Woke up today with a very sad news appearing in the headlines of my news feeds: Apple’s Co-founder, Inventor, and Genius Steve Jobs has died.
I, myself, is not an Apple fanboy (as an Apple Shuffle is the only thing I have from his company), but I do recognize the feats and contributions of Steve Jobs in the world of personal computing. The way we live today will never be the same without him.
Rest in peace, buddy. See you in afterlife.
As expected by the local technology enthusiasts and gadgeteers, the Apple iPad 2 has been released in the Philippines today, 29 APR 2011 – same release date as with Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey and UAE (Japan’s release was yesterday).
Hereunder are the prices as of this writing (from http://store.apple.com/ph):
So, will you be getting one?
Good Great news for Palm fanatics like me: Palm Pre is here; watch out Apple iPhone.
At the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas Thursday, Palm (the company formerly known as Palm Computing, which is formerly known as PalmOne, and was formerly known as Palm) unveiled the world’s first device to run on the Palm webOS™: the Palm Pre. The new mobile phone sports a 3.1″ touch screen, is 3G enabled, has 802.11b/g WiFi, built-in GPS, ambient light sensor, accelerometer, proximity sensor, Bluetooth, 8GB internal storage, and the thing that Apple people missed in the iPhone: a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
It will be released soon, and no pricing information yet as of the moment. The only down side, as of this writing, is that when released, it will be in CDMA only. Wonder when will the GSM version will come out? Can’t wait for this piece of technology to land on Philippine shores (perhaps, when that time comes, I will ready to retire my 5-year old PalmOne Treo 600).
Nonetheless, this is a very bold indicator that Palm (the company, the platform, the device, the company who started it all) is very much alive and is ready to reclaim it’s turf in the mobile and smart phone markets.
Now, this is really something that makes me think of dumping Palm (and acquiring a Centro) for an Apple mobile phone — iPhone.
Read on at http://iphone.wordpress.net.
In twelve hours’ time, there will be a confirmation whether Steve Jobs will be (or will not be) unveiling the 3G version of the Apple iPhone at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2008). Rumors about the 3G iPhone had been circulating in the web since last week.
We, here at Manila, Philippines are still waiting on Globe Telecoms to announce when will be the 2G iPhone available to local consumers. Paging Apple: Can’t you do something like Microsoft always does? Synchronized launch of products worldwide?