The white iPhone 4 is here! Well, tomorrow it is anyway, and only 326 days after it was first revealed back at WWDC in June last year. Better late than never, eh? Here’s everything you need to know about the launch tomorrow.
April, 2011
The media storm over Apple’s potential to track the location of your iPhone has obviously troubled Apple, because it has issued an extraordinary 10-point Q&A on the subject. You can read it in full after the break but in doing so, it revealed two very interesting things.
Firstly, that Apple’s planning a free iOS update to reduce the amount of data it collects per phone. And secondly that in the next few years it is launching…
Roll up roll up, we’ve got a lock-up full of Kate and Wills gadget tat that would have even the most ardent royalist turning up one’s nose at it. And who are the main culprits, so you can shun everything they ever make as penance for subjecting us to this trash? Read on and find out.
We’re halfway through this super short week already, so let’s take a break and see what’s been going down this morning. We’ve got gadget news good and bad right here in our lunchtime lowdown roundup.
It’s free bank holiday day on Friday, or the royal wedding, as it’s otherwise known. While many will be tuning in on TV, plenty are planning on squeezing into central London to see the event in person. So what do the extra hordes of tourists mean for mobile reception? In a pleasingly transparent move, O2′s revealed some of the figures it’s anticipating – and how it’s going to cater to them.
That iTunes cloud service that Apple has reportedly been set to out for what seems like forever? Well, the latest rumour is that it won’t be free. Greg Sandoval at CNET says music industry insiders have told him that Apple will introduce the iTunes cloud service for free but will kick it up to a subscription fee eventually.
The report says Apple and Google have been running parallel negotiations with the record industry for he past year in the hope that they can nail down the necessary licenses. Meanwhile, Amazon kicked out the Amazon Cloud Drive essentially daring the music industry to disagree.
Click the headline and jump into the comments to let us know: would you be willing to play for an iTunes cloud service? And what would Apple need to include to lure you in?
We’ve all been told to stop playing games and get on with something proper, and it turns out the man who created the multi-billion dollar industry is no different. Ralph H. Baer created the Brown Box, then the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first video game console, which went on sale in 1972. Since then he’s been given every award going, for starting an industry that’s now more profitable than Hollywood. Tell that to the next person who says you’re wasting your time.
Baer spoke exclusively to Electricpig from his Florida home about his boss’ initial reluctance about gaming, what made him change his mind, meeting George Bush, and the iPhone apps he’s currently working on.
Nokia may be axing jobs left, right and centre, but its balling subsidiary Vertu is still blinging it up: we’ve just learned that it’s prepping a carbon fibre version of its Constellation Quest smartphone.