by Matthew on November 4, 2009
HTC have announced that the HTC HD2 is now shipping in Europe and Asia and will be heading to the US in early 2010. The announcement was made in a press release published today. Although the phone is shipping today, you wont be able to get your hands on it for another few days yet it seems.
The phone it’s self is very highly anticipated due to it’s huge 4.3″ capacitive multi-touch screen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor making things run very smoothly on it. The phone will run HTC Sense making it the first Windows Phone to offer the HTC user experience. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 4, 2009
The Alex eBook Reader is an Android based device that has two screens and runs Marvell’s ARMADA 166E chip. The new chip allows frame rates of up to 3fps on the eInk screen up top that although not a huge amount of frames could give some basic animation to images/comics read on the eBook.
A high frame rate isn’t the main goal of Marvell though as it’s ARMADA 166E chip is designed to get rid of multi-chip controller boards and put everything on to a single chip that saves both space and battery usage. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 4, 2009
Neatorama have gathered some interesting facts about Google and put them all in a single blog post over on their site. The various facts include a lego storage case that held 10 x 4GB hard drives allowing enough storage capacity for their PageRank algo to be tested successfully. Another fact mentions that the I’m Feeling Lucky button costs Google around $110 Million a year in lost ad revenues and if you want to know how many servers Google has… you might find out in the blog post, or you might not.
For some interesting facts for a few minutes of your time check out the post.
by Matthew on November 4, 2009
When getting a new phone with high speed internet available on it, a common want is to be able to use the phone as a modem for your laptop so you can access the internet on a larger screen while on the move. Often this ability, referred to as tethering, is blocked, but recently we are seeing more phones and carriers open up to allowing phones to be used for this, for a fee of course. We now hear that the Motorola Droid will have tethering ability on the Verizon network starting early next year.
Verizon have mentioned that their Broadband Access Connect plan will be made available for Droid early next year. This mobile plan is designed to allow you to use your phone for tethering. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 4, 2009
BlackSn0w has now been launched that provides unlocking for both iPhone 3G models and the 3G S running the latest iPhone OS numbered 3.1.2 with baseband 05.11.07.
When using this tool your phone will be capable of being unlocked so it can work on any network. To get the unlock working you first need to jailbreak your iPhone using the Blackra1n tool from here, and when jailbreaked you will see a blacksn0w icon on your iPhone which will allow you to unlock your phone for use on other networks. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 4, 2009
Western Digital have created a new drive named the WD S25 that is capable of spinning at 10,000 RPM and and has a 2.5 inch form. The drive is a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drive that has 16 MB of buffer memory and can function for 1.6 million hours before failure.
Two capacities of the WD S25 are available which are 147GB or 300GB. Connectivity speed of the small harddrives is either 3.0 GBPS or 6.0 GBPS and the faster of the two models can sustain a transfer rate of 128MB/s. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 4, 2009
Designer Je Sung Park has designed a new laptop that is recyclable due to it being made of paper. The idea behind it is that the average laptop could last anywhere from 2 to 5 years and then need to be replaced which ads a lot of harmful waste to the environment.
The laptop is made from pulp and reprocessed materials which when broken down a few years (perhaps weeks if it’s paper based) would then just be taken back down to it’s basic form and re-processed. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 3, 2009
Sprint have announced that they are offering an EVDO enabled netbook in the form of the Dell Inspiron Mini 10. The netbook costs $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and will set you back $59.99 on a 24 month contract that will provide 5GB of data per month.
The Mini 10 netbook has a 10.1 inch screen that has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Powering the netbook is an Intel Atom Z520 processor running at 1.33GHz along with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB harddrive.
Connectivity wise it has wireless at b/g speeds along with the integrated EVDO Rev.A for hooking up to mobile networks while on the move. Separately the netbook costs $349 if ordered direct from Dell, so you do save a bit on the netbook although you are locked in to a 24 month contract in getting the cheaper price. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 3, 2009
Orange have launched a new iPhone app for Orange Wednesdays in the UK. Orange Wednesdays have been running since 2003 and allow those on the Orange network to text a number and get a free 2 for 1 voucher for use in cinemas across the UK every Wednesday of the year.
The new Orange Wednesdays app for iPhone and iPod Touch allows you to actually check cinema listings in your area, read reviews and grab a free voucher to redeem while at the cinema. Although not the most exciting of app launches this year it could be a handy app to have if you are going to pick up a new iPhone on the Orange network when launched next week. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 3, 2009
Just this morning we mentioned that the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 had been officially announced. After some hunting around on youtube we then came across a promo video showing the phone in action and how the interface works. The video shows an ultra smooth version of Rachael UI working and although pre-production models are a little more choppy, it’s still time for SE to iron out any bugs considering the phone wont be launched for another few months. Video after the break. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 3, 2009
After a few months of rumours and leaks about the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 and it’s change of name from Rachael to X3 and finally to X10, it has now been officially unveiled. The new SE Android based phone runs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor built by Qualcomm and has a healthy 4 inch capacitive touchscreen display which isn’t quite the size of the HTC HD2, but is still quite a large screen to work with.
It runs the Rachael Android UI which we showed a little of yesterday that features a complete overhaul of the media menus and video playback. As well as the fast processor, large screen and nice UI the phone has an 8.1 megapixel camera although on the downside for now, the phone is a little choppy and the snapdragon processor seems to quickly kill the battery. Don’t be too worried about that though as the UI is a very early stage as the phone isn’t getting released for another few months yet. We expect that when it is released the battery and choppy issues should be all sorted. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 2, 2009
Windows 7 launched just recently and has already achieved a 3.48% market share according to figures collected at the end of October. These figures only represent installed copies and do not include shipped copies that have not been installed just yet.
Windows 7 has been around for a number of months now in beta. Just before the 21 October release date figures showed a share of 1.89%. The 1.89% representing beta installs also counts towards the total 3.48% reported. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 2, 2009
NEC have announced a new projector named the NEC NP610. It falls in to the entry-level category but has a fairly bright projection of 3500 lumens making it work well in conference halls and class rooms.
For connectivity it supports DVI-I, VGA, 3 audio inputs and variable audio out. Connectivity over a network is also possible although network connectivity is simply for remote diagnostics rather than transmitting presentations over IP. The VGA connector is also able to carry control signals so that the connected computer can control projector functions if needed. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 2, 2009
The FCC have published details of a new laptop built by Lenovo that will have a 10.1″ display, pushing it in to netbook territory, and have a bunch of connectivity features such as WiFi, Bluetooth as wll as HSDPA data built in.
Other features known is a 3 in 1 memory card reader. As of now the new netbook is only known as the 0251 and obviously, as the information has come from the FCC, there are no details of pricing or release dates. Looking at the drawings below it seems like it could have potential, but line drawings don’t exactly give a full picture. [click to continue…]
by Matthew on November 2, 2009
T-Mobile in the UK have uploaded details of the HTC HD2 to their site stating it has a launch date of November. The problem is that they have displayed the wrong phone and also stated that the HD2 will give access to the Android Market to download apps… seems they are getting a little confused there.
But, the release date does look about right and looking at other pages on the T-mob site they do refer to a Windows Phone based device running WM 6.5, so it seems the release date is correct and that someone just mixed up a few of the details. [click to continue…]
