Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
In the UK an advert for Windows Phone 7 was seen on a private screening of Lawrence of Arabia. The Windowsphoneuk Youtube account says the following…
The Windows Phone 7 trailer that was shown before the Secret Cinema screening of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.
We don’t know if this advert will actually released to the public but it does show that the release date is getting closer. [Read more…]
Several rumours have pointed to September 9 as the release date for the Samsung Fascinate. This has now been confirmed on an advert pictured above.
The Samsung Fascinate is a Samsung Galaxy S class smartphone that will launch on the Verizon [VZ] network. The advert is embedded below although the advert showing below is the older version with just a “coming soon” as the release date. The one that is available on TV does specify the date. [Read more…]
Hannspree is releasing a new Android Tablet. The new tablet will have a 10.1 inch multitouch display and will run the latest Android operating system (2.2).
The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Powering the Android tablet is a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC processor.
Price wise, the tablet will cost £399 when it becomes available in November of this year. [Read more…]
T-Mobile and Orange merged a while back and became “Everything Everywhere”. Silly name aside, the two networks still operate as single entities as in all T-Mobile customers get billed by T-Mobile and Orange customers are billed by Orange although the companies are both part of Everything Everywhere.
When the announcement was first made, the network said that they would by the end of this year allow roaming across both networks allowing you to have a better signal in areas if your own network was bad.
From 5th October, 30 million customers – the combined customer base of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK – will be offered the opportunity to access both networks, enabling them to make calls and send texts in more places in the UK for no extra cost.
BGR has been informed by a connect that the Motorola DROID 2 on Verizon [VZ] has the lowest return rate of any phone on the same network.
It seems from the details that a number of people are happy with the DROID 2 and wont be returning it any time soon. We also hear that although there is an antenna issue, that the DROID 2 also has the lowest drop call rates on the Verizon carrier. [Read more…]
Samsung has confirmed that it will be using a Super TFT LCD screen in the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it launches. This is a different screen to the Samsung Galaxy S that currently uses Super AMOLED technology.
The reasons for using a Super TFT screen is apparently to do with them being cheaper to manufacture and that the screens run more efficiently which increases battery life. [Read more…]
IBM has introduced a new microprocessor that is capable of being clocked at a hefty 5.2GHz. IBM claim it is the fastest CPU currently available although there are a number of overclockers who have managed to beat 5.2Ghz quite easily. One big difference between the IBM chip and overclocking other chips is that the IBM one doesn’t require extreme cooling.
The chip uses zEnterprise technology that was created from an investment of $1.5 billion in R&D at IBM.
If you’re into details, the z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter (mm) surface. It’s manufactured using IBM’s 45 nanometer (nm) SOI processor technology, and it makes use of IBM’s patented embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology, which allows IBM to place dense DRAM caches, or components, on the same chips as high-speed microprocessors, resulting in improved performance.
The Apple [AAPL] website was recently updated with the new details of the iPod touch. Along with that the standard pictures were uploaded that show the new device.
Unfortunately for Apple, someone forgot to photoshop the correct screen grabs on to the page and managed to leave the Phone icon at the bottom left of the screen along with text messages showing up in the Spotlight search as pictured below. [Read more…]
The iPad 2 when launched next year, is expected to have a couple of cameras installed. One of which will be used for FaceTime calling.
This rumour has been further strengthened by the image above which shows a video call debug screen running on the current iPad. [Read more…]
Pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab hasn’t been officially revealed just yet although the WSJ mentions that a Samsung executive has said in the US it will cost somewhere between $200 – $300 depending on subsidies from carriers.
The Korea Times also indicates similar pricing although the upper end is extended from $300 to $400. With the Samsung Galaxy S costing $200 in the US on contract, we expect that the price tag will be closer to $300 or perhaps even $400 with a contract. [Read more…]
Quancast has published new data that shows Android Mobile traffic from the browser is catching up with Apple iOS devices.
The share of Android mobile web traffic in the US climbed to 25% last month. This jump represents the largest gain since November of last year.
In total the Android OS mobile web traffic gain was an extra 2% while the other mobile traffic numbers tracked for Apple, RIM and the “other” category saw a slight decline. [Read more…]
The latest generation iPod touch has a vibration motor installed. This is revealed thanks to the FCC teardown that we mentioned last week.
It is expected that vibration will be used for incoming FaceTime calls. The motor is also confirmed by Apple [AAPL] on the accessibility page (quoted below).
If somebody wants to start a video call with you, you?ll receive an invitation — along with a vibrating alert — on your iPod touch asking you to join. Simply tap Accept, and the video call begins.
