Collins America is pushing a vaguely familiar display design in their new Mini DisplayPort-equipped, Macintosh-friendly LCDs. While they do have Mini DisplayPort technology and a combined USB/Video cable, they look painfully knock-offy. Hopefully other DisplayPort options open up….soon.
Unsurprisingly, they are cheap at:
$299 1440 x 900 19-inch
$399 1650 x 1050 20-inch
$499 1920 x 1080 24-inch displays
Where I work, I’d get fired for even showing this to a designer. Closing window now.
This nice new ad from Sprint debuted last week and touts the Pre at the very end. It looks like they are easing their way into this campaign.
In related news, Sprint has frozen worker vacations in May and is said to be readying a Pre launch on the May 17th.
Thanks Mila!
Digitimes compliled its iPhone 3.0 supplier information into the table below. Notable highlights include 3.2 megapixel camera from Largon Precision and OmniVision and a 5 million unit initial order estimate (up from 4 million estimate earlier this week from Commercial Times).
We really, really doubt that Apple would go in this direction – although Apple does have some patents that indicate thay are thinking Unibody iPods and iPhones. On the other hand, we saw those black matte posterior images from before which seemed fairly real.
Has this one made the rounds yet? If so, it was off of our radar. That screen could be 10 inches, no? (Update: Posted by Erica Sadun in September. Short term memory strikes again)
Just for the record, we’re 101% sure this is fake.
Talking about HP’s MediaSmart Home Servers always reminds us what a huge opportunity Apple is missing out on by not offering a competing product for Apple users. A Mini-Xserve or Jumbo Time Capsule with these capabilities shouldn’t be hard to produce and would be a big hit in our opinion. But let’s get to the details of how HP is eating Apple’s cake.
HP’s latest MediaSmart Servers, the ex487 and ex485 (only – the older ones don’t have the horsepower), now have the capability to stream videos over the LAN or over the Internet to your iPhone or iPod touch. The server automatically takes your media files and in the background gets to converting them into smaller H.264 format for speedy optimized file transfers. The original files can be AVI (DivX, XviD, MJPEG), MOV, DVR-MS, MPEG-2, MP4, MPEG-4, WMV and unprotected DVD VOB.
The servers come with one hard drive but allow you to insert up to three additional hard drives for almost 8TB of total storage (with 2TB drives).
While the files don’t work natively on the iPhone (strange?), they will with help from HP’s upcoming iStream application (if it gets accepted). HP’s servers also support streaming to many other file types for other devices.
HP is also improving its already solid Time Machine backup interface and capabilities in this latest release. HP won a Macworld 2009 award for this product earlier this year.
