Gauna also estimates that going by current rates, Apple would be easily able to sell over a million units of Apple TV – this very quarter. Of course, the main factor behind these kind of sales is the price of the device.
At $99, Apple TV is simply too cheap to ignore. Gauna bases his reports after checking stats from over 20 Apple retail stores across the US.
He has also talked to Apple TV consumers to be able to present to us a general overview (more…)

To put the numbers in perspective, China Unicom has said that the carrier has only fulfilled half of the 200,000 pre-orders made until now. The massive demand has forced the carrier to suspend online reservations temporarily and customers are instead asked to sign up for a device directly at one of the retail stores.
The sale of 100,000
in the US and four other countries during the launch weekend in June. However, it may be worth noting that 3G (more…)

, the new Apple TV is likely to be popular among the older users thanks to features such as
. This is not to say that the device may not appeal to the younger generation. Morris points out that the new Apple TV is not only ”
” but is also surprisingly fast. He writes that the device connects to the iTunes library much faster than the older Apple TV did with its '
' option. Morris however cautions that the success of the new Apple TV (more…)

there are two HDR icons within the SDK. As labeled, one is for the iPhone 4′s Retina Display, while the other is for an iPhone without a Retina Display. The iPhone 3GS is the only iPhone that is physically (hardware capabilities) able to capture HDR shots so we figure that non-Retina icon is for the 3GS not the original or 3G model.
Apple has a very simple labeling process which places an “@2x” on image titles for the Retina Display and places (more…)

Milan Broum, Software Engineer, Google Mobile Team announced the Google Goggles feature for the iPhone on the Google Mobile blog:
In the new version of Google Mobile App just tap on the camera button to search using Goggles. Goggles will analyze the image and highlight the objects it recognizes — just click on them to find out more.
Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is still a Labs product. It works well for things such as (more…)

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The current iPhone 4 is actually called iPhone 3,1 in Apple product-speak. But the AppleTV firmware makes reference to new versions 3,2 and 3,3.
As you can see from screenshot of the code snippet, there is references to “iPhone 3,2″ and “iPhone 3,3″.
Apple uses these models numbers to distinguish between different hardware models.For example: The original iPhone carries the model number of “iPhone 1,1″, while the
is labeled “iPhone 1,2″,
(more…)

Users also need a companion accessory called 3DeeSlide, which is a thin screen called 3DeeSlide that slides on to their iPhone or iPod Touch to watch the 3D content without wearing those funny 3D glasses.
We don't expect this to sweep the nation overnight. For one thing, it looks like the library of content will be fairly sparse to begin with. And the 3D effect isn't as compelling as it is on a larger screen using glasses.
But we just (more…)

” talks about a flash redirector system that will target the LED flash on an iPhone to different areas of a scene instead of the current method where light is focused in one fixed direction. According to the document, this can be achieved in two ways. The first method makes use of a moveable lens with a fixed light source that can be used to target flash in any desired direction. Alternately, the flash system could also be incorporated with multiple (more…)

Programmer Paul Grave discovered the new tethering options in the settings after upgrading to iOS 4.2 beta 2 on his iPad 3G.
9to5Mac reports that the options appear onlyon European carriers and do not appear on iPad 3Gs running on AT&T’s network.
As you can see from the screenshot below, users can enter the APN network settings to tether iPad’s 3G data connection to a laptop.
It will be interesting to see if this feature makes it to the (more…)

iPadevice, an Italian website reports that they have observed speed improvements and more reliability in iOS 4.2 for iPad. They have also observed that the latest beta version uses fewer resources than the first beta version as seen in the chart below:
9to5Mac has observed that the YouTube app that comes pre-installed on the iDevices will finally comes with options that will allow users to upload a video as public, private or unlisted.
compatibility (more…)