Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
It’s been a long time coming but Rockstar have finally set their sights on a re-release for their massively successful, top trump Grand Theft Auto IV, that on it’s own managed to sell well over 13 million copies world wide in 2008.
According to Amazon, ‘Grand Theft Auto: Complete Edition’ has been marked for an October 26th release in the US though it’s still unknown when the release will hit the UK, Rockstar have confirmed that it will indeed be arriving in the coming weeks. [Read more…]
While writing this post I find myself realising that I’ve already written a fair amount on the whole ‘3D’ thing. But this new avenue to view our TV programs and play our games seems to be all the rage at the moment and rightly so. [Read more…]
The Samsung Omnia7 i8700 has been spotted and captured on video. The Omnia7 looks to have the Samsung Hub as part of Windows Phone 7 that allows you to view the weather, news as well as get other bits of information.
The device looks to be quite slim with a large screen on the front. Not much is known about what runs inside other than the obvious minimum specs that Microsoft attach to a chassis 1 type phone. [Read more…]
The T-Mobile G2 has a “feature” built-in that certainly will upset a few people.
When rooting the device, a microchip embedded inside prevents permanent changes from being made and basically restores the G2 back to factory settings with a fresh firmware install. The chip essentially stops you from modifying your phone as you wish. [Read more…]
To wet your appetites even more as to the coming of Duke’s latest shootem-up outing, it has been confirmed by the publisher 2K that a demo of Duke Nukem Forever will be arriving shortly prior to the game’s release (though the date for release is still very much subject to change at present) in the form a free membership certificate for the Duke Nukem Forever First Access Club inside every copy Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition. [Read more…]
A senior VP at HP (Eric Cador) said over in Barcelona at a recent conference… “you will see us coming early next year with new phones,”.
He didn’t particularly specify what phones would be arriving, as in what OS, but I think it’s safe to think that he is referring to webOS. Note that he also said Phones and not just a Phone meaning that two or more smartphones could be landing early next year. [Read more…]
Google provided an update to the Goolge App yesterday on the iPhone. A new feature added to the Google App includes Google Goggles that allows you to take a picture of an object and have Google scan and recognise what it is.
The Googles service has been on Android devices for several months now and this is the first time you have been able to run it on your iPhone.
Rather than downloading it as a single application, you now just load up the Google App and when doing a search you can now hit a camera icon that is situated next to the voice icon. [Read more…]
The Netflix for iPhone and iPod touch app has received an update. The new update brings video out support for the devices. Right now it is compatible with the latest generations of each device, ie the iPhone 4 and fourth gen iPod touch.
Video can be output via the dock connector on the bottom of each device when you have the compatible cable.
The update is version 1.1.1 and is free to download. If you do not run a latest gen iOS device then the option will not be there to use. [Read more…]
TDK has created a couple of new passive matrix OLED screens, one of which is flexible.
This particular model pictured below is just 0.3 mm thick and can be rolled up to have a radius of just 25mm. The resolution of this flexible screen is 256 x 64 pixels although contrast ratio and brightness are not known just yet. [Read more…]
When Apple [AAPL] first announced the iPad, a number of people said it would fail. However, the iPad has now launched and sales figures show that it was far away from being a failure in that 3.27 million were sold within the first three months of it going on sale.
It took just 28 days to sell the first million. Comparing this number to the original iPhone that took 74 days to sell 1 million, you get the impression that the adoption rate is high.
One analyst says that the iPad has the fastest adoption rate ever although this is based on some estimations. [Read more…]
When the HP Slate was first unveiled at the beginning of the year over at CES we expected that it would be available a few months after. But as we now know, Apple announced the iPad shortly after and released it a couple of months after that. We are still waiting for the HP Slate.
HP then purchased Palm which included webOS and the Windows powered Slate kind of dropped of the radar a little. We are still unsure of HP’s plans and if they are to launch a Slate or not, but Steve Ballmer mentioned yesterday that a Slate would arrive by Christmas. [Read more…]
Samsung has a goal of shifting 10 million Samsung Galaxy S smartphones within the first year of launch. Just a few months after launching the smartphone around the world they have already hit 5 million. Just a month ago an announcement was made that 1 million of them had been shifted in the US.
It’s hard to say if they will reach the 10 million target as demand for the phone will naturally die down as various other Android smartphones get launched. However, they are off to a good start.
With the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab around the corner, this will also boost sales of the range of Galaxy Class devices. [Read more…]
