Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Sony has announced a new official app for iPhone and Android based smartphones. The app is the official PlayStation App and has been designed to bring a number of PlayStation Network features to the smartphone.
When the app launches, you’ll be able to download it for free and once installed, check your PlayStation Network trophies as well as being able to keep up with friends games and online achievements. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has announced that the Mac App Store will be launching on January 6. The launch will see the app store arrive in 90 countries around the globe and will offer a mixture of paid and free applications.
“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”
Electronic Arts has started a fairly massive sale on a number of titles for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. In total, 68 games have been dropped to just 99 cents for the holiday season, some of which include the likes of SimCity Deluxe HD for iPad that literally just launched a few days ago. [Read more…]
Earlier today, we showed a couple of pictures of a new device believed to be code-named the LG B. The LG B has a very bright screen and is super slim from what we saw.
LG has now confirmed that this device is real and also have confirmed that they will have the device on show at CES in the next few weeks in Las Vegas. [Read more…]
Both Intel and AMD have agreed and announced that they will begin to phase out support for VGA by 2013 and will then put a complete stop to it by 2015.
VGA has been around for a good number of years, but at the same time isn’t used as much as it was in days gone by. HDMI connectors as well as other newer standards have been common place for a few years now, so it was only a matter of time before VGA was officially dropped. [Read more…]
Hitachi has launched a new hard drive that measures 7mm in thickness and manages to cram 500GB of storage on to the disk inside.
The new drive is a 2.5 inch model and has a spin speed of 5400RPM. The disk is a single platter, which you’d expect on a device this thin. [Read more…]
The Skyfire browser for iPhone became hugely popular, thanks to its ability to convert flash to HTML5 on the fly.
This same browser is now about to launch for the iPad. The new Skyfire for iPad is expected to be released next week, in time for Christmas. It brings all the functions of the iPhone version to the iPad which includes private browsing. [Read more…]
The HTC Aria Android 2.2 update is beginning to roll out. Unfortunately it’s not for those of you on the AT&T [T] network in the US. Instead, the HTC support page in Southeast Asia mentions that Android 2.2 is being pushed out over in that region in the form of build 2.37.708.5.
That version is Android 2.2 (Froyo) and is also believed to include HTC Sense, tethering and improved enterprise support amongst other things. [Read more…]
RIM has dropped a hint at the BlackBerry PlayBook release date indicating that it will certainly be before the end of the first quarter of 2011, ie probably March.
On a Q3 earnings call last week, the following was said…
“There are no PlayBook revenues included in our Q4 guidance, and we expect the first revenue impact from PlayBook will be in RIM’s first quarter,”
Quest Visual has launched a new app in to the Apple [AAPL] iTunes store called Word Lens. The Word Lens app allows you to use the camera on your iPhone and point it at Spanish words. When it detects Spanish words, it automatically switches them to English words (and vice-versa).
The system works in real-time and uses the live image from the camera to superimpose the translated text on to, as seen in the image below. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has launched Google Maps 5.0 for Android. We briefly touched on the features a few days ago, and now we see it is ready for download.
The new version of maps is a big shift from previous versions in that Google now uses vectors to draw the maps rather than stitched together images. By using vectors, Google has been able to shrink maps down in file size by quite a lot, therefore allowing a number of locations to be easily stored off-line. As well as using vectors for the basic maps, Google has also created 3D buildings in various cities which allows users to quickly navigate and see the buildings around them. [Read more…]
Yesterday, we mentioned the details of the LG Optimus 2X. This will be just one of several phones launching by LG in the next year though.
Phandroid managed to get hold of some details of a smartphone code-named the LG B.
As can be seen in the screenshot below, the LG B (sat in the middle), has a very bright display. The phone on the left is the iPhone 4 and the one on the right is a Samsung Galaxy S. Each of those devices are known to have the best screens available at the moment. [Read more…]
