The Ion All-Star Guitar is a fake guitar instrument that connects to an application on an iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone. The All-Star Guitar will soon get Lightning connector support. The application teaches you how to learn notes and chords. The All-Star Guitar with a Lightning connector is expected to arrive in June and it costs $99. The All-Star Guitar with a Lightning connector was announced at CES.
Apple has started shipping the iPod Touch. Preorder customers started receiving shipping notification e-mails for the fifth generation iPd Touch. Apple started selling the device last month with a larger 5-inch display around the same time that the iPhone 5 went for sale. The new iPod Touch devices have a 5-megapixel camera, front-facing iSight camera for face time, and some new colors to choose from. The estimated delivery is October 15.
Urban Outfitters had recently had their first annual analyst day. The company’s presentation is available online. Urban Outfitters CIO Calvin Hollinger took some time to talk about the future of their point-of-sales systems in retail as well. He said that going forward the company will have all Apple devices for their stores. Cash registers will be replaced with an iPad on a swivel.
Amazon.com has announced a new Cloud Player application for iOS. Amazon’s Cloud Player lets users upload music to a cloud locker and can stream songs to iPhones and iPod Touches. The Amazon Cloud Player gives you 5GB of free storage and users can pay an annual fee for additional space on Amazon’s servers. Cloud Player for iOS is a free app and it is available now. Check out the press release below:
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Wired’s Christina Bonnington speculates on Gizmodo that the end of the iPod in the near future, citing declining sales and a few curious moves on Apple’s part. iPod sales peaked in December of 2008, and the numbers continue to drop. The iPod Touch has features, like FaceTime, that used to be reserved for iPhones. And this year, Apple’s Back To School deal gives students a complimentary $100 iTunes giftcard with the purchase of a Mac, when the promo’s freebie was formerly an iPod touch.
If you are a Windows Phone 7 fan but you are stuck with an iPhone or iPod Touch, then you are in luck. In the video above, you will see that Windows Phone 7 has been hacked onto an iPhone. You will need to jailbreak your iOS device and install software called OS7. Wyndwarrior’s WP7 iOS theme is currently in public beta. The price and availability of the Windows Phone 7 theme final version for the iPhone/iPod is not yet known. [Gizmodo]
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced that Google Voice now works on the iPod Touch and the iPad. Even though you cannot use the iPad or iPod Touch as a phone, you can use it for initiating a call with your phone. This feature is called Click2Call.
To get started, click on the “Call” button on the Google Voice application. Then select which phones you want to ring. Google Voice will call all of them. Below is a list of some of the other improvements made on the app:
- When you enable Push Notifications, we will automatically disable Text forwarding for you, so you won’t receive multiple notifications.
- Want some quiet time? You can send all callers straight to voicemail by turning on Do not disturb in the Settings tab.
- We made it easier for you to place calls from the address book by adding a dedicated Contacts button to the Dialer tab.
- Sending text messages is now more streamlined since you don’t need to press the OK button anymore.
Net Applications has reported that Apple iOS has become the third most popular platform on the Internet in terms of marketshare. The iOS is about six times larger than Android and is even bigger than Linux according to Net Applications.
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