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iPhone for the Audio-Visual Geeks (part 2)

We discussed audio visual equipment for the iPhone in our previous installment; now get ready for part two because we have some more juicy babes for you to get your hands on.  As always remember that the iPhone battery gets KILLED from playing music and videos for long periods of time so do make sure that you get yourself a iPhone battery pack to get max juice out of your device.

Audio-Visual Dock for your iPhone
Costs about £40, available from dexim.net, is a great dock for your iPhone, basically connects to your TV AV ports and plays videos off your iPhone onto your TV. Also has a remote control so that you can enjoy your iPhone videos from the luxury of lying down on your sofa.

The video resolution is the standard 640x480 designed for you iPhone and is perfect for youtube videos, video podcasts, music videos, TV content from TV catchup, BBC iplayer services etc.. Although we’re not sure why you’d want to play TV off your iPhone on a TV.

This is a really fun device and may make it possible for you to record your iPhone screen straight onto video capture device with the iPhone 4 multi-task capability.

Freedom Bluetooth Headphones for your iPhone
These headphones are great if you’re fed up of having your iPhone headphones constantly getting snagged and as a result popping out of your ears or if you’re constantly on the move and find that the cables tend to restrict your movement and always pop out of your ears. The Bluetooth earphones sit up and around your ears and stay surprisingly put once in place. They’re lightweight and last for over 5 hours in a single charge, although in order to charge these headphones you need to use the provided charging HUB only. E like these a lot as they’re perfect for jogging and fit much better than standard iPhone earphones. At around £95 these are quite expensive but well worth if you really like your music and want to listen to it on the move.

TuneSTREAM Bluetooth Headphones
If you on the other hand prefer the look and feel of headphones which is a much better option for people who wear glasses, over the over the ear headphones like the freedom Bluetooth, you may prefer the TuneSTREAM heagphone, they have a very stylish squat appearance and fit nice and comfortable over your head with the absolute perfect pressure on your ears.

It lasts a lot longer with an estimated 8 hours of battery life on a single charge, and it would be nice to have a USB powered charger rather than a mains.

Overall we hope you liked the reviews of the 3 products, and hope you enjoy your audio visual adventures across the galax, do consider an iPhone battery pack if you plan on using this device for a long period of time.

A great discussion on the tablet computer industry

The demise of the keyboard is nigh

At the recent apple deliberation the Apple founder was asked what the progression of PC was, and Steve Jobs retorted that he hopes that the progression of computers will be rooted around touchscreen slate tablet pc.

His explanation was that people are presently using tablet computers like GPS, iphones, touch based POS amongst alternative machines. Also the emerging pattern at the moment is that computers are being employed for researching data rather than entering text.

Leading Thinktanks declare that the sales stats for tablet pc computers is only estimated to improve In future.

Skeptics meanwhile make the claim that declaring the demise of the keys is a bit like wanting for the end of the lorry in the automotive trade, whilst the tabler PCs finish with keyboards, they are yet hard machines to enter vast volumes of data. And that voice detecton is currently pretty much in its beginning stages.

If the demise of keyboards is probable or not, unfortunately Apple inc has much betting on it materialising, as their two most recent releases have finished with the keyboard permanently. However what seems clear is that an increasing quantity of machines are utilised for web surfing for home use. Facebook & Twitter have diminished the quanitity of text being sent around per email, and majority of net users rarely require to input large volumes of text.



What everyone does know though is that tablet PCs have been in use in commercial sectors a long time Apple corp started to focus on the keyboardless tablet pc, Business touchscreen machines have been in implementation since early 2000, Touchpads are logical because character input devices are in theory more fragile than touch screen computers and exposed to fractures and electrical short circuit whilst well designed tablet PC systems can be easily secured from grazing and damage from overuse.

Another thing that Apple Corp has got right is the tablet PC technology down to a minutia, early touch screens and in deed some more recent tablet pc systems are still restricted to a stylus, the ipad and iPhone are ridiculously more precise when used with fingertips. Obviously Apple corp have leaped over a huge hurdle as the stylus dependancy was singly most crucial factor restricting touchscreens in previous years from turning mainstream.

Further improvements that are counted on are creative ways of enabling type on a touchscreen pc without having to carrying around a huge keyboard. Possibly by means of a slim acrylic semiconductor with a full scale keyboard or a light up keyboard which lights up on a table that operates by observing your finger locations.

Finally, will the slate tablet pc ignite the decline of the desktop pc? Who can be sure, I'm assuming time is always best fortune teller. In any case whatever fruitions we shall eternally be the trendsetter to jump onto the most recent gadgets and eager to witness what pathway thetablet pc industry moves.

Rob Brown

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