One of the more unusual iPhone accessories on show at IFA was the Vestel TV with iPhone Dock. This has a 19″ screen with the iPhone dock on the stand and comes in a number of colour variants . The TV has built in software to recognise and connect to the iPhone to provide AV services. Unfortunately this didn’t work on the one I tried very well. The iPhone claimed it was not compatible, then the TV hung when trying to connect to the iPhone.
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Envivio have launched a hardare platform for the delivery of live video feeds to the iPhone. Whist not directly applicable to the device it is interesting to see what is going on with the behind-the-scenes infrastructure. This announcement allows for live streaming of encrypted video to your iPhone.

A typical use could be at an event such as a motor race, horse race, or other sporting event where the live video can be streamed over WiFi or even wireless.

The Envivio press release:

Envivio and Telemak Partner to Provide One Stop Shopping for Mobile TV, Web TV and iPhone Operations

From System Sales to Complete Managed Headend Operations, Offers Solutions to Deliver any Content to any Device

Brussels and Paris – June 23, 2009 – Envivio Inc. and Telemak today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that addresses the content encoding and distribution needs of mobile operators, broadcasters and internet service providers. Under the agreement, Telemak will sell, integrate and support Envivio products to its customers. Telemak is also deploying Envivio mobile TV and web TV headend solutions at its own operations center in Belgium. The installation includes Envivio 4Caster™ C4 convergence encoding solutions and the new Envivio iLiveTV™ solution for the Apple iPhone.

Last Friday saw the launch of the iPhone 3GS across the globe. We decided to take a plunge and go to London UK’s Apple Flagship store to get our shiny new iPhones, and also to document the day.

The queues in the Apple Store were mad. Hundreds of patient users waiting to part with hard earned cash for a new iPhone 3GS. In true Disney style Apple managed to snake the queues round to cram as many people into the store as possible. Then with military precession they were moved from staging point to staging point before finally getting to the sales guy, and getting the new iPhone.

We also took a trip to the Oxford Street Carphone Warehouse where things where a bit quieter, CPW were only selling the iPhones on 18 month O2 Contracts.

The video covers us tramping round London to find some iPhones, and also shows the quality of the new video camera in the phone. This video was taken in my car whilst in a HR iPhone mount (review to follow shortly…)

Our video follows:
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