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Apple today announced a new iPhone. The new model is 36% faster than Nokia’s N95, according to Steve Jobs, Apple CEO. It is also cheaper at $199 (8 gigabytes), extended battery life up to six hours and five hours of talk time.
A host of different iPhone applications were also released during the announcement, including a wireless email service at $99 a year.
The new iPhone will go on retail this coming July 11.
Originally posted on June 9, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
HBO and Apple announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. New HBO programs on iTunes include “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Deadwood” and “Rome,” as well as the critically acclaimed hits “Flight of the Conchords” and “The Wire.”
“Sex and the City,” “The Wire” and “Flight of the Conchords” are $1.99 per episode, and “The Sopranos,” “Deadwood” and “Rome” are priced at $2.99 per episode. iTunes customers can also choose to purchase entire seasons of their favorite programs.
Originally posted on May 13, 2008 @ 9:32 am
No more waiting to download that spankin’ new movie from the iTunes store. Effective immediately, Apple is offering many movies on the same day as their DVD release. Participating studios are 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios.
New releases will set you back $14.99 and standard titles remain unchanged at $9.99. Rentals are $2.99 to kick it old school and $3.99 for the new stuff.
Get your street smarts on with “American Gangster,” get sarcastic with “Juno” or get creeped by “Cloverfield” – all without the wait.
Movie purchases and rentals require iTunes 7.6.2. Download here.
Originally posted on May 1, 2008 @ 9:04 am
Apple deceptively marketed its new 20-inch iMac in a way that grossly inflated the capabilities of its monitor, which is vastly inferior to the previous generation it replaced, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP.
According to the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose, Apple is deceiving consumers by concealing that the new 20-inch iMac monitors are inferior to the previous generation’s and those of the new 24-inch iMac. In addition, the monitors are incapable of displaying “millions of colors,” despite Apple’s marketing claims.
Apple told consumers that both the 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs displayed “millions of colors at all resolutions.” Indeed, the new 24-inch iMacs display 16,777,216 colors on 8-bit, in-plane switching (IPS) screens, as did the previous generation of 20-inch iMacs. But the new 20-inch iMac monitors do not even come close, displaying 98% fewer colors (262,144).
While Apple describes the display of both the 24-inch and 20-inch iMacs as though they were interchangeable, the monitors in each are of radically different technology. The 20-inch iMacs feature 6-bit twisted nematic film (TN) LCD screens, the least expensive of its type.
The 20-inch iMac’s TN screens have a narrower viewing angle, less color depth, less color accuracy and are more susceptible to washout across the screen.
Apple’s Web site tells consumers that “No matter what you like to do on your computer – watch movies, edit photos, play games, even just view a screen saver – it’s going to look stunning on an iMac.”
In fact, the inferior technology of the 20-inch iMac is particularly ill-suited to editing photographs because of the display’s limited color potential and the distorting effect of the color simulation processes.
Originally posted on April 1, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
FT.com reports that Apple is in discussions with music companies to offer a radical business model that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices. Truly radical, but Apple wouldn’t comment according to the report.
Originally posted on March 19, 2008 @ 11:21 am