Listen up, rich people: If you ordered an iPad, cancel it. This is the one you need, covered with 11.43 carats of diamonds, graded G/H in colour, VS2/SI1 in clarity and 100/100 in stupidity. I can imagine Steve Jobs reaction:
TomTom has enhanced its GPS app for the iPhone to offer a few new tricks that should help make it earn its keep at such a heady App Store price point. The new version 1.3 TomTom app throws in a bunch of updates to make the app experience more iPhone smart, like new pinch and zoom map adjustments, and along with a new Local Search feature powered by Google you should be feeling a lot more value for your $99.99.
Yes, that’s sub-$1500 local money. ViewSonic’s new PJD6251 (model number as sexy as ever) is a portable 120Hz 3D-ready projector, weighing in at 2.9kg. It isn’t necessarily your number one choice for home theatre extravagance, but for the money this makes for a nice small biz or random fun option.
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The WSJ has a discussion today of the phenomenon of the iPhone-using Microsoft employee. Apparently that time Ballmer fake-stomped an iPhone is emblematic of some (barely) real anti-iPhone sentiment in Redmond.
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