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iPhone 4

logtech — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:56:23 +0000

WWDC 2010– Apple announced their new iPhone at the recent WWDC 2010 conference. The new iPhone 4 will have a new body design and a few new hardware and software features. The design change includes a squarer rounded edges and a “stainless steal band”. There is also the new Retina display which is suppose to provide higher more crisp picture on the iphone’s screen. The phone also now has the A4 processor made by Apple which is suppose to make it much faster.

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Other more interesting features include two cameras, one in the front and one in the back. According to Apple the camera on the back will shoot 5-megapixel pictures and HD video (720 p; 30 fps) The camera also a a small LED flash. Along with the camera there is also going to be a iMovie app coming to the App Store for $4.99.

There are other smaller features that will ship with this new phone this summer, but the most talked about at the conference was, “FaceTime”. FaceTime is a video conference call on the iPhone. You will be able to call other iPhone 4 users and be able not only to talk but see. However, the app only works on Wi-Fi and you can only call other iPhone 4 customers. We will also see whether other company like Skype launch service which will do the same thing but reach to a larger connection network.\

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Over all the iPhone 4 is a nice upgraded, however it seems to be just that. If you currently own a iPhone and you are not eligible for the upgrade than you may want to take a second look before paying out. Even though it has some nice new features like FaceTime and the new camera, you will still get the new iOS4 as a iPhone 3G customer. If your in the market for a new phone it is definitely worth a look, but take a second look if you are just upgrading.

Available July 14th for $199 (16GB) and $299 (32GB)

Windows Phone 7

logtech — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:59:42 +0000

The new Windows Phone 7 is miles ahead of his predecessor Windows Mobile. If you are familiar with the Zune interface you will be at home with Windows Phone 7. The interface is clean and appears pretty easy to use. Windows Phone 7 is very integrated with social and web services such as Facebook, Bing search, Bing Maps, and photo cloud services. All of the in phone and in the cloud services are tightly integrated with one another. The music and video apps are just like they are on the Zune player. You will also be able to download content from the Zune store over Wi-Fi or 3G. There will be an app hub coming soon which will have applications like games. In the near future they will also be releasing Windows Office Hub, which will be programs like Word, and OneNote but made for the phone. This future will probably integrate closely with Windows Office 2010 on your computer which has show off some share options itself. Of course there will be the typical apps like e-mail, calendar and Bing Maps. Internet Explore on the phone is much cleaner and user-friendly than any of their earlier versions. Microsoft said there will be many more futures that they did not show at the Mobile World Congress 2010, which hopeful will make this phone ever more user-friendly and easy to use. Despite quite a few bugs in the prototypes that they show off at the show, the phone as a very big potential to do well in the phone market coming later this year.

How Electronic Magazines should be…

logtech — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:34:44 +0000

Apple's iPad

logtech — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:27:37 +0000

Despite the name, Apple’s new iPad is an attractive device. In essence the tablet is a 9.7 inch iPod touch with the ability of 3G. It runs on a new version of the iPhone software and has a fairly high quality screen. It has a very nice browsing experience (except no Flash yet) and a good mail client. Viewing pictures is a clean and easy process however there is not build in camera which is a disappointment. Video including Youtube, will play in HD . The AppStore and iTunes are the same except for the addition of iBooks. iBooks is like iTiunes for books, and that’s about it. iBooks is defiantly not a new idea but will help a industry. And of course there is a maps app and a calendar app. Most apps in the store will work on the device. The most important part of this however is the price. The starting price is at $499.99. This was a lot lower than expected, however it is not surprising because if they priced it at 999 for example, it should be more like a computer which it is not (Price list below). The 3G is a lot cheaper than you get with a computer at $ 30.00 for unlimited data. The iPad is said to last 10 hours and a month on standby. Over all this is a sleek device that will create a new category that we will see change the way we do computing. However, this is probably not the device to define this new tablet category. (The iPad wifi is available in 60 days and the 3G in 90 days).

	16 GB	32 GB	64 GB
Wi-Fi	$499	$599	$699
Wi-Fi + 3G	$629	$729	$829

Google Chrome OS Consent Video/Tour Video

logtech — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:51:34 +0000

10/GUI

logtech — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:38:50 +0000

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

http://10gui.com/

Google OS

logtech — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:14:22 +0000

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Today the internet was abuzz about Google saying they will come out with their own Operating System, Google Chrome OS. As said on the Google blog last night, “the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” Google said that there new Operating system will be made for netbooks, which will be made available the second half of 2010. They also said that the OS will open-source its code later this year. One of the most interesting statements they said on the blog was, “…we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates…” Now days that seems almost impossible, especially with an OS based mostly on the web, never the less it is very intriguing. The general sense of the OS is “open wide” let everyone in and everyone out. They say it will be easy to develop for and can have programs written for it which can also be cross platform. Over all it looks like a great project I just hope it comes out as strong as they say it will.

Introducing the Google Chrome OS (googleblog.blogspot.com)

Hulu Mobile

logtech — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:22:59 +0000

Hulu.com, the popular video on demand website, has sealed its self off from being accessed on Skyfire 1.0. Skyfire is a relatively new application for cell phones which allows people to access content most cell phone browsers don’t support like Flash. This was very disappointing, but it seems they are doing this for a reason. If you look back a few months ago hulu did a similar thing with boxee. They blocked there content from boxee and just about a month later came out with their own desktop application. So it seems obvious what they are planning, come out with their own mobile application. If they do come out with their own mobile application how are they going to do it? There are several ways a site like hulu could go about this. They could create their own mobile applications for devices like the iPhone, Blackberry, Pal Pre, ext. However, if they do go this path their content will not be available on all devices and they will have to create applications for each device. On the other hand they could create a mobile website which could be reached by most mobile browsers; this would have a wider distribution but limit capability and quality. They could reach people either way but it would be much easier if the world could come together and create a stranded for web videos on the computer and on mobile devices.

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Big Screen Kindle coming this Wednesday

logtech — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:34:01 +0000

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Amazon has said they will have a news conference to announce their new, new Kindle which will be made for newspapers and textbooks. This, and several other device will now presents print newspapers with their biggest block in the rode ahead.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090504/new-amazon-device-debuts-wednesday/

This video below really says we were on this path anyways.Via. Techcrunch

Wearable Computer, MIT

logtech — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:46:43 +0000

MIT has created this very cool wearable computer. Now that might sound a little odd, but this is very nice idea and will probably have some good impalement’s in the future. I recommend watch the video below to see some of the concepts. Also read a hole article on this concept at http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-digital-six.html

(I think that projecting key words on another persons shirt might be odd, but every thing else is cool.)