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Apple’s upcoming music service, supposedly dubbed iCloud might launch with a new iPod, if speculations are correct. In the meantime, Electricpig created a mockup of the next gen of iPod pictured below. There’s also a leaked reference to Apple’s new service found in the latest release of OS X Lion – “Castle”.
If Apple’s iCloud music streaming service will be called Castle or not we don’t know, but what we do know is that Apple has a gigantic data centre ready for this service. We’re talking over 500,000 square foot of servers, that will be used to store your music and make internal memory useless for the new iPod Cloud concept.
This means that the device gets a bigger battery, less memory and WiFi/3G connectivity. The dock connector could also be lost in the process, so we may rely on AirPlay to connect with external speakers. Wireless charging is another function of the new iPod, as it lays on a charging dish that’s probably based on induction.
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Imagine that you take the best picture of your life with an iPhone 4… Then you want to print it and there’s no PC around to be found or a wireless printer for that matter. Well, Mac Funamizu has a great idea: an iPhone dock that instantly prints photos after you take them.
This is the Polaroid iPhone dock concept and there’s also the option of adding a QR core for the URL of the pic on the back. As an extra, you can geotagg a photo and include the map to show where the photo was taken. This is a brilliant idea and I sure hope we’ll be seeing such cases soon. After all, the iPhone 4 is almost ready to surpass all point and shoot cameras in Flickr uploads, right?
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It appears that the info concerning the iPhone 6 is more solid than what we have right now on the iPhone 5. Turns out that Sharp will be manufacturing the displays for the 2012 version of the iPhone, according to Japanese paper Nikkan. The work has already begun at the Kameyama Plant No. 1, used for LCD TV production mainly.
Sharp’s new display relies on “low-temperature poly-silicon” technology, so we can call the screen a “p-Si LCD”, with a TFT (thin film transistor) made of polyscristalline silicon. The advantages of this technology include a thinner LCD display and lower power consumption. Also, the p-Si display supports a higher aperture ratio, showing more vivid images.
It’s strange to see that we have more info on the iPhone 6 right now than about the iPhone 5…
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JoyStudios has a new design for us, the Apple iPod Touch 5 concept, that runs iOS 5. This device sticks to the form factor of the previous iPod touch models and brings forth a shiny metal back that makes us wonder what material was used to create it. Liquid metal, maybe?
As far as specs are concerned, this iOS 5 unit comes with WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, NFC, a 5 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture and a 4 inch IPS display with 960 x 640 pixel resolution. On board you’ll find 32/64/128 GB of internal storage and we have to mention that the device is compatible with the Apple Digital AV Adapter.
Odds are that the real iPod Touch 5 will be similar to this one, but we’ll have to wait at least till summer to learn more about it.
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With the iPhone 5 speculated to arrive this fall, we have a long time to wait and check out concepts, like the one below. Created by H.D.I Design the iPhone 5 Carbon packs a 4 inch display, with a 1120 x 780 pixel resolution. There’s also an 8 megapixel camera on board, capable of 1080p HD 30 fps video capture.
Said camera uses a dual LED flash and the housing of the device is made of carbon and glass. At the inside we find the Apple A8 processor, which is a mystery to us, especially considering that the latest CPU from Cupertino was the A5 dual core one @ almost 1GHz. Supposedly, the battery on this handset provides up to 8 hours of 4G functioning time and up to 18 hours on WiFi.
The iPhone 5 concept above fits pretty well with the recent rumors, saying that the new iPhone will have a 4 inch screen, dual core CPU, no physical Home button and smaller bezels.
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There’s nothing we love more than a good mockup and this is the case of the following iPhone 5 design, popping up on nowhereelse.fr. Together with it we found some of the rumors concerning the specifications of the following iPhone. The one we’ve heard most often is the fact that the device will lack a physical Home button.
The iPhone 5 is also supposed to feature a better camera, most likely an Exmor R 8 megapixel unit from Sony, if our info is correct. The new device will also mark the switch to the 4 inch touchscreen display, supposedly, but the rest of the design will stay the same. We might see 64GB models, but that requires Flash memory prices to go down.
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Although the iPhone 5 you can see below is a mockup, it seems to fit recent speculations saying that its design won’t be that different from the iPhone 4… That unless you count a 4 inch display and an aluminum back as huge differences. Rumor has it that the new iPhone will use the iPad 2 as inspiration, even getting those cool Smart Covers it has.
There’s already evidence in iOS 4.3 supporting the claim that the iPhone 5 will use the Apple A5 dual core processor for an extra power boost. Also, the latest concepts and designs of the handset have all shown up with an edge to edge display, that would be cool, if it were real. Since many people said that the iPad 1 was a bigger iPhone, will they say that the iPhone 5 is a smaller iPad 2?
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We’ve hearing more and more often the theory concerning an iPhone 5 without a Home button. This time we’re given an alternative for this mechanism: a phone squeezing gesture that will take you back to the main menu. Max Rudberg is the man behind this idea, that you can see in the video below.
Another cool idea would be a touch area on the back of the next gen iPhone, like the one you have on the brand new PSP, Sony NGP. Also, one may wonder if squeezing the phone so hard won’t affect its signal… What do you say?
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Here we are again with an iPhone 5 concept, one made by JoyStudios that fits pretty well with recent rumours concerning the device. We’ve got iOS 5, 4G connectivity and NFC, for example. The handset is extremely slim at 7.2mm, becoming the thinnest smartphone in the world, like the iPhone 4 before it.
Apple iPhone 5 supports WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS, plus it comes with an 8 megapixel camera with flash and support for 1080p video capture. Its display is an IPS screen with multitouch, a 4.2 inch diagonal and 1280 x 720 pixel resolution. The memory is either 32, 64 or 128GB and the device lacks a Home button, replaced with a new touch sensitive area.
This is probably the most accurate design fitting all rumours about the iPhone 5, but Apple is likely to add that “little extra something they always do”.
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Have no idea what are the specs behind the iPhone nano mockup created by Nicholas, one of the commenters on the original 9to5mac.com article talking about such concepts. However, we’re loving the purple theme and how slim the device manages to be. It appears it was designed months ago, before the iPhone nano was even a dream.
This handset is slim enough to look fragile and its screen is once again edge to edge, like the one of the previous concept… Is this edge to edge thing ever going to be implemented?
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Apple’s upcoming music service, supposedly dubbed iCloud might launch with a new iPod, if speculations are correct. In the meantime, Electricpig created a mockup of the next gen of iPod pictured below. There’s also a leaked reference to Apple’s new service found in the latest release of OS X Lion – “Castle”.
