iPhone concept device
If you, gentle reader, have not had the pleasure of the company of the real-life jurgen dot ca, you will not know that I’ve been obsessing lately about the fabled Apple iPhone. They’ve got to be making one, and it will be useful, elegant and cool, and it will have my name all over it.
And it might look like this:
As The Register says, this is a “concept phone” that Synaptics has released. The screen is very sensitive to various kinds of touches and gestures, and damn but it looks cool.
But this isn’t the iPhone. Or is it? Apple’s screwed around Synaptics a lot recently – Synaptics used to be the company that made the click wheel for all of the iPods. Apple’s now making them themselves. There were rumours that Apple’s gone back to them for making something else. Perhaps this relationship has soured once more, and Synaptics have decided to release pictures of a “concept phone” based on Apple’s ideas for the iPhone as a kind of retribution for being kicked around. Hmm.
Either way, that’s a nifty looking phone. Pity it’s only a model.
Hi there.
I’ve just read an article I think you wrote back in 1998 about the town of Sète. I’ve recently “discovered” the place, albeit from a distance, and I’ve become quite obsessed with it. I remain quite ignorant about the place, but I find myself inexplicably drawn to it to the extent that I am no longer just trying to arrange a holiday there but am seriously considering risking everything and moving there. You mention in your article that the town was attempting to be a tourist centre, but was failing, and you speculated that it might never be sucessful in doing so. Eight years on, do you think that is still the case? It’s hard to tell from the internet if the place is a thriving resort or not. Did you live there, and have you been back? If you have any information about it, anything at all, or know of good places to read about it, I would be most grateful.
Thanks
Kieran