Happy Sunday! Again today is the time we sit and make a round-up of the most important technology news of the last 7 days. This is the week of Apple, iPhone 4 and Apple, all the eyes were paying attention to Apple’s news and conference in this week.
Earlier this week, Apple received a very bad news as Consumer Reports, the leading US consumer magazine, recommends that users should not buy the iPhone 4. The magazine’s experts tested 3 iPhone and confirmed that the iPhone 4′s antenna problem is due to hardware. The Consumer Reports‘ reviews led to a serious decline in Apple and iPhone 4′s prestige.
Here is the video from Consumer Reports.
Later on July 16, Steve Jobs addressed the iPhone 4 antenna disaster at a press conference held at Cupertino campus. At the beginning of his speech, Steve Jobs stated that Apple’s not perfect, there is not a perfect phone and Apple just want to make users feel happy. Much as we predicted, Jobs then demonstrated how other phones including Blackberry 9700, HTC Droid Eris, and Samsung Omnia have the same reception issues when gripped tightly. “We haven’t figured out a way around the laws of physics. Yet.” he says. And to remedy the situation, Apple will give everyone who buys or has bought an iPhone 4 a free case.
For those who want to see the footage of Job’s conference, you can now view it here: iPhone 4 Antenna Press Conference Video.
The Verizon Wireless website shows that the Droid X is sold out until July 23 when devices ordered now will be shipped. Droid X is considered as a big rival of the iPhone 4, especially after iPhone’s serious antenna flaw. The Motorola Droid X has more latest features like 4.3-inch, 16:9 multitouch display with 854×480 resolution, a 1GHz OMAP processor, 512MB RAM, HDMI-out, DLNA support, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Hotspot tethering. Motorola Droid X is also equipped with an 8MP camera with 720p HD video recording, three mics, 8GB on-board memory and a 16GB microSD card and a 1570mAh battery.
At the conference WPC in Washington, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, said the company is trying to regain what was lost at the hands of Google and Apple on the mobile market . He confirmed that in the upcoming time, Microsoft will release a series of smartphones and Tablet PCs running Windows 7 Phone. Ballmer also said that before the end of 2010, Microsoft expects to sell 350 million devices based on Windows.
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