Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Dell Streak is currently available at Best Buy for $99.99. The offer is limited it seems and just for the holiday season. You also need to sign up for a two year agreement to get it at the new low price.
Two versions are available, both priced the same. The options allow you to choose either a black model or a white model. [Read more…]
Although we should see a couple of Windows Phone 7 updates arrive over the next 2 months, one of which will bring the much anticipated copy & paste functions to the device, we also hear that a major update is being built although the release date of that update is expected to be sometime in August or September of 2011.
This major update due towards the end of next year is believed to be codenamed Mango and will precede the Windows Phone 8 update slated for a late 2012 launch. We could perhaps look at Windows Phone 7 as being Windows Phone 7.5. [Read more…]
The iPad is designed for a single user. When you slide the unlock slider, you get presented with the same icons, same settings, same active logins no matter who picks up the iPad.
This concept idea aims to allow several people to use the iPad, each with their individual settings. It uses 4 sliders with one in each corner for each user. When that user picks up the iPad they use the slider with their name and log in to their own icons, saved passwords and what not. [Read more…]
T-Mobile has dropped the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Samsung Vibrant.
The Galaxy Tab has been dropped from $399.99 down to $349.99. This price is for the model which requires a two year agreement to be signed. Full details of this offer can be found on the T-Mobile website. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has released a new update for iBooks. The new update is version 1.2 and it brings several new features to the iPhone and iPad (and iPod touch).
New features include better and fully illustrated books allowing childrens books to look better as well as for other books such as artbooks to get a makeover.
The update also brings more organisation to your library and now allows you to organise the library in to collections. The Books/PDF buttons have now been replaced with a single button that takes you to a list of folders. Here, you can create new collections such as study books etc… and then put books in to the folder to keep things more organised. [Read more…]
Facebook is rolling out a new facial recognition system that attempts to recognise people in your photographs.
The system, when rolled out in the next week or so, will attempt to let you know who you should be tagging. The system attempts to tackle groups of photos and people at a time. In the screen shot below, you’ll notice that the bottom row of photos has already got a suggestion. The Facebook system will work this way in that it will automatically tag people and once done, you just need to confirm if the system got it right, thus, speeding up the process of tagging. [Read more…]
Firemint has launched a free Flight Control game for those with an iPhone or iPod touch.
The free version is a fully working game with just 1 level to play through. As it’s free, the game is ad supported.
Firemint mention in their blog post that the game has all the options as well as Game Center integration. The only downside is that you do see ads and you only get that original level. [Read more…]
LG has announced the LG Optimus 2X. The Optimus 2X runs a 1GHz dial-core processor (NVIDIA Tegra 2) and has a 4 inch WVGA screen. Other features include 8GB of memory that can be expanded a further 32GB by using a microSD card.
On the back is an 8 megapixel camera and on the front, a 1.3 megapixel camera. HDMI mirroring is available on this device and it is capable of playing 1080p MPEG-4/H.264 content. [Read more…]
CNN has launched a new iPad app. The app was launched yesterday in the iTunes store and allows users to get CNN content through the app installed on an iPad.
The app allows you to integrate a little with CNN by providing a way to comment on the news & insights presented. [Read more…]
The ThinkGeek christmas sale is still running at the moment and will be doing for another week or so.
Christmas discounts vary from 10/20% all the way up to and above 70% on various items. A total of 436 items have received a discount with all of them viewable on a single page over here.
Good luck with getting some last minute shopping done in time for Christmas. You should still have a few days left, but don’t leave it too long.
BGR had some interesting thoughts in an article published today. They are hinting at the AT&T [T] iPhone exclusivity ending within the next few weeks, ie 31st December this year. They then go on to suggest that Verizon [VZ], who is taking the stage at CES 2011 in early January could invite Steve Jobs on to stage to announce the Verizon iPhone 4.
Verizon will actually be announcing its 4G network (well, LTE as it’s not really 4G), at CES which makes the likely hood of Steve Jobs joining them on stage a little less of a possibility as we assume the iPhone 4 will not be compatible with Verizon’s new network unless it has some fancy chipset inside. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has released the iOS 4.1.1 update for those running the second generation Apple TV. What the new update does is fixes a few annoying problems that the ATV had.
Problems indicated included issues with HDTV’s incorrectly displaying 480p content as well as movies and TV shows that from time to time, had to be re-downloaded. [Read more…]
