Steve Jobs announces iPhone OS 3.1.
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Updated at 2:00pm PT with screenshots
At its special event Wednesday, Apple announced the latest iPhone software update iPhone 3.1. We’re still downloading it now, but below you can read the list of changes as provided …
Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
Edge-lit LED backlighting has allowed LCDs to get thinner than ever, but at some point you run into physical limitation; you can’t make a TV thinner than the actual inputs. That is, unless you move the inputs somewhere else, which is precisely what Sony has done with its new KDL-XBR10 line of LCDs. The XBR10 series uses a separate media receiver to handle inputs, and it transmits video wirelessly to the display, similar to the design of Panasonic’s 1-inch-thick Z1 plasmas. The rest of the features are similar to what’s available on other Sony LCDs; let’s take a look.
Key features of the Sony KDL-XBR10 series:
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Sony’s new slogan for the PS3 Slim is “Does everything.” Unfortunately, the company traditionally hasn’t take the same approach to its standalone Blu-ray players, which have lacked the streaming media services available on LG and Samsung Blu-ray players.
That’s about to change with the Sony BDP-N460, which the company announced on Wednesday at CEDIA 2009. In addition to Blu-ray playback, the BDP-460 has access to the Bravia Video Internet platform, which includes YouTube, Slacker, and eventually Netflix (via a firmware update coming this fall.) Sony also mentions that the player includes a cross-service search function, making it easier to find content.
Like its other players, it’s also Profile 2.0-compatible, so you’ll be able to use streaming-Internet-enabled BD-Live features, but you’ll need to add storage via the USB port to do so. Unlike the step-up BDP-S560, there’s no built-in Wi-Fi, although Sony says the BDP-N460 is designed to work with the Linksys WET610N Wi-Fi bridge (sold separately). Rounding out its functionality is …
Sony STR-DA5500ES
Like many manufacturers, Sony has two brands of its AV receivers–the standard line (from the STR-DH100 and the STR-DG1200) and the premium, ES (elevated standard) line. Today at CEDIA, the company announced two new models of the ES line, the STR-DA3500ES and STR-DA5500ES. Let’s take a look at the feature breakdown.
Key features of the Sony STR-DA3500ES:
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Now that you’ve gotten yourself a new ride by trading in your clunker, it’s time to do the same with your wireless router.
Meraki, the first networking vendor to bring the Wireless-N standard outdoors earlier this year, launched Wednesday its Cash for Wireless LAN Clunkers promotion campaign.
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At the start of the event today Steve Jobs received a standing ovation from the assembled crowd, and took a moment to thank everybody for their support and encourage us all to be as generous as the organ donor who saved his life. He’s “vertical” now, and claims to be already at work coming up with some “incredible new products” for the future. We’re just glad to have you back, Steve! Video is after the break.
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Here we go again: round umpteen of the fight to break and re-enable Pre syncing with iTunes is now underway thanks to the release of iTunes 9, and we’re sure there’s plenty more where this came from. Endlessly amusing to casual observers, yes, but Pre customers are the ones losing out — sure, Palm might be able fix this in a jiffy (especially since they continue to tout compatibility with the Pixi), but meanwhile, media sync’s out of the picture once more. Stay tuned for more on this as it develops.
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iTunes 9 breaks Pre media sync… what did you expect? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The dust has cleared on yet another Apple event. Now seems like an appropriate time to tally up the biggest disappointments from the event.
First, the good news in the world of unfulfilled rumors: Reports of the faulty camera hardware were apparently greatly exaggerated. Early this week, there was a lot of talk that Apple had received bad cameras for its upcoming Nano, delaying the device indefinitely. As Steve Jobs himself noted, the new video-equipped Nano is available now, so either the thing doesn’t work (which I suppose isn’t unheard of), or someone got their information wrong.
All right, so what’s the bad news? No tablet. Most recent rumors have pegged the device with a 2010 release date, so, all things considered, this one wasn’t really a huge disappointment.
It’s interesting to take note of Phil Schiller’s description of the iPod Touch as a pocket computer, however. There’s nothing especially new about this description, of course–what is interesting was the accompanying image of some poor sap attempting to shove a Dell notebook in his back pocket.
In a sense, the image wasn’t just an attack on Dell; it was another confirmation of Jobs’s staunch anti-netbook stance. Unless Jobs changes his public view of such devices (which, also isn’t unheard of), Apple will likely position a tablet as something of an “anti-netbook,” a shiny multi-media device, and not the $300 pieces of plastic people love to toss in their backpacks.
We’ve seen some thin laptops in our day, but 9.99mm is pretty dang thin (thinner than an iPhone, in fact). There’s no other info on this new Adamo, and Dell is calling it the “9.99mm Design Concept,” which doesn’t really help us know how far along it is. Let’s just hope Dell didn’t have to succumb to Atom to get the size down this far.
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The big star of today’s Apple event in San Francisco had to be the latest version of the iPod Nano. Chief amongst the music player’s new features is a video camera placed on the bottom rear of the device.
After the presentation, out editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff managed to get some hands-on time with the new device on the show room floor. Check out some more exclusive images of the new iPod Nano after the jump.
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