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Apple introduces MobileMe

As many have feared, Apple introduced MobileMe as the successor to .Mac service. MobileMe will be available for Mac and Windows OS, where .Mac only supports Mac OS.

MobileMe retails for:

  • $99 for Single User
  • $149 for Family Pack (The MobileMe Family Pack is an individual MobileMe subscription plus four Family Member Accounts, each with its own email address, iDisk folder, and 5GB of online storage space (40GB total online storage).)

MobileMe works with applications such as:

  • Microsoft Outlook on a PC.
  • Mail, Address Book, and iCal on a Mac.
  • Mail, Contacts, and Calendar on your iPhone or iPod touch.

MobileMe also enables members to access and manage email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files at me.com.

Features:

  • 20GB of online storage space, double the current .Mac storage space.
  • @me.com email address
  • Push email, calendar, and contacts.
  • Current .Mac members will be automatically upgraded to MobileMe service. In addition to that, .Mac members will retain @mac.com email as they can create new email @me.com.
  • Available for Mac OS X and Windows OS

Minimum Web browser requirements for me.com applications:

Notes:

www.me.com redirects to www.apple.com/mobileme
me.com is not yet active.

Since me.com does support Firefox 2, does this mean it can also be used under Linux?

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iPhone 3G

The iPhone 3G is out of the Apple core, and it’s coming July 11.

From Apple:

What’s in the Box

  • iPhone 3G
  • Stereo headset with mic
  • USB power adapter
  • Dock Connector to USB cable
  • Documentation
  • Cleaning/polishing cloth
  • SIM ejector tool (LOL, apparently people don’t have paper clip.)

Specifications

  • Screen size – 3.5 inches (diagonal)
  • Screen resolution – 480 by 320 pixels (163 ppi)
  • Input method – Multi-Touch
  • Storage – 8GB (Black) and 16GB (Black and White)
  • Cellular – UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
    GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
  • Wireless data – Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
    UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
    EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
    Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
  • GPS – Assisted-GPS
  • Camera – 2.0 megapixels
  • Battery – Talk time: Up to 5 hours on 3G; up to 10 hours on 2G
    Standby time: Up to 300 hours
    Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G; up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi
    Video playback: Up to 7 hours
    Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
  • Dimensions – 4.5 by 2.4 by 0.48 inches
    (115.5 by 62.1 by 12.3 mm)
  • Weight – 4.7 ounces (133 grams)

All images are property of Apple Inc.

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WWDC 2008: Coverage of the Live Coverage

OS X Snow Leopard

iPhone Software 2.0

note: indication of GPS in iPhone?

iPhone Apps Store launch is when? Not today, apparently.

iPhone Software 2.0 to arrive in July 2008

MobileMe

MobileMe replaces .Mac, current .Mac subscriber will be upgraded automatically.

iPhone with 3G network, coincidentally Apple stock is climbing up from the drop.

“iPhone 3G”
Thinner, all plastic back, flush headphone jack, improved sound, built-in GPS.
Black (8GB and 16GB) and White (16GB only)
$199 – 8GB, $299 – 16GB
July 11th

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‘Twas The Night Before WWDC 2008

Between all the rumors and the thousands of echoes of the same rumors, being an insomniac and a tech-junkie is a torture to the (n*π)th level. Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 is set to commence on Monday June 9th 2008 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (17:00 hour UTC). For two weeks prior to the WWDC 2008, all the faux-journalists and parrot-bloggers have been feeding and repeating rumors over and over. I bet the “c” and “v” are a little bit worn out along with the “ctrl” and “command” keys.

*WARNING – RANTS ALERT*

one.
Please stop cluttering the feed with your mindless copy and paste posts about Apple and the iPhone. You know nothing about it, but at least don’t be lazy and useless for not writing anything for your post. Can’t you spend a few minutes to write a few sentences, and then quote the source properly. The “Report Spam” button seems to be fitting your blog so nicely.

two.
Why can’t the more established sites treats rumors as rumors. Then again, it is the race to be the first to report the rumors in case of it’s being true. Shame on you! You are not journalists even if you went to some journalism school. You’re not a news site or anything remotely close to it because all you do are some stupid and juvenile posts. So please, start reporting news objectively.

*ENDS OF THE RANTS*

Well, where was I before the blinding rage against the copy and paste machine. Ah, WWDC 2008. I’d like to say that I have nothing that I can publicly disclose regarding the upcoming WWDC 2008 announcement. What I can disclose are things that I want to be announced, and they are:

  • Announcement of the new iPhone and its immediate availability. I want new iPhone to come out shy one year of its initial release. My iPhone has been great in taking tons of abuse. I can see scratches here and there, and some white spots on the screen. Yeah, I use the iPhone as a phone and then some. There’s a point where I could no longer use it and completely protect it at all time. In retrospect, the iPhone is quite tough. I have been happy with it, but it leaves me wanting more. I want GPS, I want more applications. Faster data network is in the “that’s a nice feature to have” list. Most importantly, I want to see a relatively distinct design for the new iPhone. One can dream, and I want iPhone: Steve Jobs edition.
  • New release of the Xcode is definitely coming, and there are some nice new features on it.
  • I need to get a new MacBook Pro that looks different than the current incarnations of MacBook Pro. I know that the MacBook Pro models were refreshed just a few months ago. Apple ha been working on the redesign of their portable line, I can’t wait for the new revisions of the portable Macs.
  • New Macs other than the Mac mini, MacBook, iMac, MacBook Pro, and the Mac Pro.
  • I heard of some chatters about .Mac sometimes in August 2007. Supposedly Apple will be adding some features to the .Mac including iPhone supports. I want my iPhone to be able to sync with .Mac and my computer wirelessly.
  • I want Skype, SlingPlayer, iChat, etc on the iPhone.
  • New Mac OS X feature. To be honest, I was happy with the annual or 18 months releases schedule of Mac OS X.

Arrgh, I just can’t sleep right now. I’m so anxious. I’ll be posting a lot more Apple-related gibberish as the WWDC Keynote commences.

Until next time!

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Let the hasty iPhone posts go out of control.

“Oh Your God! There’s some kind of leaked pictures of the 3G iPhone on that one website. Let’s repost that on the blogs now. There’s no need to think if it’s fake or not. It must be real.”

Basically, that’s what has been happening for the past 2 weeks as the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is drawing near. The highly anticipated 3G iPhone has been the main topic of the internet chatters as fake news, rumors, unfounded speculations hit the tubes. As usual the most used keystrokes are “copy and paste” as colossal numbers of sites and “bloggers” reposting the same thing over and over. It’s an incestuous world of iPhone watch on the series of tubes.

Seriously, take all the incoming “news” (read: rumors) with a boulder of salt. Does anyone remember the months before the actual iPhone was announced in January 2007?

“The iPhone is made of Zirconium, and it will have two batteries. Oh, It will employ CDMA instead of GSM, blah blah blah, blah.”

Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte fell for the fake informations and made them public. No one is safe. In addition to that, Engadget’s Ryan Block fell victim to a faked Apple internal memo that caused Apple stocks crashing for a short time.

So please, treat rumors as rumors, not as fact; unless you’re working for CNet or Gizmodo.

If anyone is still reading this far, here’s some fake iPhone news that you can’t find anywhere else:

The iPhone will now come in three distinct models. One for the masses, one for the Apple zealots, and one for Steve Jobs. GPS module is included in random unit.

It couldn’t be anymore made up.