Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab hasn’t been officially revealed just yet although the WSJ mentions that a Samsung executive has said in the US it will cost somewhere between $200 – $300 depending on subsidies from carriers.
The Korea Times also indicates similar pricing although the upper end is extended from $300 to $400. With the Samsung Galaxy S costing $200 in the US on contract, we expect that the price tag will be closer to $300 or perhaps even $400 with a contract. [Read more…]
Quancast has published new data that shows Android Mobile traffic from the browser is catching up with Apple iOS devices.
The share of Android mobile web traffic in the US climbed to 25% last month. This jump represents the largest gain since November of last year.
In total the Android OS mobile web traffic gain was an extra 2% while the other mobile traffic numbers tracked for Apple, RIM and the “other” category saw a slight decline. [Read more…]
The latest generation iPod touch has a vibration motor installed. This is revealed thanks to the FCC teardown that we mentioned last week.
It is expected that vibration will be used for incoming FaceTime calls. The motor is also confirmed by Apple [AAPL] on the accessibility page (quoted below).
If somebody wants to start a video call with you, you?ll receive an invitation — along with a vibrating alert — on your iPod touch asking you to join. Simply tap Accept, and the video call begins.
Over the past weekend, the Apple site in the UK briefly mentioned that the iOS 4.1 release date would be September 8 which puts it at this Wednesday. Shortly after though the date was pulled with a Coming Soon message being in place.
It isn’t clear if you’ll be able to grab the new update this Wednesday. If not then it will be sometime this week at lease as Steve Jobs confirmed it at the Apple [AAPL] event held last week. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has just landed on the Vodafone UK website. It isn’t available for pre-order just yet although the company does allow you to register your interest in the new tablet.
Pricing is not known and also the release date isn’t mentioned on the Vodafone site although we have heard it isn’t far away now, perhaps early next month.
As for the technical specs, the device can connect to both 2.5G and 3G networks. It has Wireless 802.11n built in along with Bluetooth 3.0. [Read more…]
Forgetting to log out of Facebook can be a problem. I’ve seen many friends post strange updates only to find out later that they forgot to log out of Facebook and it wasn’t them updating their profile.
If this has happened to you then Facebook Remote Log-out should come in handy. The new service lets users see where they are signed in to Facebook and deactivate sessions from those connected devices as they wish. Right now you can log in via mobile phones, computer, internet connected TV’s, tablets, library computers, school computers… the list goes on and on. [Read more…]
Rovio has launched Angry Birds for Android devices. The new app is still in beta testing stages.
By porting the already iPhone/iPad successful game to Android, the company behind it allow mllions more users to potentially download and buy the game.
“And Angry Birds have landed on Android:-)” the company said, adding “If you have any problems with the Android beta, let us know. It’s a beta, so we know it’s not perfect. Help us make it better.”
Steve Jobs mentioned in the Apple [AAPL] special event held earlier this week that the iPhone 3G iOS 4 speed problems have been fixed with iOS 4.1. The iOS 4.1 release date is next week which brings a number of fixes such as speed fixes and proximity sensor fixes to the iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4.
Although iOS 4.1 isn’t available for download just yet to the average iPhone user, it is available to developers. LifeHacker decided to run a test on an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.1. As they only had one iPhone 3G to test with, the tests were not done side by side although the tests were practically identical in terms of what the user was doing. [Read more…]
BGR is reporting today that a CDMA variant of the Samsung Galaxy Tab could be going to Sprint [S] in November of this year.
The CDMA version hasn’t been priced just yet although BGR does seem quite confident in the source of information that they have.
As well as it being on the Sprint network, they also mention it will be a 3G and 4G device. [Read more…]
Early this week, Google [GOOG] announced Gmail Priority Inbox. The service is designed to prioritise your inbox to give you the emails that are most important at the top with the less important ones being left below.
After checking today we now see that the service is active. When you log in you’ll see a message about priority inbox at the top right of the screen. Click on it and at this point you can start to train the rule system that lets it work. To do this, Gmail shows a few messages which you click on + or – to determine the priority of the messages. [Read more…]
The Sony Bloggie Touch MHS-TS20K is a HD video camera capable of capturing at full HD 1080p. It has a 12.8 megapixel sensor inside that can capture through an F2.8 lens.
The 12.8 megapixel sensor used in the camera is an Exmor CMOS sensor. Storage wise it comes in either 4GB and 8GB capacities.
Connectivity wise, it has a built in USB connector along with a HDMI output. The camera integrates with social networking sites to make uploading of photos and videos easy. [Read more…]
Over at IFA the Samsung I5510 smartphone was spotted. The I5510 is a QWERTY slider phone that was seen to be running Android 2.2 at the Vodafone booth.
Price wise, the Samsung I5510 will cost 200 Euros. It has a 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, Wireless networking, UMTS along with a microSD card slot for adding extra storage capacity to the device. [Read more…]
