Nokia C3 Demonstrated on Video

The Nokia C3 was announced yesterday. The phone it’s self is the first Series 40 device with a full QWERTY keyboard. Specifications of the phone show that it has a 2.4 inch QVGA screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The phone weighs 114g and the battery is good for keeping the phone running up to 20 days on standby with 7 hours of talk time.

The video below shows the Nokia C3 being demonstrated by Lars Hellstrom who is the Go-To-Market Manager at Nokia [NOK].

The phone it’s self looks quite good as well as being sleek. The C3 is aimed at those wanting to connect over social media sites and achieves this by bringing social networking to the home screen allowing users to see what’s happening at any given time. [Read more…]

Google Cloud Print – How Printers will be used on Google Chrome OS

Google [GOOG] have created an info-graphic that explains how Google Chrome OS will handle printing. The image above (and displayed larger below) shows the process of how Google are planning to work with printers.

The problem with printing on Chrome OS is that it’s cloud based and for that reason, the technology just doesn’t always communicate with traditional printers that require drivers to be installed to work.

While the emergence of cloud and mobile computing has provided users with access to information and personal documents from virtually any device, today’s printers still require installing drivers which makes printing impossible from most of these new devices. Developing and maintaining print subsystems for every combination of hardware and operating system– from desktops to netbooks to mobile devices — simply isn’t feasible.

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Apple iPad Disassembled and Reassembled in under 3 Minutes

We’ve already seen the insides of the Apple iPad thanks to iFixit and the FCC. This time, thanks goes to TechRestore who have done their traditional stop motion animation of the whole teardown and it also includes a reassembly too.

The video starts off with the iPad box sliding across a table and the iPad being unboxed and tested a little. After that, each component is removed one at a time till the iPad is in pieces.

The video is embedded below… [Read more…]

Sony not Offering Refunds to those Upset with Other OS Removal

On April 1, Sony made a new firmware update available for the PS3 which removed the Other OS install feature. This was just a removal on the older larger Sony PlayStation 3 console because the new slimmer version doesn’t have the feature anyway.

Shortly after installing the firmware update, one user successfully managed to get a partial refund on the basis of the console not being capable anymore of what it used to do. This case was successful and the user managed to claw back £84 from Amazon.

Sony have now made a statement which says… [Read more…]

Apple iPhone 4G Leaked Pics

We came across some pictures this morning of a device that is claimed to be the iPhone 4G or iPhone HD as some are referring to it as. The image show the back cover of the device and it appears to be heavily inspired by the Apple iPad with squared edges rather than the smooth curves of the current iPhone.

Of course these could be fan made and probably are, but they still look good enough to publish here if not just to see what we might be in for when the official announcement is supposedly being made on June 22.

On the back of the casing, 64GB is etched on indicating that Apple [AAPL] are increasing the storage capacity of the iPhone, which to be honest, wouldn’t come as a surprise. Also it says Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China. [Read more…]

Apple iPad No Flash Support Illustrated with Superheroes

It certainly isn’t new news that the iPad and any of the iPhone OS devices lack flash from Adobe, but this drawing attempts to illustrate it a different way than the normal complaints we hear and see.

The image represents a bunch of superheroes with one of the characters being called the Flash. As you can see in the larger image below… he is gone. [Read more…]

3 new Nikon DSLR Cameras Coming Soon – Rumour

Nikon Rumors are reporting that potentially three new Nikon Digital SLR cameras are in the pipeline and getting ready to be launched. This could include a Nikon D4000 that will be an entry level camera.

A second camera is mentioned and is said to have 39 AF points, 16 Megapixels with a 6300 ISO + HI2 position, the ability to capture at 24 frames per second in 1080p and an optional MB-D11 grip.

The PRO DLSR has 51 AF points currently with the D90 having 11 AF points. This leads Nikon Rumors in to thinking the 39 AF points of the 2nd camera mentioned above makes it a replacement of the D90 or a new product that fits somewhere inbetween the D90 and the Pro. [Read more…]

MacBook Pro 15 Inch Teardown

iFixit have been working hard again. This time they have done a teardown of a 15 inch MacBook Pro that was launched just a few days ago.

It didn’t take long for iFixit to achieve this teardown and from what we see inside there isn’t much different from the previous version of the MacBook Pro from last year. The processor has obviously changed and from what we hear there is a new antenna in there along with a slightly larger battery and tri-wing screws which are new to this build. [Read more…]

iPhone OS 4.0 Jailbreak Available for iPhone 3G

MuscleNerd has just launched RedSn0w 0.9.5 Beta that allows iPhone OS 4.0 to be jailbroke.

This is a beta release of redsn0w targeted at developers of jailbroken apps. It uses the same pwnage2 DFU-mode exploit that we’ve been using since the 2.x days. Nothing new is revealed to Apple, and it’s not applicable to the iPad. Don’t go near it if you use yellowsn0w, ultrasn0w, or blacksn0w.

As warned above, this isn’t for regular users. First off, you need to be a developer to get iPhone OS 4.0 on your iPhone (the beta version as the public hasn’t been release yet), and also there isn’t much that can be done just yet as developers haven’t really created any apps for 4.0 that would work on it just yet. [Read more…]

Nokia X6 Review

The Nokia X6 is a music phone that aims to join the touchscreen device area of phones that Apple, HTC and only a few others have managed to make happen well.

The phone it’s self looks to be a slider phone from when you first take it out of the box, but it’s actually not and just a touchscreen device with no stylus or physical keyboard. Reasons for believing it’s a slider is due to it being quite thick (13.8mm) which is a fair bit for a phone without a keyboard. Looks wise it looks quite sleek still even though a little fatter than most phones.

On the front of the device is a touchscreen that measures 3.2 inches. It is capacitive and has a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels which Nokia call nHD although of course, it’s no where near a HD screen in terms of pixels on the screen although it does look very clear when using the screen. Above that is a front facing camera that allows you to make video calls. Below the screen are three buttons which are send call, end call and menu. [Read more…]

Deal of the Day: Kingston DataTraveler 16GB USB Flash Drive

Amazon currently have a good deal on for the 16GB DataTraveler from Kingston. Right now there is a 44% saving to be found taking the price down from $44.99 to $25.00.

The USB Flash Drive is USB 2.0 and can transfer data at 5MB/sec for write speeds and 10MB/s for read speeds. The design is capless and as any other USB flash drive is, it’s simple to use. [Read more…]

Apple iPad Banned in Israel

Travelling to Israel soon? If so it’s recommended you leave your iPad at home as the country has banned the iPad from entering the country. If you attempt to enter the country with an iPad you’ll have it confiscated and will need to pay a daily storage fee at which point you can then collect it on your way out of the country.

Reasons for this move are due to the higher frequencies that the iPad use and the interference it could cause if the iPad was used by the masses.

“If you operate equipment in a frequency band which is different from the others that operate on that frequency band, then there will be interference,” Nati Schubert, a senior deputy director for the Communications Ministry told AP. “We don’t care where people buy their equipment ¦ but without regulation, you would have chaos.”

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