Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Digital Earth Blog points us to Enkin, a very cool looking augmented reality program being developed for Google Android. Watch the video below to learn all about it:
Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
A couple of juicy tidbits about the Garmin Nuvifone.
First, Unwired View is reporting that the phone might be available in white, to go along with the expected black model. Mock-ups of the white version can be seen to the right. It looks nice!
Also, Laptop Magazine has a five minute hands-on ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Three new phones from LG are coming to Verizon in the near future.
All three look to be pretty good phones. The LG Dare (pictured on the right) is somewhat of an iPhone clone, the LG Decoy feels a bit like a Nokia N95, and the LG Chocolate 3 is more ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I love Qik on my N95. I shoot videos fairly often with it, and it's a superb little tool. Today, Qik announced that a version is coming out for the iPhone!
According to Mashable, the alpha version is expected next week, presumably only for jailbroken iPhones. It's assumed that they're making ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Thanks to some sharp eyes at iClarified, it appears that the 2.0 firmware could be coming out on June 27th. Apple's Australian iPod touch page had some text that read "Shop for hundreds of applications made for iPod touch. Available June 27."
The text has been removed, but you can see ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
TomTom has announced that they have a software solution for the 3G iPhone that "runs on the iPhone already", though they haven't given a specific release date.
This could certain cause some headaches at Garmin. Their Nuvifone looks pretty neat, but will reportedly cost $500 with a contract, which suddenly looks ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
There's been a ton of news today about the new iPhone, so I thought I'd try to give a brief summary:
The good
July 11 release
3G, as expected.
GPS. There are already some great looking applications to take advantage of it.
$199 for the 8 gig model, $299 for the 16 gig. They both ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
I'm following a few great live feeds from WWDC, and highly recommend them. A handful of the much-touted live feeds are having issues, but these two are holding up pretty well:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/
http://live.iphonebuzz.com/
If you don't want to follow it all in real-time, we'll write a full summary of new iPhone news later ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
One of my favorite applications, Google Maps for Mobile, has been updated! This version brings bus, train and ferry information right into your mobile device.
Point your mobile browser here to download the app, you can read more about it on the Digital Earth Blog, or you can watch the video ...
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