Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Recently, some pictures of the Motorola DROID 2 World edition were posted online. DroidLife who published those pictures now home some benchmarks and other details about the device.
The processor running inside is an ARMV7 and is clocked at 1.2GHz for this test. Its score was 1709 on the test which isn’t bad at all. Results below…
System
SDK version: 2.2CPU
ARMv7 rev 2
Current freq: 300mhz
Max freq: 1200 mhz
Min freq: 300 mhz
Cores: 1Memory
Total: 488700 kBDisplay
480×854
68Hz
Some pictures of the HTC HD7 (or perhaps the HD3) have been posted online. The reason we are not so sure of the name at the moment is that it clearly says HD3 on the back of the device although earlier reports and documents leaked from O2 and other places indicate that the new Windows Phone 7 device will be called the HD7. It could be that this particular prototype is an early model before they changed the name of it.
The device its self looks just like the HTC HD7 drawings found on the web a few days back.
Either way, we know that the device above will run Windows Phone 7 and will be a step up from the popular HTC HD2. Hopefully this time around though, people wont want to remove Windows Phone 7 in favour of Android like they did with Windows Mobile 6.5 on the HD2. [Read more…]
The iWork suite for the iPad has been updated to include not only bug fixes, but a bunch of new features too.
The applications that received updates include Keynote, Pages and Numbers which basically covers the whole suite.
Features included for the Keynote app include the ability to export presentations to the Microsoft Powerpoint format, the ability to copy presentations to iDisk or a WebDAV service. Audio is also included as well as more transitions and effects for creating a presentation. [Read more…]
Dell could be launching a seven inch tablet if rumours are to be believed. A comment made by the Dell CEO Michael Dell indicated that this is something they are looking in to. Nothing has been revealed about the larger screened tablet although it could be a second Dell Stream model that currently ships with a five inch screen.
The device we presume, will also run Google Android and as for a release date or unveiling, perhaps CES 2011. [Read more…]
Samsung has announced that a fix for the Samsung Captivate GPS problem is going to be pushed out within the next few weeks.
The problem that is in all Galaxy S class smartphones is the GPS that is often miles out in terms of how close it can track you. The fix should fix this problem for Captivate owners.
For others who want the fix, ie those who use other variants of the Galaxy S class smartphones, it appears that you’ll need to wait a little longer to get the update. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] could start building the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 beginning in December this year. Apple Insider is reporting that the company will be getting 3 million of the said handsets ready for a launch in early 2011.
Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group said in a note to investors on Wednesday that checks with overseas suppliers indicated Apple is prepared to build 3 million CDMA iPhones in December, keeping the device on track for an early 2011 launch. That would put total GSM and CDMA iPhone production for the quarter at between 21 million and 22 million.
DropBox is a very handy service that allows you to easily transfer files and documents between your desktop and a mobile device. When you drop files in to the folder on a desktop the file is automatically synchronised to an online service which the mobile apps can then sync with and grab files such as PDF’s and photos as and when needed.
Over 2 million users are now using the service. The API the DropBox also uses has enabled over 100 mobile apps to utilise the services also. [Read more…]
Redsn0w 0.9.6b1 generally supports iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.1 for jailbreaking. We also hear today from Musclenerd on Twitter that it can also jailbreak iOS 4.2 beta 1 if you point it at the 4.1 ipsw.
Since some will try it anyway: this redsn0w will also JB 4.2beta1 by pointing it at the 4.1 ipsw, but it’s *very* broken (flickers, etc)
Although it does jailbreak iOS 4.2, reading the above message shows that you probably don’t want to use it right now due to the flickers and other various problems. As it was described as “*very* broken”, we think you should just leave this alone for now if you have installed the latest beta of iOS 4.2 on your iPad. [Read more…]
The Rocktab is a 7 inch tablet that runs the Google Android operating system.
Price wise, it’s quite cheap with a price $129.50 (£82) for a 2GB model. At that price you don’t get anything too fancy. It runs the Android 1.5 operating system that has been “customised and optimised” according to RedFerret. However, in speed terms the video (embedded below) shows that it’s actually quite smooth at running. [Read more…]
Another jailbreak has been released for iOS 4.1. This time it’s the iPhone 3G and second generation iPod touch that can be jailbroke.
The iOS 4.1 jailbreak is called Redsn0w, which we have seen before. The tool has been updated and uses the pwnage2 DFU-mode that Redsn0w used on earlier versions.
The Redsn0w jailbreak tool is currently available for the Max OS X although Windows users will need to wait a little longer to be able to use the jailbreak tool. [Read more…]
T-Mobile is getting ready to launch the new G2. The exact T-Mobile G2 release date is not known at the moment although some images sent in to Tmonews reveal that the pre-orders are starting up soon.
It is expected that the G2 will launch sometime mid-October with the 16th particularly being thrown around at the moment. As for pre-orders opening up, we expect that T-Mobile will do that in the next few days. [Read more…]
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has announced that the Tegra 3 SOC is almost ready and that work has already started on the Tegra 4 SOC.
It is now expected that NVIDIA will release a new Tegra chip each year. The main concern though is that the Tegra 2 isn’t yet really in use as much as we’d like to see it.
We have seen plenty of tablets saying they want to use the Tegra 2 although they generally haven’t launched just yet. [Read more…]
