RIM has announced a substantial upgrade to the operating system powering BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry OS 6.0 is intended to bolster BlackBerry’s appeal to consumers, with web browsing in particular a focus. The new OS will be released in the third quarter of this year.
The iPad Camera Connection Kit is not only a collection of two dock connector dongles designed to help you get photos onto an iPad from nearly any digital camera. It turns out the kit can also help you connect other USB devices to an iPad, making it that much more useful to those looking to go iPad-only for some tasks.
One of the Camera Connection Kit’s two dongles has a USB port for connecting almost any digital camera via its USB cable (the other has an SD card slot). Connecting a camera or other device that reports itself as a digital camera, including an iPhone, will allow you to download full-resolution images into the iPad’s Photos app.
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is approaching the smartphone market in a whole new way. Windows Mobile allowed many different variations of processor performance, screen resolution, touch capability, and sensor hardware, resulting in many different phones in many different form factors, at a range of price points. The huge flexibility offered with Windows Mobile is now gone; at launch, Windows Phone 7 will support only one screen resolution (with a second arriving some time later), will have a range of mandatory sensors (GPS, accelerometer, proximity, camera), and demand particular high-performance ARM processors.
The iPad Camera Connection Kit is not only a collection of two dock connector dongles designed to help you get photos onto an iPad from nearly any digital camera. It turns out the kit can also help you connect other USB devices to an iPad, making it that much more useful to those looking to go iPad-only for some tasks.
One of the Camera Connection Kit’s two dongles has a USB port for connecting almost any digital camera via its USB cable (the other has an SD card slot). Connecting a camera or other device that reports itself as a digital camera, including an iPhone, will allow you to download full-resolution images into the iPad’s Photos app.
It has been an exciting week in the Apple section of Ars, with our review of Photoshop CS5, iWork for the iPad, and Apple’s second quarter earnings liveblog. There was also that pesky next-gen iPhone leak, an explanation of the iPad’s DHCP issues, why the AMD processors might work in the iMac, and why the 13″ MacBook Pro didn’t get a Core i5 upgrade. Read on for the summary:
The HTC/Palm marriage that was the stuff of so many geek dreams is now off the table, according to Reuters. The wire service cites sources who claim that HTC took a look at Palm’s books and declined to make an offer. This leaves Lenovo as the most likely bidder for the failing Palm.
Lenovo is the fourth-largest PC maker, and the company is open about the fact that it wants to shift into smartphones, claiming that it expects mobile Internet products to make up a double-digit percentage of its revenue in five years. Lenovo just launched an Android-based smartphone, LePhone, in China, and the company is one of many that’s looking to the Chinese telecom boom for big profits.
Apple isn’t giving any ground in its decision to keep Flash content off its mobile devices, and Adobe has made no effort to hide its displeasure with Apple’s decision. Flash will continue to be available for the Mac for the foreseeable future, on the other hand, even though many users find its performance less than stellar. The lackluster performance may change, though: Apple recently added an official API to access the H.264 decoding features of certain NVIDIA GPUs used in recent Macs, and Adobe plans to use these APIs to improve Flash performance when playing back video content.
When Intuit announced Quicken Essentials for Mac—the first Mac product update in four years—the company faced wide consumer criticism for both its price and a long list of missing features. It seems that Intuit has heard your cries loud and clear: the company is officially dropping the price $20 and plans to roll out several new feature additions over the next few months.
As many Ars readers know, iFixit has long been a source for detailed teardowns of the latest Apple gear. The company’s teardowns not only provide information about the chips and other components in each new MacBook Pro or iPhone, the company also gives users the necessary information about tools and techniques needed to get inside the devices. iFixit now hopes to build a compendium of quality, trusted online repair manuals for almost anything you own that might need fixing.
Apple has redesigned its MagSafe adapter for the latest MacBook Pros. From the looks of it, it may be less susceptible to stress just below the connector.
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