Archives for May 2010

ASUS Eee 1005PR Arriving Soon

May 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment

ASUS announced that the ASUS Eee PC 1005PR netbook is now available to buy from authorised resellers.

The ASUS 1005PR is a 10.1 inch netbook that has a battery life of 11 hours. It runs an Intel Atom N450 processor running at 1.66GHz. The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels and is backlit by LED. Intel UMA graphics along with a Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator provide the power to run the graphics.

Memory wise it comes standard with 1GB of DDR2 memory and that can be increased to 2GB if required. For storage it has a 250GB hard drive that spins at 5400RPM and ASUS also provide up to 500GB of online storage for you to use if needed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Laptops

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide Android Smartphone Announced

May 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment

T-Mobile announced the myTouch 3G Slide Android smartphone today. The myTouch 3G Slide is expected to be made available next month in June.

Features of the phone include a slide-out QWERTY keyboard as pictured above along with a 3.4 inch HVGA touchscreen. The OS running on the Slide is Android 2.1 from Google [GOOG] bringing it up to date (at least for now) in terms of versions running.

Control wise the touchscreen is used primarily along with an optical joy stick found below the screen. Also below the screen four buttons can be found which include home, menu and back as well as the genious button. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cell Phones

Deal of the Day: $20 Voucher with Various Flip UltraHD Cameras

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Amazon have an offer on at the moment that will give you a free $20 Amazon voucher when purchasing various Flip HD camcorders.

For a limited time, purchase one of the Flip UltraHD camcorders below and get an Amazon.com gift card worth $20. Simply add both the camcorder and the gift card to your Shopping Cart and we’ll automatically deduct the price of the gift card at checkout.

Applies only to products sold by Amazon.com; does not apply to items sold by other merchants on the Amazon.com website. Offer good for a limited time, while supplies last. Limit three per order. Terms of gift card use prohibit using any gift card funds already on your account to pay for new gift cards. At checkout, uncheck the box on the Payments page that reads, “Use your Gift and Promotional Balance.” See Terms and Conditions.

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Filed Under: Camera Gadgets

Nokia N8 32GB Could be Launched, QWERTY Keyoard?

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

The Nokia N8 has received a bit of coverage here on gadgetvenue over the last few weeks. We are now hearing that there could be a 32GB version of the N8 launching. Originally just a 16GB model was announced although there is no official information on the larger storage model.

The 32GB information comes from a review unit that SaudiMac managed to test that showed 32GB printed on the box. This shot has now been taken down though.

Next up is the USB port that is capable of connecting to a card reader or portable hard drive which is a handy inclusion. When a drive or memory card is attached via the USB cable, the file manager app automatically opens up. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cell Phones

BlackBerry Tablet will Happen

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Rumours started recently about RIM building a tablet after they ordered a number of 8.9 inch display screens from Hon Hai.

More information about this possibility has now arrived after a leak from someone who has contacts within the company. From what we hear, it will be both thinner and smaller than an Apple iPad and for now is being nick named the BlackPad.

Another name also mentioned was Cobalt although right now, neither of these is official. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Laptops

Apple iPad – 1 Million Sold – Official

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

After just 28 days of being on sale, Apple [AAPL] has sold 1,000,000 Apple iPads. Over 12 million apps have been downloaded and 1.5 million eBooks from iBookstore.

“One million iPads in 28 days-that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”

That’s quite an impressive set of numbers for a product that has only been on sale a month today. The numbers will continue to grow at a healthy rate too as an international launch is set for this month with several more countries having both the iPad wifi and iPad 3G models towards the end of the month.

Via: Engadget

Filed Under: iPad

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two Available for Pre-Order May 6

May 3, 2010 by 1 Comment

The Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two handsets are launching in the next week or so. We hear that pre-orders are starting on May 6 with a launch date of May 13. This is for both the Kin One and Kin Two.

Microsoft [MSFT] announced the new social media oriented handsets last month where they were seen to be running a new OS with a UI heavily built around sharing information with others.

The handsets are going to be sold on the Verizon network and will be made available online and in Verizon stores. Later this year the devices will launch internationally on to the Vodafone network. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cell Phones

Jailbroke Apple iPad 3G Sends SMS Message

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

MuscleNerd has been working away on his new Apple iPad 3G this weekend it seems. As well as him and the dev team launching the Apple iPhone OS 3.1.X and 3.2 untethered jailbreak, they also managed to get the Apple iPad 3G to send an SMS message.

There is no GUI for this though and right now it is only working via command line, but either way it’s still a great accomplishment indicating that next in line is phone calls.

The SMS couldn’t be sent over the AT&T network though as there seems to be some block on the AT&T micro SIM sending messages. Instead, a T-Mobile SIM card was chopped up and made in to a micro SIM and this SIM was used to send the messages. [Read more…]

Filed Under: iPad

New version of webOS Coming May/June

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Developers have been notified by Palm that a new webOS update is scheduled for launch either late may or early June. The message comes to remind developers that they need to test their apps on the new version and make any adjustments to make them compatible.

To do this, Palm are releasing a new SDK release candidate that will give developers some time to make applications compatible.

Updates in the new webOS show that PDK apps will be available in the new release. However, the update is not a major release, so not too much else will change other than a few tweaks and bug fixes here and there. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cell Phones

Apple iPad 3G Sold out in 49 of 50 Stores

May 3, 2010 by 1 Comment

On Friday the Apple iPad 3G went on sale in the US. With in the three day launch weekend it appears that most of the stock has been sold out.

This information comes from Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, a company that analyse Apple [AAPL] and give estimates on sales. The 49 out of 50 stores out of stock came from a selection of stores that were called with 49 of them saying they were out of stock by Sunday afternoon.

Estimations show that over 300,000 iPad 3G models were sold this weekend which includes pre-ordered units and those that sold in store. [Read more…]

Filed Under: iPad

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Coming to Vodafone Soon

May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

In the May edition of the Vodafone magazine a picture of the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini can be found indicating that it will be launching soon on that network. This is just the X10 Mini though and there is no mention of the X10 Mini Pro this time around.

A quick re-cap on what’s included in the X10 Mini show that it has a 5 megapixel camera. It runs the Android operating system. The X10 Mini has no QWERTY keyboard like the Mini Pro does, but other than that it’s essentially the same phone. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cell Phones

Twitter Android App now Available

May 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Twitter has announced their new Twitter for Android application. The new app brings a number of features to the Android OS which includes support for Eclairs Quick Contact bar as well as the ability to tweet from the Gallery app.

There is a downside to the app though as it doesn’t support earlier versions of the Android OS. You’ll need Android 2.1 to run it.

From what we understand, Twitter worked closely with Google [GOOG] on this application. Twitter have also contributed the code to Android’s trunk making it open source in the near future. Also a number of API’s have also been created allowing developers to integrate twitter in to their own applications. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cell Phones