Wired just published a review of the application. Look very promising.

——

This short youtube video show how the iPad VLC application can nativelly play XVID, DIVX, etc video format on the iPad.

The application look fast and responsive.  The UI is not up to my taste with the oversized video thumbnails but I am sure it will get better [...]]]> UPDATE:

Wired just published a review of the application. Look very promising.

——

This short youtube video show how the iPad VLC application can nativelly play XVID, DIVX, etc video format on the iPad.

The application look fast and responsive.  The UI is not up to my taste with the oversized video thumbnails but I am sure it will get better over time (if it is ever approved in the App Store). Given the published guidelines yesterday I don’t see why it would not be the case.

VLC for the iPad will allow owners of the tablet to watch the non h264 compressed video on the platform.  This will be a welcomed change for people who might have built of library of movies compressed in the older video formats.

Merging VLC for the iPad and AirVideo would provide the dream streaming video application.  No more need to transcode non h.264 video to watch over WiFi.  Only transcoding when streaming over 3G would be necessary.

Mr. Chandra recently posted on the Joojoo blog about an upcoming Joojoo OS upgrade that should turn the bad Joojoo into a good Joojoo.  That remain to be seen given the negative reviews… I mean, the review could not be worst… especially given the timing with the release of the iPad.

Mr. [...]]]>

Image by nDevilTV via Flickr

Mr. Chandra recently posted on the Joojoo blog about an upcoming Joojoo OS upgrade that should turn the bad Joojoo into a good Joojoo.  That remain to be seen given the negative reviews… I mean, the review could not be worst… especially given the timing with the release of the iPad.

Mr. Chandra is aware of the fact that the current OS version was not ready for prime time:

We are in the midst of bad joojoo for a very simple reason: We were aggressive in our product delivery commitments, decided to completely revise our UI as we were readying the product for release and our initial units shipped with software that proved to be problematic when put to the test in the real world.

Embarrassing? Yes. Correctable? Absolutely. And we will.

This is all good but will the upgrade be enough to bring back the interest in prospect buyers?  I doubt it… especially given the very successfull iPad!

Good luck to you Joojoo…

Related articles by Zemanta

• Finally, An Update On The JooJoo (ihany.com)
• JooJoo reviewed by people in line for iPad (venturebeat.com)

Boy Genius Report is posting what appear to be some of the new iPhone OS 4.0 features.  in short expect:

Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? « Boy [...]]]>

Boy Genius Report is posting what appear to be some of the new iPhone OS 4.0 features.  in short expect:

• Multitasking
• New OS wide multitouch gesture
• New UI making the 3G/3GS more like portable computers
• New syncing method

Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? « Boy Genius Report.

OK, move on, this is a fake… bleu screen with Adobe After effect applied.  Looked good none the less.

UPDATE 1:

I downloaded the HD version of the video (1st one is 720P and 2nd 1080p) and studied them frame by frame and I must say that the second video appear to show the real deal.  You [...]]]> Final UPDATE:

OK, move on, this is a fake… bleu screen with Adobe After effect applied.  Looked good none the less.

UPDATE 1:

I downloaded the HD version of the video (1st one is 720P and 2nd 1080p) and studied them frame by frame and I must say that the second video appear to show the real deal.  You can clearly see the depth of the home button as the tablet move, the shadow of the finger on the glass above the UI, etc, etc.

This is quite possibly the actual iSlate (or wathever name it will have).

UPDATE 2:

The first video appear to be from a prototype with no home button… strange.  The second video clearly show the home button.

Here is a screen grab from 1st video:

and one from the 2nd video:

UPDATE 3:

Notice how the screen look mate, quite a difference from the standard iPhone screen… this is getting more and more interesting.  One possibility for the difference between the prototype is that the 1st one contain an accelerometer and the second does not?  Not sure what is going on… I can’t say for sure if both vids where taken the same day… what make me think they where not is the different native resolution of the youtube mp4 videos… 720p for 1st one vs 1080p for second one…

UPDATE 4:

I tracked the original post on the french web site…

Vid 1

Vid 2

Some of the comments point to the UK IKEA app as being shown in the 1st vid… but in a form that is unknown on the iPhone (much larger screen).  People also reported the presence of some old newton docs, papers, and various other apple docs on the desk of the presenter… possibly pointing to an apple developer as the source.

—–

I let you decide if this is real or fake.  None the less those look really cool and if they are fake I tip my hat to the team that made them!

And the second one:

Digg this story

What Apple is about to do is [...]]]> I have been reading the newly unearthed patent from Apple about the 3D UI… and my conclusion is that Apple won’t just introduce a new mobility device at the end of the month… they will show off what the next iPhone 4.0 OS will be like.

What Apple is about to do is add a new 10 (and possibly 7) inch screen to the iPhone/iPod Touch portfolio. All those devices will be running a new 3D UI. Applications will run on all those devices using a new 3D user interface that is sure to blow people away.

I think Apple is about to re-invent how people interface with applications and OS on their mobile device. The patent application illustrates this. The device depicted in the patent filing to represent the 3D UI is obviously an iPhone/iPod Touch like device… but can surely scale to a much larger 10 inch screen.

We will only know for sure at the end of the month but my bet is that this is what is going to be announced:

• New 10 inch based tablet device
• New upgraded iPod touch
• New 3D UI based OS 4.0

BaltThec has unerthed an Apple pattent pointing to a 3D interface for tablet like multitouch devices.  This might be the secret sauce for the impending tablet product that Apple is expected to release at the end of the month.

Here is what he has to say:

Some of the recent reports that predict Apple will launch [...]]]>

BaltThec has unerthed an Apple pattent pointing to a 3D interface for tablet like multitouch devices.  This might be the secret sauce for the impending tablet product that Apple is expected to release at the end of the month.

Here is what he has to say:

Some of the recent reports that predict Apple will launch some type of “tablet PC” next month have mentioned that the long-rumored device will have 3D graphics.

So what does “3D graphics” really mean and how could it be implemented? I found a recently-released patent filing which I traced back to Apple (#20090303231, Dec. 10, 2009) and which discusses in great detail a “touch screen device, method and graphical user interface for manipulating three-dimensional virtual objects.” If Apple chooses to incorporate some of the features it outlines in this patent filing, it could essentially mean that that user-interaction experience for the iPhone or a potential “Tablet” will be markedly different in some respects than the iPhone interface we’re currently using. (The image above is taken from Apple’s patent filing.)

According to documents filed with the USPTO, Apple obtained the rights to this patent application from three French citizens: Fabrice Robinet, Thomas Goossens, and Alexandre Moha. The inventors assigned the patent to Apple on Sept. 29, 2008. It’s not clear if those citizens are Apple employees, per se. (Update: Actually, Mr. Moha is a product and engineering manager at Apple, per his LinkedIn profile; and Mr. Robinet is a software engineer at Apple, again, per LinkedIn.) Regardless, searches under Apple’s name in the patents database doesn’t retrieve this patent, because the names of the original French inventors are still on it. (I wonder why that is? Hmmm.

In patent filings, companies typically lay out a current problem or hurdle in a field of technology which they then propose, to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, that their new innovation will address.

In this case, the patent application states: “…[T]here is a need for electronic devices with touch screen displays that provide more transparent and intuitive user interfaces for navigating in three dimensional virtual spaces and manipulating three dimensional objects in these virtual spaces.”

So, what is the essence of this patent filing and Apple's interest in it? Let me try and distill it for you:

*) This patent filing is meant to cover the implementation of three-dimensional image-handling on different types of devices, including multi-touch sensitive tablets.

*) The 3D images, or “virtual objects,” that can be generated include an icon, a virtual game object or a virtual game character. Basically, your icons and characters on this device will have a three-dimensional quality in a two-dimensional space, which could lead to novel ways of interacting with the device.

Perhaps this – 3D graphics — is the future of Apple's interfaces for its portable multi-function devices. What do you think?

via BaltTech: The 3D tech behind the rumored Apple “iSlate” tablet? – Gus Sentementes covers digital tech and innovation in Baltimore and beyond – baltimoresun.com.