SmartPhoneMedic has posted a video on Youtube showing the iPhone 4G LCD screen and metal case you’ve probably already seen in some bar in California. Well, at this point I wouldn’t doubt that the final model will look something like this - rounded corners are gone, metal plate and all. We’ll find out in a month.
Check out the video after the break.
If you live in Germany or followed the news yesterday, you may have noticed that the iPad in Germany comes at €15 more than Italy and France, where it’s priced at €499 for the 16GB Wifi model. If you want to purchase the same iPad in Germany, you’ll have to pay €514.
Why? Because of a new tax Germany has put on computers. But what’s interesting is that Steve Jobs has a response for that. German website Fscklog reports on an email from Steve to a German Apple fan who emailed el Jobso asking about this price thing. His response?
“Blame your government.
Germany just added a new copyright levy for computers.”
So yeah, blame your government. But don’t ask Steve, he’s kinda busy making some Gianduia now.
Remember Flash? Yeah, that weird guy Steve Jobs is so mad at, the little kid from Adobe that has taken over the web in the past years and that now is in serious trouble. Well, it seems like Steve wants to beat the guy using chocolate, some Gianduia to be exact.
Oh boy. These are always the rumors that set me off. Forget my rant against Flash, the issue about the Verizon iPhone is always a bothersome one. And it’s not because I care what networks the iPhone is on (I would prefer it was everywhere), but because people think the coming of the iPhone to Verizon is going to usher in a golden era of network usability - to which I disagree (if all the AT&T users jumped on Verizon, Verizon’s not going to fare any better). But that’s for another post. For now, we’ve got rumors. And those of you on Verizon who can take advantage of upgrades and all that fancy jazz, you might be happy to hear that the iPhone might be finally coming to Verizon in CDMA (and maybe) LTE fashion this summer. Maybe. Kinda.
While I’ve complained every now and then about the price of iBooks compared to hardcover offerings on Amazon (which honestly would equal out anyway after shipping costs), the convenience of downloading books with nothing more than a tap and an instant charge to your credit card is looking rather bright. Not only are people buying iBooks en masse, but this speaks volumes of what people actually think about the iPad: it is in fact a great reading device.
As Patently Apple reports, Apple has been granted a new patent and this time is all about making the next iteration of Mac OS X go 3D. Well, the patent is actually about three-dimensional widgets, and we’re just speculating that something like this will come to Mac OS X in the future, but from what we can see in the patent - it would be amazing.
Basically, you see these widgets with multiple surfaces (like, say, a cube) and each one has a different “view”: a weather widget, for example, would have one surface for forecasts in Cupertino and one for those in New York. You get the hang of it.
“In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification could be embodied in methods that include defining a viewing surface; modeling a depth axis extending from the viewing surface; generating a plurality of three-dimensional widgets disposed along the depth axis, each three dimensional widget being a three-dimensional representation of an object and having a plurality of application surfaces; and for each three-dimensional widget having a plurality of widget functions, associate the widget functions with corresponding application surfaces. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
Another aspect of the subject matter described in this specification could be embodied in methods that include defining a viewing surface; defining a back surface disposed from the viewing surface along a depth axis; and generating a widget receptacle disposed along the depth axis, the widget receptacle and having a plurality of receptacle surfaces, each receptacle surface being associated with a widget and being actuated by a selection of the receptacle surface, and upon such actuation causing an instantiation of the widget associated with the receptacle surface. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.”
Check out the patent details here, and a couple of screenshots after the break.
Apple does make some incredibly sexy pieces of clothing. After all, who wouldn’t want to proudly wear the original 80’s Apple logo-sash-thingy? Well folks, starting at a bid of $149 dollars, you too can wear the mark of Jobs.
Italian iPhone blog iSpazio has posted two photos of what they claim to be the frame and screen of the next iPhone, which they’ve got from a reliable source.
As you can read in the post (here’s the Google Translation) the frame has the same corners and little hole for the front facing camera as Gizmodo’s prototype, but what’s interesting is that they’ve been told from their source that Apple won’t use the much rumored AMOLED screens for the next iPhone, which will have a LCD screen, like the current generation.
Also, it seems like the screen connector is bigger, and this would confirm the alleged higher resolution of the new device.
Check out the photos after the break.
Steve Jobs didn’t create the iPad to be used as magical slates designed to deliver content at the tips of our fingers. Nope, the iPad was always destined to be a Netbook. You know it was Apple’s plan all along to wait for a manufacturer to deliver the perfect laptop clam-shell case, perfectly housing an aluminum device in its plastic housing. And folks, ClamCase has delivered that promise.
