AT&T are to launch the Samsung Solstice on their network in just a few days time. The Solstice A887 is a low-cost touchscreen smartphone that has a 3 inch LCD display. The phone uses the custom TouchWiz interface and also uses an on-screen keyboard that has haptic feedback to produce small vibrations when tapping the screen.
If you sign up for a 2 year contract you will get the phone (available on the 2nd August) for $99.99. The price jumps up to $174.99 for a 1 year contract and finally up to $249.99 if you want the phone contract free. Take note that the prices do represent the final price after you have taken advantage of a mail-in rebate. [click to continue…]
A few months ago Acer announced that they were introducing a new netbook that would dual boot in to either Windows XP or Android. If launched it would have been the first Android powered netbook to be launched. Unfortunately Acer have delayed this a few months due to not being able to find a market for a netbook of this specification.
The worry about finding the right market is that they don't want an almost brand-new operating system landing in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. It was to be aimed at the less tech savvy but out of those, many wouldn't really see a need or understand why the netbook dual boots. [click to continue…]
The Samsung SNE-50K is a new eBook Reader that enters the already competitive eBook Reader market. To be successful it will need to go up against the Amazon Kindle that is backed by a huge brand as well as the Plastic Logic eBook Reader that has Barnes & Noble providing eBooks for it.
The SNE-50K has a 5 inch screen that has a resolution of 600x800 pixels. It weighs 6.5 ounces and has half a gig of memory. The device also has handwriting recognition built in and can read text files, PDF's and MS office documents. [click to continue…]
The Acer AspireRevo is a nettop that features a dual-core Atom 330 CPU. Inside the little box you will also find 4GB of RAM and the option of 320GB or 500GB of storage.
Prices for the AspireRevo are $494 for the 320GB version and $565 for the 500GB version when launched in the next few weeks. [click to continue…]
Super Talent have managed to squeeze 32GB of NAND based Flash storage on to it's tiny thumb-sized USB drive. The 6 new drives are named the Pico drives and have a transfer speed of up to 30MB/second.
Each of the new drives are waterproof and the 3 high end USB drives also feature AES 256bit security to protect the data you store on them. [click to continue…]
MaxLinear and Hauppauge Digital are working together to create a UMPC and netbook TV card. The netbook TV card will allow HD signals to be received over the air. The tv tuners for the netbook are based on the MXL5007T CMOS silicon tuner that MaxLinear builds.
As well as being able to pick up HD signals OTA the TV tuners will be capable of European standards that includes DVB-H, DMB-T, DVB-T and QAM. [click to continue…]
I just came across the Tron Legacy (Tron 2.0, Tr2n etc..) trailer today and have to say it looks like it will be great. The new film will star Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wild, Bruce Boxleitner and will be released in 2010.
The film is a follow on from the Tron film back in the early 80's. It is being shot in 3D and should be making it to the huge screen over at Imax cinemas which will be good. [click to continue…]
The LG BL40 phone which has a unique 21:9 screen aspect ratio was spotted recently in a more public setting. A team over at Sina managed to take a quick look at a BL40 prototype and also were able to grab a couple of pictures of it.
The phone certainly is different having that very wide cinema style aspect ration which makes the phone also slightly longer than normal. The screen measures 4 inches and is 800 x 345 pixels in resolution. Multi-touch is included on the screen and the LG BL40 uses LG's S-Class 3D user interface. [click to continue…]
It seems like most people are referring to Apple's latest product to be launched as the iTablet. Snippets however think that this goes against the trend at Apple due to all the "i" named products released over the last 11 years each just having 1 syllable. A couple like iMovie and iPhoto have been launched but they were far from major releases.
If Apple follow this "i" followed by a single syllable then it seems Tablet is out of the question. [click to continue…]
By Denny Curtis... Microsoft, undoubtedly the best known software company in the world, has combined your mobile smart phone, the internet and printed material by creating an interactive 2D barcode reader that adds a whole new dimension to printed material. This new service is called 'Microsoft Tag and it has the potential to change the world as we know it because it changes printed material into interactive services that bring flat printed articles to life. You can download this exciting application right now ¦ for free!
Where can you get this new software? You can download it to your smart phone by going to the Microsoft website and following the directions or you can download the tagreader application only at gettag.mobi. [click to continue…]
Hama have launched a pocket-sized digital photo album. The device has a 7-inch display that can show an 800 x 480 pixel screen. 4GB of storage is built in and the digital photo frame also has a memory card reader that accepts SD, SDHC and MMS cards.
A USB port can also be found on the device allowing you to transfer pictures from your computer to the frame. The pocket sized frame comes in a leather case to protect it. [click to continue…]
Android developer Jean-Baptiste Quero has done a code drop for the Android OS. The new update is called Donut and although not quite ready for release, it shows some good things are coming.
The ROM is actually available to download if you want to test out the progress of it so far (grab it here) although I'd recommend not downloading and installing just yet as most of the stuff doesn't work yet. [click to continue…]