Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Three US cell phone companies have formed ISIS. ISIS is a mobile payment system that allows you to use NFC to make payments.
The creators of ISIS claim that the service is more than just a debit card replacement system. Extra features include the ability to store coupons, reward cards as well as public transport passes all in the same location. [Read more…]
LG has announced that the Optimus One smartphone has sold over 1 million units within 40 days.
Although this is by no means the quickest of sales these days, it’s still an impressive number to reach in a relatively short time. [Read more…]
RIM has created a side-by-side comparison of the BlackBerry PlayBook and Apple iPad. The comparison runs tests on browser speed to see which of the two tablets performs best on loading up particular websites.
To make sure the test was fair (other than RIM doing the test of course), they cleared the cache of the browser to make sure each device was pulling down fresh data from the webservers. [Read more…]
Samsung in the UK is dropping the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Prices over here in the UK range from between £600 – £700. The new price drop will see the Android tablet priced at less than £500.
Dixons is one example who have dropped the 16GB model down to £469 which also includes free delivery. [Read more…]
Evernote for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has been updated to include support in preparation for iOS 4.2 when it arrives sometime this month.
As well as supporting the new iOS, particularly multi tasking on the iPad, Evernote has also had a few new features added to it to make more useful than before. [Read more…]
Barnes & Noble has announced it is now shipping the new Nook Color. The Nook Color was announced recently with pre-orders opening up on October 27. The original launch date was set at November 19 although it appears they are a little earlier than planned.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, began shipping its highly anticipated NOOKcolor by Barnes & Noble ahead of schedule to customers who pre-ordered devices. The first full-color touch Reader’s Tablet will begin arriving today and through the week to customers who pre-ordered the device online and reserved units in Barnes & Noble stores. Live demonstration units that will allow customers the opportunity to touch the future of reading, along with very limited quantities of devices available for purchase, will start arriving in Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Walmart and Books-A-Million stores beginning this week.
We hear today that Samsung could be creating a Google TV and making it ready for launch sometime in 2011. No specifics have been given other than they should run Intel Atom processors and have Google TV embedded.
It is also believed that more than one will be created (ie, a line of TVs). [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is holding and event today 
It appears that the “Exciting Announcement” made mention of yesterday by Apple [AAPL], is indeed the introduction to the Beatles landing in the iTunes music store.
When loading up the Apple website, you’ll see a full splash page all about the Beatles along with various videos showing the bands past. [Read more…]
Engadget managed to get hold of some pictures showing an upcoming LG smartphone. The new device has a dual-core Tegra 2 chip inside along with the ability to capture 1080p video thanks to its 8 megapixel camera.
The screen on the new LG device measures 4 inches. [Read more…]
Microsoft [MSFT] has announced that it has sold 1 million Kinects in the first 10 days of it going on sale.
Microsoft also suggests that they will shift 5 million units by the end of the year.
Microsoft Corp. today announced it has sold 1 million Kinect for Xbox 360 units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit 5 million by the end of the year. The announcement comes a week before the biggest selling day of the year, Black Friday, and in the wake of increasing momentum for Xbox 360, which led U.S. video game console sales for the past four months.
LG Has announced the LG Vortex. The Vortex is an Android 2.2 device that has a 3.2 inch screen along with 3G/Wi-Fi connectivity.
The device runs the latest version of Android and comes pre-loaded with Bing Search and Bing Maps. With it running Android 2.2, the phone can also work as a wireless 3G hotspot for several devices to connect up to and share an internet connection. [Read more…]
AT&T has finally announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab on its network. AT&T has priced it higher than the rest of the competition at $649.99 although with that you do get $50 worth of Samsung Media Hub credit.
Contracts are priced at either $14.99/month or $25/month and each is a rolling 30 day contract offering either 250MB or 2GB of data respectively. [Read more…]
