David Hockney "Van Gogh would have loved it"∞
The iPad gets praise from artist and royal academician David Hockney. Here´s another article from Bloomberg dated April, 25th.
Hockney has been drawing on his iPhone for some time using the brushes app and and has now moved to the iPad’s bigger screen.
The quote sticking out most reads: “It can be anything you want it to be. This is the nearest we have got to seeing what I would call a universal machine.”
Dilbert "That Lost 4G Phone"∞
Scott Adams’ Dilbert and the lost iPhone prototype
The Gizmodo/iPhone fiasco
Word (and pictures) on the future of iPhone are out in the streets thanks to an Apple engineer who supposedly left the device in a Redwood, Ca. Bar and Gizmodo the notorious gadget blog subsidiary of Gawker Media who paid $5000 to get their hands on the prototype device.
For an in depth write up on the legal implications read John Grubers article over at Daring Fireball.
As to the outcome of this whole fiasco I asume Apple is quite happy about that the device ending up with someone who obvoiusly had no idea of how to handle the situation and whom to offer the gadget to. The super secret device could have easily ended up in the labs of Apples competitors. Google, HTC, Motorola or Palm come to mind. I´m pretty confident one of those would have paid tenfold the amount the alleged “finder” received from gawker media.
The way it played out, the public who is always longing for rumours and peeks at new Apple devices, got no new information regarding the technology inside the next generation iPhone whatsoever. Front facing camera, higher resolution display and camera flash all of those features had been discussed earlier on the web and were, to a certain extend, the expected evolution in a future iteration of Apples cellphone.
Ther was no information regarding the CPU which is to power the device or the amount of memory it´s going to have. 80GB doesn´t sound like a proper figure as flash memory normaly increases by power of two which means the next step after todays 64GB would be 128GB.
The only thing left is the design of the device, which had been published on twitter back in february and noone can say if the photos on Gizmodo do actually show the device as it will sell later this year.
Please Make the iPhone Weather Application Location Aware∞
No comment needed. Via Daring Fireball
Opera Mini for iPhone approved∞
It´s unbelievably fast. The UI is sort of different, pinch to zoom doesn´t work as I expect it to and overall there´s room for some improvement in usability. One thing is the interface for deleteing/configuring bookmarks on the home page disappears so fast it´s unusable to me.
But it´s so fast I can´t believe it. It´s a good sign that Apple approved it.
Daring Fireball Linked List: WSJ's Lame Entry in the iPhone Rumors Game∞
Daring Fireballs John Gruber adds detail to yesterdays vague WSJ post. Namely an Apple A4 soc, a 960x640 resolution screen, a front facing camera and the frequently mentioned third-party multitasking expected to arrive in iPhone OS 4.0
Two New IPhones Coming; One May Be Aimed at Verizon - WSJ.com∞
New iPhones to be announced in the June-July timeframe. Verizon has long been rumored to be negotiating with Apple over a CDMA version of the iPhone maybe it will become a reality this year.
TED.com Non-flash version available∞
TED.com is now available in non-flash.
Digg for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store∞
Digg finally has its own iPhone app.
