Analyst: Lower Cost iPhone Models Coming in June

In a research note by Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty predicted that Apple would introduce lower cost iPhone models with cheaper service plans to decrease total cost of iPhone ownership. According to Katy, the biggest barriers to higher iPhone adoption are cost of the device and service plan cost. And in June Apple will introduce iPhone models that will be more pocket friendly.
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No Front Facing Camera for Video Calls on Next Generation iPhone

Rumors about next generation iPhone featuring front facing camera have been going around the blogosphere for past few days. These rumors were ignited by the news that iPhone SDK 3.2 beta has code supporting Zoom, Flash and Front Camera. Also a patent application by Apple showing handheld device with a forward facing camera added fuel to the fire.
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Apple Files Patent Application for iPhone Control via Finger Gestures Over Camera

MacRumors has discovered a patent application filed by Apple that highlights use of finger gesture over camera on iPhone to control features like voicemail playback, pause and rewind, while holding the phone near your ear. Apple also describes use of accelerometer to detect finger tapping for controlling iPhone functions. In the patent application Apple explains:
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PC World: AT&T Delivers Significantly Faster Download and Upload Speeds

Last year, PC World tested 3G services in 13 major cities in US. They concluded that Verizon 3G service was fast and reliable, whereas AT&T 3G service was fast in some cities but reliability was an issue. PC World has again done the same test in 13 cities and now they say that AT&T’s 3G network is now the top performer in 13-city test, with download speeds 67 percent faster than its competitors.
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Will MacBook Pro Update Bring Enhanced Dual Graphics?

It has been rumored since December that Apple will update their MacBook Pro lineup and bring Intel’s new Core i5 and Core i7 processors to the lineup. However, as we reported in January, Apple is not very happy with the integrated graphics chip included in the new processor package, as Apple wants to offer better graphics performance to MacBook Pro customers than Intel’s integrated graphics. Apple has been using NVIDIA 9400M chipset to achieve this in current MacBooks, but Intel Core i5 and i7 processors wouldn’t work with NVIDIA chipsets.
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PMA 2010: Samsung Introduces Four new Cameras and Two New Ultra-Compact Camcorders

At PMA 2010, Samsung added two new cameras to their TL-series, two durable cameras in SL and AQ-series and two ultra-compact high-definition budget camcorders to HMX-series. The two TL-series cameras are TL500 and TL350. The top-of-the-line TL500 comes with 10-megapixel high sensitivity CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom, F/1.8 ultra-wide lens, 3-inch swiveling AMOLED screen, 640 x 480 movie mode, dual image stabilization, manual controls A/S/M and RAW support.
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Wired Magazine and Safari on Apple iPad

Wired has been developing a digital version of their magazine called Wired Reader (video above) and demoed it at TED conference. The digital version is designed for use on tablet devices like the recently announced Apple iPad. Content for Wired Reader is created in Adobe InDesign, as is normally done for print magazine, but Wired added interactive elements like photo galleries, slideshows, animations and videos.
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ARM and Globalfoundries Develop 28nm System-on-a-Chip

ARM and Globalfoundries have released details about their upcoming system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform based on 28nm process technology. The new SoC will combine ARM’s top-of-the-line Cortex-A9 processor with Globalfoundries’ 28nm manufacturing process for improved performance and power efficiency. The new chip will target the smartphones, tablets and smartbooks.
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HTC Introduces HD Mini, Legend and Desire Smartphones

HTC has announced three new smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010. The first phone HD Mini is based on Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and is a cheaper and smaller version of HD2. It comes with 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, 600MHz processor, WiFi, Bluetooth and microSD card slot. The phone features HTC’s Sense user interface and focuses on Outlook, Twitter and Facebook integration. HD Mini will be available across Europe and Asia in April 2010.
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Symbian^3 Officially Announced

The Symbian Foundation today unveiled the Symbian^3 (S^3) platform, the first entirely open source Symbian release. S^3 is expected to be “feature complete” by the end of Q1 and the release will include: significant usability and interface advances, faster networking, acceleration for 2D and 3D graphics in games and applications, HDMI support (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), music store integration, an improved user interface with easier navigation and multi-touch gesture support, a feature-rich homescreen, and the ability to run even more applications simultaneously.
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series with Very Positive Initial Impressions

Microsoft today unveiled the next generation Windows Phone 7 Series that offers completely new approach to smartphone software. With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has started from scratch to bring truly integrated experiences by combining Xbox Live, Zune platform, social networking and productivity applications. Microsoft calls this approach “Designed for Life in Motion”.
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Samsung launches Bada Powered Wave S8500 Handset

Samsung today officially launched the much rumored first Bada OS powered handset Wave S8500 at MWC 2010. Samsung Wave is also the first handset to feature new Super AMOLED 3.3-inch touchscreen and Samsung’s TouchWiz 3.0 user interface. The phone comes with 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera, 2GB/8GB memory, 720p video recording, quad band GSM/EDGE, dual band HSPA, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS and microSD card slot. It measures 4.6” x 2.2” x 0.42” and packs 1,500mAh battery.
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What did Apple Miss on the iPad?

Apple’s much-touted iPad was launched on January 27th. Most of the must-have features we listed in the blog entry titled “5 Must-have Features For Upcoming Apple Tablet” are now part of the actual iPad feature list. But it’s not without limitations though. Below we compared which of the five features Apple has implemented in iPad and to what extend.

1. Operating System: We wrote in the older post “It will have elements from both the operating systems (Mac and iPhone) like App Store support from iPhone and run multiple applications like Mac OS X, but it will be very different from both operating systems.” Well now that we have seen the OS on the iPad, we can certainly say it’s more like iPhone than Mac OS X. However, even though iPad’s home screen looks exactly like the iPhone the difference in UI of the two devices is very imminent in applications that Apple showed on stage. There is no multitasking support for third party applications. It is likely Apple did this to offer longer battery life, which was the next feature we wrote about.
2. Longer Battery Life: We wrote “The tablet is a device that is designed to be used on the move, so if it could offer whole day use on a single charge it would make the device more useful.” We thought 8 hours battery life will be sufficient and iPad offers 10 hours, which is great. And from what we have seen in past, Apple devices normally offer quoted battery life in real world also.
3. iTunes Integration: Apple has not only brought iTunes integration on the iPad, but has also added new iBookstore for eBooks. The iPad also supports current iPhone applications and Apple has updated iPhone SDK to bring native support for applications designed specifically for iPad. As we wrote in last post “iTunes has played a big hand in success of the two devices (iPod and iPhone) and it will again play a very important role in success of Apple tablet.”
4. Wireless Sync: This is one area where we were very disappointed by Apple’s approach. We were hoping that Apple would use WiFi pairing that will allow wireless syncing between two devices via a router or directly whenever the two devices are near each other, which will keep the data up to date and offer hassle free syncing. To sync and backup data on iPad with iTunes, you will have to connect it via USB, which as we said before can be a problem for a device that is as big as iPad, if your primary computer is a small laptop like a MacBook.
5. Price: Like battery life and iTunes integration, price is one feature where Apple was right on the dot. There were rumors that Apple will price the iPad around $1,000, but just two days before the event we posted that our sources say, we will be surprised to see the price tag, which would be about half, around $500-$600. In the 5 must-have article also we wrote “Apple will need to price the tablet in $500-$600 range to gain traction in the market.” The starting price of the iPad is $499 and we believe it’s perfect for a product like iPad.

No one can predict how successful Apple iPad will be, but it looks like Apple is aiming in the right direction with the new iPad.

[Via TechzTalk]

Asus Introduces First Laptops with ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 GPU

Asus has introduced two laptops G73JH-X1 and G73JH-A2 featuring ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics card. Both laptops are world’s first laptops to offer the new high-end card from AMD. According to AMD, Mobility Radeon HD 5870 out performs NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line GTX 280M by a margin of over 25 percent. The HD 5870 graphics card on both the laptop comes with 1GB GDDR5 RAM, 700MHz core clock speed with 800 GPU pipelines, and 1000MHz memory clock speed.
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Marvell Launches ARMADA 618 1GHz Application Processor and $99 Pantheon Smartphone Platform

Marvell has announced the newest addition to the ARMADA family of application processors – the Marvell ARMADA 618 that offers a 1GHz CPU core with PC class performance, integrated 1080p full HD encode and decode and exceptional 3D graphics. Along with the new application processor, Marvel also introduced $99 Pantheon smartphone platform that includes powerful application processors, cellular modems, radio frequency device, intelligent power management and power-efficient WiFi/Bluetooth/FM connectivity.
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Microsoft Unveils Office 2011 for Mac

Microsoft today unveiled its Office 2011 for Mac at Macworld 2010 in San Francisco. Microsoft says that the new productivity suite will focus on anywhere, anytime and across platform sharing.
“Together with your team - officemates, family and classmates – you are part of the community that helps shape each version of Office for Mac,” said Eric Wilfrid, MacBU general manager at Microsoft Corp.
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Nokia’s Symbian^3 Strategy Revealed

A French site Tom’s Guide has posted details about Nokia’s plans for their upcoming handset lineup and Symbian^3 smartphone OS. Nokia plans to drop their Classic and XpressMusic differentiators and instead use five letter-prefix for upcoming handset lineup in 2010. Nokia will divide their handsets in C, X, E, N and S series. Where letters identifying the series will stand for:
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Google to Experiment with 1Gbps Fiber-to-the-Home Internet Connection

Google is planning to experiment with ultra high speed Internet access by building and testing ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the US. Google is aiming for Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. The company will offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
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iPad News: Component Costs, Safari Spell Checker and Flash-less Hulu

iSuppli has posted preliminary estimate for component costs of upcoming Apple iPad. The 16GB model costs as little as $219.35 and the three biggest contributors to the cost are $80 for touchscreen, $29.50 for 16GB flash memory and $17 for A4 processor. The 32GB and 64GB models have same component cost except 32GB memory is $59 and 64GB is $188. According to iSuppli, the most profitable of the six iPads is the 32GB version with 3G-network access as combined materials and manufacturing cost of $287.15 amount to 39.4% of the retail price.
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Google Introduces Buzz Bringing Live Social Networking to Gmail, iPhone and Android

Yesterday, Google launched their new service called Buzz that aggregates live updates from Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, Picasa and YouTube for a user. The service is available as web app for iPhone and Android handsets, and is also integrated with Gmail offering all the information in a single window.
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NVIDIA’s New Optimus Technology Brings Automatic Switching Between Integrated and Discrete Graphics

Since 2007 computer industry has been very excited about Hybrid Graphics that combines integrated graphics and discrete GPU to offer both performance and better battery life. However, this technology hasn’t seen large-scale adoption, as you have to manually switch graphics settings and have to either restart the laptop or wait sometime for changes to take effect. But that might change as NVIDIA today launched their new Optimus technology, which automatically chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics.
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Apple Releases Aperture 3

Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organize large photo libraries. Aperture 3 introduces new tools to refine your photos including Brushes for painting image adjustments onto parts of your photo, and Adjustment Presets for applying professional photo effects with just one click. Stunning new slideshows let you share your work by weaving together photos, audio, text and HD video.
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Canon Introduces Four New PowerShot Cameras

Canon today announced addition of four new PowerShot digital cameras, the PowerShot SX210 IS, PowerShot SD3500 IS, PowerShot SD1400 IS and PowerShot SD1300IS. The new cameras offer Smart Auto mode along with new Scene Modes and Image effects.
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Rumor: MacBook Pro Update Coming Tomorrow

A French website Nowhere Else claims Apple will release new MacBook Pro models tomorrow. This information was given to the website by an anonymous source close to Apple. It has been rumored for past few weeks that Apple is planning to update their MacBook Pro lineup. It was previously believed that the company would announce the update at the Apple media event, which took place on 27th January.
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Canon Officially Unveils Rebel T2i Digital SLR

Canon today officially announced new Rebel T2i DSLR with 18-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and Full HD video recording. The new features on T2i include 3.7 fps continuous shooting, ISO range of 100-6400 (expandable to 12,800), a 63-zone Dual Layer Metering System and DIGIC 4 image processor.
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Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked

It is rumored that Microsoft will showcase Windows Mobile 7 at Mobile World Congress later this month. Many website have now posted details about the upcoming smartphone OS from Microsoft. And it looks like Microsoft has taken a page out of Apple iPhone playbook for development of their new OS, which can be a good thing for the company.
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Geekbench Test Result Hints at Upcoming MacBook Pro Update

It has been rumored for quite sometime that Apple will update their MacBook Pro lineup. And recent benchmarking result posted on Geekbench indicates this update will come sooner than later. The test result show that the benchmarking tool was ran on MacBook Pro featuring 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 620M processor with 4GB DDR3 RAM. The present MacBook lineup uses Core 2 Duo processor and it is believed the update will bring recently announced Core i5 and Core i7 processors to the MacBook Pros.
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Intel Provides More Details About Upcoming Westmere Processors

Intel has revealed more details about Westmere – the 32nm incarnation of Nehalem microarchitecture. Intel has not only decreased the manufacturing process size from 45nm to 32nm, but has also added new features that result in lower power requirements and faster processing. One of the main features Intel added to Westmere is power gate for L3 cache.
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Graphene to Power Future Computer Chips

It has been said for quite sometime that silicon will soon reach its limit as computer chips become smaller and faster. Graphene – a crystalline form of carbon is hailed as a successor to silicon. However, when graphene based chip are made using conventional deposition techniques, they tend to degenerate and lose their two dimension hexagonal arrays perfect for fabricating electronic devices. Basically, with conventional deposition techniques graphene turns to graphite, which is of no use in electronic chips.
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PC Makers Trying to Highlight Their Tablet After iPad Announcement

With announcement of iPad by Apple, various PC makers like Dell, HP, Asus and MSI are trying to grab some spotlight by releasing information about their upcoming tablets, even though most of these tablets won’t ship till second half of this year. HP was the first to jump the gun by releasing a video (added below) in which company’s CTO Phil McKinney talks about the upcoming HP Slate PC.
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Hardware Specification Requirement for Windows Mobile 7 Leaked

Mobile-review’s editor Eldar Murtazin twitted yesterday “Playing with WM7 device – battery 1850mAh, working only 6-7 hours (half a day). So, desktop OS in mobile phones – welcome in MS world.” Eldar also revealed the minimum hardware specifications required for upcoming Windows Mobile 7. Evgenij Pavlov of HTC Russia informed Eldar that Windows Mobile 7’s minimal hardware requirements will be 1GHz CPU, 3.6-inch WVGA screen, 8GB onboard storage, 5-megapixel camera, compass and G-sensor.
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Apple Launches Much Awaited iPad

Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds— thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad will be available in late March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.
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Live Coverage of Apple Media Event on January 27 at 1PM EST / 10AM PST

• We will be doing a detailed post about the Apple iPad later two check it out on TechzTalk.
  
• That's it for the presentation. The images in the posts were taken from Gizmodo.com. Thank you Gizmodo.
  
• Steve says that there is a hands-on area where we can check out the tablet today.
  
• It uses top of the line components like IPS LED backlit LCD panel and new Apple A4 processor.
  
• Steve "iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical & revolutionary device at an unbelievable price."
  
• There are over 125 million accounts on iTunes and iTunes along with App Store and iBook Store is ready for the iPad.
  
• Steve is back on the stage and he is saying that Apple has sold over 75 million iPhones and iPod touch and that's 75 million people who already know how to use the iPad.
  
• And it looks way better than any tablet shown at CES earlier this month.
  
• Jon Ive says in the video "This defines our vision, our sense of what's next."
  
• The backlight of the display is LED as we wrote today morning and also like we said Jason Calcanis was wrong about the iPad.
  
• Apple is now showing a video of the iPad and accessory. The iPad looks very sleek.
  

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• First accessory for iPad is keyboard dock that has full size mechanical keyboard. then there is a carrying case. it looks like there is no camera on the iPad.
  
• Apple will ship the iPad WiFi models in 60 days and 3G models in 90 days.
  
• The WiFi models will be priced $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB and $699 for 64GB. WiFi+3G models will cost extra $130 and will be $629, $729 and $829 respectively.
  
• But we have had very aggressive price goal, the starting price will be $499 and not $999, like we wrote on our blog yesterday.
  
• Steve says how much should we price it? pundits say it would be under $1000 that's $999.
  
• Apple is working on international deals and all ipad models have unlocked 3G and they can be used with any GSM carrier. their is no contract.

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• No Verizon....
  
• AT&T is the carrier partner and they will allow free WiFi hotspot access.
  
• Now wireless networking, iPad has WiFi and some models will have 3G also. 3G data plans cost $60 in us for laptops. But iPad owners will get first 250MB of data for $15 and unlimited data for just $30.
  
• Steve is back on stage and now he is talking about syncing it just works like the iPhone. It syncs everything with iTunes via 30 pin connector, no wireless syncing.

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• iWork will be available on App Store for $9.99
  
• iWork looks very good on the iPad and its very easy to work on it , however data entry might be a problem on the virtual keyboard.
  
• It Numbers now and again the same story, mostly images no data entry.

• Now he is demoing pages. he is mostly showing how images are handled on iPad not how texts is entered.
  
• Phil is showing Keynote on the iPad and you can drag by holding on the screen, add animation and video. Resizing works just like the iPhone.
  
• Keynote, Pages, and Numbers have been specifically designed for the iPad.
  
• Steve says that Apple has developed a special version of iWork of Apple iPad and Phil Schiller will demo the iWork.
  
• Apple is using the ePub format for the iBook so it open and should allow you to import your ebooks also.
  
• The UI for books is also very intuitive and browsing through a book is very simple.
  
• Steve is showing how easy it is to buy a book and yes the books are priced $14.99.
  
• The iBook application has a bookshelf and their is a iBook store button that can be used to go to iBook store, which is almost like App Store.
  
• Steve is now demoing the iBook application and store.
  
• The iBook application will manage all you ebooks and there is a iBook store from where you can buy new books. The store has books from Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette.

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• And now ebook reader app. Steve says Amazon has done a great job for ebook reader technology, and now Apple is introducing new app called iBooks.
  
• Now Steve is back, he says "Isn't it awesome?" These applications were developed in less than two weeks.
  
• Scott is back on the stage.
  
• The application allows watching live games with virtual statistic on the screen.
  
• MLB.com is on stage to demo their application for the new iPad. we really like the iPad name. it's way better than iTablet or iSlate.
  
• Graphics are somewhere better a gaming laptop and Wii. They are not as good as gaming laptop but way better then Wii. The frame-rate is very smooth.
  
• And again the graphics are really good for Need For Speed. It is looking better than playing NFS on Wii.
  
• EA is demoing a car racing game.
  
• Now someone is showing a simple paint application Brushes which looks very good and fun to use. EA is up next.
  
• NY Times says we think we have captured the essence of reading newspaper first time on a electronic device.
  
• The format also you to change number of columns, re-size text flip through slide show and watch video.

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• NY Times application is very similar to a actual newpaper, but you can skip around like on the iPhone app. its really awesome.
  
• Now NY Times is coming on stage to talk about their plans for the iPad.
  
• Gameloft is demoing Nova, which is already available for iPhone. In fact the demo person is holding the iPad like a bigger iPhone and using it the game looks very good on bigger screen.
  
• Now demo of various applications made for iPad is starting. Scott invites gameloft.
  
• The iPad applications will share the same App Store. Apple will highlight applications specifically made for the iPad.
  
• Apple rewrote all their application for this display and the updated iPhone SDK is available today for developers to do the same.
  
• The tablet can run iPhone apps unmodified out of the box, tablet can pixel double applications and run in full screen. But it would be a good idea to update application UI to take advantage of bigger screen.
  
• Scott Forstall is on stage now talking about applications for the new tablet.
  
• Now Environmental check list and it free of everything bad.
  
• Battery life is 10 hours like we wrote in the morning.

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• It has 1GHz Apple A4 chip, 16-64GB storage, WiFi, Bluetooth, accelerometer, compass, and 30-pin connector.
  
• The tablet is 0.5-inch thick, 1.5 pounds and has 9.7-inch IPS capacitive multitouch display.
  
• The UI is very smooth and going from one application to the other is just like the iPhone, we think the tablet supports multitasking.
  
• Now video it's Star Trek time now.
  
• Next up is maps and the photo posted today by engadget was real. The map application looks exactly like the photo
  
• Steve is now showing iCal, it has pop up like on the desktop application for editing appointments.
  
• And it is very good and easy to use.

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• Steve is now showing iTunes, the UI is combination of iPhone iPod app and iTunes app for the Mac
  
• However photos in the main library are arranged in stacks.
  
• Next Steve shows photos they work just like the iPhone you can flick and use gestures to manipulate the pictures.
  
• The virtual keyboard is iPhone like, only bigger. Steve says that its super easy to type, he said the same thing about the iPhone also, which was true.
  
• Steve is demoing the tablet and it really fast, scrolling is super smooth and the email client is way better than iPhone. messages are listed on one side and the content of the email selected is displayed on rest of the screen.
  
• You have to slide like to the iPhone to unlock and the tablet also doesn't support Flash like iPhone.
  
• The tablet has iTunes store built right into it, its awesome to watch TV show and movies and mobile Safari browser is a pleasure to use Steve says.

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• Steve shows the Apple tablet it has iPhone like icons.
  
• Steve is asking what kind of tasks this device will do? browsing, email, music, games, videos and ebooks.
  
• A question has arisen is there room for something in the middle and Apple has wondered for years about creating a new category.
  
• Steve says "So let's get to the main event". he is talking about the first laptop Powerbook Apple released in 1991. It was the first computer with a TFT screen, palm rests and integrated pointing device. then Apple launched iPhone in 2007. There is a big gap between the iPhone and laptop lineup Steve says.
  
• He declares Apple is the largest mobile device company by revenue even bigger than Nokia.
  
• Steve says we started Apple in 1976 and 34 years later we just ended our quarter with $50.6 billion yearly revenue.
  
• App Store now has 140,000 applcations and more than 3 billion have been downloaded.
  
• Steve is on stage, "Good morning and thank you all for coming". Apple wants to kick start 2010 by introducing a magical and revolutionary new product. He is talking about iPod sales and Apple retail store. Apple sold their 250 millionth iPod few weeks ago.
  
• The event is about to start, it complete silence here and lights are dimming.
  
• Apple online store is still up.
  
• Now we have to silence our phones as the program will shortly begin.
  
• Can you believe Apple stocks are down just before the most rumored event is about to start. just five more minutes to go.
  
• Just 10 more minutes before the event starts... Will Apple focus only on the tablet or announce some other products too?
  
• We are all inside the hall and as usual there is a large Apple logo on the stage.
  
• It's a surprise that Apple online store is still working, normally its down by this time.
• Till the event starts you all can read the latest rumors related to Apple tablet event via the link below.
  
• Welcome Everyone to TechzTalks's live coverage of Apple media event.

We will be doing live coverage of the Apple event on Wednesday January 27th at 1PM EST / 10AM PST. Apple sent out invitation for the event that will be held at Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco last week. It is rumored that Apple will be introduced their new tablet at the event. There are also rumors that Apple will preview iPhone OS 4.0 and update iTunes and iLife. Our live coverage of the event will being 15 minutes before the scheduled start please join us then at live.techztalk.com.
Here are some articles that will keep you occupied till tomorrow’s event:

• Rumor Roundup For Upcoming Apple Event
• Five Must Have Features for Apple Tablet
• Leaked Pictures of Apple Tablet
• Rumored Features on iPhone OS 4.0
• McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet
• Jason Calcanis Reveals Apple Tablet Details

Apple Tablet Pictures Leaked

TechCrunch has posted leaked pictures of supposed Apple tablet. The website says “Who knows if these are real, but these are easily the most legitimate looking pictures I’ve ever seen of the supposed Apple Tablet/iPad/iSlate/iBook/whatever it will be called. Further, UI designer Dustin Curtis tells us a friend sent him these pictures – and from what we hear, that friend could work at Apple (he wouldn’t confirm that).”
For us also these are the most legitimate looking Apple tablet pics we have seen till now. We will find out for sure if the images are real or not on Wednesday.
We will do the live coverage of Apple event on January 27th on live.techztalk.com.
[Via TechzTalk]

Rumor Roundup for Upcoming January 27 Apple Event

With just two days remaining in Apple’s upcoming January 27 media event many analysts and newspapers have also offered their predications for the event. Most of these predications are copy of what various blogs have been speculating for past one year, however, there are some interesting new details. Below we have listed major rumors circulating about the upcoming Apple event from various media outlets:
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NVIDIA Reveals More Information About Next Gen GF100 GPU

NVIDIA introduced their next generation GPU architecture based on Fermi in September 2009. The company has now revealed more information about the GF100 (Graphics Fermi 100) chip based on the new architecture. The GF100 chip architecture is very different from previous GPUs from NVIDIA.
The new chip is divided into four main graphics processing clusters (GPC) with each cluster featuring 16 streaming multiprocessors (SM) and each SM having its own geometry setup and processing unit called Polymorph Engine.
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Apple to Use Lala for Cloud Based iTunes Service

Since Apple bought the online music service Lala last year, many experts have speculated that Apple will use Lala to start an iTunes subscription service. There are many subscription services like Zune, Napster and Rhapsody that have largely been flop. So there is less likelihood that Apple will join the losing race. However, Michael Robertson, former CEO of MP3.com says that Apple will use Lala’s technology to store a personal music library online. He wrote on Tech Crunch:
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iPhone OS 4.0 to Feature Multitasking, Updated UI; and Apple Tablet will be Called iPad?

It is rumored that Apple’s upcoming media event on January 27 will be used by Apple to showcase new iPhone OS 4.0 along with the highly anticipated tablet. BGR is reporting that they have received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of their trusty Apple source. According to the source, iPhone OS 4.0 will have following features:
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FOXNews: Apple Tablet, iPhone 4 Launch Confirmed for January 27

Apple announced today that they would have a media event on January 27th at 10:00AM PST. It is rumored Apple will introduce their new tablet at the event. However, FOXNews says, Tablet won’t be the only latest creation from Apple that will be showcased at the event. Along with the new tablet Apple will also introduce iPhone OS 4 and iLife 2010.
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Apple Media Event for January 27th Now Official

Apple has issued invitations to various media outlets for a media event scheduled for 10:00 AM Pacific time on January 27th at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco. The invitation has an Apple logo with splatter paint around it. The tagline on the invitation is “Come see our latest creation.”
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Apple Planning to Launch 22-inch Touchscreen iMac This Year

Chinese language news site Commercial Times is reporting that Apple is planning to launch a 22-inch touch enabled all-in-one PC in 2010, in addition to the current non-touch 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models. According to the news website, Quanta will produce the new touchscreen iMac for Apple and Sintek Photronic will supply the touchscreen panels for the 22-inch model.
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