Who needs apostrophes? Well, you do, so let the iPhone auto-insert them for you.
As you probably know, the iPhone attempts to auto-correct as you type. If you key in “blogget,” for example, it’ll automatically replace it with “blogger” when you hit the space bar. But did you know …
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U2 jump-started this whole custom-iPod trend back in 2004. Since then, Apple has released a few other customized versions of its nearly ubiquitous MP3 player. The limited-edition players generally carry a bit of a premium for their customized hardware and bundled software. Still, as far as extra cost goes, those players have nothing on the $2,100 Prince iPod.
The purple iPod Touch isn’t available through Apple (not even it could get away with that sort of price hike). Customers have to buy it through Kraken Opus, a high-end (like $6,247 high-end) manufacturer of books. So, what does a little over $2,000 get you? A purple iPod, 15 songs, and 40 minutes of concert footage.
That, as Media Memo points out, comes out to around $150 a song.
Insane fans of Prince can worship the musical maestro by purchasing his limited-edition iPod Touch — for the price of $2,100.
Here’s the best part: You don’t gain access to a full library of Prince music. Rather, the purple Prince Opus iPod comes preloaded with a 40-minute concert video and 15 songs from a live soundtrack. Only 950 Prince iPods are available.
So why the hefty price? You’re also paying for a high-end book of Prince photographs that comes bundled with the iPod. Kraken Opus, a British publisher, produced the photos. Peter Kafka of All Things Digital points out that this is, strangely enough, a deal: Other books by Opus run up to $6,300 alone (no gadget included).
Still, I don’t know a single person who would throw down so much money for a special-edition iPod — no matter how fierce their Prince fanaticism may be. This is even lamer than the $800 special-edition Beatles iPod we saw in October, which comes bundled with all the Beatles CDs, thus defeating the purpose of an iPod.
Product Page [Prince Opus]
We can’t vouch for the authenticity of these shots, but the fact that there’s fully five of them posted certainly lends some element of legitimacy. What’s more, the first half ’09 window is still very much confirmed by Palm, so let’s be honest: there pretty much have to be Pres floating around in some circles at this point. We didn’t necessarily anticipate “some circles” to mean “two peeps chilling at San Francisco’s Bring Your Own Wheel race,” but hey, whatever works. Catch another glorious shot in the wild after the break.
[Via Boy Genius Report]
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Palm Pre spotted just minding its own business in San Fran? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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From the beginning, Dell’s Adamo line of laptops have been anything but status quo. Starting with the company’s viral “leaks” on phony fashion sites, straight on to the weird launch / non-launch at CES, and culminating with a burst of PR boasting the systems’ surprisingly low-powered internals and freakishly high price-point, it’s been nothing if not noteworthy. Now we’ve finally had a chance to see how Dell’s answer to the MacBook Air (and X301 for good measure) performs in the real world. The big question? Is this beauty worth the time and trouble… and that big outlay of green? Read on for an in-depth look at what the Adamo does — and doesn’t — deliver on.
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Dell Adamo review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Chad and his friends. Alltel’s former pitchman has quite a few fans.
Back in January, I wrote a column on what Alltel customers need to know about the merger between their carrier and Verizon Wireless. Most of the questions I addressed in the post came from readers, but the …
(Credit: LeapFrog)I’ve heard people say that two-thirds of Americans are not good at math and the other half just don’t care. I totally agree, and we need to do something about this.
Apparently, the folks at LeapFrog think so, too. The company on Monday released its new …
Whenever Dell does unveil its much-hinted-about new handset, it will apparently be taking a non-traditional route to the market, according to an analyst report on Monday.
Dell has decided to sell its new product through retailers only, said Ashok Kumar of Collins Stewart. While that’s certainly interesting, and in line with Dell’s recent record of testing new ways of approaching the market with its products, the reason Kumar gives is far more tantalizing: He claims that U.S. and European carriers were none too impressed with Dell’s effort when the company tried to sign up some wireless partners during meeting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month.
Dell hasn't sold a handset since it axed the popular Axim in 2007.
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“The carriers, who see products from all the leading handset vendors, have decided to pass on Dell’s handset,” he wrote in a research note Monday. “Some carriers are citing a non-compelling product with a road map that lags competition.”
Dell hasn’t responded to a request for comment. But, if Kumar’s claims are true, this presents serious problems for Dell. The company already has relationships with some of the major carriers like AT&T and Verizon/Vodafone, which sells wireless service plans for its notebooks and Netbooks here in the U.S. and in Europe, and rejecting what will by its nature be a high-profile product from a current business partner doesn’t speak very well of the product’s competitiveness.
It will also handicap the device from the start, since U.S. consumers are conditioned to buy subsidized phones and may balk at paying full price. But the bigger problem is that there’s just not that much market share left to grab, especially without the marketing might of large carriers behind it.
“It’s a crowded market. Two years ago they may have had an opportunity, but RIM, Nokia and Apple have been joined by HTC, Samsung, LG, Palm, Motorola, (and Acer),” Kumar said in an interview. “The market is extremely crowded just as it’s slowing down.”…
Not even two weeks have passed since we first spotted HP’s 640GB MediaSmart Server LX195 in boxed form, care of Mr. Blurrycam, and now we’ve got what appears to be a couple of official press photos. Stylish aesthetics aside, it’s sporting four USBs, an ethernet port, and DC input for a power brick. What we’re not seeing is any way to swap out or add storage, so it looks like that “single drive server” speculation might be on the money. Speaking of which, the company still hasn’t made this official, and as such, there’s no word on pricing or availability.
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HP MediaSmart Server LX195 lights up in leaked images originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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An electronics analysis company performed a teardown of Apple’s latest iPod Shuffle, which revealed the product’s parts are only worth 28 percent of its retail price.
iSuppli, a company that deconstructs gadgets to evaluate their components’ value, estimates that altogether, the Shuffle costs Apple $21.77 with components, headphones and packaging accounted for. That’s about 28 percent of the Shuffle’s $80 price tag.
That estimate doesn’t include the costs of advertising, labor and development. But still, the Shuffle’s profit margin is higher than other iPod models, according to BusinessWeek. By way of comparison, the 2007 iPod Touch amounted to $147 in components — about half of its $300 retail price.
Is this what Tim Cook meant when he said in January that Apple would "invest our way through this downturn just as we did the last one"?
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Updated Monday, 9:30 p.m. PDT to clarify that the component estimate does not include costs of advertising, labor and development.
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