Today’s update for the iPhone will simultaneously be released for the iPod Touch, Apple announced at the Macworld Keynote, bringing the PMP’s feature-set more in line with that of the cellphone. Charged $20 for the upgrade, Touch owners will gain access to the Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather apps from the iPhone, as well as the WiFi-assisted-GPS functionality announced today, together with WebClips bookmarks on the Springboard and the ability to customise multiple home-screens.
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A software update for the iPhone, announced at Macworld, will add a mixture of new functionality and what many consider to have been oddly missing from the handset all along, including the ability to send SMS text messages to multiple recipients. Jobs also announced the ability to configure up to nine custom home-screens, including adding WebClips bookmark links to the Springboard which act as shortcuts to that website, and the Springboard icons themselves are easily rearranged. The iPhone’s music app gets the addition of lyrics-support (that are superimposed semi-transparent over the album art), while video footage can be organised into chapters and now supports subtitles.
Google Maps on the iPhone has also been improved, with SkyHook Wireless supplying real-world physical location data that enables the cellphone to pinpoint your location, similar to Google’s Find Me service, and then offer directions. Introducing saved locations is as straightforward as dropping a pin onto the map.
The update - free, of course - is released today.
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First up from Steve Jobs’ Macworld 08 Keynote is a wireless NAS: Time Capsule is an AirPort Extreme complete with a server-grade hard-drive that works seamlessly with OS X’s Time Machine backup software. Available in two capacities, 500GB and 1TB, Time Capsule resembles an Apple TV unit with 802.11n WiFi, and will be priced at $299 and $499 respectively.
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So I stumbled upon this at one of the shows surround CES and thought it was pretty cool and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it or anything like it before. It looks like a fairly run of the mill external, pocket-sized, bus-powered hard drive, but its not.
Well it can be bus powered, and is powered by some sort of mini-USB connection, but you can connect to it via WiFi or Bluetooth. The reps at the booth didn’t seem to know much about it, but one of them said it will work with your cell phone.
The tag didn’t offer up much info either, but it says it goes up to 60GB and has an open development platform. I want one, I have cell phones and laptops and all sorts of things like that that could connect to this thing and it would be a lot easier than have to try and find the right cable and then having to physically move it closer to whatever I was trying to connect to it, like I said, I want one. I couldn’t get any details on price or availability, though it seems from their website that its one of their OEM products and is designed to be re-branded by whatever company wants to use it, but I want to buy just one, slap a SlashGear URL and logo on it if you have to, but I just want one.
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Car PCs are cool, but re-fit that idea to a chopper and it comes out way cooler. I mean, this bike is what you get when you combine the efforts of Intel, OCC (Orange County Choppers), and Black Diamond.
Those three are pretty much the best at what they do, and as such the three of them coming together is near epic. The PC on board is all-weather, and can also withstand the vibrations and movement of the bike itself, but wait until you hear everything the computer can do.
It has a fingerprint recognition system that acts as the ignition, no key required, then there is a digital dashboard that not only brings you all sorts of technical data both on the bike and the computer, but it is also good for entertainment and even offers up web access. Instead of rear-view mirrors, there are a couple of LCDs and a pair of rear mounted cameras that serve the same purpose, this thing has Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPS and can do a lot with all of those. The SwitchBack PC, which is the computer in this bike, will cost you between six and ten thousand dollars, and then you have to buy a bike to have it all mounted to.
Computerized Chopper [via coolest-gadgets]
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Word on the streets is that next week, at the MacWorld expo, we could see a new SlingPlayer for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Apparently this comes from on high at the Sling Media HQ, but one major concern is the slow speeds of EDGE.
However, I’m sure I am not alone in saying that even a WiFi-only player would be an acceptable upgrade. Even more weight is given to this rumor due to the fact that Sling is apparently one of the companies that was given an iPhone SDK prior to its announced release date.
So, MacWorld is next week, and I reckon we’ll find out then. Oh, in case you haven’t seen it yet, we’ll be blogging from MacWorld and LiveCasting the Keynote and any other conferences that come up.
SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch? [via MacRumors]
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Convergence can often be seen as a dirty word, but iRiver’s Unit 2 (which we first caught a glimpse of in January last year, then again in July) seems to have convinced everybody who tried it at CES 2008 that putting a WiFi radio, CD/DVD player, VoIP phone, GPS, streaming and download into a single machine is nothing but A Good Thing, and well worth waiting (and saving up the $700 they estimate it’ll cost) until 2009 to pick one up. A 30GB drive, SD slot, removable display-cum-independent-7-inch-PMP (800 x 480, 16:9 aspect) and a remote that folds out to give a full QWERTY for messaging round out what could be the gadget of next year.
Engadget spent some time playing with the Unit 2 and shot a video of iRiver’s glee:
I honestly can’t wait to get my hands on this - some are complaining about the price being high, but for what you get I think it’s worth it.
iRiver [via Engadget]
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Even though I don’t understand the need or want of a digital photo frame they seem to be prevalent on the market today and Ality released another one this week. It has an 8” LCD screen, Wi-Fi, a user friendly interface and a rechargeable battery.
The selling point of this digital photo frame would be that it can store multiple accounts at a time. That’s supposed to appeal to people with a big household so that everyone can have their own multi-media libraries customized with their own settings.
It’s set to debut sometime during the first half of the year and will cost around $300. Even with all the multi-media functions you get with it, I still think that’s a bit much. In the end… it’s still just a picture frame.
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