?It’s the most precise thing we’ve ever made,? Apple CEO said.

iPhone 4 is powered by the A4 chip (designed ?in house?) and comes with two built-in cameras (one on the front and one on the back with an LED flash), two mics (one for a noise cancellation), micro-SIM (?we needed the space!”), 802.11n WiFi, GPS, compass, accelerometer, Quadband HSDPA/HSUPA, 7.2Mbps and up to 32GB of storage.

The display is a huge innovation: based on new IPS technology (“quite a bit better than OLED”), the 3.5 inch, 960 x 640 Retina Display displays 326 pixels per inch (four times as many pixels as in any standard display) giving us really sharp text and pictures. The contrast ratio is 800:1 (4x better than the 3GS).

Since the battery is now a bit bigger, its life has been improved. Apple says there is 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music and 300 hours of standby.

Another new piece of hardware is a gyroscope with pitch, roll, and yaw. It provides 6-axis motion sensing and features new CoreMotion APIs for extremely precise positioning. “We’re adding a 3 axis gyro, and we tied the gyro and accelerometer, compass, and gyro together for six axis. It’s perfect for gaming,” Jobs said.

Back camera has gone from 3 to 5 MP. Apple is using something that’s new to smarpthones — a back side illuminated sensor (giving more light to the camera). There’s a 5X digital zoom, tap to focus, and LED flash built in.

Camera also does HD 720p (at 30 frames per second) video recording. It supports tap to focus and allows us to edit videos right on the phone. It also has 1-click sharing and the LED flash will stay on for the HD video recording. There is also iMovie coming to the iPhone for $4.99 (?if we approve it,? Jobs joked).

iPhone 4 will also feature “FaceTime” video calling. It works between iPhone 4 devices, doesn?t require any setting-up and works anywhere there is WiFi. ?It’s WIFI only in 2010. We need to work a little bit with our providers,? Jobs said. He added that Apple is going to make FaceTime and open industry standard.

Apple has renamed the iPhone OS. Now it’s just iOS 4.” Becuase it’s on iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone,? Apple CEO said. He also said that 100 millionth iOS device will be sold this month. “There is definitely a market for your applications,” Jobs added.

As announced earlier this year, new iOS 4 features include Multitasking for third party apps; Folders to better organize and access apps; improved Mail with a unified inbox, fast inbox switching and threaded messages; enhanced Enterprise support with better data protection, mobile device management and wireless app distribution.

Apple has also added Bing to the iPhone for search (?Microsoft has done a great job on this,? Jobs said). Google will still be the default, but now we’ll have choice of Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

Developers will get a Golden Master Candidate release of iOS4 today.

Apple is also bringing iBooks to the iPhone with the iPhone 4. It has the same bookshelf as on the iPad, the same ability to read a PDF and comes with the same controls, highlighting, notes, and bookmarking. We can download the same book to all our devices at no extra charge (?Buy it on your iPad, download to your iPhone?)! In addition, iBooks will automatically and wirelessly sync our current place, bookmarks, and notes across all our devices.

On July 1st Apple will also start providing iAds to all iOS 4 devices. ?Why are we doing this? To help our developers earn money to continue to create free and low-cost apps for users,? Jobs said. According to him, they are trying to combine ?the emotion of video with the interactivity of the Web.”

Apple sells and hosts the ads, so developers just have to tell them where to put the ads. And devs get paid 60 percent of the revenue. The company started selling ads eight weeks ago to: Nissan, Citi, Unilever, AT&T, Chanel, GE, Liberty Mutual, State Farm, Geico, Campbells, Sears, JCPenney, Target, Best Buy, DirecTV, TBS Network and Disney. “We’ve got advertisers committing to $60m,” Jobs said.

Price and availability
iPhone 4 comes in two colors: black and white. 16GB model is for $199, and 32GB model for $299. Old 3GS is now $99

Jobs said that AT&T is going to make an ?incredibly generous upgrade offer: if your contract expires at any time in 2010, you can upgrade to the iPhone 4. You can get it up to six months early.”

The new iPhone will be on sale June 24th. Pre orders begin June 15th. Apple will ship iPhone 4 in US and four other countries on the first day (U.K., Germany, France, Japan). In July they’re shipping in 18 countries more. By September it will ship in 88 countries. “Our fastest roll out ever,” Jobs said.

iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod touch users can upgrade to iOS 4 for free starting June 21.

Reed Hastings from Netflix, Mark Pincus from Zygna and Karthik Bala from Activision were also on stage announcing that Netflix, Farmville and new Guitar Hero will be coming to the iPhone.

Originally appeared on Smartphone.Biz-News.com

Designed by HTC, myTouch 3G Slide will be coming in June from T-Mobile. It is powered by the Android 2.1 and features 3.4-inch HVGA touch- screen display with virtual keyboard as well as a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera and a music player with a pre-installed 8GB microSD memory card. It also comes with three completely new features:

Faves Gallery: presents up to 20 of user?s favorite people and the different ways to communicate with them – calls, texts, e-mail, instant messaging, social networking updates – in a dedicated application accessible through a soft button and a widget.

myModes: creates different themes with home screen apps, widgets and wallpapers (e.g. for drawing the line between work and home).

Genius Button: an easy-to- access button on the front of the phone allowing the use of voice commands to control the phone and it’s features (including making calls, composing and sending texts and e-mails, searching the Web or surroundings).

By connecting the camera to a PC or Mac via the built-in USB, the pre-installed PMB Portable software transfers content to video and photo sharing websites. It includes direct upload to Shutterfly, Picasa, YouTube, Dailymotion and Photobucket.

The MHS-CM5 and MHS-PM5 are available in March for about $250 and $200, respectively.

To make it clear ? it doesn?t come from RIM and it?s not a watchphone. Made by Allerta, inPulse is a BlackBerry smartphone accessory that connects wirelessly to your phone by Bluetooth and can show previews of emails, SMS and other messages (Twitter), together with incoming call details and alarms.

It packs 1.3″ full colour OLED display, Bluetooth v2.0+EDR, 150 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery (~ 4 days), glass lens and full metal body, vibrating motor, micro-USB port (for charging) and supports over-the-air firmware updates.

Works with any BlackBerry with OS 4.3 and above and can be pre-ordered right now for reasonable US$149.

Toshiba finally launched its first, long-expected direct methanol fuel-cell ? Dynario. It?s an external power source that delivers power to mobile digital products. It runs on mix of methanol and ambient oxygen, and the chemical reaction between the two in the fuel cell produces electricity.

Once fueled with an injection of methanol solution from its dedicated cartridge, a palm-sized Dynario starts to generate electricity that is delivered to e.g. mobile phone via a USB cable. On a single refill of methanol which can be made in an instant period (around 20 seconds), Dynario can generate enough power to charge two typical mobile phones.

Shipping will start in Japan on October 29. Prices: about $325 for Dynario, and $35 for a set of five fuel cartridges.

The BE8500, a H.264/AVC video encoder capable of hot-switching between a high-definition or standard-definition video source, was introduced by Telairity at HD World.

The 1-RU BE8500 works either as a full-featured HD encoder or as an SD/SDI encoder. It auto-senses whether the video source is SD or HD, and enables users to switch live between the two video formats without powering down. Switch-over conversion is virtually instantaneous, enabling a smooth transition for live or live on tape programming.

BE8500 delivers H.264/AVC (MPEG-4) compression technology capable of achieving more than twice the compression efficiency of the older MPEG-2 standard, with settable encode latencies ranging from 150ms to 2 seconds, according to the company.

Originally appeared on HDTV Biz-News.com

Nikon just announced FX-format D3S D-SLR, successor of ground breaking D3. Designed for professional photographers, this 12.1 MP CMOS camera comes with extreme 12,800 ISO sensitivity! Additionally, expanded ISO equivalent settings up to a staggering 102,400 are available, enabling to create images in almost complete darkness, that was ?previously thought impossible?, as Nikon says.

D3S also offers 1280×720 HD video at 24fps, 51-points autofocus, two Live View modes, Quiet Shutter Mode which reduces the sound of the camera’s mirror-down cycle, EXPEED Image Processing System that process RAWs even faster that in D3, Active D-Lighting (ADL) helping to determine proper exposure, Sensor Cleaning function, self-diagnostic shutter system, up to 170 degrees viewable 3-inch high density LCD monitor, two UDMA compatible CompactFlash card slots, HDMI port and 4200 shots Lithium-ion battery.

It is scheduled to be available in late November 2009 at an estimated selling price of $5,199.95.

According to the company, their customers can now transition to an FCoE infrastructure while still supporting existing Fibre Channel investments. They can run both FCoE and IP traffic through the same port and on the same wire, eliminating the need and expense for separate SAN and LAN adapters and cables.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 02/09/2009