The Intel Atom N470 has been officially announced. The announcement appears to have come a little early as the document is dated the 1st March. On to the details...
The Intel Atom N470 is a step up from the Intel Atom N450 CPU and runs at 1.83GHz along with housing 512Kb of L2 Cache. DDR2 667 memory is also supported by the new N470 CPU. Intel claim that the performance has been improved in the way of speed which is almost .2GHz quicker and it has been designed with more efficiency too which could further increase battery life on devices such as Netbooks that run it. The Atom N470 also has built in graphics allowing another performance boost for the netbooks it sits in.
It is unknown at the moment which OEM's are signing up for the Atom N470 CPU, but Intel do say that major OEM's are signing up which we assume will be the likes of ASUS, Samsung and all other companies who currently run the Intel Atom N450's. [click to continue…]
The Nexus One from Google [GOOG] will be arriving in the UK in April according to news from the Telegraph. An exact date in April is unknown at the moment and pricing is also unknown although it is expected that the phone will be priced similarly to the Apple iPhone in regards to tariffs.
Just like Google have done with T-Mobile and soon Verizon, the Nexus One will go on sale direct from Google at Google.com/phone rather than going on sale direct on the networks own sites or resellers sites. We assume that support will also be handled the same in that Google will be responsible for sales, after sales and technical support in relation to the hardware while network issues will be handled by Vodafone. It is also unclear if calls will be handled in the US for support, or if Google will take an email only support approach like originally when the phone launched in the US. [click to continue…]
Yesterday, Palm released webOS 1.4 for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi which brings a number of bug fixes and enhancements to the devices.
Now the update has been officially announced on the Sprint network (as reported yesterday) along with the O2 and Movistar networks. The download is 39MB in size and brings video recording as well as flash (Palm Pre only) to the smartphones.
Other networks are having to wait a little longer such as Verizon, Bell and Telcel with the only time scale being mentioned as "soon". Hopefully these networks will built and push the update out soon. [click to continue…]
Verizon [VZ] are planning to launch the Google Nexus One phone on to their network on March 23. The information came from a worker over at Google [GOOG] who wishes to remain anonymous according to neowin.
We already knew the phone was heading in the direction of Verizon, but until now we have only heard it will be launched Spring 2010.
Currently the Nexus One is only available on the T-Mobile network, so adding it to Verizon will bring some interesting competition. It is believed at this point that Google will continue to sell it the same way through Google only with themselves supporting hardware and after sales and leaving Verizon to tackle just the networking issues that may arise. [click to continue…]
Symbian^4 has supposedly being demod on video. We say "supposedly" because we are not quite convinced they are the real deal due to 1) it kind of looks a little lame, and 2)I am unsure why the video isn't that good quality that you'd expect to see if a demo was being created.
Either way, what we do see in the video is a fairly standard home screen with widgets that can be moved around. The home screen's look similar to how Android OS works in that you can scroll to the side to get more space for more icons and widgets.
The photo section also looks fairly basic with the screen needing a swipe up or down to scroll down a grid of pictures. [click to continue…]
The iLet Mini HAL is a tablet built by a company called Haleron. It is powered by an ARM CPU running at 600MHz and has a 7 inch LCD touchscreen that has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. Memory wise it has 128MB of DDR2 and for storage it comes with a 2GB NAND Flash with support for up to a 32GB Flash or a 250GB via USB.
Connectivity on the iLet tablet allows for wither wired or wireless internet that is compatible with 802.11b/g networks.
Ports available on the iLet are 2 X USB, Audio out, Microphone as well as an SD card slot for memory expansion. [click to continue…]
Microsoft [MSFT] have provided more details on their Windows Phone Starter Edition operating system that was first announced a couple of weeks back. Windows Phone Starter Edition will be available in two versions. One of them will run Office Mobile and the other will not.
ZDNet managed to find some details on how Microsoft plan to launch Windows Phone Starter Edition. From what the answers to various questions say we see that a couple of SKU's are going to be made available with one which will have Office Mobile as mentioned above. We also hear that multi-language versions are being made available and the OS supports various networks including 2G, 2.5G, CDMA and TD-SCDMA radios. [click to continue…]
Fusion Garage have announced that the JooJoo will be delayed due to problems with manufacturing. The release date was supposed to be this weekend, but now it has been pushed to March 25.
To help calm those who have pre-ordered the JooJoo down the company are going to be giving a free accessory away when the JooJoo finally ships towards the end of next month. We are guessing that you'll get a free stand with the JooJoo if you pre-ordered it although that's not official.
Just a quick update on what the JooJoo is for those that don't know, it's a tablet device that has a 12.1 inch capacitive touchscreen that allows you to easily surf the web while relaxing. [click to continue…]
The Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 allows you to use the mouse as a mouse - no surprise there, but also allows you to control power-point presentations.
Features on the mouse include the Presentation Controls, Media Remote, Battery life Indicator and it connects over a 2.4GHz frequency on Bluetooth. Microsoft [MSFT] also say the BT connection uses First Connect technology. A laser pointer is also built in to the mouse.
The scroll wheel lets you also scroll left to right as well as up and down by using a technology called Tilt Wheel. [click to continue…]
Pictured here we have a new rotor blade for a helicopter called the Blue Edge Rotor. It was designed to cut down the noise that a helicopter makes when it's blades skim through the air and actually quietens the whole thing down several notches.
All that is heard from the new blades is a slight bit of wind rustling which is thanks to the shape of them along with some mechanical flaps that move automatically to cut the regular wind noise a helicopter makes.
A video demonstration of the helicopter noises can be found after the jump. [click to continue…]
The webOS 1.4 update is finally landing today that brings a bunch of new features to the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi handsets.
The webOS 1.4 update is heading to users on the Sprint network only at the moment with plans in the near future for Verizon users to also get the update.
Fixes to the smartphones in this firmware update include a time zone bug that was sorted. A network time sync bug has been fixed. Car-kit BT transition is fixed....
* No EV icon bug fixed (random)
* Random browser formatting bugs fixed
* Fixed bug that incorrectly displayed Sprint when actually was Digital Roaming
* Missing Contact issue specifically with swap down to 1.2.9.1 or less
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The ASUS Eee T101MT is an Intel Atom N450 netbook tablet that was first spotted a few weeks back. The ASUS T101MT recently started showing up various places to be reviewed.
The tablet has some fairly standard specs which include an Intel Atom N450 CPU with hyperthreading running at 1.66GHz. 2GB of RAM is included (on the review version) and for storage it uses a hard drive with a 320GB capacity that runs at 5400 RPM. The screen measures 10.1 inches and has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. [click to continue…]