Archives for January 2007
more than normal objects
Juniper Foo | Jan 10, 2007
More gems from annual design competition designboom, with this interesting product entry from Germans Müller Johannes and Moritz Willborn. The name's a dead giveaway, taking a trio of simple household items and giving them a "more than" twist. "more than chopsticks" adds branches to make life a lot easier for chopstick idiots, while looking good enough to make you want to pick them up. "more than a straw" is a little disappointingly obvious. The finale is a "more than a toothpick" which gets more party snacks onto those sticks than the usual variant. No quibble with that there from us. Reviewers are always hungry people. Amen to that.
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Apple iPhone: The real iPod killer
Edvarcl Heng | Jan 10, 2007
To say that we were bowled over by Steve Job's iPhone keynote is an understatement. Try bamboozled, flabbergasted and astounded. Like our three choice adjectives, the iPhone will be three things: Part internet access device, part music player and certainly, part phone.
Jobs was not kidding when he said that the phone has been reinvented. With OSX, a new multi-touch interface, Safari browser, 11.6mm thickness, widgets, 8GB storage and a gorgeous design, who's kidding who? At the keynote, the sharply crisp resolution of the 3.5-inch screen during the Google Maps and New York Times demonstration also caused more than a few jaws to drop.
What's interesting is the multi-touch interface. Claiming to be able to eliminate accidental finger activations and increased accuracy, it looks set to become the holy grail of the touchscreen world and may well replace the Click Wheel when the iPod video is introduced later.
For customers in the US, the iPhone will be available by June. But unfairly, punters in Asia will have to wait till 2008 (no, it's not a typo) before they can put the iPhone through its paces. Talk about being long-awaited.
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Apple set to launch iPhone in Asia in 2008
Reuben Lee | Jan 10, 2007
Apple's much-anticipated iPhone, which was finally announced at Steve Job's keynote during the Macworld conference, will make its debut in Asia in 2008. According to Jobs, the iPhone will be first launched in the US this coming June and later in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The iPhone is expected to retail (with contract) for US$499 for the 4GB version and US$599 for the 8GB model. Apple aims to sell 10 million iPhone units (or approximately 1 percent of the global phone market sales) in 2008.
Touted as a breakthrough Internet communications device, the iPhone is essential a smart phone that runs on OS X. It will feature a large 160 pixels-per-inch screen with only one button in front. Users can input data by using the company's patented "multi-touch" technology which Jobs claims will be far more accurate than any pointing device that's shipped.
The iPhone is a quadband GSM/GPRS handset with integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It measures just 11.6mm thin, making it slimmer than the Moto Q and Dopod C720W. Also onboard are a 2-megapixel camera, 3.5mm audio jack and wake/sleep switch.
When you bring your face to the iPhone, a built-in proximity sensor detects your face and turns off the iPod and turns on the phone. Meanwhile, an ambient light sensor adjusts the illumination based on the available light in the surrounding environment.
Alienware Area 51 m9750: Double or nothing
Darius Chang | Jan 09, 2007
Alienware sets new mobile gaming standards with its Area 51 m9750, which doubles processing cores as well as graphics cards.
This 17-inch monster quickly rips most games apart with its Core 2 Duo chip and dual Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 video processors. Rounding up the kill score are 2GB memory, TV tuner, Blu-ray optical drive and twin 200GB harddisks. Running on Windows Vista OS, word has it that Alienware may be selling this rig for under US$2,000, which could make it one of the most affordable high-performance notebooks in the market.
AMD takes Live platform to notebooks
Darius Chang | Jan 09, 2007
With greater pressure put on mobiles to perform as entertainment machines, multimedia-focused AMD Live platform will be moving into your notebooks soon.
Competing directly with Intel's Viiv branding, AMD Live Notebook PC is geared toward making your system perform up to party standards with a host of proprietary video- and audio-streaming software, collectively known as the AMD Entertainment Suite. Unlike Viiv, which requires three system components to conform to Intel's standards, the AMD Live platform needs just an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor, 1GB memory and Windows Vista OS with the aforementioned AMD Entertainment Suite. Vendors such as Fujitsu and MSI should be churning out AMD Live Notebook PCs later this month.
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