Those rumors speak of manufacturer Foxconn and elected, who made his role in previous versions of iPhone, and it seems the best placed to make the fourth generation Apple phone. It seems, moreover, from Cupertino (home of the boys on the block) have given the starting signal for the production of the new phone.

What’s new iPhone 4G will bring us? Little or nothing is known, although much can be expected considering how competition is progressing. I would bet real multitasking terminal and 5 megapixel camera with a new design and, hopefully, a renewed interface. It’s been three years driving the same icons, with some features that have hardly changed and, in general, doing the same on the phone. It touches the change, and even say that something will come true later.

And of course, release date for the new iPhone 4G. In previous models we have seen an annual relay, every year we launched a new model ahead of the months before the summer (June / July). With almost certainly this year is no exception, though we may see something in February at the traditional fair of Apple, MacWorld Expo to be held from February 9.

Although I still maintain the iPhone EDGE for quite a few years, I fear that I will be playing in 2010 to renew. For now, the Google Nexus One has all ballots, although of course we must remain vigilant to the new terminal from Apple.

Sony SRS-GU10iP and Sony ZS-S4iP are two iPod speaker systems. The first of these, the SRS-GU10iP, is a desktop model with an output power of 20 watts. The speaker magnets are neodiminio and cones are 57-millimeter feature a bass boost system full rank. They are also magnetically shielded. It can work both as an iPod with iPhone, compatibility and control is total, with music and video. The load is carried out while the Apple device is connected to the base.

The Sony SRS-GU10iP can be managed with a remote control that is included in the package, but you can access many functions from the control station located at the top of the pedestal. Since these buttons are volume up and down activates or deactivates the function of Bass Reflex, and also select the source. Not only can you connect an iPod or iPhone, and has a stereo audio input minijack format is possible to puncture any other portable audio player.

For its part, the Sony ZS-S4iP has a little more traveling vocation, even bigger than his fellow-GU10iP SRS. Designed in the style of “boombox” to carry it everywhere safely. In fact, iPod or iPhone can be comfortably accommodated in a compartment as to play music. Another important feature of the Sony ZS-S4iP is that it incorporates a CD player and an FM radio tuner and AM. And you can listen to music stored on a portable MP3 player through your stereo audio input minijack. The output power is 2 by 2 watts and the speakers are full-range bass reflex with a cone of 80 mm. Operates on battery or plugged into a power adapter.

Both the Sony SRS-GU10iP as Sony ZS-S4iP are available for the same price: 130 euros.

The Sony ICF-CL75iP and the Sony ICF-C7iP are two clock radios that incorporate an iPod charger. The most advanced is the ICF-CL75iP model, notable for its color LCD screen with a 7-inch diagonal. It has an FM radio tuner (Frequency Modulation) and AM (medium wave), and can store 20 FM and 10 AM stations. You can enjoy music and videos stored on an iPod or even iPhone.

The Sony ICF-CL75iP can function as digital photo frame, but also as a video player. The slideshow is performed at a maximum resolution of 4096 by 4096 pixels. Music can be MP3, AAC and PCM. As for the videos, can be MPEG-1, MP4 and AVI, the sample with a maximum resolution of 720 by 576 and 30 fps (frames per second).

The internal memory of one gigabyte of Sony ICF-CL75iP can extend through the memory card slot compatible with SD, SDHC, MMC, MS, MS Pro, MS Duo and MS Pro Duo. The connectivity is complete with a USB port and an audio input. This last is used to connect any kind of portable audio player, although not from Apple.

On the front there are two stereo speakers that deliver a total power of 2 watts. You can set the brightness level of the screen, depending on time of day, there are four modes to choose from: high, medium, low and night. As electronic timer offers many opportunities for alarm, even double and triple. With all these benefits, many users will want a Sony ICF-CL75iP on the nightstand in your room.

His companion catalog the Sony ICF-C7iP is much simpler. It lacks the LCD screen and can not operate as a digital photo frame. It serves as a basis for connection and charging iPods and iPhones, with complete support when both music and video playback. It also has an audio output to connect other portable audio readers. The Sony ICF-C7iP costs 90 euros.

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It is proved that Yamaha wants to divert the blow to stifle competition to the market for speakers adapted for portable players from Apple. If in recent months and had seen proposals similar to the one in question with the PDX-30, now goes a step further, and the Yamaha PDX-60 the Japanese company evolves the PDX-50 unit to achieve a new system speakers designed for iPod and iPhone based on a wireless dock.

The Yamaha PDX-60, which comes in four colors (black, blue, pink and gray) technology boasts Yair, a new step from Wired’s Air we saw in the PDX-50. Thanks to this system, the device is charging or serve as a player with the Yamaha PDX-60 will act as the amp, you can be away from the speakers at a maximum distance that the manufacturer does not quite define.

Unfortunately, the only detail that facilitate Yamaha forget: in addition, we ignore the power of this speaker 2.1, as well as alternatives to their own functions to amplify the sound that comes from the iPhone or iPod. What has not forgotten to mention is what matters most, since the manufacturer does not hesitate to reveal that the price of this Yamaha PDX-60 is 300 dollars (about 200 euros at current exchange rates).

What we do know is the catalog of this unit compatible with iPods and iPhones. Regarding the first, no problem connecting to the wireless dock from Yamaha PDX-60 device models Touch, Classic and Nano up to fifth generation. Regarding the iPhone, warns Yamaha models can be connected to second and third generation.

The Sonos ZonePlayer system S5 is a wireless high-fidelity music and multichannel source used as an iPod. Users of the apple breeding are in luck. Simply plugging into the electricity grid and an iPod to be ready for use. The surround sound is capable of removing this product from Sonos is high quality, thanks to five speakers fed by integrating their corresponding five class D digital amplifiers Two of the speakers are tweeters, two midrange is a cone of 3 inches and the fifth is a 3.5-inch woofer.

Audio formats supported are MP3, iTunes Plus, WMA, AAC (MPEG-4), OGG (Ogg Vorbis), Audible, Apple Lossless, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. However, incompatible Apple Fairplay, Enhanced AAC and WMA Lossless. The sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz is the native, but can operate at 48 kHz, 32 kHz, 24 kHz, 22 kHz, 16 kHz, 11 kHz and 8 kHz.

This device has two 10/100 Ethernet ports. The S5 can be used to stream Internet radio stations in MP3 and WMA streaming whenever you are connected to a router. In fact, this works very well with Sonos online music services are not protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) as of Deezer, Last.fm, Napster, Pandora, Rhapsody or Sirius. The Sonos ZonePlayer S5 includes a headphone minijack connector with which detects were made to, and automatically cuts the sound from the speakers, so that listening takes place only through the headphones. Furthermore, it has an auxiliary audio input, used to connect other portable audio players other than Apple.

Another of its great advantages is the ability to communicate with other modules S5. You do not need to run cables, simply put a S5 in each room. And the whole exercise may be carried directly from an iPhone or iPod Touch. Only need to download a free application called the Sonos Controller. Thus, the user should only choose which room where there is a Sonos ZonePlayer S5 want to hear music, find a song and press the play button. If you use an iPhone does not connect to the S5, but may be carried in the pocket, make phone calls or send short messages without the music stops. S5 enjoy the Sonos ZonePlayer costs 399 euros for each room.

Those who put the excuse of lack of FM radio to keep themselves with a phone from Apple, they know that their delay their days are numbered. The network has already begun to speculate with the rumor that in a future update both the iPhone and the iPod, could be incorporated into the cascade of the highly controversial performance-transistor FM receiver.

This cutting-proposal (allegedly, do not throw the bells on the fly in a display of enthusiasm technophile) would have its reason for being in a next-generation chip can perform the miracle that would make possible to hear the sports carousel Sunday while eating pipes in the street (Remember, mobile and radio in one, awesome) or receive calls from the transistor itself. High technology, listen.

Joking aside, the idea that Apple has delayed both the incorporation of the provision so common, basic and simple in their mobile handsets is the intention of making FM radio service would go further, allowing the receiver to communicate with an application type Shazam to identify songs and give the user the possibility to download from iTunes automatically (as they now do that program).

Anyway, the sound serves to get you back to Apple’s red face and remind you that in their units as exclusive multimedia playback and mobile phones may be well worth a sad radio. If only to save room in the pocket. After all, technically both the iPod Touch like the iPhone are set to receive radio signals. If you do not activate it because they simply do not they want (as happened recently with the iPhone video recorder). While that itself does not know whether the remedy is worse or disease. And if the iPhone is that it incorporates the radio, will be capable of withstanding the battery more than three hours working? May God catches us confessed.

Adobe Photoshop Mobile launches an iPhone application for free.

The incredible boom in Photoshop and comes to mobile phones, is that this graphic editing program has become an indispensable tool for those who like photography.

Photoshop Mobile is the latest proposal from Adobe. This is a special edition of Photoshop for iPhone, which of course is entirely free. The company’s new software allows iPhone users to modify certain parameters of the photos taken with your iPhone 3GS and then upload to the Internet may be through Photoshop.com.

Thus, Mobile Photoshop users may modify the hue, saturation, exposure, rotate photos or to apply filters and effects like Pop Art, vignette, sepia, black and white, and so on.

After adjusting these parameters, Photoshop Mobile is connected to the Photoshop.com service to help users upload photos, edit and organize, with the whole process as we said, totally free.

One of the most attractive features of this newness introduced by Panasonic home lies in the incorporation of a base that lets you connect an iPod to its structure, and thereby gain access to information contained in one of the most popular players in the market. Thus, the Panasonic digital picture frames MW-10 and MW-7 is Docks to become the Apple device, but no news on whether the connector also serves as power source for the iPod.

Although their screens (WVGA resolution of 800 x 480 pixels) can afford to see our personal photo archive with total comfort, these two new devices incorporate Japan’s flag, among other interesting items, a CD player and VCR, AM / FM tuner Four gigabytes of internal memory, two five-watt speakers, USB port, microSD card slot and headphone input of 3.5 millimeters.

Meanwhile, external finish will not much joy to their prospective owners, but will choose from a limited range of colors (white, black and red) in the case of MW-10 and little brother suffered white for juvenile dimensions. For the moment, not much will officially known both devices, although some rumors on the Internet indicated that the model suggests MW-10 could represent an outlay of 270 euros.

The designers of gadgets would not work if the author of these designs. And the iPod that glitters at the top has not come out with this aspect of the apple factory. It was a girl known by the curious nickname julibooli, in charge of covering leaves his prized comic music player.

The task of the craftsmanship is obvious. She has worked to cut French comics of the 20s to paste carefully on gadgets. It seems that in this way protects them from scratches, falls and external abrasions, although not to the extent that would make the Demon Silicone Case, a sleeve made of silicone diabolical.

In view of the success the first case, julibooli decided to make one for your friend, but this time it looks like crossword. Thus, with a sheet of paper, scissors and a roll of tape, the girl was happy his teammate and got circulated on the Internet photographs of his small work of art. Who said the design had to be expensive?

The idea is to improve the user experience as the iPhone browser, incorporating an additional speaker to increase the level of the audio, adding an adapter for the power connector … We only had one question that has already been revealed: what would the price of the TomTom kit for the iPhone.

But this has already been officially announced, placing it in the 99.95 euros, putting on sale in October. A very high price, but before we had said that seemed reasonable, since it claims the company’s own web browser must be purchased separately.

That is, those 100 euros must be added the cost of implementation, which is 70 euros for the version with the maps of the Iberian Peninsula and 100 euros with maps for Europe. We leave, therefore, more expensive than a stand-alone GPS device. Albeit with the advantage that this can take it with you. Does it really pay off?

Indeed, as discussed be compatible not only with the iPhone 3G, but also with the 2G, which means it incorporates its own GPS receiver. So why not also with iPod touch? Mysteries of life.