Yesterday Steve Jobs said at the WWDC conference that the iPhone was launching June 29th at 6PM. Which sounded a little strange to everyone, most expected them to be released upon store opening. Alas old Steve Job was wrong, the iPhones will be sold upon Apple and AT & T store openings. It seems Steve’s eyes wandered from the prompter for a little there.
Toshiba announced the 600GB RD-A600 and 300GB RD-A300 today in Japan that have a pair of HD Tuners, HD DVD Burners, and and HDMI port. Don’t expect these to come cheap however as the 600gb monster is priced aroud $1,500 in Japan.
Remember that faitful day when the tubes of the internet became clogged due to the release of the GTA IV Trailer, well plan for more cloggage June 28th. Hopefully more will be revealed as little could be taken out of the previous trailer besides A) Theres a russian guy and B) It look like its located in New York City. So set your alarms, June 28th.
What a letdown, no new hardware, and mostly rehashes from the previous demonsration of Leopard we got. The two new things: You can develope for the iPhone thru the Safari Browser, and they are making Safari for Windows. Now that youve soiled your pants click here to get everything we know about Leopard in one paragraph.
This of course is not including the Playstation 3. Today Toshiba announced sales of 150,000 HD DVD Players since its release last year. According to TG Daily, if this was to include Playstation 3 sales than Blu-Ray has sole 20 times more hardware than HD DVD. Just recently, however, the HD-A2 Toshibas lowest end player reached a price point of $199 through online retailers (though it remainded at this price point only a day) much lower than that of Blu-Rays cheapest player. So the war continues between more movie support (Blu-Ray) or lower prices (HD DVD).
Yeah its that, that big silver brick looking thing. Philips yet to be named media streamer they showed at computex this year, which uses HDMI and toslink for you video and audio needs while also sporting a USB 2.0 input, looks very similar doesn’t it. No specifications or interface were shown, however.
With All this iPhone talk we need some Palm rumors! Schedualed for Q4 this year and hitting Springt first this beast sports EV-DO Rev A. speeds, WiFi, GPS, a 320×320 display, 256MB flash, 128MB RAM, a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and an expansion slot, while using Windows Mobile 6 as the OS. Quite a step up and finally some WiFi!
The Financial Times is reporting that Apple is in talks with large tv studios to offer an online film rental service.
The proposed cost is $2.99 for a 30 day rental in which you can move it to another device (iPhone, iPod, AppleTV) only once. This of course has the executives at movie companies all giddy as these rentals should not affect dvd sales as the movie sales on iTunes do. One executive stated the service would “compete against cable companies and anyone else offering VOD into the home”. And another said “When you think about Apple customers they are so connected to the brand they will try anything to do with it,” said one senior studio executive.
