Showing posts with label apple engineers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple engineers. Show all posts

Wednesday 13 June 2012

Rumor: iPhone 5 to Add New Feature Called AirDrop


There have been a lot of buzz and rumors lately surrounding the possible new features and specs of the upcoming iPhone 5. And the latest rumor about the next version of the iPhone? The next-gen iPhone will add a new feature called AirDrop.
According to a report, the AirDrop feature currently being used in Mac OS X Lion will possibly come to the new iPhone 5.
Some of you may be wondering what AirDrop is and what can it do? Well, AirDrop lets you send files wirelessly to anyone around you without any required set-up or special settings. With AirDrop, your iOS device automatically discovers other people nearby who are also using this feature. You can simply share a file and drag it to someone else's name in your address book, and presto, once accepted, the file transfers directly to the person's downloads folder. You'll even see contact photos for those who are already in your address book.
Furthermore, AirDrop does not even require users to be on the same Wi-Fi network; you just have to be nearby and your iOS device must have a recent or modern Wi-Fi hardware. AirDrop is also perfect for those with more than one iOS device, people working on documents together in an office, and if you need to quickly turn assignments into a teacher in school, for example.
With Apple's easy to understand interface, an iOS AirDrop feature on the new iPhone 5 could make sharing between iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers really simple.
An AirDrop feature on the new iPhone 5 is truly a cool, nifty, and very helpful addition to the said device if the rumor proves to be true because it'll surely take the next version of the iPhone to the next level. So AirDrop on the next-gen iPhone? We can only hope so

Ex-Apple engineer reportedly buying NBA's Memphis Grizzlies

Robert Pera, an Apple hardware engineer who left to set up Ubiquiti Networks, reportedly promises to keep to the NBA team in Memphis. Might the Grizzlies ultimately end up in San Jose?



Apple's hardware seems to have been updated today, so I hear.
However, one man who might once have thought he'd be involved in those updates has reportedly achieved a slightly more exalted goal: he has bought himself an NBA team.
Robert Pera, 34, once an Apple hardware engineer and now the founder and CEO of Ubiquiti Networks, a company that seeks to provide Web connectivity cheaply for emerging markets, is reportedly buying the Memphis Grizzlies.
The way ESPN shoots it, Pera is an avid, nay, obsessive basketball player who owns 64 percent of Ubiquiti, a company that has its homes in both Taiwan and San Jose, Calif.
Naturally, those whose hearts contain cynical hardwood will speculate, on seeing the words "San" and "Jose," that Pera intends to ship the team away from Memphis