Steve Jobs moved on from discussing the Apple App Store to the company’s iPhone products. According to Jobs, iPhone now has 28 percent of US smartphone market, behind RIM at 35 percent. In terms of mobile web browsing, the iPhone commands a 58 percent market share.
Joking that some attendees have “already seen this,” Jobs moved on to introduce iPhone 4, saying it has 100 new features. The iPhone 4 is 9.3mm thick, about 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS was. It includes a micro-SIM tray, a new camera on the back with an LED flash and new front-facing camera. It also adds a second mic on the top for noise cancellation purposes.
The new 5 megapixel camera features 5x digital zoom and adds 720p HD video capture at 30 frames per second. Apple also will be releasing an iPhone version of its iMovie video editing software that will make it possible for users to record and edit video. It will be available for $5.
Three antennas are integrated into the design; one for UMTS and GSM, one for Bluetooth and one for WiFi and GPS. The phone supports 802.11n wireless networking and quad-band HSPDPA/HSUPA networking which theoretically can support 7.2Mb/s download and 5.8Mb/s upload. Jobs joked that these figures are theoretical because carriers don’t support them just yet.
Driving the new iPhone is the Apple-designed A4 chip which puts an emphasis on power management and space saving. Combined with the new battery, Apple says this will boost talk time to 7 hours. The battery can provide 300 hours standby time, 10 hours WiFi web browsing, 40 hours of music, 10 hours of video or 6 hours 3G web browsing.
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Plextor made a surprising announcement today when it introduced two dual-format HD optical drives, the B920SA and B300SA, both of which can read Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.
Although the HD DVD format is now obsolete, the new drives gives owners a chance to watch their HD DVD titles on a computer while also allowing them to make way for Blu-ray.
The B920SA can burn 25GB BD discs at up to 4X speed and can write CDs and DVDs at 16x. The B300SA cannot write Blu-ray discs but can read at a relatively fast 6X speed. Both drives connect through Serial ATA and will ship in March for $450 USD and $600 USD respectively. Each drive comes bundled with movie playback, burning, and editing software for Windows systems.
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JVC has debuted three new HD Everio camcorders which promise to bring new features never before seen on camcorders.
The HD30 and HD40 are the first camcorders that capture picture in AVCHD (H.264) or MPEG-2 format with the ability to use either. AVC is better quality and more efficient but MPEG-2 is widespread and might be easier for some to edit.
The HD40 also claims to be the “longest-running HD camcorder available” with its ability to record up to 50 hours of 1920×1080 video at “Extended Play” mode. Of course at full quality, recording time is only 15 hours, but that it is still a very long running time. The HD40 boasts a 120GB HDD and the HD30 offers the same recording capabilities but with a built-in 80GB HDD instead.
The third camera, a more entry level HD camcorder, the HD10 has a 40GB HDD and has a 1440×1080 resolution.
Each new Everio supports “HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color on compatible HDTVs, a newer HD Gigabrid Duo image processing chip, and the choice of using either Firewire or uSB for transfers. The camera lines come with Windows editing software and a plug-in to allow MPEG-2 editing in Final Cut Pro and iMovie.”
JVC adds that AVCHD support is already built into Apple’s latest software and should not be a problem. The camcorders are set to ship in early August with pricetags of $800 USD for the HD10, $1,000 USD for the HD30, and $1,300 USD for the high end HD40.
