Rene Ritchie on the Ramifications of a 4-Inch iPhone Display
There are numerous ways Apple could change the physical size of the iPhone, but none of them are painless or easy fragmentation-wise. Rene Ritchie does a good job here analyzing Apple’s options.
My money remains on changing the aspect ratio and keeping the pixel density the same. Going from the current 3:2 aspect ratio 960 × 640 display [...]
Retina display could be coming to MacBook Air too
Entire family to get makeover
It is already being touted that Apple’s next MacBook Pro, an ultra-thin 15-incher, will come with a Retina display and could even be announced at WWDC in the middle of June. Now, reports suggest that the high pixels per inch screen technology will also be adopted for the next wave of [...]
TomTom speed camera app hands-on and pictures
Driving fast
Fess up, you like to drive fast don’t you? Perhaps fast enough to break the speed limit from time to time? Naughty.
Helping you try to avoid speeding tickets and points on your licence, TomTom has launched the TomTom Speed Cameras app, that helps you stick to the speed limit if the road signs aren’t [...]
How Apple Could Make a 4-Inch iPhone
“Modilwar”, in a well-illustrated piece on The Verge forums:
But then last week, while watching the Vergecast episode 24, came
the Eureka moment. A caller named Colin (apologies if I got your
name wrong) mentioned how he thought apple could increase the
iPhone screen size without effecting the external form factor or
pixel density. […]
Colin’s idea was to keep the [...]
Papermill
Speaking of Instapaper and Android apps, developer Ryan Bateman has written a fascinating postmortem on Papermill, a well-designed Instapaper client for Android. He covers everything from the development to its financial results:
I think this unhappy end-scenario — of applications that either
compromise on quality or have not had the necessary time invested
in their design — is [...]
Flickr’s Digital Camera of Choice: iPhone
Speaking of usage stats, John Paczkowski:
The four most popular camera phones on Flickr currently? The
iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS — in that
order.
I’m sure Android phones top the list at Picasa.
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Neo Geo X handheld console coming to UK
Via Blaze
Retro games distributer Blaze Europe has confirmed that it will be bringing the much rumoured Neo Geo X handheld games console to the UK in Q2 this year. Pocket-lint already brought you news that Japanese games company SNK was planning on releasing an iPhone 4-looking device after pictures of the device were leaked back [...]
iFixit Takes Apart an iPad (3)
Answers one question I had: whether the display is bonded to the glass touchscreen like the iPhone 4/4S. (Answer: no.)
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★ iPad (3)
Pixels pixels pixels. Battery battery battery. Speed speed speed.
That’s the new ipad, a.k.a. (for comparison’s sake) the ipad 3. The retina display, significantly faster graphics, and the potential for startlingly fast cellular networking — all with the same renowned battery life (and standby time) as the original ipad and ipad 2.
Now, there are a few [...]
OS X @2X
Nicely illustrated post by David Barnard on retina display Macs:
The point is, PPI is much less relevant on OS X than on iOS. To
create Retina displays, Apple doesn’t have to build displays that
are exactly 2X current displays, they just have to build displays
that work well with OS X when running @2X. For example, the
current 27-inch [...]
