iPhone was released yesterday in US. Even the stores were closed the people sat in the line many hours before the launch. Some were nervous, some were excited. Here are a few photos and video footages of the event:
From San Francisco World Premiere:
and another one:
The victory:
The launch will be this Friday 6 p.m local time. Everyone waits the most advertised device. The iPhone has got over 11,000 articles and 69 million hits in Google in the last six months.
But people don’t talk too much about what it can’t do. Today I have found some shortcomings. For example iPhone can’t record video and the songs can’t be used as ringtones. That are common features for any mobile nowadays. Besides, it doesn’t support games, flash applications, instant messaging, MMS or voice recognition.
iPhone is revolutionary in mobiles industry, but it is not perfect. Other things it doesn’t have are: 3G, expandable memory, removable battery. Probably other new problems will be discovered after the launch. Some people who tested the phone reported lower battery levels than it was announced. The question is: “Does it worth the hype?”
[via Gizmodo]
It looks like Zunescene has another tip about some Zune releases late July. For all those Zune lovers you should know that the next generation of Zune is going to be called Scorpio, will have a 80GB hard drive (yes not a flash based unit) and will be the bigger brother of Zune Draco (which is flash).
Both the Scorpio and Draco are Pyxis enabled devices which is the Wi-Fi protocol to transfer files between devices. No news on how soon the new Zune will come on the European market, no prices and no exact dates. However, prepare to buy it for the 2007 holidays because the mass production will start late July for both the Draco and Scorpio.
Mitsubishi won’t stay behind Dell when it comes to launching new LCD displays, and it looks like Dell is doing a really great job. But Mitsubishi is nowhere to be left aside, at least not the new DiamondCrysta RDT241W and RDT241W BK models.
The two new monitors have some nice features like the 1900 x 1200 resolution, the 5ms response time and features color gamut covering 92 percent of the NTSC color space. The contrast ratio is 900:1 unlike Dell going out with 1000:1.
You get two choices of colors like those you see in the picture above: black and white. No words regarding prices so far.
[Mitsubishi via Engadget]
Playing on Nintendo Wii with your friends is going to be much more fun than it was until now. Why? Because Elecom was smart enough to bring real tools for the Sports pack That includes the tennis racket, the baseball bat and the golf club. I’ve played Nintendo and I agree this new upgrade looks great.
However, if you play with another friend make sure you have enough space between the two of you because the risk of injury is quite high. My biggest concern now is if we will see more cases of people ruining their TV by losing the Wiimote from their hands, or if there will be medical issues.
Viewsonic was my first computer display around 13 years ago. I didn’t hear too much from them till now. But it seems the company is going very well and they have just launched three new LCDs.
The new models include the 26-inch N2635w, 32-inch N3235w and 37-inch N3735w. The street prices for those LCDs are $599, $699 and $899 respectively. The TVs will be sold through specialized distributors and resellers. To give you an opinion about the specs, I will tell you that the first one offers 800:1 contrast ratio and the other two 1,200:1. The 1,366 x 768 resolution and 8ms refresh time can satisfy your tastes, as the Viewsonic LCDs are budget solutions. For something more powerful just visit Samsung and take yourself a 70″ HDTV. The difference is in prices!
[the news]
The LG-KU580 is available now for sale in Europe. The UMTS mobile will be put for sale by Vodafone. It work in triband GSM frequencies. LG-KU580 sports a 256k color screen, 2 megapixel camera and a secondary camera for video calls. An FM tuner and a Bluetooth complete its profile. Besides those functions, which I can say are regular nowadays, LG-KU580 feature a microSD card slot and 45 MB of shared memory.
The interesting fact about this phone is that it comes equipped with Google Earth software and applications like Search or Gmail. The price would be around $500 or 370 euros.
[via Newlaunches]
You need a scanner for professional purposes then Canon is sure they have the perfect tool for you. ScanFront 220P is a very smart gadget for your office that will become a standard soon, and I say that because I would really love my scanner to save directly on FTP, NAS or attach the document to n email. Another thing that I enjoy greatly is the display where you can rename, tag or move into folders. I think even my mom would know how use this one, though she uses a computer twice a week.
I agree that Canon did a great job with the new ScanFront 220P, and I may want to add that to make it smarter, it has a biometric reader. I’ll put it in the “I want one” basket.
It looks like the red-light cameras are really doing a great job for the police to cash in tickets because people are becoming more and more annoyed by them after they are busted. That’s the case of David A. Czech that’s going to sue the city of Northwood, Ohio, the police department and the maker of the red-light cameras. Apparently this kind of supervising is just an “unconstitutional ordinance to extort money” from people like them that only cross red lights. Why I am saying, them? Because the crazy upset citizen is filing on behalf of another 20,000 people that got tickets issued.
The red-light cameras in Northwood, four of them, have been installed in January 2005 and ever since they are working on a scheme to get money from people breaking the law. Why would one like mr. Czech ever file a suit against something he’s been doing wrong? Why can’t you wait a few seconds for the light to turn green? Weird huh? Let’s hope Judge Robert Pollex from the Wood County Common Pleas Court will have his head on the shoulders and will rule a fair verdict.
The race for the slimmest slider is really tough. It looks like Samsung U600 is not the holder of the record anymore, which was 10.9mm. Pantech IM-S230 is now the skinniest slider because it has a whole one millimeter less, making it 9.9mm thick. There you go, we are now ready for the 5mm thick slider, guys. Anyone to humor me?
Aside the thickness there is nothing very special about Pantech IM-S230. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera (can you please upgrade this one, Pantech?) a 2.2-inch display, has an MP3 player and DMB TV tuner. The price is high : $535 in Korea. Worth it? Not sure, but you can brag very easy with the skinniest phone in the world.
[via Gizmodo]
