We have all seen the Mac vs PC ads, with Apple taking potty shots on the PC. But it is payback time now. Samsung ‘s latest ad takes on the whole Apple culture of fanboys queueing up days ahead of a product launch. Very smartly so, Samsung has pointed out how these fanboys seem to think themselves as being “creative”, and hence cannot be seen with an Android or a Samsung phone or anything non-Apple – sipping away their coffee, checking blogs on their Mac.

And then a Galaxy S2 user points out – why are you guys not on 4G speed? A helpless iPhone user can only mock the S2 user in utter desperation and helplessness. And another iPhone user complains how others will know if he’s upgraded or not. Poor fella, you’re outta luck.

Watch the amazing advert video embedded below.

Any of you Apple fanboys feeling uncomfortable with the inconvenient truth?

So with the WWDC wrapping up and no signs of the new iPhone release from Palo Alto, the internet has been buzzing with images of possible hardware designs of the new iPhone 5. Could this be it?

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The new features listed on the above pic speculates what the new iPhone would include:

• An OLED Screen
• 64 GB Capacity
• 1.2 Ghz processr
• 5.2 Megapixel camera
• 4G Data Speed (Quite unlikely)
• iOS 5

Place your bets.

Ok, I don’t own a Mac. But I can aspire to get one, can’t I. So, let’s just begin that drooling with this new feature aptly named – Mac Workspace . There will be a series of such posts, and I hope you bear with my over enthusiasm.

Feature 1, here it goes:

Image via: MacLove

The only thing missing here is, some very loud speakers. Don’t you agree?

Well, everyone in the tech world is aware of the Mac vs. PC campaign from Apple. This time around, someone really amazing in the Reddit forum released this piece of creative genius by mashing up two of the most famous memes – Strutting Leo, and Sad Keanu with the Mac vs. PC ad.

Check out the awesome meme below.

Strutting Leo, Sad Keanu, Mac vs PC

Unsurprisingly, Sad Keanu is sad because nobody mentions Linux. Actually, that’s a fair point.

Image courtesy: Reddit via Dailywhat

Steve Jobs’ recent keynote at the Apple music event came with a bunch of awesome announcements. Amongst them were the new iPod Nano loaded with a touchscreen, the new iPod Touch with dual cameras and supporting Facetime, as well as the new iPod shuffle which goes back to its body-controls design.

Amongst other announcements, Jobs also announced the opening of the world’s largest Apple store in London. This retail store located very centrally at Covent Garden has been creating waves amongst fanboys and even non Apple fans. It certainly did make it to the news headlines. I made a visit myself this weekend, and so here are a few pictures of the World’s largest Apple store – Covent Garden, London.

Hit the jump for more.

The interior walls are very fortress-esque. Well, that is what you expect from Piezza, don’t you?

It’s just a whole fortress of Macs, Macbooks, iPods, iPads and iPhones and also massive Telly on displays.

The stairs are trademark Apple. Just beautiful! I want one.

What is most awesome about this store is that there are numerous Apple based workshops being held throughout the week. For the entire list of workshops, please visit Covent Garden Store Website.

Busy Saturday afternoon at the Apple store, innit!

And all of this, just 5 seconds away from the famous London Covent Garden buskers performing area.

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So, I am giving in to my laziness syndrome. I have been writing for my other blogs as well, and hence, not much time to write for Techkeyla. And I have found the perfect solution. Video podcast.

So here it is. Techkeyla’s first video podcast, about the Apple iPad. Kindly leave your comments.

I know I am being a bit nasty to say this, but for all tech lovers who have been following tech headlines for the last couple of months, we have certainly seen a loss of interest for the Apple iPhone. And why is that? Primarily because iPhone’s 3GS has not been revolutionary in terms of the differences between the 3GS and its predecessors [ of course a better processor and video camera were included]. And add to that, the surging popularity of the Android family backed by HTC’s range and Motorola’s Milestone/Droid did not help much to the iPhone camp.

2010 does not look good for iPhone either. All the focus from Cupertino seems to be static on the rumored Apple tablet -iTablet or iSlate. There has been a sort of a tradition followed at Apple, the announcement of a new version of iPhone every year: 2007 -iPhone released. 2008 -2nd Generation, and 2009-3GS. But 2010 is looking quite hazy in terms of what new can the iPhone offer.

The appstore of the iPhone has already touched the 100,000 mark. But with such huge quantity, there comes the risk of becoming static in terms of growth and expansion. The big question that faces Apple is what more can the iPhone offer?

The Android Alliance with players like HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericcson in the bandwagon certainly poses as the future of smartphones. And with consumer-friendly price tags for some of the phones [ HTC Tattoo, T-Mobile Pulse], owning a smartphone couldn’t have been easier and cheaper. The Android is also fast catching up in terms of developers community making a range of applications. And with HTC’s announcement of 2010′s range of new Android phones, iPhone could soon be facing a big challenge to sustain its domination of the smartphone market.

Here’s wishing iPhone a quick and speedy recovery.

In an earlier post [ Compare the UK iPhone price war: O2 vs Orange vs Tesco] we compared the actual price of an iPhone in the UK on the three carriers. Today, Vodafone released its tariffs for the iPhone. The question remains that whether the fourth addition to the iPhone carrier range really adds value for the customer or is it just yet another player which doesn’t add any significant change.

The data download limit for Vodafone remains capped at 1GB per month. Compared to the Orange data plan which allows 750MB download per month, it is not much of an improvement. But what about everything else? Let’s find it out.

The detailed per monthly chart for the iPhone is given below.

Click on the image to see the full resolution.

Vodafone has certainly got more range of tariff plans, but the minutes offered by Vodafone is lesser compared to O2 or Orange. It is instead compensated by Unlimited Texts. Other than that, the tariff plans are pretty much the same. What do you say?

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