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Adobe Flash Coming to iPhone – Bringing 2 Million Developers With it

by Jay Garrett on January 11, 2010

Apple keeps holding Flash away from its flagship phone even though it seems that Adobe keeps asking nicely to join the party.

It sounds like this may change soon and with Flash comes Adobe’s 2 Million or so Flash Developers and they’re all heading towards the iPhone – whether Apple wants them or not!

The next version of Adobe’s Flash developer tools, Creative Suite 5 (currently in private beta), will include a “Packager for iPhone” app which will automatically convert any Flash app into an iPhone app. So while Flash apps won’t run on the iPhone, any Flash app can easily be converted into an iPhone app. (Microsoft is taking a similar approach with Silverlight). This is a bigger deal than many people appreciate.

As you know, most video on the Web (YouTube, etc) is displayed through a Flash player and even though Apple says that there’s problems with Flash it certainly seems to run ok on Android.

As well as the video playing Flash can be used to create Web apps. Apple kept Flash away not so to control the video experience on the iPhone, but because it needed to establish its own Apple-controlled iPhone SDK.

If you think that there’s plenty of apps to chose from now just wait ’til 2 million more developers join the current 125,000 iPhone app developers!

My word!

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Polaroid Instant Cameras Return With the PIC-1000

by Jay Garrett on January 10, 2010

Polaroid has confirmed its come-back with the promise of releasing a new Polaroid instant camera later this year.

There’s been a campaign and the Impossible Project rallied to keep the format alive by actually buying a Polaroid Film factory and promised us a new camera this year.

And here it is. The new camera will come in three colours – silver, black and faux wood and offer fans of the romanticised format to relive those glory days.

Other points are a tad sketchy but I’m guessing that these new cameras will follow the tried-and-tested designs of old.

Polaroid says that the new PIC-1000 will cost around £60.

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Sony Ericsson’s Revolutionary Smart Earphones – Changing Music Forever?

September 21, 2009 Click to read more →
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Hmmm…. remember last week and the bragging from Sony Ericsson about their gadget that will “change music forever”?
Prepare to be underwhelmed – I did warn you.
It turns out that the revolutionary product is the autoplay headphones but now they have a name: the MH907 Motion Activated Headphones.
They are pretty clever to give SE some [...]

Microsoft Store Plans Leaked – Pictures and Everything!

July 25, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you’re curious as to what Microsoft’s new retail stores are going to look like wonder no more – Gizmodo has been passed a Powerpoint presentation that shows all the plans and designs.
The presentation is by Lippincott, a “design and brand strategy” consultant firm with extensive retail experience that it appears Microsoft has hired to help develop [...]

LG BL-40 Chocolate Caught on Video

July 13, 2009 Click to read more →
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Now, I can’t promise that this is real but unless someone had a load of time on their hands, this video of the LG BL-40 Black Label Chocolate looks pretty convincing to me.
The rumored 21:9 800 x 345 display is there (which is said in the video to be 4 inches diagonal), as is the [...]

Sony PS3 Slim Out This Month [ Play Station ]

July 1, 2009 Click to read more →
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The PS3 Slim has been bouncing around the interweblogosphere for a while now and there’s even been pictures of the new console and its packaging but no one really had an idea when, if at all, the thing would bounce into the stores.
Until now!
How about this month?  How’s that grab ya?
The folk over at TechRadar spotted [...]

New Nokia N97 Mini Leaked – N97 Lite

June 18, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ooops – it looks like Vodafone Ireland is planning to offer the Nokia N97 “Mini” later this year – well, according to a loose-lipped Vodafone employee.
Ev, a forum moderator for Vodafone Ireland, made the gaff unofficial announcement in a forum thread on the topic of when the operator would be getting the Nokia’s spanky [...]

iPhone 3GS CPU and RAM Revealed

June 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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Apple is being predictably cagey with the hard specs of the iPhone 3GS.
That doesn’t stop T-Mobile Netherlands from plastering all the hard facts over their site
Fact me now daddy-oh!
Under the 3GS’s hood there beats 256MB of RAM with a 600MHz CPU.
That’s a boost up from 128MB and 412MHz found in the first-gen and the 3G, and it’s basically exactly [...]

New 4 gig iPhone Revelead

June 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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If the supposedly leaked documents from Canadian mobile phone operator Fido are to be believed then we could be seeing a 4GB iPhone 3G on offer for $99.
The “roadmap” docs are supposed to show the operator’s handset line up for the coming year and was leaked to Boy Genius Report.
And lookee at that 4GB iPhone [...]

New iPhone 3.0 Pics Revealed – MMS, Autofocus and Compass

May 31, 2009 Click to read more →
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While I was stuck in a basement studio near Brick Lane, the rest of the world got sight of some of screens from the iPhone 3.0 firmware.
It’s really hotting up ahead of WWDC next week. 
These pictures show the compass – in photorealistic colour – and a few of the sub screens including video recording and MMS sending.
The full [...]

Sony PS3 Slim Spy Shots Published

May 14, 2009 Click to read more →
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What you’re looking at is the Sony PS3 Slim.
A sleek, redesigned version of the Sony PS3 is apparently in production, if pictures from the manufacturing plant and posted on a Chinese message board, are to be trusted.
The Kotaku writers that grabbed this story, and commenters on their post, have already questioned the validitiy of these pictures.
There are particularly [...]

Microsoft Pink Phone Specs Revealed – I’m Still Confused

May 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet says she’s got the specs for the Windows Mobile 7 Chassis 1 – the heart of that rumored “Pink” smartphone and those specs are quite, quite fab!
According to the list the Chassis 1 phones will all have a 3.5 inch (or larger) multitouch display and will be powered by an [...]

Sony’s New Alpha Range Details Slips Out Accidentally

May 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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Oooopsy!
Sony’s Russian site accidentally posted details of the new Sony Alpha DSLR range over the weekend and then swiftly removed it all again hoping no-one would spot it.
Wrong!
As you can see (click the pic for the large and readable version!) – there’s the brand new Sony Alpha 230, Alpha 330 and Alpha 380 digital cameras, [...]

Why is 160 The Magic Number for SMS Text Messages?

May 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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Have you ever wondered why you can’t text more than 160  characters?
If you thought it was because of software or hardware limitations or even crazy mathematics you’d be way off according to LA Times.
Apparently, it’s because some German bloke thought 160 was “perfectly sufficient.”
Friedham Hillebrand was a communications researcher who was working with a group developing [...]

New BlackBerry Product List Uncovered

April 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ok CrackBerry fans!
BGR has managed to grab some initial specs as well as product code names for some up-and-coming BlackBerry devices!
The BlackBerry products that are being tested and tweaked have the manly aftershave sounding names of Onyx, Driftwood and Magnum.
Grrrrrr!
BGR ‘acquired’ the name list that is in all probability a list of three different code names for one product [...]

iPhone 3.0 Beta 2 Reveals More Homescreens and Video MMS

April 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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The Beta 2 version of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS is pointing towards great things!
It seems that iPhone and iPod touch users (with some tweaking) will be able to receive video MMS and they’ll see their number of homescreens increased when the iPhone Software 3.0 is released during the summertime.
Those lovely folk from Apple Insider have even posted [...]