by Jason Wilk on February 2, 2009
- Well, it’s no mystery now, there is an iPhone 2 in the wild somewhere, and two people are walking around with it. Since Apple was recently granted the patent for everything the iPhone is capable of, many are curious if video conferencing and video recording will be included in the next phone. In several areas throughout the document as seen below, there are many mentions of using video. Everything else seen in the patent is already in use on the phone.
“The device supports a variety of applications, such as one or more of the following: a telephone application, a video conferencing application, an e-mail application, an instant messaging application, a blogging application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video camera application, a Web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.”
“In some embodiments, the functions may include telephoning, video conferencing, e-mailing, instant messaging, blogging, digital photographing, digital videoing, Web browsing, digital music playing, and/or digital video playing. Instructions for performing these functions may be included in a computer-readable storage medium or other computer program product configured for execution by one or more processors.”
“In some embodiments, an optical sensor is located on the back of the device, opposite the touch screen display on the front of the device, so that the touch screen display may be used as a viewfinder for either still and/or video image acquisition. In some embodiments, an optical sensor is located on the front of the device so that the user’s image may be obtained for videoconferencing while the user views the other video conference participants on the touch screen display. In some embodiments, the position of the optical sensor can be changed by the user (e.g., by rotating the lens and the sensor in the device housing) so that a single optical sensor may be used along with the touch screen display for both video conferencing and still and/or video image acquisition.”
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by Jason Wilk on January 30, 2009
- GDrive is Google’s supposed cloud-based hard drive which offers unlimited space for all of your files. Descriptions of GDrive have appeared in newly updated code on the Google Pack site:
// Localized product category of GDrive
_CI_messages.CI_GDRIVE_CATEGORY = ‘Online file backup and storage‘;
// Localized short description of GDrive (1st
// of 2 description lines)
_CI_messages.CI_GDRIVE_DESCRIPTION_1 = ‘GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents‘;
// Localized short description of GDrive (2nd
// of 2 description lines)
_CI_messages.CI_GDRIVE_DESCRIPTION_2 = ‘GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone‘;
- Cloud services are getting huge. Being able to access all of your files from anywhere on any computer or phone is becoming a fast reality. The one company besides Google who I think has a chanceto master this technology is Conveneer. My friend Örjan Johansson who founded BlueTooth just launched Conveneer.com, which lives behind the concept that you can access any files directly from a personal server that has a designated URL unique to you. Check it out further to see, but I think that is the future with GDrive.
by Jason Wilk on January 8, 2009
- Introducing the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen Blackberry killer (because we know it won’t touch the iPhone), has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display.
- As we have said before, it has a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from underneath the phone. Contains an accelerometer for landscape viewing. The phone is running Palm’s all new Nova platform, and also includes Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3 megapixel camera, all with laptop style power.
- No one has gotten a hands on demo yet, so stay tuned for the important stuff like mail, screen responsiveness, app store, etc. There’s already one downside to the phone, it is exclusively with Sprint for the first half of 2009 with no price tag yet. Just lost one potential customer. Thanks to Engadget for the photo.
- Is there something oddly familiar about that dial screen and the bottom Nav bar?
by Jason Wilk on January 8, 2009
- Sony finally let those at CES get a hands-on with their latest stealth computer release. It truly is the ultimate computer on the go @ 1.4 pounds/1 inch thick, with an Instant-on OS, internet access via 3G, minimal storage, movie player and photo application. What’s inside? 1.33Ghz Atom inside so not that quick, 2GB of RAM and Vista Home Basic for $900.
- Setbacks: Very small (screen is only 8 inches), uses a trackball instead of a track-pad, must sign up with Verizon to score the 3G connection (No GSM), and the price is a little steep (The base is $900, but the notebook can run as high as $1500 with 60GB of storage capability). Take a look at the pic below to see how small the computer actually is, and trust me when I tell you this lady is no giant.
Pics via Gizmodo.
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