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Apple to launch new iPhone
>> Wednesday, June 9, 2010
05:55 AM Jun 08, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was poised to unveil yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) the fourth version of the company's hugely-popular iPhone - including a screen with up to four times more detail, a camera flash, noise cancellation and longer battery life.
The announcement was expected at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, which has drawn thousands of programmers keen to write programs - apps - for the device.
More than 51 million iPhones have been sold since its launch in June 2007, and a number of developers have made thousands of pounds from selling apps through Apple's App Store.
But for Mr Jobs the unveiling would be something of an anti-climax - many details about the phone leaked out in mid-April after one of his staff lost a prototype in a bar near the company's headquarters. It was sold to gadget blog Gizmodo, where blogger Jason Chen took it apart and posted a video declaring: "You are looking at Apple's next iPhone."
While analysts are therefore expecting few surprises from Apple, they believe improvements to the iPhone will help to keep it at the forefront of mobile phone innovation.
"We'll see the evolution of an established and hugely successful product rather than a revolutionary new device," said Mr Geoff Blaber, an analyst with CCS Insight.
"Apple has to continue improving. It's facing a barrage of competition that didn't exist three years ago when the first iPhone was launched. Google's Android platform is gaining in momentum and popularity, and is an increasingly capable operating system," he said.
The new iPhone OS 4.0 software also features iAd, Apple's new mobile advertising platform. The company has ambitious plans to dominate advertising on the mobile web in much the same way as Google dominates desktop advertising.
Mr Jobs prefers to keep details of upcoming products under wraps to heighten expectations. But with more details known about the new iPhone than any previous model, some of that effect is likely to be diminished.
Yet Apple can revel in having passed Microsoft as the most valuable technology company based on market capitalisation, and having sold two million of its iPad tablet computers worldwide since they went on sale in the US on April 3. Agencies
The announcement was expected at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, which has drawn thousands of programmers keen to write programs - apps - for the device.
More than 51 million iPhones have been sold since its launch in June 2007, and a number of developers have made thousands of pounds from selling apps through Apple's App Store.
But for Mr Jobs the unveiling would be something of an anti-climax - many details about the phone leaked out in mid-April after one of his staff lost a prototype in a bar near the company's headquarters. It was sold to gadget blog Gizmodo, where blogger Jason Chen took it apart and posted a video declaring: "You are looking at Apple's next iPhone."
While analysts are therefore expecting few surprises from Apple, they believe improvements to the iPhone will help to keep it at the forefront of mobile phone innovation.
"We'll see the evolution of an established and hugely successful product rather than a revolutionary new device," said Mr Geoff Blaber, an analyst with CCS Insight.
"Apple has to continue improving. It's facing a barrage of competition that didn't exist three years ago when the first iPhone was launched. Google's Android platform is gaining in momentum and popularity, and is an increasingly capable operating system," he said.
The new iPhone OS 4.0 software also features iAd, Apple's new mobile advertising platform. The company has ambitious plans to dominate advertising on the mobile web in much the same way as Google dominates desktop advertising.
Mr Jobs prefers to keep details of upcoming products under wraps to heighten expectations. But with more details known about the new iPhone than any previous model, some of that effect is likely to be diminished.
Yet Apple can revel in having passed Microsoft as the most valuable technology company based on market capitalisation, and having sold two million of its iPad tablet computers worldwide since they went on sale in the US on April 3. Agencies
iPHONE 4 UNVEILED
Apple gets a jump on rivals
SAN FRANCISCO
APPLE’S iPhone is outdistancing the pack of phones that use Google’s rival software, thanks to video-
calling features, a sharper screen and its array of 225,000 applications, analysts said.
The iPhone 4, unveiled on Monday by chief executive Steve Jobs, is thinner, has better resolution and a front-facing camera. It also sports a new type of glass and a stainless-steel band that Apple says is designed to improve network reception.
Apple is counting on the product to fend off mounting competition from Android, a smartphone operating system developed by Google.
The iPhone is evolving fast enough to keep competitors at bay, even if the new version lacks major surprises, said Mr William Kreher, an analyst at Edward Jones.
“They remain the technology-innovation leader,” Mr Kreher said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “While nothing was really revolutionary in terms of new features, I think that Apple took a nice step forward.”
Mr Jobs, who unveiled the phone at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco, downplayed the threat from Android. The iPhone was the No. 2 smartphone in the United States in the first quarter, with a
28 per cent share, he said, citing Nielsen data.
Research In Motion ranked first, with a 35 per cent share, while Android-based devices accounted
for 9 per cent.
Though many of the iPhone 4’s enhancements were expected – a prototype of the iPhone was dissected and photographed by technology blog Gizmodo. com in April – the upgrade provides Apple with some exclusive capabilities, said Mr Shaw Wu, an analyst with Kaufman Bros.
“The new features and software further differentiate the iPhone from competitors,” he said.
When Apple’s first iPhone appeared in 2007, its touchscreen design and app-based interface shook up the market. Research In Motion and other mobile- phone makers clambered to add similar features to their
devices.
Since then, the industry’s rapid- fire advancements have made it harder for an upstart to catch up quickly, said Mr Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research.
“Apple and its competitors are steadily bringing better and better technology and software to...the market,” he said.
“In that environment, it’s difficult to leapfrog the competition in the same way the iPhone did when it was introduced.” The iPhone is now Apple’s top product, generating 40 percent of revenue last quarter –
more than the Macintosh computer.
The company has three products that work with its App Store: the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. All in, Apple will have sold 100 million of those devices by some time this month.
Mr Jobs said yesterday that there are more than 225,000 applications available.
The company has paid out more than US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) to developers, who get a 70 per cent share of profits on programs sold through the store, he said.
Android developers, meanwhile, have created only about 50,000 apps, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
An advertising system called iAd will be built into the new iPhone software, giving creators of apps a new way to make money. Read more...
China’s Hanvon takes on Apple
>> Tuesday, May 25, 2010
for the Chinese market, ntdtv.com reported.
At the launch last week, an apple-shaped ice sculpture was smashed to signal a challenge to its competitor: The Chinese manufacturer wants its own TouchPad to beat its rival on time, price and consumer appeal.
The unveiling had more theatrics than a usual product unveiling, with techno music, the new Hanvon TouchPad B10 rising from the ground, and models walking the tablets up and down a runway.
Back to the tablet itself, it actually doesn’t look that bad.
Here are the official specs:
Intel ULV743 at 1.3GHz
2GB RAM
Intel GMA integrated graphics
10-inch multi-touch display
Windows 7 Home Premium
250GB HDD
Webcam, Bluetooth, HDMI,
VGA, USB
At first glance, the tablet looks attractive, as it looks to be of a different screen ratio than that of the iPad, reported Nexus404.com.
Unlike the iPad, it has a x86 processor and a full-desktop operating system. Following Hanvon’s usual
business model, the TouchPad will probably be sold in China under the Hanvon name, and it will be offered to Western manufacturers, who may sell the device in North America and Europe under their own name.
(So it could end up as the Dell Edge or HP Titan).
Hanvon said the B10 will be priced in the 500-euro (S$880) range. No release date was announced.
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