Tech and Amusing Stuff

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This iPhone knock off projects a 30-inch, 640 x 480 pixel image for up to 2-hours at a time. And did I mention that it’s huge!!!

Via Engadget

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Buy it here

• 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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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

Via TUAW

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

Gizmodo got their hands on the Samsung Instinct, Sprint’s answer to the iPhone, and they weren’t really impressed, the phone does not have an accelerometer, it lacks multi-touch technology, it has 3G but on this particular handset the connection seemed very slow. Other features include: haptic feedback, visual voicemail, and a music store.

It’s hard to say how well (or bad) it’ll do once it comes out in June, but we’ll keep you informed on any updates.

Via Gizmodo

Watch movies (or podcasts) while in the can with ease, with the new Naja King you don’t have to worry about holding your iPhone for a long time while you take care of your business, just prop it up with the adjustable arm/holder and enjoy….

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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

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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