Bloomberg is reporting that a top engineer at Apple [AAPL] warned of potential antenna problems early on in the iPhone 4 development phase.
The top engineer called Ruben Caballero is an antenna expert who informed management at Apple about the design’s potential to cause issues.
As well as Ruben raising the voice of warning to Apple management it is also believe at least one carrier partner also raised concerns about the new design before the June 24 release date.
Although we’ll never know for sure if Ruben mentioned this or not, it’s certainly difficult to imagine that Apple didn’t spot the problem whilst testing the device. It is also surprising that their press release about a few weeks back also didn’t accept there was an issue. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] could be updating the MacBook Air this year. We are hearing that Apple could be shrinking down the 13.3 inch screen down to 11.6 inches putting it closer to netbook territory. We also hear that a new low-voltage Core processor could be added along with a new GPU.
As well as changing the formula that calculates the signal strength and bars on the iPhone 4, iOS 4.1 also includes ACRCP stereo Bluetooth controls.
Apricorn has updated it’s Aegis Bio range of portable hard drives by upping the capacity to 640GB.
The Elonex 710EB eBook reader with colour screen is now available for pre-order in the UK. The device has an LED backlit screen measuring 7 inches which is a change from the usual e-ink we see on most eBook Readers. The LCD screen does drain battery life though from the usual “days or weeks” that we see with e-Ink down to 8 hours on a single charge.
Buffalo has launched a new media-player called the Link Theatre LT-V100. The new model supports 1080p video, DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1 and also supports several formats which include MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP/ASP and MPEG-4 AVC.
CultofMac have looked in to what new is coming with the iOS 4.1 update that launched in beta to developers just last night. We already know that the signal bar is being redone with the lower 3 bars being raised slightly and a whole new and accurate formula to represent what signal users have.
HP is rumoured to be releasing a few tablet computers although it’s not exactly clear just yet which direction they are going. Earlier this year the HP Slate was announced where Microsoft [MSFT] showed the Slate running Windows 7. Shortly after that it appeared that the Windows version of the HP Slate was going to be scrapped due to HP buying Palm which included the rights to webOS. We then heard a HP webOS tablet would be launched as well as a HP Android Tablet.
Last week we heard rumours that T-Mobile could be launching the Samsung Vibrant Galaxy S class smartphone on July 15. It turns out the rumour was correct and for those in the US, you can now go ahead and buy the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant.
Today is July 15 which means that the Motorola DROID X is now available to purchase.
Apple [AAPL] has pushed out iOS 4.1 to developers. The new update includes the fix for the signal reporting problems that the iPhone 4 has. Something to note here is that it doesn’t fix the antenna problems, but instead just fixes the signal bars so that they represent the actual signal better.
