Ca y est, cette fois, c’est sûr: Apple est prêt à dévoiler son nouvel iPhone. Depuis quelques semaines déjà, l’iPhone premier du nom n’est plus disponible sur le site d’Apple… http://tf1.lci.fr/

Walt Mossberg has been playing around with the Samsung Instinct for Sprint for a while now, and has something to say about the device. That is, it is no iPhone. According to Walt, the device is nice, but it is lacking in some areas that he really would have liked the device to excel in. According to him, the interface is just not pretty enough.

“I’ve been testing the Instinct, and while it isn’t a bad phone and has some features the Apple product lacks, it’s no match for the iPhone. The manufacturers haven’t replicated the iPhone’s greatest strength: beautiful, powerful, breakthrough software.” – Walt Mossberg

Strong words against the device. The Instinct will begin shipping on June 20th, meaning it will beat the iPhone 3G out of the gates. The problem is, Sprint has been advertising the devices 3G and GPS, directly targeting the iPhone on that front. Maybe someone should tell them about the iPhone 3G. Mossberg seems to be the few, as many that have reviewed the Instinct found it to be a very nice device.

[Via Wall Street Journal]

There are a number of things that could negate this story, but it is still one of those rumors that you just really hope is true. A screen shot of the iPhone loading the site lonelyplanet.com, shows the device rendering out Flash content on the site. The site has a mini map on the side, that looks a certain way when loaded up in Flash, and also a certain way when loaded up without it.

That is what the site looks like under iPhone firmware 1.1.4, a flat map with no Flash, and no variations. It is clearly very different from the screen shot of a normal desktop web browser, loading the site up, with full Flash support.

As you can see in this screen shot from a desktop, the map is a little fancier. It has color variations, and also hover effects and mouse over actions.

Lastly, this is how it looks on the iPhone 3G. Well, this is how it might look. Clearly the device shows a full version of the page in the browser, but this is almost certainly marketing material. Meaning screen rendering, and this could be an oversight by Apple. On the more exciting side, Apple could have thrown in Flash support and waited for someone to catch on to this little detail, you decide.

[Via iPhone Atlas]

http://live.pirillo.com – Yes, I have an iPhone. If you look closely, you can see my little Chris icon on there. It’s also on my home screen. When I tap it, it opens my blog. When you open my blog on your iPhone, it’s going to look a lot different than it would on a browser. That’s due to a plugin I am running in WordPress.

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According to Steve Jobs, the recent acquisition of P.A. Semi will serve to benefit the iPhone and the iPod. Apparently they will use the P.A. Semi chips to phase out the use if Infineon chips in their devices. Having the chip making going on in house, could reduce the cost of their devices quite a bit. More likely though, prices will be the same and Apple will see increased profit margin.

This is good news for Apple, but not so good for Intel. It was expected in some circles Apple would use a ultra low power chip from Intel in their devices, a CPU such as Intel’s new Atom chip. It is not known when we will start seeing P.A. Semi chips in Apple devices, but they are probably hard at work by now, considering the deal went down in April.