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Some technical specs of a new camera from Nikon have surfaced. The new DSLR camera is expected to be the Nikon D800 and when it launches, it will have a 36 megapixel sensor. The Nikonrumors site puts a 99% probability on this bit of information.
Nikon D700 Pictured
We’re just over 6 hours away from the launch event for the iPhone 5 and as expected, more details/rumours carry on appearing on the web. The next rumour says that Apple [AAPL] is signing a deal with Sprint so that the network gets an exclusive on the iPhone 5 for the remainder of this year. The transaction is rumoured to be worth $20 billion as they have committed to buy 30 million iPhones.
One of the main features of the rumoured iPhone 5 is something called Assistant. The new service is expected to be for the new iPhone only rather than on older generation devices. The reason for this is that it needs an Apple A5 processor to run successfully.
Make no mistake: Apple’s ‘mainstreaming’ Artificial Intelligence in the form of a Virtual Personal Assistant is a groundbreaking event. I’d go so far as to say it is a World-Changing event. Right now a few people dabble in partial AI enabled apps like Google Voice Actions, Vlingo or Nuance Go. Siri was many iterations ahead of these technologies, or at least it was two years ago. This is REAL AI with REAL market use. If the rumors are true, Apple will enable millions upon millions of people to interact with machines with natural language. The PAL will get things done and this is only the tip of the iceberg. We’re talking another technology revolution. A new computing paradigm shift.
Microsoft reports that Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is working well on smartphones that it has rolled out to. The company also announced on the Windows Team Blog that within hours they had seen successful updates on every network in every country on almost every up-datable WP7 device.
Since the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire, some have speculated (and calculated) that Amazon is losing $50 per tablet sold. More numbers have now been calculated that indicate Amazon is actually making $50 per tablet sold.
The chart below was created by Chitika (the ad network) and shows smartphone usage across its network of a good number of websites. The numbers reveal that between August and September of this year that the Apple smartphone usage dropped 1.4% down to 48%. Filling the gap was RIM and and Samsung going up to 4% and 11%.
Google has added a new view to Google Maps. When planning a journey you now have the option to specify a helicopter view of your route. The reason behind the change is so that you can fly along your route before driving it to get a sense of where you are going and what you’ll see on the way.
We are yet to find out what the next generation iPhone will look like. We can asume it will be called the iPhone 5 but other than that we don’t know if it will retain the same design as the iPhone 4 or if it will look completely different. BENM.AT have managed to create a mockup of what they believe the iPhone 5 will look like. It was created with CAD drawings and was created from a block of aluminium.
Apple is holding an event this coming Tuesday to talk about the iPhone. We assume this means that the iPhone 5 will be launched. China Unicom has now hinted that the iPhone 5 will be capable of connecting up to HSPA+ at speeds of up to 21Mbps.
iFixit has taken apart one of the new Apple Thunderbolt displays. This particular model is the 27 inch, 2560 x 1440 screen. The screen was relatively easy to open and once inside, it contained a surprise amount of chips allowing to speedily connect up via the Thunderbolt Port.
We will shortly see the launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. When it launches, one of the new features will be Twitter integration. You might be asking what Twitter is doing to prepare for iOS 5… the answer is not much at all.
A few new Apple devices have appeared in the Apple inventory according to 9to5Mac. In total there are 2 new iPhone SKUs as well as 3 new iPod touch SKUs. Read on to see what they are.
