Apple released iPhone firmware 2.2 tonight, after many expected they would release the software update tomorrow morning. Containing new features for Google Maps, a revised Safari layout, bug fixes, and other small UI settings updates, the new firmware is pretty hefty at almost 250MB and is available now via iTunes.
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iPhone 3G isn’t doing too poorly; actually, it’s doing amazingly. Not only is the phone helping Apple’s revenue, but it’s helping Apple break records and grow in the mobile phone market. Not only has Apple jumped over RIM as the #2 smartphone seller worldwide, it is now the top selling handset in the US. The [...]
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We aren’t big BlackBerry users here at blargKABOOM, being the Apple/iPhone fanboys we are; however, this month has been pretty exciting over at the BlackBerry camp so here’s the latest in BlackBerry news.
the Bold launches on AT&T, finally: after seeing the Bold practically a year ago, the phone has finally launched on a major US carrier. [...]
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You can check out our unboxing and hands-on video of the Nintendo DSi on our Youtube page and above. The device just came out in Japan last week and is selling like crazy. North American launch is expected mid/early next year and unless you can speak and read Japanese, count importing out: these puppies can’t [...]
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Barack Obama elected President is definitely the main story tonight, but the side store – CNN used hologram technology during their election coverage. What? Hologram do you say? No…. this isn’t Star Wars. Well, it may not be up to the Star Wars bar yet, but it’s getting there. CNN “beamed” (as Wolf Blitzer says) [...]
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T-Mobile’s G1, the first Google Android-powered phone, is arriving for some lucky customers. Slated for an official launch Wednesday, the G1 has been selling extremely well in pre-orders and customers are slowly but surely starting to receive their Google powered wonders. Whether the phone and the platform itself will turn out to be a success, [...]
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Apple’s “Spotlight on Notebooks” event was held today and with it came exactly what was expected. Both the MacBook and MacBook Pro received updates. First, Jony Ive spoke about the new “brick” manufacturing process. Exactly like what we had heard, the brick manufacturing simply means that the computer starts as a single block of aluminum [...]
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“The spotlight turns to notebooks.”
With Apple’s notebook event starting in almost 10 hours, its only fitting that we roundup the most recent rumors and give you a spotlight of where to go for coverage.
COVERAGE:
As with normal Apple event coverage, check out Engadget and Live.Gizmodo for live up-to-the-second coverage. Besides those two live sources, MacRumors will [...]
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Confirming the rumors, Apple has invited the press to a notebook event on October 14. Looking at the image itself, bbGadgets looked at the image and scaled it to the current MacBook Pro. Apparently, if the Apple logo is 1.5 inches, that laptop is 13.3 inches diagonal (current MacBook dimension.) So could this image be [...]
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Rumors have been flying around for months about Apple refreshing their MacBook and MacBook Pro lines in design orientated way. Neither the MacBook nor the MacBook Pro has faced major design and style changes since each products respective introductions back in May and January of 2006. Since the end of last year, rumors popped up [...]
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