[RUMOR] Vem aí o HTC TOUCH HD...

Dá-lhe,

A HTC nem bem lançou o HTC Touch Pro, e já surgem informações e fotos de um novo aparelho da empresa:

HTC TOUCH HD

Informações sobre as prováveis especificações:

* Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
* Qualcomm 7201A processor @ 528MHz
* 512MB ROM / 256MB RAM (+32MB on processor)
* WVGA!!!
* 115mm x 62.8mm x 12mm
* GPS / HSDPA etc. etc.
* 5 Megapixel camera (no flash)
* No Dpad or scroll wheel, does have a stylus
* microSD slot
* 1350mAH battery
* 3.5mm headset jack on the top!

Mais fotos:






Fonte: Modaco

[Rumor] Vem aí o Palm TREO PRO?????

Dá-lhe,

Circulam na internet fotos do que seria o novo lançamento da Palm:

PALM TREO PRO
(antigo Palm Treo 850)

via:Mobility Today

[RUMOR] Samsung i900 Omnia: BRANCO!!

Dá-lhe,

Seguindo uma tradição já antiga e, atualmente renovada pelo iPhone, a Samsung pretende lançar a versão branca do i900 (ou Omnia).

Até o momento não se sabe a veracidade dessa informação, e apenas a foto abaixo foi divulgada, mas segundo consta não há muito o que ser mostrado, já que se trata do mesmo aparelho e a parte frontal não sofrerá alterações.

Eis a foto

Caso seja verdade, taí uma nova opção para quem estiver pensando em adquirir esse aparelho que tem tudo (ou quase tudo..) para ser um sucesso.

[FOTOS] Nokia "Tube" 5800 XpressMusic

Dá-lhe,

Começam a surgir novas fotos do que seria o novo celular da Nokia (TOUCHSCREEN), e que teria até aparecido no novo filme do "Batman: Dark Knight":

Nokia "Tube" 5800 XpressMusic

Especificações:

• Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
• 16 million color TFT LCD
• 640 × 360 pixel resolution
• 16:9 display mode
• Fifth edition of Symbian S60.
• Finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function.
• 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optical lens with autofocus
• Dual LED flash
• Built-in GPS
• 140 MB RAM
• GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / WLAN wireless networking and Bluetooth technology.
• 3.5 mm Headset interface
• TV-out interface
• BL-5J 1150mah Battery

Galeria de fotos:

via: Digi Tech QQ

[Rumor] iPhone 3G Vermelho??

Dá-lhe,

Diversos sites estão divulgando a notícia de que a Apple PODE lançar um iPhone 3G Red nas férias de verão dos EUA.

Os rumores ainda dizem que este iPhone 3G Vermelho deverá fazer parte de uma ação global para um fundo que combate a AIDS na África.

Rumor, Notícia Vazada, Auto-Promoção, Photoshop??

Só o tempo dirá...

Enquanto isso não se confirma (ou se desmascara a eventual fraude), deixo para vocês uma ilustração feita sobre esse boato:

iPhone 3G RED??

(clique para ampliar)

[RUMOR] Aplicativo pode dar ao iPhone a função "COPIAR e COLAR"

Dá-lhe,

Cansado de esperar a Apple lançar um update para implementação da função "Copy and Paste" no iPhone?

Seu problema PODE estar perto do fim...

Uma empresa terceirizada deve lançar na App Store, em breve, um aplicativo que dará essa função ao iPhone.

Ainda não há muita informação sobre esse programa, e tampouco se ele funcionará em programas como o Safari, SMS...etc.

(também não se sabe se é fake)

Vejam algumas imagens que foram divulgadas:

Pela imagens acima, nota-se que os usuários poderão não apenas "Copiar e Colar" o texto selecionado, como também editar o texto todo (no caso da utilização do Bloco de Notas e afins...).

Para isso, o aplicativo disponibilizará:

• 5 tamanhos de fontes


• 6 tipos de fontes


• 8 tipos de cores


• Negrito (bold), Itálico (italic), underline, e riscado (strike-through)

É esperar para ver...

Obs: Não citei a fonte, pois recebi a informação por e-mail (sem link).

[Rumor] TeleNav poderá lançar programa de navegação "turn-by-turn" para o GPS do iPhone 3G

Dá-lhe,

A TeleNav (conhecida pelos softwares de navegação GPS para alguns smartphones) poderá lançar, em breve, a solução "turn-by-turn" para o GPS do iPhone 3G.

Seguindo o padrão já utilizados nos Estados Unidos, por exemplo, ele deverá ter suporte para mapas em 3Ds, além de contar com a orientação por voz e indicação de tráfego.

Ainda não se tem mais informações e tampouco quando será lançado e quais países terão mapas, mas é bom saber que as empresas estão correndo atrás para uma real utilização do GPS do iPhone 3G.

[Rumor] Vem aí o iPhone....SLIDER???

Dá-lhe ALL,

Vem aí o iSlider??



Diversos sites e blogs divulgaram essa notícia na data de hoje.

Tudo isso por causa de uma matéria postada no site The Register, que divulgou a informação de que a Apple estaria trabalhando em um iPhone com teclado.

Leia a matéria na íntegra:

It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.

Fervent fans can therefore see no reason to change the iPhone from its current "type on the touch screen, or not at all" design. As one of the more zealous remarked when the suggestion was even mentioned: "The only people who think it needs a keyboard are people who have never used it."

Rumours from inside Cupertino suggest that Jobs himself doesn't have this sort of religious hangup about his own work. Reports from inside mobile operators show that whether or not he ever makes it work, he is already trying to make a "slide-out" keyboard for a corporate version of the iPhone.

If this version does appear on the market, it won't be this year, and certainly won't be aimed at the consumer market. Consumers love the sleek, elegant design of the iPhone, and quickly fall in love with the on-screen keyboard.

But Steve Jobs can do the sums. In America, iPhone has perhaps overtaken Blackberry in total sales - but these sales are in what they call "the executive corridor."

Worldwide, it has not escaped the attention of mobile network execs that the bulk of corporate sales are not into the executive corridor. Rather, they are phones which are provided for staff, and the vast bulk of them have full-QWERTY keyboards - and all the best-selling ones, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and HTC alike, have slide-out keyboards. The popular Danger Sidekick, too, has a slide-out (spin-out) QWERTY keyboard.

The market which buys these phones, wants QWERTY and they don't want to type on the screen. They "just know" that they wouldn't like it.

Arguably, they're wrong, of course. Quite conceivably, after a week of sending emails typed on the touch-screen of the iPhone, they'd "get it" and love it. But how will they ever find out?

Compare the numbers: those who have never used it, versus those who have. It may cross your mind that perhaps it would be a good option to provide if you want to increase sales and expose sceptics to the new user interface.

The issue is, of course, a classic religious wars subject. We had similar wars over Intel chips, when the faithful maintained that the PowerPC chips inside the Apple Mac family were four times faster than Intel processors, and that Jobs would never abandon them.

And before that there was the operating system. The Mac OS was inherently superior to anything *nixy and so no Unix system would be able to keep up. Before that, the Motorola 68000 family was equally sacrosanct.

Will Jobs launch an iPhone with a keyboard? He says "definitely not" and is emphatic about it. So that's that.

Well, yes, and then again maybe. What he is apparently doing is canvassing the idea with operators. "If you had a keyboard version, how many would you take?"

And he has taken this beyond just chatting: actual prototypes - not just mockups - have been sent to senior executives at some operators. I'm not allowed to even hint which operators... but I can report that the keyboard has "issues" which are not yet resolved.

In another part of the forest, of course, Apple's rivals have the opposite problem. They want touch-screen technology and they are working hard on it. And they, too, have "issues" with making it work properly.

Sources inside one operator say that there definitely will not be a slide-out keyboard this year. But, I'm told, they are definitely expecting to see one, aimed specifically at corporate buyers, around this time next year.

Like all rumours it's premature, and people can change their minds. But it's not speculation. The prototypes actually exist and they (nearly) work.

It's also worth remembering that operators aren't Apple. They don't have the Apple design flair, the creative vision, or the urge to rock the boat. And they are looking at a surge in sales of HTC phones, all based on Windows Mobile, and many with really cute slide-out keyboards. "If that is where the mobile buyers are going," they think, "we should go there too."

If Jobs actually launches one to capture this market, will it succeed?

That's another question entirely! Contrary to the protestations of the zealots, this would not be the death-knell of the iPhone.

After all, the no-keyboard iPhone does not depend for its credibility on the absence of an alternative keyboard version. It either works or it doesn't. Anybody who has learned to use it will know that it works adequately, but you will find people who say that they'd prefer a real keyboard.

My own experience is that it works for iPhone standard things. That is to say it's great at web browsing and all the functions that iPod music playing requires, and wonderful for scanning photographs. It is, in short, a genuine innovation in user interfaces, and a successful innovation.

But innovation isn't what users all want. Many of us are conservative. Long memories are needed to go back to the days of WordStar text editing, and the resistance that people trained on WordStar put up when asked to use WordPerfect. And in their turn, WordPerfect users absolutely refused to adapt to Microsoft Word, however innovative the GUI might have been; Microsoft had to produce a version of Word which obeyed WP keystrokes.

In the phone business, users are notoriously conservative. Users of Sony Ericsson devices denounce Nokia as "plain wrong!" and vice versa; and yet really, the differences are trivial.

When it comes to keyboard skills, texting speedsters regard predictive T9 typing as wimpish. Both T9 and triple-type texters regard QWERTY phones like the Nokia E61 or the Blackberry or the HTC devices as perverse.

So it really isn't much use going to the dyed-in-the-wool qwerty button-pusher and saying: "But this is inherently better!" in evangelising tones. Like a small child who won't try porridge because they don't like it, they know they don't like it... so they won't try. And many people who hate Guinness have, similarly, never tasted a drop. That's human nature!

In the long run, it really doesn't matter to Apple whether people who get a keyboard on their office iPhone end up never using it. As long as they get an office iPhone, they have the chance of trying it, and maybe falling in love. As long as their company phone is a Blackberry or an HTC Touch or a Sony Ericsson X1 or a Nokia E61, they'll use it and regard the iPhone with suspicion.

Steve Jobs switched from Motorola to PowerPC to Intel chips. He does what he needs to do to sell stuff. If he has to put a keyboard on the back of some iPhones to sell more of them, my bet is he'll do it.

Conforme o texto acima, apesar da impressão de ser um texto de "desejo", há informações de que um protótipo já estaria sendo testado, embora o seu funcionamento ainda não esteja 100%.

Caso isso venha a se confirmar futuramente, será que fará o sucesso que o modelo touch e fino faz? Ou melhor...será que ele terá utilidade?? Pois quem já usou o teclado do iPhone, sabe muito bem que ele cumpre o seu papel.