Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Toshiba AC100 MID smartbook is now ready in the UK.
The Toshiba Smartbook is a Tegra 2 based system that runs the Google Android 2.1 operating system. Rather than using a basic vanilla 2.1 build, Toshiba has created a custom UI.
Price wise, it costs £292.52 including VAT. This gets you the non 3G model although it does still have wireless connectivity at 802.11b/g/n speeds as well as Bluetooth. For storage it has 8GB of flash memory. [Read more…]
The price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab is looking rather random at the moment, partly because Samsung hasn’t made an official announcement. We are not sure if prices are to be fully believed online. The US price is supposedly somewhere between $200 and $400 while the UK price is £679.99 over on Expansys which is the equivalent of $1045 at todays exchange rate.
Over in Germany the price tag has been revealed on Amazon at the equivalent of $1019 which almost lines up with the UK pricing.
We are guessing at the moment that Expansys and Amazon in the UK and Germany respectively, will be selling the device unlocked with no contract. If the US pricing is to be believed then it looks to be selling with contract. [Read more…]
Nike has created a new Nike+ app for the iPhone and iPod touch that lets users track their running progress without using the external sensor attached to a shoe.
The new app called Nike+ GPS is compatible with the iPhone 4, 3GS and the iPod touch 2nd gen through 4th gen. Of course the iPod touch doesn’t have a GPS sensor. For those with a touch, you’ll be restricted to tracking runs through the accelerometer which means you wont get maps of your run (unless you have an external GPS case). [Read more…]
In the UK an advert for Windows Phone 7 was seen on a private screening of Lawrence of Arabia. The Windowsphoneuk Youtube account says the following…
The Windows Phone 7 trailer that was shown before the Secret Cinema screening of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.
We don’t know if this advert will actually released to the public but it does show that the release date is getting closer. [Read more…]
Several rumours have pointed to September 9 as the release date for the Samsung Fascinate. This has now been confirmed on an advert pictured above.
The Samsung Fascinate is a Samsung Galaxy S class smartphone that will launch on the Verizon [VZ] network. The advert is embedded below although the advert showing below is the older version with just a “coming soon” as the release date. The one that is available on TV does specify the date. [Read more…]
Hannspree is releasing a new Android Tablet. The new tablet will have a 10.1 inch multitouch display and will run the latest Android operating system (2.2).
The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Powering the Android tablet is a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC processor.
Price wise, the tablet will cost £399 when it becomes available in November of this year. [Read more…]
T-Mobile and Orange merged a while back and became “Everything Everywhere”. Silly name aside, the two networks still operate as single entities as in all T-Mobile customers get billed by T-Mobile and Orange customers are billed by Orange although the companies are both part of Everything Everywhere.
When the announcement was first made, the network said that they would by the end of this year allow roaming across both networks allowing you to have a better signal in areas if your own network was bad.
From 5th October, 30 million customers – the combined customer base of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK – will be offered the opportunity to access both networks, enabling them to make calls and send texts in more places in the UK for no extra cost.
BGR has been informed by a connect that the Motorola DROID 2 on Verizon [VZ] has the lowest return rate of any phone on the same network.
It seems from the details that a number of people are happy with the DROID 2 and wont be returning it any time soon. We also hear that although there is an antenna issue, that the DROID 2 also has the lowest drop call rates on the Verizon carrier. [Read more…]
Samsung has confirmed that it will be using a Super TFT LCD screen in the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it launches. This is a different screen to the Samsung Galaxy S that currently uses Super AMOLED technology.
The reasons for using a Super TFT screen is apparently to do with them being cheaper to manufacture and that the screens run more efficiently which increases battery life. [Read more…]
IBM has introduced a new microprocessor that is capable of being clocked at a hefty 5.2GHz. IBM claim it is the fastest CPU currently available although there are a number of overclockers who have managed to beat 5.2Ghz quite easily. One big difference between the IBM chip and overclocking other chips is that the IBM one doesn’t require extreme cooling.
The chip uses zEnterprise technology that was created from an investment of $1.5 billion in R&D at IBM.
If you’re into details, the z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter (mm) surface. It’s manufactured using IBM’s 45 nanometer (nm) SOI processor technology, and it makes use of IBM’s patented embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology, which allows IBM to place dense DRAM caches, or components, on the same chips as high-speed microprocessors, resulting in improved performance.
The Apple [AAPL] website was recently updated with the new details of the iPod touch. Along with that the standard pictures were uploaded that show the new device.
Unfortunately for Apple, someone forgot to photoshop the correct screen grabs on to the page and managed to leave the Phone icon at the bottom left of the screen along with text messages showing up in the Spotlight search as pictured below. [Read more…]
The iPad 2 when launched next year, is expected to have a couple of cameras installed. One of which will be used for FaceTime calling.
This rumour has been further strengthened by the image above which shows a video call debug screen running on the current iPad. [Read more…]
