AT&T had an extraordinary run in making sales and new customer along with millions of dollars when it signed an Exclusivity deal with Apple for its iPhone. This run will now come to an end as Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has started working on a CDMA version of iPhone, which is to be launched this year.

This new version along with a new variant of GSM model will enable Apple to tap into the larger CDMA market, run by Verizon and Sprint. The customers not willing to shift to a GSM network now have every reason to cheer for as this year they will see iPhone on their network too (as long as its Sprint or Verizon)

Moreover, there is news about the leaked specs by Gizmodo, which state that the new iPhone will have 940×640 resolution, a front facing camera and Multitasking. Although these specs are rumored at the moment but keeping in view WSJ telling the coming of new iPhone, it might just be true but we will have to wait till June to know.

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There’s no doubt that Microsoft wants to take over the iPod market and they are doing it quiet efficiently and successfully too. Remember I did an article on “Why Apple is Always in News”, well I guess someone in Microsoft read it and tried to apply it first hand.

Engadget has the news and the below screenshot of Zune HD 64 Gig device listed on Zune’s official website. Although there are no other details to reveal but this is good enough for now that Microsoft is taking the competition seriously [however I am sure the slip up was intentional]

Thanks: Engadget

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VG247 got hold of a gold mine list for gamers as it gives out complete details of new Xbox 360 titles for 2010. The list is comprehensive and it shows titles like COD7, James Bond Racing [yeah we are in a fix on this title too] and DJ Hero 2 [and one with Bundle].

The list is very long and some dates given are earlier than announced by the game developers, like COD7, which is said to be developed by Treytech [not another Vietnam or WWII COD].

Anyhow, the most interesting part is about the game called “Yoga Natal” which is said to be a title for Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal’s motion sensing device. Yoga Natal is scheduled for November release.

Source: VG247

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For the developers who are really interested in developing or helping out Symbian in creating a better User Interface (UI) can now download the UI roadmap for Q2 2010.

This roadmap gives an outline of how Symbian is taking the entire new look of the upcoming OS and what are they expecting from the developers and contributors. Have a look at it and you would know what to do with it.

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Sony has announced the latest firmware upgrade (3.21) to the top selling Play Station 3 (PS3) but has taken out the “Other OS” functionality in PS3 and PS3 Slim, which enables the users to install another operating system on their Play Stations.

Sony claims that using the “other OS” feature, a user’s Play Station can be compromised as already done by George Hotz using a hack which uses the feature and compromises a user’s PS3. Sony has said in its Blog that users using the feature will not be able to have the following updates to their systems:

• Ability to sign in to PlayStation Network and use network features that require signing in to PlayStation Network, such as online features of PS3 games and chat
• Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later
• Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings)
• Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later

The PS3 3.21 update is schedule for availability on April 1st, 2010

Source: Sony Play Station Blogs

I came across this awesome video depicting what would the video games look like if they were in real life. Honestly, I think that this video explains is pretty well. It is made by Smosh. Enjoy!

Since Microsoft has officially denied any possibilities of having Windows Phone 7 Series on HTC HD2, Tom Codon of HTC Pedia has shown screenshots of a working Windows Phone 7 Series on an HTC HD2. This was done through a combined effort of few developers working on a team called Russian Project.

These screenshots are pretty much real and at least I could not figure out whether these were amazingly shopped or not [personally I take them as legit].

Tom further explains in his thread that it is a working OS with every functionality working except for the graphic driver which makes the device lag. It might have been one of the reason’s why MS did not want to port WP7S for HD2.

Anyway, for your viewing pleasure, here are the screens.

Via: HTCPedia – RedmondPie

World’s leader in operating systems and one of the top gaming companies in the world has announced to showcase the next generation gaming technology, Project Natal. It comes as a surprise for many industry followers as the latest motion sensing gaming technology was expected to be launched around the end of the year but the latest announcement from Microsoft has given every gamer a reason to cheer for.

Microsoft is scheduled to make the announcement on June 13th, as on June 14th it will have the company’s annual E3 press conference.

Project Natal’s launch on E3 has been dubbed by Microsoft as “World Premier” but as far as we know, it already premiered last year in E3 along side the enhanced Xbox 360 experience show.

This is the time for Sony and Nintendo to come up with whatever new they have for E3 as it will be the battle for the top slot in the gaming arena.

Via: PC World

This is something which has been bothering me for some time now and I think now I might have an answer for it.

First of all if you look at the troubled history of Apple ever since time began, or more so ever since Apple began. It had always been about Steve Jobs, even keeping in line the years he was not with Apple. I know he is a visionary, with keen eye on what is being developed by every other major OEM in the world but then again we will all agree that he is an arrogant man with a narcissist nature. He knows how to manipulate the audience with mesmerizing speeches and glorified shows to reveal Apple’s products and services and we all fall for it. The following pointers will give you an idea of how he manages to keep Apple in news so much, despite all the wrong doings and blunders.

• Steve Jobs is exceptionally well with words and knows how to make an impression, which Bill Gates does not have.
• He knows that if he revealed small chunks of information about the upcoming products or the updates, everyone will have even more interest in what Apple is doing
• Staying ahead of everyone else is the only key Apple will survive and this is what Jobs is doing for the last one decade with the launch of “i” series products
• Any thing unusual with a pinch of glamor and galore will attract masses (iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac)
• Style is everything. This is what Steve Jobs knows and he applies to all his products and services
• When in Rome, tell the Romans to go your way or the Highway. Either it will be the Apple way, which is always unconventional and controversial, or they won’t do it. The best example is of Adobe’s Flash exclusion (still) from Apple’s applications.
• Controlled leaks are the ones which neither reveal anything nor hide the information so that the consumer does not know what the heck is Apple doing. iPad is the best example with blurry screen shots and pictures of iPad right before the launch and now the screen shots of App store for iPad. Don’t you ever wonder how do bloggers or anyone get their hands on it and then spread it across.
• Controversy sells and that is exactly the latest strategy of Apple. Fight with the major leagues and you will surely remain in the lime light. If Google was so bad or for that matter if Jobs hates Eric so much then why have coffee and let the world know that they are talking. Its all part of the plan.

Apple will remain in the news for this year and probably for some more but then again, companies like HTC are heading up the ladder so quickly that Apple will have to come up with some solid products and services to stay in the news as no one remembers what happened yesterday but everyone will look towards what is coming tomorrow.

PS. Apple will make a major announcement on April 1st. Watch this space for the Breaking News

Radio Shack is now targeting to become the largest iPhone retailer by offering iPhone 3G at the lowest possible price to date, that is, for iPhone 3G 8GB $95 with 2 year contract.

Apple Insider reports that Radio Shack will send out the promo to all its customers, essentially reaching 20 Million households across the US this weekend. Radio Shack will be putting up this offer on 3,000 of its 4,500 retail stores.

For its part in this, Radio Shack plans to promote the entire family of iPhones on the cover of its March 28 circular, at what it claims are the lowest prices ever offered for the touchscreen handset nationwide — essentially $5 off MSRP across the board, or $95 for the 8GB iPhone 3G, $195 for the 16GB iPhone 3GS, and $295 for the 32GB iPhone 3GS.

This move will help Apple increase its sales during this low sales period of the year and essentially we see this as a strategy to take out the 3G model before the anticipated launch of 4G in coming June 2010.

Source: Apple Insider