The Dates

Everyone on the internet has it set that the tablet will make a appearance in the iPod refresh keynote which is rumored to be sometime in the week beginning the 9th. This could be true, well that it makes an appearance, Gizmodo says it’s release is three months away which I would agree with.

The Price

I think this is one of the more sketchy-er details, Apple always seem to have way off prices compared to estimates that turn up in rumors. Many reports are saying the pricing will be between the highest end iPod Touch (Currently £283) and the cheapest Macbook (£749). If I’m honest I do think it will be in those brackets but defiantly at the more expensive side of the scale.

The Who

Steve Jobs as we all know has had a huge say in this product and according to Gizmodo he has held the tablet back twice for not meeting his needs and wants. Apparently it was held due to battery and memory problems. In a way it really shows how much Jobs wants the product to be the best that Apple can produce.

The Look

There’s been a million and one different mock ups that we’ve seen and I’m going to be honest and say that some of them do look similar to what I have pictured in my mind as the tablet. As of yet I don’t think anyone has been able to get the interface correct yet, But I guess we’ll leave that to Apple!

The End

So of course this Tuesday is iPhone 3.0 day. So from 5pm GMT we’ll be covering live for you! We’ll bring it all live to you so make sure you’re there! So things you need are: Tuesday, 5pm, technoblast.co.uk/live. Easy! Speculate rumours bellow!

iLife 09

Phil said that he had three things for us so this was one. iPhoto got a few new features and some well needed features too. iPhoto got three main new features. Faces and Places. Faces is a sort of ‘facebook tag’ feature, but with a lovely bit of Apple ingenuity sprinkled on top. It automatically recognizes faces  (OMG FACE RECOGNITION!?) and tags them. You can then browse photo’s by who’s in them or the other way round. Places is the same but for… Places? It knows where the pic was taken via Geotag, That’s if your camera does that, if you don’t you have to rather ’suckily’ fill in where you took it manually.

Seen as everyone was moaning before about iMovie 08 and it’s totally new way of thinking, Apple went back and put all the old features back in! It’s got some pretty swish titles and transition effects. You can also add in maps from where you’ve shot the film. It sort of a 3D map but has like a really good globe feature and stuff like that, It’s rather swish. You can also overlap audio and all the stuff you couldnt do in iMovie 08, You can in 09!

iWork was updated which I found completly boring and didn’t take many notes or live blogging at all! They did however talk about iWork.com which is a Google Doc’s rival. Users can upload documents, get feedback, post notes, and download the document. Only in beta at the moment, And apparently free to sign up! But it’s becoming a paid service soon (Bad Times)

OMGWTFBBQ! HARDWARE?!

We were all waiting on it and Phil delivered! The brand new MacBook Pro 17″. It’s rather tasty if I do say so. What do you get for your £1,949.00?  Well a 2.66GHz Processor, 4GB of Ram (Which can be upgraded to a crazy 8GB!), a 320GB Hard Drive and the new 8 Hour battery that Apple banged on about in the keynote. It all got very technical and stupidly geeky! Basically as I said in the live blog, 8Hours Of Battery on one charge, plus you can charge it up to 1000 times before it needs replacing! It’s very nice! Shame they haven’t built it into the previous 15″ Pro’s. Odd move but its just so your enticed into buying the bigger and more expensive model

And Finally...

The big headline from this years keynotes is that iTunes is going DRM Free. 8 Million tracks are already DRM free and the whole iTunes collection goes DRM free in spring. Although it’s a extra 20p more if you want your track DRM free. Oh Apple, You’ll never learn! The thing is, If I want cheaper DRM Free Tunes there are plenty of sites to go to and Apple needs to wise up a bit I think!

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On all the days technofile could launch! It’s iPhone 3G Day! Happy 3G day guys! So what can you get from Technofile? Well all the latest Technology news from around the world. A Weekly Podcast (Coming Soon) And ofcourse regular blogs!

So the iPhone 3G has being all the buzz for a while across loads of gadget sites. Personally I have always thought the iPhone 3g was a bit of a “iPhone Take 2″ type thing. To me it seemed as if apple almost forgot to put these “new” features in, like 3G and GPS, and are just going back and creating a new phone that really isn’t that new. The technology inside is the same, theres nothing staggeringly new design wise about it and to me nothing really is outstanding. I own a iPod touch myself and am not really peeing myself about the app store. It amazes me that some of the previous jailbroken apps like moocow music’s band have now turned to apple and become paid apps. Me and my friend in the office were just talking about how and why people would want to que up for it… Why queue? Just so you can go and say you got it on launch day? Big Deal! Why worry about not getting one on launch day? Sit back my friends and wait!

I think there was so much hype and tease about the iPhone 3G, It wasn’t really anything to shout from the rooftops. So Apple if your reading this, Try making your new product a little more of a suprise!