Apple Map

Apple on Monday introduced a new version of its mobile operating system for iPhone and iPad that includes new features, such as Apple map that let users zoom over a three-dimensional image (3D) of a city. The new Apple map software will replace current Google map service. Apple also overhauled its line of Mac computers.

Apple CEO Timothy Cook introduced the new products on the opening day of the company’s developer conference here.

Apple updated its ultra-light MacBook Air laptop with a faster microprocessor and an improved camera. But it made the boldest computer-line changes to its high-end laptop, the MacBook Pro, which is now one quarter thinner and has a high resolution “retina display” similar to the screen on new iPad and iPhone. Apple was able to slim down the laptop by eliminating its DVD drive and getting rids of its hard drive in favor of a faster storage technology called flash.

The new Apple mapping system for Apple’s mobile devices will provide drivers with turn-by-turn directions, a feature that has long been available free in smartpones running on Android operating system from Google. Apple map created the 3D view in its map services by taking aerial photos using military camera which is more higher resolution and more details and clear when enlarge. Google map service currently using satellite imagery, however when enlarge it become blur.

Google has been building up its mapping services since 2005. Just last week, it held an event to show it was adding 3D maps to Google Earth, its service that shows satellite imagery to compete with Apple map which is providing 3D mapping system. It said it would allow Android users to download and store maps on their devices so that they can viewed without an Internet connection – a feature that Apple map service that still lag behind Google map service. Apple can use the leverage its millions of customers to help it catch up. The company said that its iPhone customer would be anonymously collecting traffic information for its database.

Other new features in the new operating system IOS 6, include improvements to SIRI, the voice-activated virtual assisant in the latest iPhone. While SIRI initially worked with a limited set of Internet services, it would now let users search for sports statistics, make restaurant reservations using OpenTable and look up show times for movies. SIRI also has a new function called Eyes Free. Eyes Free will allow drivers to communicate with it by pushing a button on their cars steering wheels.

Apple has reached an agreement with Facebook to weave the social network more deeply into its devices, allowing people to share photos on Facebook, for example, without having to open a separate Facebook app. The new features in the operating system will become available for iPhones, iPad and the iPod Touch when IOS 6 is released in Autumn.

Google Map

Google’s digital mapping service will get several new features in hopes of becoming more convenient, comprehensive and compelling as it braces for a potential loss in traffic from Apple’s hot selling smartphones and tablet PC. Recent Google’s preview of the mapping service coming into concerns about the loss as built-in mapping service on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Apple intends to end its five-year partnership with Google’s mobile mapping service next week when it unveil its own Apple mapping service, according to recent reports that Apple developed its own mapping service after subsequently purchase of three mapping service companies Placebase, Poly9, and C3 Technologies between 2009 to 2011. Apple own mapping service expected to be come along with new mobile operating software IOS 6 released on his autumn.

If Apple ditches Google Maps from the navigation service on the iPhone and iPad, it would be the latest fissure between two former allies. Their relationship has been degenerating into a bitter rivalry since Google’s release of Android operating system to compete the iPhone in the smartphones market. Since then, both companies have increasingly been encroaching into each other’s market share.

Processing the Google map requests from users of Apple’s devices has provided Google with valuable insights into mobile phones users’ locations and preferences. This information collected has helped Google better leverage it to sell more ads to local businesses.

None of the new features released by Google will be available for at least several more weeks. The upcoming options include Google maps that can be downloaded into smartphones for offline access and more 3D views- the latter coming from its own fleet of planes to better cater high resolution and detailed images especially when users enlarge the images. Besides providing 26 million miles of driving directions, Google’s maps now include imagery of most of the world’s neighborhoods. Mr. McClendon said that 75 per cent of the global population can now call up a high-resolution image of their home on Google maps, up from 37 per cent six years ago.

Google plans to embellish its maps with even more photos from remote areas, such as hiking trails in the Grand Canyon, with new equipment showcased recently. The photos will be taken from specially designed equipment attached to a hiker’s backpack. This gear will supplement photo-snapping bicycles that Google already has been dispatching to areas that cannot be easily accessed by cars.

The company also disclosed that its planes will photograph major cities to conjure more realistic 3D views of metropolitan landscapes in the Google Earth version of its maps. The aerial images taken by the planes are automatically converted into 3D views replicas using technology that Google has been developed.

San Franciscowill be one of the first cities to feature the more vivid 3D views imagery. Google did not identify other cities on its 3D views list, but said the improvements will span communities with a combined population of about 300 million.

The option to download mobile maps for specific cities so they can be view it offline later will only be available on smartphones and tablet PC running on Google’s Android software in initial stage. Google maps have typically offered more tools on Android devices, including spoken turn-by-turn directions.

Google Chrome For Apple

At the recent Google I/O Conference on Thursday, Google announces its release of Chrome web browser to iPad and iPhone. Currently Apple devices are in-built with Apple own web browsing programs Safari. The Internet search giant SVP said that the Google want to make it easier to use its software across all “your platform and all your devices”.

“People could start browsing with Chrome on a Macbook and then pick up where they left off on a smartphone, tablet, or other computer”, Rakowski demonstrated at the company’s annual I/O Conference  for developers. This can be done provided users sign in with the Google account before they start to search. We have known that current Google Chrome already has features like remembers bookmarks and other settings. Google has synchronize all the web browsing across all the devices for better web browsing experiences, as we know now many people have iPad, iPhone and laptop at the same time. It is definitely exciting news to technology lovers.

Android 4.1 Jolly Bean

Android 4.1 Jolly Bean release date is expected to be mid of next month come alongside with Google own tablet PC Nexus 7. Android 4.1 Jolly Bean is considered the refinement release of Ice Cream Sandwich, which already inbuilt with so great features within it.

Project Butter

Project Butter will make Android Jolly Bean more visually enjoyable. It increases frame rates and keeps them consistent to create a smoother and better experience in performances. Everything from opening and closing of applications, to list scrolling or just zipping around the OS is fantastic and fast without lagging. It works so seamlessly and smooth. Jolly Bean also improve it’s on-screen keyword for better touch input and finger tracking. It perform smarter auto-correct feature for your text input.

Enhanced Notifications

Android 4.1 Jolly Bean added some functionality on top of its new notification shade look some different. The new notification feature allows notification to be expandable. Notification expandable mean that you can expand the notification you receive like email to expand little bit more to have a sneak preview of its content, before you decide either to go into the application to read all the content in the email. Quick actions like reply, comment, like or some similar actions are added alongside with the expandable notifications. So now even you don’t open the app, you can have the message read and reply to it, all thanks to Jolly Bean.

 Interface Design

Android 4.1 Jolly Bean has a clean clear cut design, improved from Ice Cream Sandwich interface. Jolly Bean interface looks are very modern and eye pleasing and comfortable. This Holo themed app is now released to most of the big developers.

Google Now

Google Now has to be the biggest announcement in Google I/O Conference on June 2012, creating a big buzz in the IT world. It is Google voice recognition; put it in direct competition with Apple Siri and Samsung S Voice. It is Google’s answer to the most anticipated virtual assistant craze.

Apple IOS 6

Apple has officially unveiled its latest version of mobile platform IOS 6 for smartphones and tablet PC at the San Francisco Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC, on Monday 11 June 2012. IOS 6 release date will be expected at this autumn and applicable to iPad 2, the New iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S.

The IOS 6 will have few new important and useful features to attract users embrace for its apple devices, and better distancing itself from Google Android.

1. Apple maps – Recently Apple unveils that it will use its own Apple maps to replace previous Google maps. With Apple maps, users can use its turn-by-turn navigation function, real time traffic updates that collect data from Apple mobile users, and a clear 3D city images.

2. Apple Siri – Apple designed voice-activated virtual assistant with improvement version will allows more functionality from previous Siri version. New Siri version let users search for sports statistics, make restaurant reservations using OpenTable and look up show times for movies.

3. Facebook – Apple has integrated Facebook into its devices, to allow people to share posts and photo easily and instantly without having to open a separate Facebook app.

4. Apple Passbook – Apple Passbook will allow users to store tickets, boarding passes and loyalty cards on their iPhone. When checking in for a flight, users will be able to select Apple Passbook as an option for delivery of their boarding pass. It will then appear automatically at the airport

5. Facetime – IOS 6 allows Facetime video chat to work over cellular networks instead of just for WiFi network previously, making it easy for people to make video phone call anywhere. However, remember that it will utilize huge data usage, translated to high data bill.

6. Security – IOS 6 implement more stringent security by prompting users when apps and services are trying to access private data. Contacts, reminders, photos and calendars are now categorized as protected personal data and apps can no longer access them without permission.

7. Auto Layout – Auto Layout allows interface elements to move and shift based on a specific parameters. Auto Layout significantly hints that Apple will release iPhone 5 with larger screen display. Although not specified at the Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC, it is expected iPhone 5 release date will be on this autumn.

iPhone 5 IOS 6 Youtube

The rift between Apple and Google just go wider. Apple released a test version of its upcoming iOS 6 operating system on Monday, and developers are noticed that YouTube app was missing from its line-up of built-in apps.

Apple said in a statement that “our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended”. However, Apple added that iPhone 5and iPad2, new iPad users with iOS 6 still able to view YouTube through web browser, and Google was working on a new YouTube app that would be available through the Apple App store.

It is not surprisingly that Apple would drops built-in YouTube app from iOS 6. Google and Apple have suffered fallings-out in Silicon Valley when Google push into the mobile phone market with its Android operating system.

Apple has also stopped using Google Maps to power the mapping service in the new iOS 6 operating system. Apple own mapping service Apple Maps is used instead, to replace Google Maps.

iPhone 5 release date  are expected to be 12 September 2012.

iPhone 5 release date

Apple has announced his new iPhone 5 at San Fracisco at Apple WWDC on 14 September 2012. Finally, after long period of speculations, the actual Apple iPhone 5 release date and iPhone 5 design revealed to the world.

Apple iPhone 5 is considered the world lightest weight smartphone so far. With the thickness of 7.5mm and the weight only 112 gram, it promises a wider screen display of 4 inch as expected and speculated yet lightest. This is a big changes of Apple iPhone as opposed to its previous series of iPhone products like iPhone 3, iPhone 3S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S.Although iPhone 5 has this revolutional changes of screen display, Apple manages to reduce its weight to even lighter to 112 gram compare to iPhone 4S which is 140 gram and having 3.5 inch of display screen.

Apple iPhone 5 was also considered the last masterpiece of iPhone designed by late Steve Job. iPhone s is expected to accept order start from 14 September in few countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, America, Japan, Australia and etc and the products delivery will be started on 21 September.

Apple iPhone 5 maintains its branded colors, which is black and white colors. New iPhone 5 features retina display with resolution of 1136 x 640 pixel. With newer technology, iPhone 5 features A6 processor with double up speed of iPhone 4S ‘s A5 processor to support faster and smoother processing and multitasking and double up graphic  quality with zero lag. For the camera, it’s iSight camera remain the same 8 megapixel as like its predecessor iPhone 4S but iSights camera increase its features to able shooting full view panoramic photo and shooting photo under low light condition. Apple iPhone 5′s iSight camera also allow users to take photo while recording video and has improved handshake reduction feature.

For the iPhone 5′s Siri aspect, it is expected the voice automated search function will be highly upgraded, and will use Apple own navigation map services instead of Google map for its navigation system. iPhone 5’s Passbook application was another big wow for its fans, and this application allows users to check in at airport using iPhone 5 instead of air ticket paper.

For the pricing, 2 year contracts with the America local Telco for iPhone 5 16GB will be USD 199, and 32GB as USD 299 and USD 399 for 64GB of iPhone 5 with 2 years contracts. It is expected iPhone 5 able to break the previous iPhone series sales records compare to all its predecessors.