Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Amazon have the ASUS N61JV-X2 on offer at the moment with a $50 saving bringing the price down from $949 to $899.99.
The N61JN-X1 has a 16 inch screen and runs an Intel Core i5-430M processor that is clocked at 2.26GHz. The CPU also uses Turbo Boost technology to bump that up to 2.53GHz when needed.
For memory it has 4GB of DDR3 at 1066MHz with space for up to 8GB. [Read more…]
Human Touch has introduced a new massage chair that can be controlled via a Bluetooth connection on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The iPhone can be used to personalise the chair to give the massage you want.
With the bluetooth connection and an application you can access a variety of different programs for the chair.
HT-Connect¢ can be connected via Bluetooth connection on an iPhone or iPod touch to instantly access a wealth of massage programs, expertise and user-friendly applications. Priced at $5999, the HT-Connect¢ will be available this June through leading retailers or at Human Touch.
The Pebble Portable Charger is capable of charging several devices. Inside it has a 5000mAh battery that allows phones such as the iPhone 3G to be recharged four times over before needing to be recharged it’s self.
The device can be used for emergency battery charging and due to it’s small size, it fits comfortably in a bag or case while you are on travels.
Included in the pack are iPhone/iPod connections, Sony Ericsson, Mini USB and Nokia connectors making it capable of charging a variety of devices when needed. [Read more…]
For those of you experiencing bugs with the Google Nexus One, it now appears that Google [GOOG] are not investigating them any more. Instead there bit of advice is to change the orientation of the phone, or move location.
The full message was posted by a Google employee on the Google support forums whereby he said…
“Hey guys,
I’ve seen some recent speculation on this thread about an OTA to improve 3G connectivity and I want to give you an update on the situation.
While we are continuing to monitor user feedback regarding the 3G performance on the Nexus One, we are no longer investigating further engineering improvements at this time.
If you are still experiencing 3G issues, we recommend that you try changing your location or even the orientation of your phone, as this may help in areas with weaker coverage.
-Ry Guy”
Check out this rather cool video. It was created by Honest and uses Google Maps/Earth imagery where a car chase scene is made to appear as though it has been filmed from up above.
Video after the jump… [Read more…]
Strapya are selling the Chocolate iPod speaker. On the top of the iPod speaker is a dock connector allowing you to connect various iPods up to it.
The list of compatible iPod’s is as follows…
1St iPod Touch, iPod Classic, 1st – 4th iPod nano, 3rd-5th iPod, iPod Mini.
It costs $21 and is available from Strapya. [Read more…]
Four other Dell smartphones were unveiled this morning which included three Dell Android handsets and a Dell Windows Phone 7 handset.
The next (and final we believe) is the Dell Aero. The Dell Aero has a launch date of Q2 this year making the launch anytime within the next 2 months.
The technical specs reveal that it will run a 624MHz Marvell processor and have a 3.5 inch capacitive multitouch screen. The device also has handwriting recognition and a capacitive stylus will be included allowing you to scribble on the screen. [Read more…]
We mention iFixit quite often here on gadgetvenue. The company are responsible for taking apart brand new products as they launch and have a focus primarily on Apple [AAPL] products. As soon as something big is launched, the company strip it down and provide the step by step instructions on how to do it.
They are planning on expanding now by creating a global repair community where the project will see them create a repair manual for everything.
* We’re opening up our guides to the world. Think Wikipedia, but for repair.
* Our platform is built from the ground up to make writing and using repair documentation easy.
* Both text and images are easily editable, and come with revision history.
* Reputation and badges reward participation, quality, and experience.
* You can get involved right now! [Read more…]
Last July, we wrote about the Fufifilm W1 3D camera that had two lenses allowing 3D images and movies to be captured. Fujifilm have now introduced the HDP-L1 that acts as a media player for your W1 3D content.
The device connects up to your TV where you then plug in a memory card from the W1 3D camera and it lets the 3D material be played on screen.
As well as being capable of being connected to a TV the HDP-L1 also has a USB port to connect it to a Mac or Windows computer. The player can also display 2D content if needed. [Read more…]
Nokia [NOK] have announced financial details of their company that also shows details of how many handsets they have shifted.
The numbers show a drop in cellphone and smartphone sales although this is also an increase when compared to this time last year vs last quarter.
In total the company shifted 107.8 million handsets with 21.5 million of these being smartphones. These were sold in a three month period. [Read more…]
We reported yesterday that Android 2.2 (Froyo) was in the testing stages with a launch date due in the next month or so. Androidandme have pointed out that their stats software (Google Analytics) has already been seeing some traffic from Android 2.2 devices in the last few days as pictured below.
We checked the gadgetvenue statistics and have also noticed a few visitors using the Android 2.2 OS. Androidandme point out that Android builds only get numbered when close to release and with this information showing up in statistics, it appears that it isn’t too far away now. [Read more…]
This morning we wrote about three new Dell Android devices that are due to launch late this year and next year.
The next smartphone we hear of (leaked from Dell) is the Dell Lightning. The Lightning is a Windows Phone 7 device that is a portrait slider. Inside a 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor is to be found. The screen measures 4.1 inches and is a WVGA format. The screen is OLED.
The Dell Lightning has a 5 megapixel camera that can autofocus. Memory wise it has 1GB of flash, 512MB RAM and 8GB of storage built in that due to Windows Phone 7 requirements will be non user changeable. [Read more…]
