New Nokia 5530 XpressMusic

Look! A new full touch screen phone from Nokia - the 5530 XpressMusic!

Features:
2.9″ screen (360×640 pixels)
proximity sensor
accelerometer sensor
handwriting recognition
3.15 MP (2048×1536 pixels)
Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth
TV out

It will be out later this year for a little less than P15,000. Sounds good for a touch screen, no? But your 15k will not give you 3G and GPS, and it has only 70 mb of internal memory. It has a microSD slot though, which can hold up to 16GB of memory.

Via pinoytechblog.com

Apple Warns Palm About iTunes Syncing

Seems like those who bought the Palm Pre with hopes that they can sync it to iTunes should not keep their hopes up much.

In an update on their support pages today, Apple took on the issue of unsupported media players which claim that they can be synchronized with iTunes. In an article titled iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players, Apple has this to say:

Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players are able to sync with Apple software. However, Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple's iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.

It doesn't take a genius, though, to figure out that they're talking about the Pre.

Photo via techcrunch.com