The X220 and X220 convertible laptop/tablet have been announced by Lenovo. The new devices show some quite impressive numbers, especially where battery life is detailed. We see in the press release that users can expect up to 24 hours of use on a single charge which puts them far above other similar devices already available on the market.
Lenovo also claim that performance is about 75% better than other ultraportable devices.
Back to the battery, one thing to note is that this isn’t the regular battery that comes supplied. Instead, you get 15 hours out of the standard 9-cell battery and if you hook up an external battery, it further adds another 9 hours on to the total life. Either way, 15 with the regular and an extra 9 with the external is still excellent. [Read more…]
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Facebook will soon become a place where you can rent Warner Bros. movies. The first of which will be The Dark Knight when the services goes live.
Spotify has reached another milestone today and has just announced that they now have 1 million paying subscribers to the service. The 1 million subscribers count arrives about two years after the 1 million users mark which at that time, was also a big accomplishment for the company.
This morning, the Three UK network Blog posted a video demonstration of the new Samsung Galaxy Pro smartphone that will soon be launching on its network.
pandaelf Labs has created a system that allows PS3 games to be played on any iOS device which includes iPad, iPhone and the iPod touch.
Everything Everywhere, AKA Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, has announced on Twitter that they will be selling the iPad 2 when it launches later this month. If the company follows along with the official release date, we should see subsidized versions landing on March 25 in the UK.
The iOS 4.3 GM seed has been released by Apple to developers. This particular version is the final step before the official and final launch that will see iOS 4.3 being publicly made available on March 11.
If you didn’t realise a new iPad was coming out and went ahead and purchased a first gen iPad in the last few days, you will soon be eligible for a refund of $100, £100 or 100 depending on what region you purchased it in.
Earlier this week, a small percentage of Gmail users had problems with ALL emails vanishing from the system. We now see that the update, as of this morning, that all should have returned to normal:
If seeing inside the latest technology is something you enjoy, then iFixit are on hand again as they have now taken apart a Nintendo 3DS.
The BBC will be launching iPlayer internationally for the iPad in the coming months. Due to the content being used abroad, a charge will be made to use the service. It has been announced that the price per month will be less than $10.
