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Our friends over at My Pre have flagged up that, as of this weekend, Palm have pushed out webOS 1.2.1. The new firmware - which comes but a week after 1.2.0 saw its own launch - tweaks Exchange support for increased stability, but the biggest difference is that it restores iTunes 9.0.1 synchronization, something which Apple "broke" in their latest media app update.
It’s hard to believe it is October already and the leaves are already falling off the trees. Another week come and gone and today I am back with another week in review for your perusal. We found out early this week that the Palm Pre is still headed to Verizon according to an insider. The alleged insider didn’t give any word on when exactly this may happen.
I would wager that most iPhone owners have felt like shooting their iPhone at one time or another and cursed the name AT&T whilst praying to Jobs that the exclusive period would end. Or maybe that is just me. One man at an Apple Store in Cincinnati took things a bit too far when he threatened to shoot his iPhone in an Apple Store.
Apple’s Mighty Mouse replacement could accompany the rumored imminent iMac desktop computers, according to AppleInsider’s sources, with the current model’s mechanical trackball being replaced by touch-sensitive patches. The new mouse is also predicted to drop the white plastic stylings of recent models, and instead adopt a new, perhaps anodized aluminum finish to match the refreshed iMacs.
Apple’s multitouch patent trail continues, with the latest application to come to light describing a full multitouch-sensitive surface that could track not only finger but palm contact, work as a keyboard and also recognize complex gestures and manipulations. Filed in June 2009, the patent describes a touchscreen capable of permitting “unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer input device”.
When you’ve got 85,000 titles to choose from, having some way of cutting through the selection and finding the right app goes from being a luxury to a necessity, and so Apple have cranked up their “there’s an app for that” offensive with “Apps For Everything“. The new category system aims to further slice up the code-bloated App Store, introducing thirteen new sections.
It’s not all Microsoft’s Courier grabbing tablet headlines today; Apple’s touchscreen tablet is also making waves, with iLounge claiming to have more insider news on the upcoming device. According to their sources, there have been three separate prototypes of the device they’re calling the “iPad”, starting with a 7-inch display which was then junked for a larger, 10.7-inch capacitive touchscreen running at around 720p resolution.
Salt at the ready – and you’ll need a pretty big handful this time around – because according to the Boy Genius Reports’ tipster you’re looking at a “product mockup that may coincide with the launch of a revised Apple TV“. If you reckon it looks like a touchscreen remote control then you’re not alone.
The device – about which little is known – does show a Safari option, which has led to suggestions that it could be a WiFi tablet in its own right. Alternatively, if it really is a true companion device to the refreshed Apple TV, it could be a trigger to loading Safari on the mediaplayer, with the remote then working as a touchscreen keyboard and mouse pad to control browsing on your HDTV.
After Orange’s announcement yesterday that they would be offering the iPhone 3GS in the UK, now comes word that Vodafone will be the third carrier in the country to sell Apple’s smartphone. According to UK paper The Telegraph, the Vodafone iPhone 3GS is likely to be £100 cheaper ($159) after analysts predict a price war between carriers.
Update: Vodafone have confirmed the news; the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS will launch in the UK and Ireland in early 2010. [Thanks Dion!]
You guessed it, it’s a Tuesday and the Apple Store has been taken down for the usual hurried batch of updating. No word on what we might be seeing added today, but considering the past few weeks have hummed with talk of new iMac desktops and new MacBook entry-level notebooks there could be a pleasant surprise if you’re in the market for a new OS X machine.
Update: The store is back online (only the US site went down) and there are no changes we can see aside from to the cart system itself. Looks like this was just maintenance downtime, and we’ll have to wait a little longer for new iMacs and MacBooks.
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