According to Chinese site WeiPhon, the new iPhone, which is expected to launch in June 2009, will have the following specifications:
New
600 MHz processor compared to 400MHz
256 MB of RAM compared to 126 MB
3.2 MPx camera compared to 2MPx
32 GB | 16 GB compared to 16 GB | 16 GB
7.2mbps compared to 3.6mbpsApple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is happening in early June, which is when many people expect the phone to be revealed.
So, we haven’t sent average joe’s into space just yet, but we have given them the opportunity to get closer to the action via Twitter. The hype has come about thank to Mike Massimino, who is part of the STS-125 space mission. This is his (Massimino’s) second space flight, and thought it was time to bring Twitter along. There are currently 227,949 users following him on his space mission.
Another astronaut, Mark Polansky is currently giving updates on Twitter about his training for the scheduled June launch, and has said to his over 6000 Twitter followers that they can post questions via YouTube and he will respond to them from Orbit. Polansky’s Twitter account is Astro_127.
The search engine is based on a different type of coding from that of Google, and has taken the approach of not answering queries, but rather gathers data and visuals from a variety of data and displays it in an attractive ‘all-in-one’ type of page. This could well prove useful as according to CNET reporter Stephen Shankland it could “…unlock a lot of data that students, research assistants, lawyers, marketing managers, financial analysts, and scientists might not have readily available.”
It is indeed an interesting idea, though how much of an influence it will have is yet to be seen.
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