw Flickr. To upgrade your Apple TV to a Take Two version, you will have to update the software. It is free of charge and will be available in 2 weeks.
MacBook Air
This is the big one, that everyone was expecting to hear about. MackBook Air goes live with the title of the thinnest notebook on earth, just 4mm (!). It features:
- 13.3″ screen display with ambient light sensor.
- A black keyboard with a LED backlit.
- A multi-touch pad (like the iPhone).
Further details will be available in the next posts.
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