Twice as fast for half the price, the 3G iPhone was announced today during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote. The iPhone 3G is thinner and it comes with the same gorgeous display, camera, flush headphone jack, dramatically improved audio and battery life. This new model will be available July 11th in 22 countries for $199 for 8 GB and $299 for 16 GB. Both models are available with a black plastic back and the 16 GB model also comes in white.
3G technology means 2.8X faster data downloads than EDGE, which is perfect for Safari and Mail over cellular networks around the world because it’s now almost approaching Wi-Fi speeds. 3G is also multitask so you can talk on the phone while checking your email, surfing the web or using Google Maps.
GPS support is now integrated into the iPhone so you can use Google maps to find your location, get directions, and see traffic via GPS or by triangulating your position using Wi-Fi and cellular towers.
Developed using Flash and C++ by Christian Moore and some folks from the NUI Group, Lux is an experimental open framework that brings a true full screen multi-touch interaction in Mac OS X with complex user interfaces and object manipulation similar to Jeff Han’s multitouch diplay. Christian built his own multitouch screen, which is just a big cardboard box with a webcam stuck to the bottom of it. That video is actually all Action Script 3 running in Flash 9 over Mac OS X, but he says it can work under any platform, OS and even a web browser. The demo was made on a MacBook and it gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from Apple in the future.
Apple has finally released new MacBook Pros with the innovative and advanced Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook Air. New MacBooks are also available but they have no multi-touch trackpads. Both lines are sporting Intel’s new Penryn processors.
Now you can flip through photos, pinch, swipe, or rotate to enlarge text using just your fingers. The Multi-Touch technology from iPhone, iPod touch, and MacBook Air now comes standard to all Apple’s high-end laptops in an amazing Multi-Touch trackpad. The size of the trackpad seems to be the same as before even though it has multi-touch.
Macrumors found a recent Apple patent application showing a Gesture Control Panel with options to configure Standard Trackpad, Basic Multitouch and even Advanced Multitouch file operations for opening, closing and saving files, as well as editing operations such as: cut, copy, paste, cancel, undo, etc…
These documents show the use of various combinations of fingers being applied to the specific Mac OS X interface (gestures for Expose and Dashboard). Clearly, Apple is working on new gestures using more fingers and combinations to expand the basic multi-touch functionality of the iPhone and the MacBook Air for upcoming versions of Mac OS X and new hardware products.
Multitouch screens are catching on beyond the iPhone and iPod Touch. CNN has licensed Jeff Han’s Multi-touch technology for their new interactive displays to bring visual clarity to viewers about the network’s political coverage of the caucuses and primaries. Its inventor, Jefferson Han (founder of Perceptive Pixel), calls it the “Multi-touch Collaboration Wall”. The interactive wall allows multiple people to interact with real-time data and on-screen elements simultaneously - photos, videos, Google Earth maps, live streams of Web sites, charts, etc…
It’s the same technology we have on the iPhone but it’s being used on a large screen and with more than two fingers. “Think of it as a giant iPhone with a hundred fingers on it” said David Bohrman, CNN’s vice president and Washington, D.C., bureau chief. Bohrman first saw the Multi-Touch technology demonstrated at the TED 2006 conference and recognized its potential for election coverage. CNN plans to employ the display for other types of coverage. “It has enormous capabilities,” Bohrman said. “We will be using it a lot over the next year.” Jeff Han says: “Once the election calms down, you can see how this might work for other kinds of news, like financial, weather or sports.”
The cable network unveiled “The Magic Wall” in early January for the Iowa caucuses to analyze and break down results. CNN has used it to cover Super Tuesday and for every primary contest since. In The Situation Room, John King was zooming in and out of electoral maps by pinching together or spreading apart fingertips on this oversize multi-touch screen, as many of us now zoom-in on Google Maps with the iPhone. King shrunk one graphic by making a pinching motion around its borders; he made another expand by drawing his fingers apart, exactly like the gestures used to manipulate the photos on an iPhone. He was also grabbing and dragging graphic elements to position pie charts around the screen at will.
Apple added new models of iPhone and iPod touch with double the memory for customers who’d like to carry more music, photos, and videos with them. The iPhone now comes in a new 16GB model for $499. The 8GB model remains at $399. And the iPod touch now comes in a new 32GB model for $499. It joins the 16GB and 8GB models for $399 and $299, respectively. 32 GB flash memory stores up to 7,000 songs, 40 hours of video, or 25,000 photos. These new models of the most revolutionary multi-touch mobile phone and best Wi-Fi mobile device in the world are available immediately.
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