MacBook Air - World's Thinnest Laptop

The world’s thinnest notebook is now shipping, Apple announced since January 30, 2008.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds an envelope containing the new MacBook Air during his keynote at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened. MacBook Air measures 0.16 inches (0.4cm) at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches (1.93cm) is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the new MacBook Air during his keynote at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened. MacBook Air measures 0.16 inches (0.4cm) at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches (1.93cm) is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks

Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs holds the new MacBook Air laptop computer as he delivers the keynote speech to kick off the 2008 Macworld fair in San Francisco. Jobs introduced the wireless Time Capsule backup appliance, iTV 2 and the new ultra thin laptop MacBook Air.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the MacBook Air after his keynote at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened.

Technical Specs

• .16 to .75-inch thickness on top

• 12.8 x 8.94 inches

• 3 pounds

• 5 hours of battery life with everything running

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor at 1.6 or 1.8GHz, motherboard the length of a pencil.

• 800MHz frontside bus.

• 2GB RAM 667MHz DDR2 standard.
• 13.3-inch screen, LED backlit.

• 1,280 x 800 pixels

• Micro-DVI adapter (for DVI, VGA, composite and S-Video output)

• Intel GMA X3100 Graphics processor with 144MB RAM shared

• 1.8-inch 80GB HD or 64GB Solid State Drive (no moving pieces, just add $1,300!!!)

• Multitouch trackpad with gestures. Pans, zooms, rotates, etc.

• 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1.

• Optional external HD for $99, USB-bus powered.

• Full backlit keyboard.

• One USB 2.0, one audio port, one Micro-DVI

Comparison of Apple iPhone and Nokia N95

Which is better? iPhone or Nokia N95





Apple has the iPhone and Nokia has the N95. Bothe phones were released recently. Both phones provides almost the same features. Nokia an all-in-one multimedia device and iPhone which is a cellular phone, multimedia player, a camera and PDA. I can say that Nokia N95, which was release earlier, is a stiff competitor for the iPhone of Apple.

The Nokia N95 and Apple iPhone
Nokia N95 has silver display, allows to watch videos, take photographs, send emails and call clients all through one device. N95 of Nokia was sold at a much higher price tag than the Apple iPhone, ranging at $700.

Nokia N95 have a unique two-way slide conept. It also offers GPS integration with maps to over 100 countries. Some features can be purchased well of course for additional cost. However, iPhone have much better maps feature integration and more detailed.


One of the best feature of these two phones is the design of it. In Nokia N95, with a two-way slide concept, can switch between two different modes: with numeric keypad on one side, which is common on most ordinary phones, and media keys on the other side. The concept of having the two-way slide is to give protection for the keyboard in which unlike from the iPhone, which gives a revolutionary touch screen interface and a virtual keyboard.

The Nokia N95 allows for both landscape and portrait mode, same thing with the Apple iPhone. However, the Apple iPhone offers a larger display at greater resolution at 320 x 480 pixels in comparison to the Nokia’s 240 x 320 pixels. The Apple iPhone interface is still remarkably more intuitive, elegant, and beautiful than all of its competitors yet the Nokia N95 does offer some competitive alternatives with a mixture of traditional features and increased multimedia capabilities.

Regarding the camera capabilities of the two phones, Nokia N95 is the winner with its 5.0 megapixels camera, which offers greater quality of photographs and higher resolution of videos, unlike with Apple iPhone which has only 2.0 megapixels camera. But, when it comes to photo and video editing, Apple iPhone tops them all in which Nokia N95 doesn't have that feature on the phone. Apple iPhone, enables you to take photos and video and edit them right then and there on your iPhone, and send them off to friends, family, and colleagues by email.

Through the HSDPA networks offering support to WLAN, EDGE, and WCDMA networks, the wireless capability of the Nokia N95 is faster than the 3G. The Nokia N95 also features S60 Software on Symbian OS, allowing for personalization through compatible applications.

Both phones also offer voicemail features, but Apple iPhone offers the unique visual voicemail option.



Battery life span is also a great deal for the two competiting phones. Currently, the battery life of the Nokia N95 is short, antenna is weak and the multimedia player does not have a contrast or brightness control. After improvemes and upgrades are made, this model will be a better option. For Apple iPhone, it has three sensors: an ambient light sensor that prevents waste of battery life and adjusts brightness and contrast of the display; an accelerometer for adjusting between landscape and portrait mode; and a proximity sensor that turns off the display and touchscreen when the iPhone comes closes to the body; as well as three switches that enable sleep/wake, volume up/down, and ringer on/off modes.

The answer for the question on the title still depends on your choice... as for me... i'm still with the Apple iPhone, but for camera capabilities, its with Nokia N95

iPHONE FIRMWARE 1.1.3 UPDATE

my friends..... for those who have iPhones and well yes, iPod Touch... there is a new firmware that needs to be downloaded.... the firmware 1.1.3... but before you upgrade your firmware.... you need to download the new version of iTunes as well...

The much awaited firmware 1.1.3 is now available..It delivers new features like the ability to send SMS messages to multiple recipients at once, faux-GPS on Google Maps via triangulation, Google Maps showing the hybrid map view, drag and drop icons on the home screen and bookmarks on the home screen (i.e. Webclips). There are also some new features, such as videos with chapters, the ability to display lyrics on music.

Apple Enhances Revolutionary iPhone With Software Update

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Apple(R) today announced a free software update for its revolutionary iPhone(TM) that allows users to automatically find their location using the redesigned Maps application*; text message multiple people in one message; create Web Clips for their favorite websites; customize their home screen; and watch movies rented from the new iTunes(R) Movie Rentals right on their iPhone. With its revolutionary multi-touch user interface and pioneering software, users caneasily add significant new features to their iPhone through software updates whenever an update becomes available. New iPhone products shipping from the factory will include the software update and existing iPhone customers will automatically get the update for free when they sync their iPhone with iTunes (http://www.itunes.com/).

"iPhone doesn't stand still -- we're making it better and better all the time," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We've delighted millions of users with this revolutionary and magical product and it's great to share these improvements with them."

Maps, one of the most popular and helpful applications on iPhone, has a new interface that is simpler and easier to use and adds incredible new features such as the ability to find your location automatically. With just the tap of a button, iPhone can now triangulate your position using nearby Wi-Fi base stations or cellular towers. You can use this as a starting or ending point for directions or to find local points of interest. The new hybrid map view combines map view and satellite view so you can see major street names overlaid on satellite imagery.Users can now create Web Clips -- icons on the home screen that take you directly to your favorite websites, including to the exact spot you have zoomed into. Web Clips are a great way to easily track websites that you frequently check such as news, blogs, sports sites and movie listings. In addition, users can now customize their home screen by repositioning any of the icons, and even create up to nine different home screens that they can easily flick between. iPhone's new software update also adds the ability to send the same SMS text message to multiple people, and iPhone saves a history of your text messages, so with one tap you can send a new message to the same group.

With Apple's new iTunes Movie Rentals, movie fans can rent movies on their computer, easily and quickly transfer them to their iPhone, and watch them anywhere on iPhone's gorgeous 3.5 inch screen. Users can also now navigate forward or backward through their movies by chapters, select alternate language tracks and view subtitles, if available.

Pricing & Availability The iPhone software update 1.1.3 is available immediately for free via iTunes 7.5 or later for all existing iPhone customers in the US, UK, Germany and France. New iPhone products shipping from the factory will include the software update and existing iPhone customers will automatically get the update for free when they sync their iPhone with iTunes (http://www.itunes.com). iTunes Movie Rentals are available in the US only.

Further information for iPhone can be found at http://www.apple.com/iphone.

*Availability and precision of Maps positioning features will vary depending on actual location.


here are some screenshots from gearlive.com of the new updates for the firmware 1.1.3