Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Microsoft [MSFT] will be pushing a new update out to the Xbox in November that will give the audio quality on Xbox Live a boost.
The update will make changes to the audio codec and will launch at the same time as the Microsoft Kinect. When the update is installed, users should notice better quality when communicating in games. [Read more…]
The iPhone Dev Team has mentioned that iOS 4.0.2 and iOS 3.2.2 will not get a jailbreak.
The reasons are not due to them being stuck and not knowing what to do. Instead, they are waiting for a major release to be launched such as iOS 4.1 for the iPhone so that more iPhone users can take advantage of the exploit.
Now it’s a few weeks later, and Apple has closed the jailbreakme.com hole. They’re shipping devices with FW 4.0.2/3.2.2, impervious to this particular jailbreak. So now, people will begin to ask: will there be a jailbreak for devices that shipped with 4.0.2/3.2.2, out of the box?
No, there won’t be. FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole. With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the ‘cat & mouse with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes.
Hasbro has managed to figure out where the “Go” square on a Monopoly London edition is located in the real London.
By using an Ordnance Survey digital map they managed to figure out that Go is right where the London eye is sat, or very near to where it is sat. [Read more…]
If you can’t decide between an iPhone or a Palm Pre then perhaps this import device might be for you. According to the site that sells it, it’s a Palm Pre with QWERTY keyboard that not only has webOS running inside, it also has iOS (well, a fake iOS we should say). Looking closer at the pictures you can see it’s clearly not the real deal in terms of Apple [AAPL] software.
Other features include an iPhone home button, dual SIM card slots, 3 inch touchscreen with a 240 x 400 resolution, dual cameras, FM Radio, microSD card slot (up to 4GB), Bluetooth and WiFi. [Read more…]
It’s getting closer to the official announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, yet here we are again with another one captured on camera.
This time the Samsung Galaxy Tab was captured in Korea. It runs Android 2.2, has WCDMA 3G, 802.11n wireless networking and a screen with an aspect ratio of 16:10 that measures 7 inches.
Previously, the Galaxy Tab was only seen briefly with not much on the UI and how it runs. [Read more…]
Orange in France will be offering Android based tablets in the near future. The tablets will be self-branded and will be launched before Christmas this year.
Price wise, the Orange Tablets will be priced at ‚¬250 and are being built by an Asian OEM which could mean Acer or MSI for example. As they will be sold by a carrier it is also expected that each of them will have 3G built in. [Read more…]
Facebook has announced that 44 million iPhone users actively use the Facebook for iPhone app. This number came after claiming yesterday that over 100 million iOS users had installed the software. Today, a clarification came to resolve that.
“There are currently 44 million monthly active users of the Facebook for iPhone app. We recently changed the definition of mobile active users to exclude those who have only liked or commented on stream stories. Instead we are counting “active” users as people who have taken explicit actions within an application. This practice is more aligned with how we count overall active users for the site.” [Read more…]
ASUS has announced (and then pulled the press release) the ASUS Eee PC 1015PN and PEM models.
The ASUS 1015PEM will be powered by a 1.5GHz N550 CPU. It will support up to 2GB of DDR3 memory and when launched will cost around $440.
The ASIS 1015PN will use the NVIDIA Ion 2 platform and will launch sometime in the US in September. [Read more…]
Canon has announced it’s latest Digital SLR camera today. The new camera is the Canon EOS 60D that bring an articulating display, 18 megapixel sensor and the ability to capture video in full HD.
The articulating screen measures 3 inches and is a Vari-Angle Clear View LCD screen that can display 1,040,000 dots. The screen has an anti-reflective coating on it along with smudge resistance. With the screen being articulating it allows pictures to be captured from high up or low down where you can’t look through the view finder.
For the first time on an EOS camera, the EOS 60D DSLR boasts a three-inch Vari-Angle Clear View LCD screen, EOS Full HD video recording with manual overrides including audio level control, and in-camera functionality for RAW image processing plus Creative Filters to manipulate images after taking them. Designed primarily for advanced amateurs, the EOS 60D replaces the EOS 50D and boasts a broad array of new features that make it easier for photographers to add personal creativity to their images. Whether it’s capturing an overhead shot on the Vari-Angle screen at a graduation ceremony, or converting a color image to black and white for a nostalgic look, Canon is delivering in-camera features and functions that empower advanced photographers to capture, display and print the images they want.
Google [GOOG] has announced a new service that allows Gmail users to make phone calls from Gmail to regular phones. Previously the video and call service was restricted to a computer to computer set up which required the call receiver to be sat at a computer or other connected device such as a laptop.
The service is rolling out right now for those Gmail users in the US. If you are not in the US then you’ll need to wait a little longer although Google did mention that the service will eventually arrive to others.
Call costs in the US and Canada are free for the rest of this year. International calls go as low as 2 cents per minute to countries such as the UK. A comparison chart can be found here which is worth reading as calls to UK landlines are 2 cents like mentioned a moment ago although calls to a UK mobile are 18 cents. [Read more…]
Amazon is shipping the newest generation Amazon Kindle two days ahead of the previously announced release date. The information comes from a press release which also indicates that that latest Amazon Kindle is the fastest ever selling Kindle.
Amazon.com today announced that more new generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever. In addition, in the four weeks since the introduction of the new Kindle and Kindle 3G, customers ordered more Kindles on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk combined than any other product, continuing Kindle’s over two-year run as the bestselling product across all the products sold on Amazon.com. The new Kindles started shipping to customers today–two days earlier than previously announced.
Apple [AAPL] is to hold an event on September 1. Judging by the image above, they will be launching some music related services which could include a new iPod touch 4, iTV or Apple TV.
Other rumoured products include a 99 cents TV show rental service, possibly iTunes Cloud, CDMA iPhone 4 (doubtful) amongst a few other things. [Read more…]
