Year: 2010

Say hi to the iPhone 4

Apple today presented the new iPhone 4 featuring a new feature called “FaceTime” and a “Retina display,” the highest resolution display ever built into a phone. In addition, iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a three-axis gyro and up to 40%.

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Macsimum Poll: were you happy with the WWDC announcements?

In this week’s poll, we’re asking whether you were happy with Steve Job’s Worldwide Developer Conference announcements (the iPhone 4 and the iOS 4). The poll is located on the right hand side of the home page beneath the Macsimum Opinion column.

In our last poll, we asked if Apple release an iPad-like, “closed” Mac? Sixty-eight percent of you said “no” and 32% said “yes.”

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Apple now has 22% of eBook market

During his keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, CEO Steve Jobs said Apple now has 22% of the eBook market thanks to the iBookstore, which was introduced with the iPad and is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Jobs says that users have downloaded more than five million books in the first 65 days of the iBookStore availability. That’s about 2.5 for each device sold—in the first 65 days of iBooks’ availability. The 22% figure is based on reports from five of the six largest publishers on the app’s share of their electronic sales.

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Notes from Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote

Steve Jobs has introduced the iPhone 4G. He says it’s the biggest leap yet for the smartphone with over 100 plus features. He’s talking about eight main features.

It has a new design with a glass front and rear. Jobs keeps using the word “precision” to describe the iPhone 4G. It’s 24% thinner at 9.3 mm and is, per Jobs, the thinnest iPhone on the planet.

The iPhone 4G has a front camera, receiver home, micro SIM, camera with LED flash and a second mic for noise cancelation.

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The iPad ‘guzzles network capacity’?

Wireless network provider Meraki has reported that iPad usage consumed more than half the network capacity of one installation despite accounting for less than 10% of the devices on the network, reports “InformationWeek” (http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225402019).

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