iPhone OS 3.0 event: coverage details and our wishlist
Apple is set to unveil the next version of iPhone OS tomorrow morning at a special media event. Ars will be there to live blog from the presentation at the Town Hall on Apple's Cupertino campus. While we wait for the festivities to start at 10am PDT (12pm CDT) Tuesday, we thought we share some of our wishes for Apple's next mobile OS. There are some obvious features that seem a like a no-brainer: support for tethering, which AT&T has already said is coming; full Bluetooth support, including stereo headsets, external keyboards, and file transfer; compatibility with Apple's new advanced inline controls on new headphones, push notifications; the previously rumored copy and paste; and MMS support. Any or all of these would be good candidates for feature additions, most of which have been clamored for since the iPhone was launched almost two years ago. Click here to read the rest of this article
published on Monday, the 16. March 2009, ars-technica
LG touch phone sequel gets removable keyboard
A leak surfacing at HowardForums on Friday has confirmed that LG is developing a sequel to its successful Voyager phone that would try to bridge the difference between pure touchscreen phones like the Dare or Apple's iPhone as well as the Voyager's original flip formula. The VX9600 Versa can operate as a clamshell with a full QWERTY keyboard and a small external display but detaches to work solel...
published on Friday, the 23. January 2009, macintosh-news-network
Jailbroken iPhone Gains a Keyboard
Someone with a formidable knowledge of iPhone hardware has managed to attach a working external keyboard to his 3G iPhone. For those inclined, there are some technical explanations here and here, though the translation renders them difficult to understand. It would appear that at present this is primarily a proof of concept, and doesn’t perform any [...]
published on Monday, the 10. November 2008, apple-blog
iPhone used to create user-controllable robot
The same Japanese man who hacked an external keyboard to work with the iPhone has also created a self-propelled iPhone robot that can be controlled via WiFi and captures video of what it sees.Read More...
published on Friday, the 7. November 2008, ars-technica
External keyboard hacked to work with iPhone
Ars looks at an external keyboard hacking project that allows users to type to their iPhones, but this isn't the only solution.Read More...
published on Thursday, the 6. November 2008, ars-technica
Apple Announces MacBook Air
Apple made four announcements at MacWorld Expo: the new MacBook Air, new features for the iPhone and iTunes, and movie rentals via iTunes from a TV without a computer involved. The new portable gets most of the attention. It is 0.76" thick at the thickest part, tapering to 0.16". It weight 3 pounds and has a 13.3" screen and full-size, backlit keyboard. Its Intel chip is the diameter of a dime and the thickness of a nickel. The MacBook Air will cost $1799 and up. Its storage is either 80 GB disk or 64 GB solid-state drive. 2 GB of memory. It has no optical drive (an external one is available for $99) and features a way to wirelessly use the optical drive of any nearby Mac or PC with the proper software installed.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Tuesday, the 15. January 2008, apple-slashdot