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Whoa, nelly! The iPhone 4 is getting its own press conference again, this time for who know what. But you know, we might just know what: the bad iPhone 4 antenna issue.The event is a 10AM PT, Friday the 16th. We’ll be covering the event’s details as the info streams out.
Whoa! While I did know it was 106 degrees at the LaptopMemo New Jersey Summer Vacation office (instead of Miami or NYC) while I was staying there, I didn’t expect for Mozilla to give me a go at the Firefox 4 beta 1 download button. The changelog is waaaay too long to post up here and the new broswer works on Windows, Linux and OS X-based machines, so you’re covered. Along with the new UI, faster speeds, and tons of extra security, “the world’s favorite browser” as Mozilla puts it is available at the official beta download link.
Just don’t say that I didn’t warn you that a few of your add-ons might not work with the new release,’kay?
Microsoft said:
We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones.”
Good riddance, I say. The KIN was an absolute failure in terms of ideas and design. The only problem I have now is that I can’t figure out which phone to label the “Dumbest and Worst”, because soon the Kin will cease to exist. RIP Kin, because your pricing was ridiculous, and your interface was so bad it wasn’t even amusing. Thanks Microsoft.
This is interesting. A press release just got outed by Apple’s PR website, presenting the new release of the safari desktop browser, Safari 5. There’s a claimed 30 percent increase in speed, much like the iPhone 4′s version, and the debut of the Safari Reader. There’s also the ability to completely nuke Google search as the default option and choose Bing. Interesting. Press release below the break.
As a reminder of how the Google Phone Store concept failed, Google’s Andy Rubin has announced on the official Google blog that the Nexus One will no longer be sold through the store, but directly through carriers, and that after this, the main purpose of the site will be to view all Android handsets. As unfortunate as this might be, in the end it’s better for Google and Android; sales were pretty dismal as soon as the store went live, and the lack of traditional customer service hindered the idea even more. One thing you have to recognize as the main flaw of this idea is that all — no matter how you spin it — customers like to use the phone they’re going to buy, rather than just seeing press shots from us gadget blogs and the online store.
Source: Official Google Blog
After much hoping and expectation along with rumors, HP has bought Palm Inc. for the sound price of $1.2 billion, or in other words, $5.70 per share of common stock. The purchase was approved by both Palm and HP boards, but is still subject to a regulatory approval, which should end on HP’s 3rd quarter which is July 31, 2010. John Rubinstein will be staying at Palm, but for an unknown-as-of-yet position. According to the press release at the rest of this article, webOS has a bright future ahead of it, and we say “yes”.
Source: Yahoo! Finance
You got the annoucement and now you have the first carrier to get a hold of the Bold 9650. For $199 on contract with $100 mail-in rebate, you’d get a smartphone with the outdated BB OS 5.0, 480 x 360 resolution display, Wi-Fi module and a 3.2 megapixel camera. It ships out May 23rd, on Sprint. Expect any moment now VZW will make their announcement, but we’re not going to cover that, because you know, it’s just the same phone on another network. Next news story please.
Source: Sprint
Talk about confusion, or maybe strange PR emails. In my quest of finding out whether or not the Nexus One by Google and HTC will ever head to Verizon; with that “coming soon” option on the Google Phone Store sitting there forever, what I found might have some doubts of whether or not a PR contact that I have at Verizon Wireless is speaking the direct truth from their superiors, but here’s what came up in the reply field:
“Thank you for your question. Google’s Nexus One phone will not be carried by Verizon Wireless. You will have to contact Google directly for any information. It would be inappropriate for me to answer questions on a phone that Verizon Wireless won’t sell.”
This could simply mean that Verizon just won’t sell the Nexus One in its retail stores, and that Google, as previously rumored, would take care of that. But that extra line, “Google’s Nexus One phone will not be carried by Verizon Wireless,” is a little strange to me, and probably wrong (hopefully?). While I try to get more info on this, I’ll leave this to the Internets to discuss. And no troll flaming guys.
UPDATE: You could definitely say that VZW will support the Nexus One, but won’t sell it, and Google will. So that’s that, I guess (?). Now onto the usual programming…
Here it is, here it is! The Droid Incredible is coming out on April 29th, and looks needless to say incredible. For those of you who might be wondering, the HTC Incredible site (not the waiting page) will resemble the Motorola Droid’s, and as I predicted with another editor from another blog (Giz), the HTC Incredible is borrowing the Droid branding. Anyone getting sudden shocks of Android madness in their chairs right now?
UPDATE: And now you’ll see that the page is asking for login credentials. Looks like either Verizon was giving all of us some bait to feed on, or it was a slip-up.
Source: Verizon Wireless
It was an unfortunate and inevitable fate for Palm, makers of the Palm Pre and Pixi, as well as the graphically pleasing webOS platform. Bloomberg has reported that Palm has partnered with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find partners, and interestingly HTC and Lenovo are interested — Dell said “meh”. But if HTC rally does buy Palm, could they nearly jump over the lawsuit they have with patent Apple? Palm was the maker of the “original smartphone”. That is to say they practically made the idea of a “do-everything” phone popular. Because of that, they have more patents than HTC could possibly imagine, or at least important software and hardware-related ones that could allow HTC to slip past by any of Apple’s offensives.
The Bloomberg also says that Lenovo might want to buy Palm, too, however most dibs are on HTC right now. As for the webOS platform, I have several reasons to think that it will not survive this buyout, and many features of it might simply get incorporated into Sense UI Android phones like the EVO 4G. In the meantime, only time can tell who buys Palm, Inc.
Source: Bloomberg
