Dancing with the pink bunnies, and swimming with the jelly fish… This is the dreamland of the new Zune ads. Ads which have dropped the ambiguous “welcome to the social”, a tagline that only works if there is a social.
The new ads promoting the new Zunes are tagged “You Make It You”. The ads are supposed to be a series of video animated worlds that showcases the many Zune features including that of music, podcasts, radio and pictures.
To me it seemed like Alice entering Wonderland filled with Energizer bunnies and some good psychedelics.
Gene Munster, the well known Piper Jaffray analyst, is expecting the current iPod to soon be morphed into a new iPod with the iPhone’s touch screen interface.
“We believe the iPhone reveals much of what the iPod will soon be,” Munster stated. “Specifically, we expect Apple to release high capacity iPods based on OS X sometime during or before Macworld ‘08 in January.”
Munster says that he expects the new larger screen iPods to be priced around $299. He does not expect them to have internet capabilities.
Munster also says that he does not expect the iPhone to cannibalize iPod sales, simply because, “most of the current iPod base is simply looking for a better iPod.”
The video iPod is due for a redesign as it has not happened since it was first launched in October, 2005.
About as “Outer Limits” as they come the new myvu glasses will lock you into the world of the iPod as they transpose that small onscreen video to a large big screen only you can see. Definitely the thing to have when traveling with the kids on a road trip!
It could be a little unnerving to wear immersion viewing glasses at anytime as you have no knowledge of what if going on around you. Shots could ring out, something could explode, the whole world could change - all while you are blissfully watching an episode of Seinfeld, tucked away in an alternate world. Thankfully the big screen you see in the myvu has “situational awareness” viewing - rather than watching the TV with the world closed around you, you are instead watching your movie just as if there was a real live TV sitting about two meters in front of you.
The Sony Play Station Portable is a beautifully made piece of equipment with a 4.3 inch screen, 16:9Wide screen TFT LCD that has 489 x 272 pixel, 16.77 million colors - basically its one sweet screen that seems perfect for downloaded movies and TV shows - so why, when Sony had the chance did they not take it and produce downloads? This is the question also being asked by Hollywood executives who are hoping that Sony will step up and become the competition they believe Sony can be and the competition they need Sony to be.
Currently Hollywood is a little worried about the stronghold Apple has over the digital movie and TV download market and it’s no wonder they want a little competition to help give them an edge especially as negotiations loom closer.
Watching videos, listening to songs, swapping photo’s, and the fasted internet-capable phone anywhere = the Samsung Ultra Smart F700. The F700which will debut next week at the 3GSM in Barcelona, Spain, was announced today.
The phone has the new trendy look of the iPhone, with a touch screen that looks very similar, yet it incorporates a slide out QWERTY keyboard, for those not used to touch-screen interfaces. The keyboard only adds a fifth of an inch thickness over the iPhone st 16.4mm thick.
The touch screen includes a system called VibeTonz, a vibration system that has responsive vibrations for “feeling” the buttons. It also incorporates a “drag and drop” method for simple navigation and straightforward music play list control. It has a speed of 7.2 Mbps, which will allow you to download a MP3 song, in approximately 4.4 seconds. It has full internet access, and an impressive 5 mega-pixel camera. (the iPhone only has a 2 mega-pixel camera) No word has yet been given on the lens quality for the camera.
About as “Outer Limits” as they come the new myvu glasses will lock you into the world of the iPod as they transpose that small onscreen video to a large big screen only you can see. Definitely the thing to have when traveling with the kids on a road trip!
screen, 16:9Wide screen TFT LCD that has 489 x 272 pixel, 16.77 million colors - basically its one sweet screen that seems perfect for downloaded movies and TV shows - so why, when Sony had the chance did they not take it and produce downloads? This is the question also being asked by Hollywood executives who are hoping that Sony will step up and become the competition they believe Sony can be and the competition they need Sony to be.
Ultra Smart F700. The F700which will debut next week at the 3GSM in Barcelona, Spain, was announced today.
