WIRED has released a mock up image of the rumored MacBook Air, a sub notebook that seems to rely on pure wireless connectivity. This doesn’t just mean WiFi, but maybe even 3G or HSDPA if we’re feeling lucky. Think of it as a really huge iPhone and you may get the drift of where the company may be headed towards in 2008. Implementing SIM cards onto notebooks isn’t a new concept. Maybe Apple wants to exhaust this technology to create something innovative. Who knows, really. We’ll find out in a few hours

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Conjecture around the phone-jamming helicopter has arisen as a result of its appearance in attendance on Mr Bush at the 2005 APEC summit in South Korea. Reporters covering the conference said that a Black Hawk chopper would shadow the presidential motorcade, and as it passed overhead mobile phones would lose touch with the local network. – The Register

I’d love a nifty gadget like that, especially when its equipped onto a Blackhawk chopper. It sure makes some good excuse too for missing out on calls from family and friends. The mobile phone jammer is meant to jam wireless signals that can potentially be instruments for detonating weapons of mass destruction.

Last year, Nokia said they’re the number one manufacturer of digital cameras and MP3 players. I guess if you take these things with face value, they’re also the number one manufacturers of bomb detonators?

Gee.

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I’m sure most of you have seen this video. Nvidia released a mobile phone UI demo as an eye opener for consumers – an undertoned note to “wait and see” before buying a hip product like the iPhone. There are many ways to go about a commentary to this development. I could go on and say how cool the new UI is, with the eye candy taking up most of real estate providing no TRUE functionality as a phone. A device like this screams portable media player and gaming device all rolled into one. It just so happens that adding a mobile phone component will not up the cost by much.

Also, I could say that this phone UI is merely a concept and the merger between software and hardware is tantamount to producing a great product. What if the UI is all that is claims to be but the battery life can only be demanded for 6 hours at a time on a single charge? How easy will including a functional and practical hardware keypad be with this device?

Thus comes the next chapter of mobile computing where next gen technologies are slowly trying to be inculcated into the consumer mind. Take for instance the digital paper format as well as the migration from hardware keys to pure soft keys with the iPhone (Apple did not start it – but they sure had all eyes watching when they decided to do this).

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