Japanese business newspaper Nikkei claims that Apple will launch the new iPhone "as early as September." The report claims that the next generation iPhone will indeed be called "iPhone 6". Continue reading →
时下流行的智能手机都非常轻薄，并且还有进一步变薄的趋势。不过，如果你习惯用手机拍照，那么这就算不上一个好消息，因为超薄机身增加了机身的把持难度，这就是为什么数码相机通常都会设计一个巨大的手柄。
现在，一款名为"snappgrip"的创意配件可以帮助你解决这个问题。这款配件最先登陆于kickstarter众筹创业平台，获得了用户的支持，目前已经在部分国外电商处销售。实际上它是一款内置手柄的手机壳，兼容iphone 5/5s/4s/4及三星galaxy s3，能够有效增强拍摄手感并实现一定的扩展性（安装三脚架等）。
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继提供机身饰皮定制服务后，富士英国公司又宣布与著名奢侈品制造商globe-trotter联合推出x-pro1、x-e2、x100s、x20豪华套装，并交由奢侈品零售商哈罗德进行独家销售。
这些套装均包含1个由globe-trotter生产制造的行李箱，1台定制相机，以及配套镜头或机身附件，一套下来售价基本都在万元以上。以下是各套装的具体内容及售价：
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Northlight has received word that Canon will be releasing a high resolution big brother to the EOS 5D Mark III in the fall. This is another reference to an EOS 3D type of camera (it's been going on since this site started). The higher resolution camera would also shoot 4K video and have an abundance of video features. Pricing for the camera would come above the EOS 5D Mark III.
There's always mentions of high resolution sensors showing up in Canon DSLRs for testing around the globe, and I don't doubt that it's going on. We were told back in the fall that Canon would be releasing 3 new DSLRs in 2014, and we've already seen one in the 1200D. The other will most definitely be the followup to the EOS 7D, the third camera is unknown. I'd like to think it won't be a replacement to the EOS Rebel T5i.
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The iPhone, when it first came out in 2007, was way ahead of its time, with its large touchscreen interface, and technologies like multitouch, momentum scrolling, etc. Continue reading →
Apple made Greg Christie, one of its original iPhone engineers, available before yet another round of patent fights with Samsung, allowing Christie to further expand on the stories of the iPhone's secretive development under then-CEO Steve Jobs in a report by the Wall Street Journal. While some of what Christie said isn't new information, there are some interesting anecdotes near the end of his interview.
For example, in 2005—two years before the Apple went public with the iPhone—Christie's team was responsible for planning how the device would look and work. When the team found itself floundering and unable to settle on how the phone should work, Christie was told that his team could either figure it out over the next two weeks or be moved to another project so someone else could solve the problems.
Needless to say, Christie's team got to work immediately, eventually creating many of the concepts you'll find on just about any modern smartphone, such as the "slide to unlock" gesture and threaded text message conversations.
Christie also discusses how he was recruited to the iPhone project:
In late 2004, Mr. Christie was working on software for Apple's Macintosh computers when Scott Forstall, a senior member of the company's software team, walked into his office, closed the door and asked if he wanted to work on a secret project, codenamed "purple." The team would develop a phone with an integrated music player, operated by a touch screen.
The article goes on to describe Steve Jobs' growing excitement with the project and desire to manage it down to the last detail, the security and secrecy that went into the development process, and some of the user interface problems the team found themselves fighting to overcome—including what happened to the split-view Mail application Jobs was so proud of at the iPhone keynote.
You can read the full article on the WSJ website.
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