Jump starting your week it’s time for your evening dose of tech news. Today we begin with an update on the Motorola Droid 3, also known as the Milestone 3. We carry on with Sony’s forecast predicting the PSN hack will cost £160m and we close with Apple Store 2.0, the future of Mac retail. This and more on today’s US Update.
The Motorola Droid 3 has been spotted and the specs are as follows: 4-inch qHD display, 5-row QWERTY keyboard, 8-megapixel camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and Tegra 2 or TI OMAP 4430 dual-core processor. Unfortunately it appears Motorola skimped on 4G LTE support just like the Droid X2. A 64GB iPhone 4 release looks imminent. New details, by way of an internal memo, explicitly mention both a 32GB and 64GB white iPhone 4 headed to Verizon Wireless. Will this be Apple’s hot summer seller?
This Thursday Sony will release its earnings report but instead of the expected net profit of 70 billion yen (£531m), the company expects to post a net loss of 260 billion yen (£1.98b). After 77 million user accounts were compromised we now know Sony expects monetary damages to hit £160m, but is this enough? The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is back in the spotlight after receiving a warm welcome at Google I/O last week. Over on Samsung Germany, 10 new accessories have been unveiled including both HDMI and USB connection kits.
Last up this morning is Apple Store 2.0. The Cupertino camp has replaced the printed details alongside its products in store with iPad 2s running a special ‘Smart Sign’ app. In addition, Apple has released a new version of its iOS Apple Store app which now offers built-to-order (BTO) Macs and an optimized version for the iPad. That wraps up the latest and greatest in the fine world of tech. As always I’m Nick Marshall and I’ll see you again tomorrow.
