iChat coming to iPhone OS 4.0?
Hey now now, what’s this? On top of the previously discovered references to front-facing cameras and iChat within the iPad SDK, evidence is now appearing that suggests iChat — likely with video conferencing — will make its way to iPhone OS 4.0.
Screenshots over at TUAW show that iChatAgent — a background process in OS X that’s responsible for keeping iChat happy — is running as a service on iPhone OS 4.0. Now, iChat doesn’t necessarily mean video chat, but with support for video conferencing likely on future revisions of the iPad, it isn’t too big a stretch of the imagination to have it on the next iPhone, too.
A front-facing camera is an oft-requested feature for the iPhone, and with Android devices becoming more powerful and more prolific (hello, EVO 4G!), expect Apple to do all it can to show up the competition with some hot hardware this Summer.
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Indian wireless carriers begin bidding in 3G spectrum auction
Today nine Indian wireless carriers, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Tata DocoMo, and Vodafone Essar, began bidding on 3G spectrum. The auction’s reserve price is 35 billion rupees ($789 million) for three licenses in 22 zones. The carriers could begin to deliver 3G services as soon as the end of 2010 or early 2011. India currently has 563.73 million wireless subscribers, which is less than 50 percent of the population (1.2 billion people).
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Stuart Hughes’ gold Privé brick phone redefines 80s excess
Stuart Hughes usually reserves its gold and diamonds for recent gadgets, but the fine purveyor of ridiculous excess has taken a slightly different approach with its latest offering: the $200,000+ Privé brick phone. In addition to a 22ct gold shell and a smattering of diamonds, this apparently functional phone packs a color screen and features like SMS support and, um… buttons. Limited to just ten but, amazingly, still in stock.
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Palm stock continues to climb, all thanks to the Rumor Mill
Two days ago, something crazy happened: after spiraling downward for almost a year, Palm’s stock finally started to climb thanks to a rumor that Lenovo was considering snatching the injured company up. We expected things to level off pretty quickly — and they did, at a growth of right around 20% with a going price of about $4.60 per share.
Today, even more fuel has been thrown on to the fire.
Early this morning, a Chinese economics/investing site threw another name into the mix of possible suitors: HTC. Given HTC’s many recent successes, that was bound to get the investors excited – and it did. Jump forward to right this second, and Palm’s sitting at right around $5.20, or a 33% increase over what they were at before the climb began.
They’re still nowhere near the $17.39 peak they were at earlier this year, but they’re inching closer and closer to the $6.14 mark they were at before they started warning people that their Q3 results weren’t going to be too hot.
What do you think: did the rumor mill light a long lasting fire beneath the butts of Palm investors, or is this just a temporary spike?
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Motorola CLIQ firmware 1.4.8 update available
Recently on the T-Mobile forums, the latest Motorola CLIQ software update, version 1.4.8, was announced. The update should have been pushed out to device, but you can also manually check for the update in your settings menu. Fixes include improvements to the battery life, homescreen, software performance and stability, and widget response. You can also expect a decrease in “Force Close” messages and added support for .WMA and .WAV files. Unfortunately, this is not the CLIQ Android 2.1 update. Despite the announcement, my test device has not received the update yet and currently says it’s still up to date.
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