Monday, June 9th, 2008
at 8:24pm
Its official Apple have just announced that on July 11th they will be releasing the new iPhone 3G. The amazing thing about this is that not just is there new features like 3G but the price has literally been slashed in half. You used to have to pay $399 (Approx €255) for an 8gb iPhone and $499 (Approx €319) for a 16gb iPhone, but as of this July 11th you will now only have to pay $199 (Approx €127) for the 8gb iPhone 3G and $299 (Approx €191) for the 16gb iPhone 3G.
The 8gb iPhone 3G will be available only in black however they will be releasing the 16gb iPhone 3g in black & white so there is more choice if you go for the 16gb. There is also a hint now that they will be releasing a new update for iTunes, this update will be version 7.7. This is required for the new iPhone 3G.
This new iPhone 3G was announced at the wddc 2008 today (June 8th 2008).
I think that when this new iPhone gets released i will definitely be buying it.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
at 4:56pm
Yep that’s right Youtube have now begun to go into the stages of beta testing. Lately you may have noticed a few slight changes here and there on youtube, a lot of downtime on the servers amongst other things, this is due to Youtube upgrading itself. Youtube has brought out some nice new features over the past few weeks. They have upgraded the surrounding’s of the video box when watching a video which makes it look more dynamic and in my opinion it makes it look better. Another thing that Youtube have updated is after you log into your account you no longer get redirected back to the front page with your subscription updates in a small box you now get redirected to a totally different page which looks a bit plain looking and i do not really like this new update i think they could do with reverting this update back.
However its not all bad, Youtube have just released today there new beta testing of there new video player. I think it looks great, have a look at the picture below to see the new video player(left), Old video player is on the right.
I think that they decided to finally upgrade there video player because over the past while they have being allowing a higher-quality version of videos to be displayed. i think that with this new player it will load there videos faster and also display them clearer than there old video player.
I think its great that Youtube are finally getting around to upgrading there service, i think these few upgrades are just a taste of what else Youtube have to come. Hopefully Youtube will upgrade there audio quality to output more Bass sound as most videos require it. I have also just found out that Youtube have upgraded there upload video file size limit, you used to only be allowed to upload 100mb per video and a maximum length of 10 minutes which gave a poor quality video, however now they have increased the file size limit from 100 mb to 1024mb (1GB) and video length still remains the same at 10 minutes, this will no doubt be the beginning of High Definition videos on Youtube.
