Tech and Amusing Stuff

Honlai Technology has developed a concept model of the portable mini projector designed for iPhone. The projector is capable of displaying a 15- to 27-inch display form your iPhone or iPod touch in a 4:3 aspect. ratio

Via Aving.net

• It’s thicker. 4.5 by 2.4 by 0.48 inches (115.5 by 62.1 by 12.3 mm), and weighs 4.7 ounces (133 grams).
• 8GB for $199 and 16GB for $299 in black or white.
• 300 hours of standby, 8-10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio.
• Assisted GPS (it supplements regular satellite GPS data with info from cellular towers for faster location).
• Radios: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), UMTS / HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100MHz), GSM / EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz), Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• There’s no dock included, just a USB power adapter and dock connector.
• On AT&T unlimited iPhone 3G data plans for consumers will be available for $30 a month, on top of voice plans starting at $39.99 a month. Unlimited 3G data for business users will be $45 a month, on top of voice.
• Apple’s new MobileMe service will be coming with the iPhone 2.0 software, bringing push email and contacts for all.
• Available on July 11th in: Australia, Austria, Belgium (French), Belgium (Dutch), Canada (English), Canada (French), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (French), Switzerland (German), UK, USA
• The rest of these are slated to get the phone this year: Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, C. African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macau, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Singapore, Qatar, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, Uruguay.
• No mention has been made of MMS, or cut and paste.

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Via Gizmodo

Engadget reports:

“……French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there’s no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them. They follow what we know so far about the shape, size and color of the upcoming 3G iPhone, and while there’s always the possibility of knockoff, a Photoshop job, or some other evil plot to mislead us…..”

Information about the new iPhone just keeps coming, must mean it’s close.

Via Engadget

FORTUNE has some “new information” about the 3G iPhone:

“When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with price tags widely expected to be $399 and $499.”

AT&T and Apple have declined FORTUNE’s claims, but when does apple tell us what they’re up to anyway.

Check back here for more information about the 3G iPhone.

Via Engadget

Rubicon Consulting published a survey from 460 iPhone owners and this is what they found out:

• 80% of iPhone owners said they were “satisfied” with the device
• 72% of users said they use the iPhone at least once a day for e-mail
• 55% of those surveyed said that the iPhone has increased their mobile browsing
• Almost half of the owners changed their carrier
• 40% of those that switched, switched from a smartphone device
• 1/3 of iPhone owners carry 2 phones
• 13% of iPhone owners surveyed have unlocked iPhones
• 1 out of 10 users reported “hand pain” after use
• 1 out of 5 iPhones were purchased as a gift
• Only 20% of the users surveyed said that they had both an iPod and Mac; while only 5% said they had had a Mac and no iPod
• Half of iPhone owners are under 30 years of age and students took up 16% of iPhone usage
• The average phone bill before iPhone purchase was around $78/mo. and after purchase was around $97/mo.

Via TUAW

TUAW got an e-mail from a reader containing these screenshots, there’s no confirmation whether these are real or not but we’ll keep you posted.

More pix after the jump

Via TUAW

Despite what Steve Jobs said last week, Adobe is still planning to develop a Flash player for the iPhone. Whether it will be nicely integrated with Safari or it will be it’s own browser (which Apple will be rejecting i’m sure) is still up in the air.

Here’s a quote from the Chief Executive of Adobe:

“We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone. We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”

We’ll see what Steve-o has to say about that statement….

Via Engadget

(This picture is just a mock up)

Via Unwired View

It was just 8 months ago when iTunes passed Amazon, becoming the 3rd largest music retailer in the U.S.

Now here we are today reporting that iTunes has just passed Best Buy in sales, and going strong towards the top to overtake the behemoth Walmart, some predictions say that will happen as soon as “sometime this year”. I guess CDs are finally starting to show their age.

Via Engadget

Firmware 1.1.4 has been released for the iPhone and iPod touch, but no one has been able to find any new features. Perhaps it gets the phone all ready for that sweet SDK who knows.

Stay tuned

“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times during this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…..”

Via AppleInsider <— story continues