Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The ASUS Eee 1201PN 12.1 inch netbook is now shipping at Amazon.
The new netbook costs $484 currently which give it a $15.99 saving from the list price.
Features included in the ASUS 1201PN show it has an Intel Atom N450 CPU running at 1.66GHz. It runs on the NVIDIA ION 2 graphics platform. [Read more…]
Some estimations indicated that Apple [AAPL] could be shifting in the region of 1.2 million iPads per month. Estimates also indicate that Apple could be shifting 2.5 million per month by the end of this year making it a huge success.
If the estimates are accurate then Apple will be continuing to ramp up production of the device. It is also believed that Apple has contacted Samsung to provide even more displays for the product. LG is the current provider of screens, so with Samsung on board, the company can produce more iPads.
Samsung is believed to be ramping up production by creating around 300,000 – 500,000 screens per month. LG is believed to be currently creating 800,000 to 900,000 per month. [Read more…]
Finally, Google Earth is now available for download on the iPad. The new app works very similar to how the iPhone version works but with the iPad having a larger screen it makes the experience far better… well, at least the idea is better as we actually found it to be a little buggy and slow.
The main problem we cam across was when using pinch to zoom where the “Earth” couldn’t keep up and kept freezing. Hopefully it’s just a software bug that can be fixed and hopefully a patch will be released soon for that.
But either way, it still looks very impressive running on the larger screen. [Read more…]
Most external keyboards for the iPad are designed to help you type faster. Also, they are designed to give you some tactile feedback which is handy for those who cannot, or do not like touchscreen keyboards.
The USB Typewriter for iPad certainly adds some tactile feedback. The USB Typewriter (as demonstrated below on video) actually works and allows you to tap out messages on the iPad. It connects over the 30 pin dock connector via a USB cable and lets you punch away on the keyboard. To get a line break you simple grab the metal lever and drag the top section to the right just like you do on old typewriters. [Read more…]
Remember last week when a problem at AT&T caused 114,000 email addresses of iPad owners to be leaked? AT&T [T] have now published a formal apology to those 114,000 customers to make all things a little better.
No compensation was offered which is to be expected, but the company does go in to detail what happened and what is being done to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Lets just hope that they sent all the emails BCC rather than populating the To or CC field. The text of the apology is pasted below. [Read more…]
Archos has decided to get in to the notebook game by creating a Dual-Core Atom based ultraslim device. The notebook by Archos has a 13 inch display that can display 1366×768 pixels. The screen is LCD. Memory wise it has 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.
The processor powering the device runs at 1.66GHz and is an Intel Atom D510. The device supports 720p video thanks to the processor although it isn’t clear yet how capable it is of a decent frame rate. We suspect it will handle 30fps at that resolution.
The operating system running on the Archos 13 Ultraslim notebook is Windows 7 Home Premium. [Read more…]
Microsoft [MSFT] has sent out reminders to OEM’s around the globe that as of October 22 this year, Windows XP will no longer be available to install on Netbooks.
OEM’s after that date will need to start using operating systems from the Windows 7 line starting with Windows 7 Starter that has been designed specifically for devices like netbooks.
Windows XP has been out a long time now. The Microsoft OS launched in August 2001 and has been very popular among laptops and computers for a number of years. Microsoft is ending support for it soon though with XP service pack 2 support ending next month. However, XP SP3 support will go on till April 2014 at which point you should have upgraded by then anyway. [Read more…]
The Panasonic Toughbook F9 is a rugged laptop that the company says is the worlds lightest in it’s 14 inch size weighing 3.6 pounds.
The rugged Toughbook F9 has a 14 inch screen that has a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels. The screen has a wide aspect. An Intel Core i5-520M 2.93GHz processor runs inside and for storage it has a 320GB hard drive. For communications, mobile broadband is optional with the Qualcomm Gobi2000.
Battery life is about 7 hours on a full charge depending on what you use it for ie – if you browse on a 3G connection then you will probably not get the full 7 hours of usage out of it. [Read more…]
If you remember back to April 1 (April fools day), ThinkGeek were showing a new accessory for the Apple iPad that was to launch shortly after. The device was called the iCade and was basically a miniature stand with old arcade controls to dock your iPad in.
ThinkGeek had the iCade priced at $149.99 although when you went to click on the Buy Now button you were taken to a Gotcha page.
Anyway, some guy has decided to go ahead and build his own. The guys custom iCade for iPad is made of cardboard, has an iPad dock inside and by using arduino circuitry, he was able to attach the controls to the iPad to play games with the joystick rather than by the touchscreen. [Read more…]
AT&T [T] are reported to (and have confirmed) that a security hole has exposed 114,000 email addresses of Apple iPad owners.
The leaked details have revealed email addresses of a number of people including White House employees, journalists and CEO’s of large companies amongst thousands of others.
The security hole was discovered by a web security group, Goatse who passed the information on to Gawker, including the list of email addresses, and it could be possible that confidential information relating to every iPad owner in the US has be compromised.
The Sony Vaio P second generation model is getting ready for launch in the US. The Sony Style site in the US today put up a pre-order option on the laptop.
The cost of the Sony Vaio P is $899.99 (numbered VPC-P113KX) and will be launching in a few weeks time on or around June 25. The Vaio P laptop comes in several colours although the downside of the US model is that it lacks some higher end options. The model available for pre-order is the only one available that runs an Intel Atom Z530 processor clocked at 1.60GHz along with a 128GB SSD (rather than a larger 256GB). [Read more…]
The Apple iPad lacks a few things. One of those things is a camera which would make it a perfect device for video calls. A company has decided to make an external webcam for the Apple [AAPL] iPad. It comes from a company called Photofast and right now in prototype form, uses a regular Microsoft [MSFT] webcam connected to the dock port. We do hear that when launched it will look very different.
What it will allow the iPad to do is make video calls using services such as Skype. Note that the details in the photo show a camera capable of 640 x 480 pixels with a 200 meg sensor. I think they mean it has a 2 megapixel sensor. [Read more…]
