Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Apple [AAPL] is holding an event today at 10am PDT. For the many people who cannot make it, but would like to watch events as they happen, Apple will be broadcasting the event over a Live Stream.
The live stream from what we understand, will only work on Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad or a Mac running Safari and OS X 10.6. It “might” work on Windows based computers, but for some reason Apple do mention specifics in their press release. [Read more…]
Orange in the UK has launched HD Voice calling. The service is designed to cut out background noise while calling to provide crystal clear calls.
To make use of the service (which starts today), you need to have a HD voice enabled phone.
HD Voice offers a proven improvement in the sound quality of traditional mobile voice calls. The service eliminates the distance between friends, relatives and colleagues to make callers voices sound like they do when communicating face to face. Reducing the background noise, hisses and crackles of normal mobile calls, HD Voice also excels in noisy environments, so whether you’re at a football match or concert, on a building site or next to heavy traffic – HD Voice gives louder, clearer, sharper mobile calls. This will come as a relief for a third (32%) of Brits who blame background noise including road works or noisy chatty friends as the biggest disturbance in conversations.
Viewsonic has announced a new tablet called the ViewPad 7. The ViewPad 7 is an Android 2.2 based tablet that has a seven inch screen, two digital cameras as well as plenty of connectivity.
For connectivity, it has Wireless, Bluetooth and 3G built in. The cameras are 3 megapixels for the rear and 0.3 megapixels for the front.
For storage it takes a micro SD card. GPS is also built in. [Read more…]
For those of you in the UK, an interesting tweet was sent out that indicates an X10 Android 2.1 update will be arriving at the end of September.
The tweet came from Sony Ericsson UK and says…
@KOR_9S We can only confirm that the upgrade to Android 2.1 is due for release before the end of September this year. We hope this helps.
Google [GOOG] has purchased a social games developer called Social Deck. Social Deck is a company that makes games for both mobile and smartphones which indicates Google are moving in to games development.
The games built by Social Desk are generally multiplayer based that work across networks. Popular devices developed for include the iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. [Read more…]
Canon has announced that it has developed a new CMOS image sensor that boasts the record of being the largest in the world. The large CMOS sensor provides ultra-high sensitivity allowing it to be used in darker situations.
The image sensor measures 202mm x 205mm and thanks to it’s size, it allows more light to be gathered when capturing an image. The sensitivity of it allows for images to be captured with one one-hundredth the amount of light that a regular DSLR camera would use. [Read more…]
For those of you who updated to the leaked Motorola DROID X Android 2.2 update, bad news is in store as you wont be able to install the official update when it arrives in a few weeks time.
Motorola has announced that those who manually installed the leaked ROM will be cut out from the official upgrade path. They will provide no way to update to the latest version.
This is quite a big contrast when compared to the HTC EVO 4G which HTC did it’s best to create a patch that would fix the problem of upgrading early. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is heading to Verizon [VZ] in the US. The device is listed as featuring a CDMA radio which yesterday when spotted, suggested that it could land on Verizon or Sprint [S].
Since yesterday, details have leaked confirming that the Samsung Tablet would hit Verizon. The photo showing this comes thanks to BGR who received an image from a tipster that showed the Verizon inventory system. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has launched a new feature in Gmail called Gmail Priority Inbox. The new service uses a system that learns which emails are most important to you and prioritises them based on how you use your email.
When emails arrive at Gmail, they are first scanned for spam and then discarded. If they pass successfully through the filter, Google then determines if the email is a priority or not and organises them appropriately.
The system learns what emails you read first, what you reply to and how you read your email. By learning what you do, it can then promote an email to a priority status so that you can sort through the most important emails first. [Read more…]
Orange in the UK has delayed the launch of the HTC Desire Android 2.2 update. The over the air (OTA) update was scheduled for sometime around now although the delays are pushing it back a few weeks, perhaps to the middle of September.
Reasons for delays from carriers usually revolve around the small customisations that they need to make to rebrand Android with Orange features although it isn’t clear in this case the reasons for the delays. [Read more…]
Hotmail is set to get an update either today, or sometime this week that will bring IMAP to the web based email service.
What this will do is give users the ability to sync up in Outlook with what’s in a hotmail account. This sync will work both ways meaning that any other emails that you have in Outlook could be uploaded to Hotmail and vice versa.
The other sync features work when you send emails or move them around on either the web based version, phone version of in Outlook. Each of them will be able to keep in sync with each other giving you the ability to manage your email from any device you connect via IMAP with. [Read more…]
LG is set to reveal a larger OLED display at IFA this year. This time around the screen will measure 31 inches and yet, have a thickness of just 0.11 inches.
As well as showing off an ultra thin and relatively large OLED screen at IFA, they will also be showing a slightly thicker 0.35 inch LCD screen that is available to buy now. [Read more…]
