Initial sales of the iPhone will be modest, but sales will accelerate once the the price of the iPhone starts to hit the “sweet spot of the mobile phone market”, according to analyst Charles Wolf of Needham & Co in a note to investors.
As if we needed more evidence that the iPod media players are as much about fashion as they are about technology, Apple has announced that the iPod shuffle will be available in five colors: blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver.
It has been surprisingly discovered that Sony didn’t win an award for the SIXAXIS - the award was for the historical innovation of Sony’s Dual Shock – an award shared by Nintendo’s D-Pad controller!
The world’s thinnest phone with widescreen video iPod, photo player, Internet browser, email device and much more has just been launched. It’s the gadget of the decade! Totally, utterly, jaw-droppingly amazing.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) is now denying that it made comments that 10,000 .com domain names owned by Chinese Internet users were lost after all. So, what’s going on?!
At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, GM are showing off a concept car called the Chevrolet Volt. It’s the successor to the EV-1, last seen in the movie ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’. So, Hooray! An electric car from a big manufacturer is coming back. But one caveat - it’s still a hybrid, and it’s not available until ‘the end of the decade’.
Can it really be true? A major car company, the one that ‘killed’ the electric car, is finally bringing one back. GM’s website has an interesting press release with all the details, but no doubt we’ll be reading much more about their new car in the days ahead as the Detroit Auto Show kicks off next week.
If you live in Australia and have an Officeworks superstore nearby, I discovered a can’t-miss deal that only lasts until January 15 – a hi-speed, brand name 1Gb flash drive for less than AUD $30!
The launch of a unified Blu-ray/HD DVD drive from LG, and new ‘dual format’ discs called ‘Total HD’ from Warner Bros are certainly steps in the right direction, but it won’t be until much later in 2007 that consumers will truly see any benefit. Thank goodness these developments have happened, as they’ll help to end the format war madness. But why did we ever have to go through this ridiculous pain at all?
Halo hungry Xbox 360 owners will get access to the Halo 3 beta in two interesting ways – one a guaranteed way, by buying new Xbox 360 game ‘Crackdown’, the other by playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live for three hours from the 1st to the 3rd of Febraury, and being one of the first 13,333 people to do so.
Can Apple really deliver something new in around a dozen categories, like the iPod phone, new widescreen iPods, a 12-inch MacBook, a Mac Tablet and much more… and will the press only focus on what wasn’t delivered, instead of what was?
The recent undersea earthquake near Taiwan continues to cause chaos in the Asian region for Internet users, with Chinese .com domain name owners the latest casualty!
Finally someone has the sense to launch a dual format player – but what will this do for sales of already expensive existing single format next generation players?
Seagate says a 300 Terabit hard drive, or one that stores 37 Terabytes, will be available to purchase by 2010. That means over 6000 Blu-ray discs on a single hard drive!
What might we expect to see happen in 2007? Read on…