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These are the top 5 things I want to see on the iPhone 5/4s/4GS or whatever Apple calls it. The rumours are flying all over the web so I thought I would provide my thoughts. Hopefully we will hear something set in stone on October 4th at this Apple event. I also discuss some of the roomers I don't think will come true. Like fireproofing... really?
What do you guys think will be in the new iPhone? Send me your replies on Twitter.
The Refresh is a charging station manufactured by BlueLounge. It is advertised as a place to recharge multiple electronics while keeping them organized. Better yet, it seems to do just that. Let's take a look.
The Refresh is a great charging station. The product looks and feels high quality. It is super aesthetically pleasing, and trust me, you will receive several compliments on it- especially if you use it at your workplace. The viewing angle differentiates it from other charging stations, and also adds a very nice feature as you can see if a new text came in or other notifications right from where you are sitting- no leaning involved. All of your products will charge at normal charging time. You will only occupy one outlet on your wall, whether you are in Europe or the U.S. And better yet, there is only one cable.
However, the product does have its faults. The LED indicator is placed inside the product, so you can't tell whether the device is on or off while using the product itself. Also, plugging devices in at first was really awkward. You get used to it over time, however, especially with third party cables, your devices will not lay neatly on the device. Perhaps the biggest downfall is the price. The Refresh weighs in at a hefty $90, which may be a little bit too much to pay for this device, as it does not bring anything new to the table.
If you have the money to spend $90 on the Refresh, go ahead and do it. However, I would wait until you can find it for about $60-70 to make your purchase. You can buy yours here.
We’ve asked for it. And we expect to see it happen. In a ferment of excitement that has rattled both - Apple and Microsoft driven philosophies - Google has taken some novel afflatus to bring its Android platform to the dais of Technology Commencement Address. A best one at that. Apple and Microsoft have dipped a bit, by an inconsequential increment though, but they got to find a way to transition back to their heyday, the years that have fructified the vacant with some succulent and sensible taste at success. Since the topic is nothing short of “what people are looking forward to in iOS,” I feel that - iOS has run its course twice, thrice, and perhaps for the fourth time if Apple tries to satiate the roistering, sweltering, and rambunctious bedlam of users with the same feel, look, taste, and smell, of its corrugated Operating System, at which they’ve been manipulated and cloyed with a bland risqué, made unwittingly aware through their simpering moue - with its lack of ingenuity and freshness that this conservative Americanism was an indirect source of their malaise. They want change, the remedy, and a nostrum by a long-shot. Here are the changes people are most looking forward to in the next installment of iOS:
... that widgets should be utilized. This is nothing like a mind-boggling headline or a weird and insensibly untouched conjecture that has found a way out from a previously-unknown, and cabalistic, piece of information about the mysteries of Tutankhamun. People have asked for the utilization of widgets for quite a time, and when that didn’t happen, they raptured the word “it” with a strong, invidious, and incriminating, sibilant. They want their Twitter, Facebook (SNS) status, calendar, weather, and stocks, on a separate, and designated, page, where icons and other wastrel are invisible. But only widgets.
... that it needs a better notification system. No, actually, iOS is missing it. It has been nixed completely, out of Apple’s blotter sheet. There’s no such thing as a notification system in iOS, lest you’d count the dyspeptic (and ridiculously laminated as noble and prodigious by Apple) notification system that incessantly gets on your way, tampers with whatever you’re up to. You just cued up a 30-minute video of a Huckabee-Romney palaver, on YouTube, and about 7 minutes into the video, you get a text message from your friend, who tells you he’s watching the same 30-minute video of a Huckabee-Romney palaver and suggests you watch it. The video stops, of course, and if your phone can’t multitask, you’re a real patsy, the victim of your hangdog friend who has made you to reload that 30-minute video. Apple cannot scrawl its code for the notification system in an illegible and rushed longhand. To do it gracefully without a speck of error is to make the new system a rather subliminal affair, something users are made aware through a notification bar or column, the likes of Android’s and Microsoft’s. Not an idiotic and hideous message that gets on My Way.
That just about wraps it up. Colonnaded with a straw of perfection, and its stream of porticos that suffuse into Your Majesty. These are the fronts of Apple in 2009. But wherefore art thou in this remarkable period of platitude? Apple is in some messy time now, but here I am hoping for it to renew its charms and magic from two years ago with some swashbuckling, new breed of its sententious lark - hopefully through the new touches of iOS 5.0.
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