Archives for May 2010

BGR has a long history of getting things right in terms of getting inside information about new products.

The website today is reporting that the Apple iPhone 4G will be launching in June and not July. Also the information given to them indicates that we would see it earlier in June rather than late June.

The Apple iPhone 4G is expected to be announced at WWDC 2010 on June 7 at the Steve Jobs keynote. With all the leaks that have recently happened, we only really need to know when it will be launched and how much it will cost. If BGR get it right, we could be seeing it shortly after WWDC (if not right away). [Read more…]

Yesterday we heard a few bits of information about an Android smartphone spotted at the Google I/O event last week. The phone is the Acer Stream where we found out very basic details in that when it launches it will run Android 2.1.

An official announcement has now been made which covers the details of the new smartphone. We learn that the Acer Stream will have a 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED display that is capable of showing 1.67 million colours. The contrast ratio of the screen is 2000:1 that allows the screen to be viewed in light conditions. Also with the display being AMOLED it helps increase battery life due to a lower amount of power being taken from the screen.

For connectivity the Acer Stream has 3G+ allowing for 7.2MBps HSDPA download speeds. The wireless feature allows it to connect up to 802.11n networks. Bluetooth is also included on the device. [Read more…]

In a couple of weeks time on June 7, the Apple [AAPL] WWDC 2010 will kick off. The event will start with Steve Jobs offering a key note at 10am where we expect to see the Apple iPhone 4G announced along with details of the Apple iPhone OS 4.0 release date. Due to all the iPhone 4G leaks over the past couple of months, a number of people wonder how “groundbreaking” the keynote can be from Jobs due to pretty much everything leaking about the said device.

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry is predicting that the Microsoft [MSFT] CEO Steve Ballmer could be making a seven minute guest appearance during Steve Jobs keynote. [Read more…]

Vodafone has put up an information page about the Nokia N8 with details of the new smartphone. Right now the page only lets you register your interest in the device which is scheduled for launch in August.

The Nokia N8 is a flagship smartphone from Nokia [NOK] that has a 12 megapixel sensor on the back allowing for high resolution images to be captured. For storage it has 16GB of internal memory that allows for music, video and pictures to be stored. Social networking plays a big part of the phone and allows you to keep in touch with others on sites such as Twitter and Facebook. [Read more…]

Firefox Home is coming to the Apple iPhone soon. The Firefox Home service is a free app that allows you to have access to your desktop browsers bookmarks, history and open tabs.

Another feature included with the free app is Awesome Bar that allows you to quickly find popular websites with minimum typing.

The service is not a full firefox web browser for the iPhone and simply allows you to continue browsing where you left off when leaving home. The main features are listed below along with a video demonstration of how the new application works. [Read more…]

Back in March a Samsung Omnia HD was seen showing off the newly announced Windows Phone 7.

The same device was spotted at the Microsoft ReMIX event where MobileTechWorld were allowed to get some hands-on time with the prototype smartphone. Just to clarify a few things first though, the Samsung Omnia HD will unlikely be used to run Windows Phone 7 when the OS launches later this year. This specific device is a modified unit that runs a Qualcomm SnapDragon chipset rather than the TI OMAP 3430 that is normally found in this unit.

Either way, the 1GHz Snapdragon runs Windows Phone 7 very smoothly with the MobileTechWorld going on to say that the experience offered by the Omnia HD was as good as what the Apple iPhone can do in that it’s very smooth and no lag at all. [Read more…]

Check out this cool tutorial over on the Whitesites Blog that shows you how to polish the battery cover of your HTC HD2 and give it a chrome look. The results are a lot better than I thought they would be with the back cover turning in to a mirror.

The cover it’s self is made of metal and has etching on it as well as being painted to match the rest of the HD2. The tutorial shows how you can sand that paint off and restore the chrome look. [Read more…]

i-Got-Control is a universal remote control designed for the Apple iPhone. Apple [AAPL] recently allowed the dock connector to be used by 3rd party applications and in doing this, it allowed the iPhone remote control to be built.

The i-Got-Control is a device that plugs in to the dock connector on the iPhone and allows users to control their TV, DVD, BluRay player and many other gadgets from the screen of their iPhone.

The application that is used with the dock connector comes with many devices programmed in. If yours isn’t one of them then a few simple taps on the screen and button pushes on the other remote control allows the software to quickly learn how to communicate with your HDTV for example. [Read more…]

We have seen the LG Bali GM360, LG GX300 and the LG Pure GD550 previously in a number of leaks. Today, these three smartphones became more official by appearing on the LG site.

LG Bali GM360

First up is the LG Bali GM360 smartphone. Rumours mentioned that it was a dual-SIM phone. This is not the case. The phone on the connectivity side of things is a 2.5G handset capable of connecting to GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks with GPRS and EDGE connectivity. The smartphone uses LG’s own propriety operating system.

The screen on this device measures 3 inches and has a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and can display 262K colours. It is also a touchscreen. The camera on the back can capture images at 5 megapixels and the phone also has 2X digital zoom. For storage a microSD memory card can be used. Wireless and Bluetooth is built in along with an FM radio. [Read more…]