Isaiah's Tech

The beta for Microsoft Silverlight 3 was back in March and now we've scooped up the details on the official release date. Just in case you care, Microsoft will release Silverlight 3 on July 10 at the Expression Studio 3 conference. Silverlight 3 has: 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support. The "out-of-the-browser capabilities" are said to compete with Adobe AIR, but we'll just have to see about that.

[ZDNet Blogs]

This is interesting. The latest leaks from HTC has shown off the HTC Hero in a promo video (below). The one thing that stood out to me in the video was that the accelerometer was able to rotate the picture, even when the phone was upside down. I actually had to watch it twice to make sure that my eyes didn't deceive me. Anyways, enjoy the video below sporting the red HTC Hero - that gets accompanied by 6 other colours at the end.

Another thing also visible is the chin of the phone, which is stupid. A while ago, we heard that the chin was implemented to make the trackball more visible, but clearly that was BS, since the Hero does not have a trackball. They just want to stand out - that's all it is.



[Slash Gear]