The OC Technophile

The tech news is a buzz with Apple’s announcement on January 27th, for an alleged tablet. Listening and reading news regarding the upcoming product release is almost too much as experts try to figure out what it should be and what it shouldn’t be. A 10″ LCD is rumored to be the size with perhaps a new iPhone 4.0 SDK that will be announced that same day. Will a new iPhone also be announced with an OLED screen and a 64GB storage capacity? It’ll be an interesting next 10 days until Apple lights up the technology blogs and sites with it’s new product. What are your opinions on it?

Aliph, the makers of the Jawbone bluetooth headsets, announced a new model tonight that’s lighting up the gadget world, the ICON. What makes it different is the design, the new low weight of the unit, and its new ability to include apps on a bluetooth headset. The ICON allows you to goto a mytalk website and add features such as announcing Caller ID and other features to change the voices of the ICON headset. Very interesting to say the least and we’re hoping the PR folks at Aliph might be able to spare a unit for review. We’ve posted reviews of different headsets and hoping to add more to the list.

If you haven’t been searching on the net lately, a new and exciting version of Wordpress has been released. It’s version 2.9 and it’s a huge improvement over the previous versions. Mass upgrading of plugins and video embedding support are the main upgrades. It’s a simple click and upgrade feature within most hosting packages and we’re on it now. No visual changes to the end user, but it’s a huge improvement for the site owners. Congrats to WP for this achievement.

We are expecting the new Nokia N900 to arrive tomorrow and are very excited to see it up close and personal. We’ll have a review up as soon as we get it going. Till then enjoy the clip.

Twitter just recently rolled out a new mobile page at mobile.twitter.com. It’s a huge upgrade on the current m.twitter.com page and looks a lot nicer than previous versions. What do you think?
Picture courtesy of boygeniusreport.com

If you’re in the OC and out late, remember to set your clocks back an hour as Daylight Savings ends tonight at 2am. Enjoy the extra hour of sleep

We have 19 invites for Google wave and we are looking to help users get into Google Wave by donating to a local Orange County Charity. By clicking on the Google Checkout link, you will be sent an invitation to Google Wave and the $5 will go to a local Orange County food bank to help during these economic times. Check it out and help a good cause in Orange County. Thanks

We are looking for local Orange County tech companies who want to be part of our holiday guide to email us with pitches and products by November 25th so we can put together an exciting holiday gift guide. We are looking for Cell phone companies, cell phone accessories, software companies, hardware manufacturers, websites with products and services, and anything else that you want to promote for the holiday season. Sound interesting? Email us at admin@octechnophile.com with your ideas and we’ll get in touch with you asap for more details.

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There’s a piece of new technology that was leaked last week and officially announced today in regards to a Blackberry watch. It’s being released by imPulse, a Canadian based technology company. It’ll feature Blackberry updates to your watch vs your Blackberry device. It’ll let you know about updates and messages on your phone. It charges via USB and looks rather interesting. It’s scheduled for a February ‘10 release date. What do you think about it?

It’s now official after all the leaks on Engadget and Crackberry, the new Storm 2 is officially coming. Verizon Wireless had announced the Blackberry Storm 2. It’ll be released on October 28th for $279 with a $100 Mail in Rebate. It’ll feature a new 5.0 operating system and a bunch of other enhancements to make it a huge update to current Storm users. Enjoy