Thứ Bảy, 30 tháng 4, 2011

Concept case would turn your iPhone into a Leica

Concept case would turn your iPhone into a Leica

OK, so yes, this Leica i9 case for the iPhone 4 is still just a concept. You can't actually buy a case yet that fits around your iPhone and turns it into a Leica camera (though you can buy some nice lenses or an audio tape case). But this idea is just too cool to pass up. Outside of the standard retro charm of having a Leica attached to the back of your iPhone, the idea here is that you can use the iPhone's dock port to attach a high-quality premium camera to the back of your high-quality premium smartphone, enabling some really excellent mobile photography.

There's probably some technical magic that has to be worked here as well

– I don't know how feasible it is to have the dock hook up to and even control a high quality camera lens like this, especially with that design and size. But heck, if we can get the iCade made into a real product, this is certainly possible, right?

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iPhone 5 Fake Keynote Rehearsal by Steve Jobs

iPhone 5 Fake Keynote Rehearsal by Steve Jobs

If all the speculation about the iPhone 5 isn't enough for you, there is now apparently a video floating the net waves of iPhone guru Steve Jobs rehearsing the iPhone 5 intro keynote, although one does have to say it's obvious that it is a fake. According to Cult of Mac, apparently the Steve Jobs in the video sounds a lot like George W. Bush, and according to TUAW, by way of Macrumors, the fake video says that the iPhone 5 will have "digital scent technology" and a battery that doesn't require charging.

The video can be found on Chinese site Tudou and lasts 46 seconds and even has the Steve Jobs impersonator stopping mid keynote to change his shoes and says they are as light as an iPhone5.

Have to say it is a considerable poor attempt at faking an Apple keynote, but the big question here is why would anyone want to create such an obvious fake? Smell-o-vision and a lifetime battery sounds good though, lol.


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Metal iPhone 5 not what doctor ordered, unless Apple has trick up sleeve

Metal iPhone 5 not what doctor ordered, unless Apple has trick up sleeve

A spiraling information trail from overseas suggests that the new iPhone 5 will be made of aluminum metal and not the sharkproof glass which the iPhone 4 has employed. This would help explain why Apple appears to be keeping the white iPhone flame alive (hello, arbitrarily white iPad 2), as the move away from the tonally troublesome iPhone glass would help facilitate the possibility of a white iPhone 5. Here's the problem, though: forget about whether a metal iPhone 5 would be white, silver, black, or purple. The trouble with the prospect of a metal iPhone 5 is that the iPhone has been there before – and the results weren't pretty.

If asked to rank metal, acrylic plastic, and glass in order or strongest to least durable, most folks would leave them arranged in exactly that order. But the iPhone's history has shown otherwise. The original iPhone had a mostly metal back, and was easily susceptible to scratching, denting, you name it. The second iPhone body (3G/3GS) moved to acrylic and instantly offered a more durable iPhone experience. Then came the iPhone 4 and its glass body, which despite the connotations (and the "scratching" nonsense concocted by a few geek clowns), has turned out to be the most scratch-proof and durable iPhone material yet. And now Apple wants to move beyond that by taking the iPhone 5 back to the original metal, which was the weakest link in the iPhone's history? That doesn't add up.

Sure, an aluminum iPhone 5 would bring the iPhone in line stylistically with Apple's Mac computers, most of which sport a brushed metal aluminum body, as well as the iPad 2, which sports a brushed metal rear surface. But the metal bottom of the original iPad offered easy evidence that it's an overly scratchable and dentable design choice – and if Apple has come up with a newer, more durable kind of metal body for the iPhone 5, then suffice it to say that they weren't using it on any of their products as recently as a year ago.

Then again, Apple has made progress in moving toward metal surfaces whose durability is less weak than in previous years. For a long time Apple's "Pro" laptops were made of Titanium, which proved to be a poor choice in the long term for reasons ranging from scratching to surface flaking. And Apple has largely moved beyond the protectively absurd choice of chrome for the rear surface of the earliest iPods. But an aluminum iPhone 5 just doesn't seem like the right answer. Our buddies at The Mac Observer have done a nice job of trying to translate the original foreign language report in order to make heads or tails of it. But our gut says that while Apple clearly has a desire to bring its various major products into stylistic alignment, the idea of a metal iPhone 5 is something that Apple already proved to itself wasn't such a good idea the first time it tried it. Here's more on the iPhone 5.

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Did Sony CEO Howard Stringer Spill The Beans About An 8MP iPhone 5 Camera?

Did Sony CEO Howard Stringer Spill The Beans About An 8MP iPhone 5 Camera?

We're recently reported that very few new features appear to be solid for the iPhone5. But a recent slip-up by the Sony CEO suggests that an 8-megapixel camera might be a definite upgrade for the next iPhone. read Charles Moore's new article:

MacNN, Appleinsider,, CNET, and several other Apple-watcher sites reported over the weekend that Sony CEO Howard Stringer may have inadvertently revealed that Apple is gearing up to equip the iPhone 5 with an eight-megapixel camera.

9To5Mac's Seth Weintraub, who attended the event, reports that Stringer, in a Talking Tech with Sony event interview with The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in New York, commented that his company's camera sensor plant at Sendai, Japan, is among 15 of the company's facilities damaged by last month's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, and that the supply interruption will delay shipments of sensors to Apple. Since Sony sensors are not used in the iPhone versions 4 and 3GS, which employ 5-megapixel and 3.2 megapixel OmniVision camera sensors respectively, it's not a major deductive leap to infer that the higher-resolution CMOS sensors sourced from Sony would most likely be destined for the next revision iPhone 5.

A PhoneArena blog from six weeks ago notes that OmniVision shares nosedived last summer when a rumor spread that due partly to complaints about a yellowish color shift in still photos shot with the OmniVision sensor camera, Apple might be moving to Sony for its next generation iPhone camera sensors — possibly Sony's Exmor R sensor unit that is used in the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and Xperia neo. That 8MP sensor is backlit to help it finesse low light conditions, similar to the way the iPhone 4′s 5MP OmniVision sensor does. Indeed, rumors of Apple dropping OmniVision in favor of Sony as its iPhone camera supplier are longstanding.

PhoneArena also reports that OmniVision has announced that it has an 8MP camera sensor of its own coming, the OV8820, which incorporates the same low-light performance enhancements, plus HD video at 60fps, and Full HD at 30fps, and which had been projected to begin mass production in March, but that production problems have occurred.

Not everyone agrees that Apple will use Sony CMOC camera sensors in the iPhone 5. Analyst Yair Reiner of Wall Street's Oppenheimer & Co. is quoted by Appleinisider isaying he expects OmniVision to remain Apple's camera supplier for the fifth-generation iPhone, corroborated by checks with contacts in Apple's supply channels, dismissing the notion an Apple-Sony hook-up as "rather silly."

Whatever, regardless of whether the iPhone 5's camera supplier is to be OmniVision or Sony, it looks like camera sensor supply problems may be a significant factor in Apple's evidently postponing the iPhone 5 introduction from an anticipated Worldwide Developer's Conference release until some time later in the year. With the iPad 2′s camera performance being that unit's most unanimously panned feature in reviews, Apple will want to get the camera right in the iPhone 5, where it is arguably a much more important feature than it is with the tablet product.

Also, with Sony Ericsson rumored to be getting 12MP+ camera equipped phones ready for summer release, Apple will need at least the 8MP sensors to remain even ballpark competitive in that context.


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June iPhone 5 release dies at altar of April white iPhone 4

June iPhone 5 release dies at altar of April white iPhone 4

The June iPhone 5 dies at the altar tomorrow as the white iPhone 4 is set to hit retail stores, prolonging the iPhone 4 era indefinitely and bringing an official and to any hope of the iPhone debuting at June's WWDC conference or a separate press event. This will mark the first summer in the iPhone's history in which no new iPhone generation has surfaced in the summer. There's still no clear indication of what has specifically led to Apple's change in behavior, although the first hint of scheduling flux may have been the February release of a Verizon compatible iPhone 4. Many at the time questioned why Apple would launch a Verizon iPhone 4 a mere few months before the arrival of the iPhone 5, and now the answer is more clear: the iPhone 5 was ultimately more than a few months away. Now the white iPhone 4 comes at a time when many thought the iPhone 5 was just around the corner

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But any hope of a nearby iPhone 5 has to go away, for now, with the arrival of the white iPhone 4. Simple business sense dictates that Apple wouldn't be adding an iPhone 4 color now if it were expecting to launch the iPhone 5 in any less than three or four months. That doesn't mean the iPhone 5 has been pushed back to 2012 or even to the edge of the 2011 holiday season; it simply means that early summer is clearly off the table. That begs the question of what, if any, new hardware Apple will launch during its WWDC keynote. The upcoming iOS 5 operating system, which will likely be released alongside the iPhone 5, can be counted on to be previewed at WWDC. But with the iPhone 5 off the table (Apple won't preview new hardware that far in advance), the iPad 2 having been just released, and the iPod lineup not due for revamp until September, Apple may end up using WWDC to launch new Mac hardware – or nothing at all, as the WWDC is the keynote for a developer conference and not a mainstream press event, although it's been used as the latter in the past.

Dive in or wait

The most common question we've received all year has been "When is the iPhone 5 release date?" The answer: we still don't know. But as far as the corollary question, "Should I wait for the iPhone 5 or buy the iPhone 4 now?", the answer is this: the iPhone 5 can't be expected, at this point, any sooner than August or September. How much longer do you really want to wait? Here's more on the iPhone5.

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Thứ Sáu, 29 tháng 4, 2011

White iPhone delay partly due to UV protection

White iPhone delay partly due to UV protection

In an interview with Ina Fried at AllThingsD, Phil Schiller and Steve Jobs gave a little insight into what made the white iPhone 4 so tough to produce. Actually, it wasn't really the manufacturing itself, but the materials science needed to make sure the white iPhone was in every way as capable and durable as the black-painted iPhone 4.

Schiller told Fried, "…There's a lot more that goes into both the material science of it–how it holds up over time…but also in how it all works with the sensors." There's also a reference to how the white iPhone needs more "UV protection" than the black one, which I would guess comes from the light that is not absorbed by the black paint passing through the white paint instead.

There's a lot of tech that goes into the iPhone, and I'm really not surprised that something like a coating of white paint turned out to be tricky, but I think everyone (including Apple, it sounds like) was surprised at how long it took to sort this out. Still, the white iPhone goes on sale tomorrow. Will you get one? Will you apply sunscreen to it?

[via tuaw]




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iPhone 5 on September 13th: five reasons release isn’t worth waiting for

iPhone 5 on September 13th: five reasons release isn't worth waiting for

If the iPhone 5 really is to be a September baby, it'll be unveiled in September 13th. And that being the case, our official advice has changed: if you're sitting around waiting for more information on the iPhone5 in order to make a decision on whether to buy an iPhone 4 now or keep waiting, and it turns out the iPhone 5 really is coming in the fall instead of the summer, go ahead and take the plunge on the iPhone 4 now. Bear in mind that this advice is conditional upon the iPhone 5 being held back until the fall; if it does indeed arrive this June then you're best off simply waiting another six weeks. But Apple traditionally holds its fall press event on the second Tuesday of September, namely the 13th in 2011, and if that event is to be the first sign of the iPhone 5 along with the iPod models which will debut that day, don't bother waiting. Here's why.iPhone 4 rocks: Several members of the Beatweek staff have been using the iPhone 4 since last year, and while we'll likely all upgrade to the iPhone 5 as soon as it arrives, here's what we've learned about the iPhone 4 in the mean time. It's by far the most ideal smartphone on the market. It's faster, more versatile, thinner, and lighter than any previous iPhone model, and offers significantly more battery life with a much better screen. The supposed "iPhone 4 antenna issue" simply does not exist except in the minds of the deviants who concocted it. On its own merits, it's nearly the perfect smartphone; we'd be hard pressed to come with things we don't like about it.

4G pipedream: Even if the iPhone 5 does end up offering 4G networking, that'll only work in the scant areas in which Verizon and AT&T have actually built 4G networks. For the vast majority of iPhone 5 customers, it'll be the same 3G or even EDGE experience that they'd have gotten on the iPhone 4. Unless you live in one of a handful of big cities where 4G LTE will arrive early, this is not a reason to wait for the iPhone 5.

Verizon already has the iPhone: For those Verizon customers who wanted an iPhone but skipped the iPhone 4 because they thought the iPhone 5 was just around the corner, we'll ask you this: what exactly have you gained by waiting? A few more months of being stuck with your existing phone, which you clearly don't want? And now you're looking at another few more months of doing the same? You're not winning this battle.

Question marks: In other words, it's all we know about the iPhone 5. Will it offer better specs and features than the iPhone 4? Certainly. What will those specs and features be, and will any of them be relevant to you? No way of knowing. Waiting means you're gambling that the iPhone 5 will offer something over the iPhone 4 which will have justified your wait. Waiting does not equal playing it safe; it's just a different kind of gamble.

Have it both ways: The real clincher is that even if you buy an iPhone 4 now, you can still buy an iPhone 5 later. Sure, you'll end up paying $200 above sticker for the iPhone 5 because you'll have used up your upgrade cycle on the iPhone 4 purchase. But nothing says you can't turn around and sell your iPhone 4 in September (for more than you paid for it, thanks to the magic of unsubsidized pricing), and put that money toward paying your iPhone 5 ransom. You'll still end up having paid at least little bit for the privilege using an iPhone 4 between now and iPhone 5 launch day, but it won't preclude you from getting to experience both iPhone generations. Here's more on the iPhone 5.


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