We know that we were gushing over Nokia’s Morph concept phone only yesterday, but this video is simply way too jam packed with astonishingly cool future tech to pass up. Pity we probably won’t be around when the phone launches (probably sometime in the year 3000). Is cryogenic freezing a viable option yet, or is it as far fetched as this handset?
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The wait is nearly over for developers keen to start making native iPhone applications. Apple has been promising to release its iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in February, and given the company’s penchant for making big announcements on Tuesdays, today could see the announcement. That’s if the SDK hasn’t been delayed, as some reports over the weekend suggested.
Why didn’t Apple let developers create iPhone apps from the start? The company says it was keen to ensure iPhone didn’t suffer from viruses and malware. However, the large number of people unlocking their iPhones and installing unofficial apps shows there’s a demand for advanced functionality on the handset. Just today, I’ve written about a SNES game emulator on the iPhone, for example.
Continue reading ‘Anticipation heightens for iPhone SDK release’
The trouble with setting public sales targets for a gadget is that, well, people will spend lots of time speculating on whether you’ll hit those targets. Such is the case with Apple, which reckons it’ll sell 10 million iPhones this year. Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi isn’t so sure. In fact, he predicts Apple will only shift 8 million of them in 2008.
“Apple’s goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year is optimistic, particularly if Apple insists on carrier revenue sharing without significant price cuts or new model introductions.”
However, that’s a pretty big ‘if’ right there, given the widespread expectation that Apple will launch its second-generation iPhone this year, in a 3G stylee. Price cuts aren’t such a sure thing, but Apple has shown its willingness to cut the price of the iPhone before, such as when it slashed $200 off the device’s price in the US last summer after complaints from consumers that it was too expensive.
(via Epicenter)
As we may have mentioned, we rather like the old Palm OS devices here at Pocket Picks. Whatever your misgivings about the PDAs themselves, you can’t deny that they had one of the best libraries of freware and shareware pps around - over 20,000 apps at the last count.
StyleTap is a Palm OS emulator that has been available on Windows Mobile for some time, claiming high levels of compatabilty to that lovely library of apps and games and operating a ‘Runs on StyleTap’ certification program that app developers can use to show their compatibilty with StyleTap.
The publishers have just announced plans for a Symbian port and - crucially - a version for the iPhone. Assuming they get it working with the iPhone SDK, this could be a great way to extend the Apple handset’s capabilities.
Syntrax is not the most useful bit of S60 and Windows Mobile software out there, but for a certain type of person - one who likes electronic music, bleepy synthesizers and harbours secret ambitions to perform with The Orb - it is great fun.
Syntrax is a bit like a scaled down version of the PC/Mac synth Rebirth. Wheras Rebirth emulated a variety of real-world analogue synths like the TR-808 and TR-303, Syntrax is more like a ‘tribute’ to analogue synths with its cut-down display and sawn-off sequencer.
It’s pretty powerful for all that. For the cost of a download, you get an 8-track midi-compatible sequencer, synth and a sample editor.
You can build your own tracks from scratch or play with one of the library of presets and example tracks. The only limitation in the version linked here is a lack of Save option - but a free registration will soon take care of that.
It’s time for another concept phone that Nokia can’t make currently and probably won’t be able to make within our lifetimes’.
Behold the Morph, a nanotech based device that can be molded into any shape you desire so that you can… Actually come to think of it we cant really think of a specific advantage this would offer besides just being really, really cool.
The purely fictional device was developed jointly by the Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge and was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, on exhibit from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Despite being more advanced than Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation Nokia’s press release claims that the Morph features transparent electronics, self-cleaning surfaces, and the malleability to transform into any number of configurations. Hit the jump for more mouth-watering pics of something you will almost certainly never own.
Continue reading ‘Nokia concept that your great grandchildren might own’
Bluetooth 3.0 is currently in the works but it looks like a new kind of short range wireless technology may be set to replace it before it is even out of the lab. Developed by researchers at Melbourne University in Australia, GiFi is a new short-range wireless data transfer technology that could make its way into mobiles as soon as next year.
Here comes the science bit. GiFi utilizes a 5mm square chip and a 1mm wide antenna burning less than 2 watts of power to transmit data wirelessly over short distances, much like Bluetooth. Unlike Bluetooth however, GiFi can hurl data through the air at speeds of up to 5 Gbps. Better still, GiFi operates on the 60 GHz frequency band that is largely traffic free. All this for a miserly $10; we think someone at Melbourne University is probably hearing the sound ‘kerching’ right about now.
Considering Bluetooth 3.0 will be limited to 480 Mbps when it is launched, we reckon it will have a hard time fighting off GiFi when trying to secure buyers in the mobile manufacturing world. Certainly one to look out for.
(theage via The Boy Genius Report)
VITO Technology are celebrating their 7th birthday by selling all their Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, S60 and UIQ software for $7 a pop.
They seem to have been producing apps t the rate f about ten a day during their 7-year history, with a huge back catalogue of apps. Some of thes, like VITO Audioplayer, have freeware equivalents, but there are some gems.
Some of their better efforts have passed through PocketPicks before, including Pocket PC GPS utility VITO Find Me, S60 dictaphpne VITO AudioNotes and Windows Mobile SMS threader SMS-CHAT.
If you have $7 burning a hole in your account, the offer runs until Feb 26th.
There’s not a dry eye in the house over at Nokia Beta Labs. Their little media uploading app, Share Online, is all grown up and ready to make its fortune in the real world.
In the Beta Labs blog, Tommi Vilkamo announced that Share Online will be becoming a fully fledged, non-beta application available from Nokia’s Sharing and Blogging microsite.
Share Onlne, as previously covered by Pocket Picks, is an automated media uploader that lets you send your photos and movies to Flickr and Vox. The newly released v3.0 also supports Ovi.
The Nokia Blog came across a demo of the Nokia N96’s DVB-H Live mobile Tv service in action and were good enough to film it.
It’s low quality and the demonstrator doesn’t seem to realise he is being filmed so the phone is only in shot for 70% of the clip, but it does give a good idea of what Nokia’s new baby can do.
A standard protocol for streaming live TV over IP networks (like the Internet) DVB-H isn’t cleared for use here in the UK as yet, although the service should come to Europe later this year.
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