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Digitimes: Upgraded iPad, CDMA iPhone And iOS Powered Apple TV Coming In 2011

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:19 AM PDT

According to Digitimes’ senior analyst Mingchi Kuo, Apple will be launching two upgraded iPad devices in the first quarter of 2011.

The first tablet will be an upgraded 9.7 inch iPad with a new ARM Cortex-A9-based processor and 512MB RAM with a second 7-inch iPad featuring a Cortex-A9 processor and an IPS panel with a resolution of 1024×768.

In addition to an iPad update, Apple is also expected to start mass production on a CDMA iPhone in December, supplying Verizon Wireless and China Telecom with a handset that features an integrated antenna.

The new Apple TV wasn’t left out by Digitimes either, this new device will be powered by an AMD Fusion chip and will not ship with a hard drive. It will, however, adopt a similar interface to the iPhone’s iOS, with support for social networking, multimedia and also an App Store. Construction of the Apple TV is also expected to begin in December.

The report adds further credibility to recent reports of a CDMA iPhone and an iOS powered Apple TV, Verizon is expected to officially announce the iPhone at CES 2011. As for the iPad, that remains to be seen, Apple are renowned for their one year development cycle so its a distinct possibility.

As always, we will let you know as soon as any of the above products are confirmed.

Original title and link for this post: Digitimes: Upgraded iPad, CDMA iPhone And iOS Powered Apple TV Coming In 2011

HTC Desire HD Images And Videos Break Cover

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:51 AM PDT

Last month we speculated that the HTC Evo would be coming to the UK, renamed and retooled to become the HTC Ace. Today, we get our first look at the Ace, now officially named the HTC Desire HD, after two independent sites leaked images and videos of the device.

The Desire HD will have a large 4.3 inch WVGA screen, 8MP camera, 1GHz Qualcomm Processor, Android 2.2, 720p HD video, Flash 10 support, 4GB internal memory and will be crafted from aluminium.

The following image was posted to Hong Kong based forum uWants:

At the time of writing, Engadget tipped us to YouTube video of the same handset, this time popping up on 247 Android:

The device looks remarkably similar to the HTC Evo 4G, perhaps more of a polished device due to its rounded aluminium edges. The microphone jack is located at the bottom, similar to the HTC HD2 but probably won’t win many fans with its placement.

The device is definitely headed for Europe, unlike its Evo counterpart, is this the HTC Android device you have been waiting for?

Original title and link for this post: HTC Desire HD Images And Videos Break Cover

FxCamera: Really slick effects for your Android photos

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 02:38 PM PDT

TNW Quick Hit

FxCamera brings multiple, quality effects to your Android camera.

Love It: Decent selection. Good quality.

Hate It: Some odd pixelation with some effects. Interface is clunky.

Overall: 4/5

The Details

While I’m a huge fan of my Droid, I’m not so big on the stock camera. It takes incredible pictures during bright light, but it can otherwise be left somewhat wanting. In my search for better ways to use the Droid camera, I ran across an application called FxCamera. I’ll give you the full run-down in a moment, but here’s a gallery from a Flickr pool to give you an idea:


Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

FxCamera is an application layer that you can use instead of your Android phone’s base camera UI. As long as you’re running Android OS 1.5 or higher, you have full use of FxCamera.

The basic interface is, as I said, somewhat cumbersome. If you can get past that, however, there are some great effects that give a lot of weight to this free application:

  • ToyCam
  • Polandroid
  • Fisheye
  • SymmetriCam
  • Warhol
  • Normal

While some of these effects are sure to look familiar (especially to MacBook users), there are options to many of them that still give them unique abilities. The only one I’ve had any issue with is the Fisheye cam, as the center section tends to get somewhat pixelated, likely because of the false zoom applied to the area.

Once you’ve gotten something that you like, shots can be saved to your SD card, or directly shared from the FxCamera application itself. The on screen controls are a welcome addition, and tend to give a less shaky result than using the physical camera button, at least on my Droid.

Overall, it’s a great application, and you can’t beat the price. Download FxCamera for free from the Android Market.

Original title and link for this post: FxCamera: Really slick effects for your Android photos

How Google Can Take It To Facebook: Location

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 12:55 PM PDT

If Google’s new general of social, Vic Gundotra is reading this, and if the plan really is to go after Facebook, then here’s our advice: hit Facebook where it is weakest and where Google is strong – with location services.

Right now, this is the biggest exploitable gap in Facebook’s armor that we can see for Google to exploit, and one that if done right, could change how we look at social networks.

Battle of The Bigs

For the sake of this discussion, we’re going to keep startups such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Whrrl, etc off of the table and stick with the behemoths. The war for the Web, as Tim O’Reilly has called it, is being fought by empires, not city-states (though of course city-states can rise to become empires – and quickly on the Internet – but we’re going to keep this between Facebook and Google).

Facebook has a pretty good lock on many of the things that make a current-day social network – photo sharing, status updates, friend-discovery and social games to mention a few. The one place that it has really dragged its feet is with location. Most people can’t figure out why, but to us, location simply isn’t in Facebook’s DNA (and we doubt Hot Potato is going to change that). Could Facebook make changes to solidify its place as a force in geolocation? Yes, it could, but at this point it is getting far behind the 8-ball – a position 180 degrees from where Google is right now.

A Weapon

There is no other way to put it – Google excels at location, with Google Maps at the core. While Bing Maps is certainly coming on strong with new features, Google Maps is still far and away the most used online mapping tool in the world, and is the core mapping app on both iOS and Android. Using location to take on a competitor is already something Google is doing by integrating Places into Maps to take on Yelp, so it already knows how to use location as a weapon. What Google hasn’t excelled at – yet – is the social aspects of location.

It certainly has tried with Latitude and the geo aspects of Buzz, but neither service is really all that compelling. Whether or not Google improves either/both of those services to make them more social could very well be moot when/if Google Me launches. That is, if Google does Google Me right.

Doing Google Me Right

So how would Google do it right? Build a mobile-based location-centric social network that connects users on the go – basically, something far more compelling than Latitude. Google already has many of the pieces in place for this – what they need to do is connect the dots – literally, as in making pins on a map social. Facebook is miles away from being able to do this, and only Apple and Twitter are anywhere near the position that Google is in to be able to pull this off (with Microsoft and Nokia a distant fourth and fifth).

We’re sorry to disappoint, but we’re not going to spell out in this post all the pieces of how this mobile-based location-centric social network would work (first of all, that’s Google’s job, but we’ve got plenty of ideas, so maybe in a future post we will). That said, but in a future Internet where we predict that everything will be a feature of location, and not the other way around, Google should seriously consider taking on Facebook in this way and grabbing the next generation of social networks, instead of trying to grasp at past missed glory.

All that said, we still think LinkedIn is a better target.

(Note: Our Brad McCarthy has some other suggestions for how Google can take on Facebook.)

Original title and link for this post: How Google Can Take It To Facebook: Location

Augen says it “unintentionally” forgot to remove proprietary Google apps from Android tablet

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 10:34 AM PDT

As we reported yesterday, Google had told Laptop Magazine that Google’s suite of proprietary Android apps, such as the Android Market and Google Maps, that were on the Augen GenTouch78 tablet on sale at Kmart, were unlicensed. Well, Augen has put out a statement admitting to “unintentionally” forgetting to remove the apps after it installed them for testing purposes.

Apparently, only a limited number of the tablets with the unlicensed software made it to the Kmart shelves and Augen promises that future shipments will not have the proprietary Google software installed unless they get a license from Google (from the statement it looks like Google had a long “constructive conversation” with Augen). Google, to this point, has not licensed any tablet on the market for these apps (the Dell Streak is technically a phone apparently). Here’s part of the statement from Augen:

“On July, 29 2010 Augen had a constructive conversation with Google Inc. The topic of the discussion was Google's Application Suite. As you know, Google Inc. has released the source code for the entire Android platform under the flexible and commercial-friendly Apache 2.0 open source license. Augen is free to use that open source code; however, the suite of applications comprising Google Mobile Services on Android are proprietary to Google and have not been released under open source licenses. The Google Mobile Service and Android Apps were pre installed during the development process on our tablets for testing purposes, and were not removed unintentionally before releasing the products in the market place.

Google and Augen came to a mutual understanding that the Google Mobile Services Application Suite pre-installed on the GENTOUCH/ GENBOOK Series; could not be removed due to technological constraints for the products that were sold, shipped, or already produced.

For future production runs and deliveries, Augen will block and remove the Google Mobile Services Application Suite from the current devices until further notice. We are currently in communication with Google Inc. to obtain the required licensing for upcoming products, and will announce in our future statements the timelines and availability of these products as it will become available to us. However, for your convenience Augen will add applications to accommodate the absence of the Google Mobile Services Application Suite.”

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Flash on the iPhone 4? You bet! Here’s how.

Posted: 08 Aug 2010 06:21 AM PDT

It somewhat goes without saying that this will only work on a device that you have decided to jailbreak. However, if you’re dead set on getting Flash onto your iPhone 4 (or other device running iOS 4.0.1) now you can.

According to Redmond Pie the hack gets credited to Comex, whose name you might know from the Spirit and JailbreakMe tools.

There are full details listed on the Redmond Pie site, and if you happen to turn your phone into a really pretty paperweight, don’t say we didn’t warn you…

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