It’s a few days before a big Apple event, and you know what that means: a ridiculous amount of really bad fake Apple product shots. Actually, you have to hand it to this first guy, pictured above. It’s mildly convincing and sites are starting to pick it up — the story goes some dude grabbed these pics from a Photoshop template his friend was working on and then posted it to Flickr, a scenario reminiscent of those iPod nano phatty shots that turned out to be real. Except there are a few issues with this one:
- Our source who played with the 3G iPhone told us explicitly there is no front-facing videoconferencing camera.
- Even still, when we were ferreting around the new 3G iPhone firmware today, we were keeping an eye out for altered or additional camera drivers, something to indicate a front-facing camera. Nothing.
- The text explanation for Exchange and iChat are so bad as to make the whole thing unbelievable. (Apple’s doing video chat for Windows? Huh?) But that’s not all!
- Say, wouldn’t that exchange logo be in the Apple banner that’s up at the Moscone right now? All the other iPhone icons are.
- No Apple design would be laid out the way this guy’s got his page laid out here.
- Bottom line: looks pretty, but so very fake.
Click on to see the other one going around right now, a supposed opened box from a confidential 3G iPhone shipment. Uh huh.
[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]
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The biggest news of the week has to be iTunes Movies Store finally launchingin the UK. Finally. The US has had it for ages, we finally get it. It’s like having an older, more popular brother.
Staying with Apple (for the moment), a few new iPhone rumours about this week. Apparently the 3G version will cost £100, will be 22% slimmer than the current one, will go on sale in the first week of July, and come in two sizes. Only a few days until we actually find out. Why not check out our rumour round-up and let us know which you think are true, and which smell of wee.
Is Toshiba taking on Blu-Ray again? We would say it’s rising like a Phoenix from the flames, but it’s more like a turd from the toilet. HD-DVD was bum, leave it where it belongs.
Talking of fights, it’s been a veritable slugfest for the Asus EEE PC. First it took a sucker punch from the Acer Aspire One. Boof! But then it came back with the knockout blow that it’ll be coming in a 10-inch version. The Acer is lying on the floor, black and blue. Well, OK white and blue (it doesn’t come in black).
In other news
Aliph’s new Jawbone is half the size of the original, and “lives on your face” according to the press release. And there’s a new can in town that could banish bottles forever. Bravo!
Filed under: Wireless
That deal AT&T whipped out of their hats to take over T-Mobile’s position as sole provider of WiFi at Starbucks? Turns out T-Mo is pissed about how the transition has gone down, and has filed suit against the buxx alleging collusion with AT&T, despite their supposedly exclusive agreement. Apparently T-Mo was basically allowed to run out its time serving and promoting WiFi service while Starbucks shops slowly converted over to AT&T. But T-Mo feels like it’s basically been pushed out (you don’t say!), claiming only two markets (San Antonio and Bakersfield) have actually legitimately transitioned to AT&T — far too little for Starbucks to come off like T-Mo service is done and over. We don’t know how much the suit’s worth in damages, but it sounds like they’ll be after a lot more cash than their magenta-related filings have brought in.
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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_3G_iPhone_firmware_leaked_tri_band_HSDPA_and_GPS_are/blog’;It’s easy to take for granted the 3G iPhone’s launch at this point. After all, Steve said it was “coming later this year,” as did a number of prominent mobile executives. And then there’s been the barrage of carrier announcements, many in international markets that use UMTS and have zero support for the iPhone as we know it today. But the fact of the matter is we’ve had very little to go on by way of material evidence — until now.
We have it from a reliable source that a version of the 3G iPhone’s firmware has been released — possibly for carrier partners currently field-testing the device — and has since been dissected. While nothing is ever guaranteed, we think we got more than enough information the low-level hardware and drivers that run the device to make some informed conclusions about what we can expect: quad-band GSM support (as we currently have), A-GPS (as we’d already gotten from another source), and tri-band UMTS / HSDPA — which would make the new iPhone(s) 3G-capable in just about every market in the world. Hardware details after the break. We’re through the looking-glass, people!
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We’ve seen a few heatsinks in our day, but Thermalright is taking things to the inevitable extreme with the new case it was showing off at Computex. The whole unit is pretty much one big radiator, with a bunch of internal heatsinks and heatpipes worked in for good measure — the only fan is the one on the power supply. Apparently one side of the case if for the processor, while the other side cools the graphics card, with a nice 150 watts of heat dissipation per side. What with this, and that Xbox 360 heatsink they were showing off at this show, it looks like Thermalright is quickly carving out a niche for itself when it comes to cooling overkill. No word on price, but this thing can’t be cheap.
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We’ve seen a few heatsinks in our day, but Thermalright is taking things to the inevitable extreme with the new case it was showing off at Computex. The whole unit is pretty much one big radiator, with a bunch of internal heatsinks and heatpipes worked in for good measure — the only fan is the one on the power supply. Apparently one side of the case if for the processor, while the other side cools the graphics card, with a nice 150 watts of heat dissipation per side. What with this, and that Xbox 360 heatsink they were showing off at this show, it looks like Thermalright is quickly carving out a niche for itself when it comes to cooling overkill. No word on price, but this thing can’t be cheap.
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Portable Video, Storage
Here’s a sure sign of unpopularity: SanDisk stopped selling its TakeTV device, and shut down TakeTV’s Fanfare content portal, on May 15th… and nobody noticed. Originally inspiring fond sentiments with its sneakernet approach to getting videos from your computer to your PC, SanDisk’s TakeTV just never got much traction. Faced with competition from the likes of Microsoft and Apple — not to mention the oodles of networked devices that offer up more content and more convenience which have been cropping up recently — we’d be surprised if TakeTV sold enough units to fill a briefcase. Anybody out there have any fond memory’s of TakeTV’s short stint?
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There’s no denying it: Lenovo’s ultrathin X300 grabbed its fair share of attention earlier this year, due in large part to its estranged rivalry with the MacBook Air. Now that a few months have passed since the first wave of adopters welcomed the 13.3-inch ultraportable into their homes, we figured the time was right to ask you all how things have been coming along. Do you still feel like a proud papa when checking out those three USB ports? Is there really enough horsepower in there to churn through your pivot tables in a timely manner? Or are you longing for one of the many netbooks that have since demanded the limelight? We already know how the experts feel about it, but this one’s for you — how would you mold the X300 into the machine it should’ve been from the start?
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There’s no denying it: Lenovo’s ultrathin X300 grabbed its fair share of attention earlier this year, due in large part to its estranged rivalry with the MacBook Air. Now that a few months have passed since the first wave of adopters welcomed the 13.3-inch ultraportable into their homes, we figured the time was right to ask you all how things have been coming along. Do you still feel like a proud papa when checking out those three USB ports? Is there really enough horsepower in there to churn through your pivot tables in a timely manner? Or are you longing for one of the many netbooks that have since demanded the limelight? We already know how the experts feel about it, but this one’s for you — how would you mold the X300 into the machine it should’ve been from the start?
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We already knew that Philips had plans to release the low-end touchscreen X800, but now we know just how low it was willing to go with this thing. Confirmed are the lack of 3G, EDGE (which still shocks us), and WiFi. Meanwhile, the 2.9-inch, 240×400 screen, only supports 256K colors, and the phone’s browser is your basic WAP 2.0/xHTML. It does support Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, though, so that’s a plus. Other bits: it will allow for expansion via microSD, support MP3 ringtones, and packs a USB port. In short, not a whole lot to see here. Follow the read link for a full spec list.
[Via BoyGeniusReport]
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