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Apple Prepping Two Wireless Devices With Verizon?

From David Carnoy at CNET News

What a lovely day!!! First, we hear about a launch date for the Palm Pre and then we find out that Verizon and IPhone may be teaming up!!! Be still my heart!!

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Apple Prepping Two Wireless Devices With Verizon?

Concept Art for an Apple Touch-Screen Netbook (Credit: Gizmodo). Click on pic to Read CNET News Article.

Concept Art for an Apple Touch-Screen Netbook (Credit: Gizmodo). Click on pic to Read CNET News Article.

David Carnoy, CNET News

Over the last few months rumors have continued to swirl around a possible Verizon-Apple deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon once Apple’s exclusive pact with AT&T expires in 2010. But Tuesday BusinessWeek added a new twist to the rumor, reporting that Verizon and Apple are in talks to develop two new wireless devices that may hit the market this year.

Allegedly, one device would be a thinner, lighter, and lower-priced version of the iPhone–an iPhone Lite, if you will. While the other device would be something akin to the jumbo iPod Touch that we wrote about previously. BusinessWeek’s anonymous source describes it as a “media pad that would let users listen to music, view photos, and watch high-definition videos.”

The source, who claims to have seen the new media pad, says it’s “smaller than an Amazon Kindle electronic reader, but its touch-screen is bigger than the Kindle’s.” It would be able to place calls over Wi-Fi and a high-speed wireless data connection from Verizon. More . . . 

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=New Gear from Apple and Verizon Wireless?

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Picture Credit: Gizmodo (Concept Art for an Apple touch-screen Netbook)

April 29, 2009 Posted by ej | Gadgets, Shopping, Technology | , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Apple Introduces New Ipod Shuffle

new-ipod-shuffle-next-to-key1Apple IPod Shrinks by Half

By Yukari Iwatani Kane, The Wall Street Journal

Apple Inc. introduced a new iPod Shuffle that is about half the size of its previous model but with the capacity to play twice as many songs, as the company tries to re-energize its iPod business.

Apple’s new iPod Shuffle has the capacity for twice as many songs.

The new $79 four-gigabyte device will play as many as 1,000 songs, the same as the first iPod, which sold for $399 in 2001. The new model will allow users to switch between multiple playlists, which wasn’t possible with previous models.

It also includes a new voice feature that announces songs and playlists in 14 languages. One of the key differences from the previous Shuffle is that all of the controls are now on the earphone cord rather than on the device.” More . . .

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March 15, 2009 Posted by ej | Books, Gadgets, Shopping, Technology | , , , , | Leave a Comment