At last we know. On the 11th of July 2008 Apple will make available the second generation iPhone in 22 major markets and it will be available 70 countries within several months according to Steve Jobs who announced the launch today at Apple’s World Wide Developers’ Conference.
Physical navigation keys are dead — long live ‘virtual keys’. The LG KF600 is a sliding smartphone with a difference. Its keys are displayed on a screen allowing them to reform into any displayable image, enabling the keys to modify as you browse the phone’s interface.
Apple has filed a patent which indicates a new generation of iPods equipped with scrollwheels providing feedback using illumination of the wheel itself. The illustration accompanying the patent shows a scrollwheel of the familiar design which glows brighter the greater the scrolling input from the user’s finger.
Samsung has today launched a very striking dual sliding phone based on the Nokia s60 3rd Edition Feature Pack. Sliding up you get a numeric keypad like so many of Samsung’s latest offerings, but sliding down reveals a large Bang and Olufsen speaker and the touch-activated multimedia screen fires up.
Here’s a list of the significant technical announcements from MacWorld 2008. Each of the headlines below is fleshed out in a full post — just click on the links to get the juicy details!
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