Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Apple is getting ready to announce the iPad 2 tomorrow. The event kicks off at 6pm GMT and what we expect to see is a thinner and lighter iPad with a few enhancements.
Cult Of Mac has been tipped off with some interesting information which indicates that the iPad 2 will be just a small update to the original iPad in that it will have a bit more RAM, run faster, be slimmer and lighter, but it will keep the same or very similar display. [Read more…]
Stephen Bates, the MD of RIM in the UK, has said “We’re going to deploy NFC in virtually all of our devices,”. This was clarified as being virtually all BlackBerry devices as well as tablets that are launched from now onwards.
When speaking about NFC the following was also said… “creates new businesses, new markets and new revenue streams”. [Read more…]
Samsung has emailed out details of an event being held on March 22. It is believed that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 will be released here. Looking at the image below there’s a 78910 number which we believe indicates the 7 inch original, 8.9 inch new and the 10.1 inch new one that was announced a few weeks back.
PC World in the UK will be selling the WiFi only model of the Motorola Xoom. It will be priced fairly reasonably at £449.99 which makes it cheaper than the WiFi only iPad that currently sells for £50 more. Of course, we have the iPad 2 announcement and along with that we could see prices drop slightly.
Unlike the iPad that comes in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, the Xoom comes with just one memory capacity of 32GB although this can be expanded. [Read more…]
Yesterday saw Google run in to problems with its Gmail service. It was thought that around 40,000 users were effected in that all emails, contacts etc… were lost. When a select group of users logged in yesterday, they were greeted with nothing at all which wasn’t good.
However, Google [GOOG] has now confirmed that no data has been lost and that they have managed to restore a good number of accounts back to where they were.
I know what some of you are thinking: how could this happen if we have multiple copies of your data, in multiple data centers? Well, in some rare instances software bugs can affect several copies of the data. That’s what happened here. Some copies of mail were deleted, and we’ve been hard at work over the last 30 hours getting it back for the people affected by this issue.
Kinect hacks seem to have slowed down a bit since the device first launched. Today though, we see quite an ingenious hack that allows the Kinect to capture you in 3D and then use that data to fabricate a 3D print of you.
Right now, the tool for testing is not finished and the results are not as clear as they could be. However, it does work and it can capture pictures of users that can in turn, be printed. [Read more…]
We’re just a couple of days away from seeing the real iPad 2, but leaks continue to appear. The next up is what looks to be a rendering of the back of the iPad. It matches what we have seen before in earlier leaks in that it has the same larger speaker that continues around the back. It has a flat back, camera, black 3G bar along with the usual buttons around the edges.
We don’t know for sure if it is a real render, or if it’s just fan made. We do know that the images posted the other day (linked above), are actually fake and were created from the exact dimensions provide by Apple to a case supplier, so although fake, they could be almost what we see in a month or so time. [Read more…]
An interesting analysis has been going around today that hints that the Kindle from Amazon could eventually be given away for free. Although it might seem bizarre that an electronic device with no subscription costs could be free and make money, I think there is some possibility in this.
Looking at the graph below, we see the price of the Kindle started around the $350 mark and then dropped in price three more times. This pricing almost perfectly followed a straight line on the graph. When looking forwards to the end of the year, some time in mid November will potentially see the Kindle being given away for free. [Read more…]
Yesterday, Apple launched the new 2011 MacBook Pro range. Some of the new models include a quad-core Intel i7 processor. Some guys who managed to get hold of them today have started benchmarking them with Geekbench 2.
The scores are all impressive and average around the 10000 mark. When compared to last years MacBook Pro models, the scores are almost double on the newer models. [Read more…]
Microsoft has announced that several games are coming to the Windows Phone 7 platform. Several popular games are mentioned in the list which includes the famous Angry Birds along with Doodle Jump and Plants vs Zombies to name a few.
The list forms part of the spring lineup and each game is expected to arrive on the WP7 Marketplace on April 6th. [Read more…]
At the moment, the only place you can read The Daily is on the Apple iPad. This is about to change though as it seems there is an Android tablet version being prepared for launch.
It is expected that The Daily will launch on Android devices at the beginning of the second quarter of this year and when it does, it will break the current exclusivity.
The Daily launch on the Android platform is likely to be related to the release of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb release that first arrived today on the Motorola Xoom. Now that Android will become a serious competitor in the tablet market, The Daily can look towards them for getting its content to more readers. [Read more…]
iDisplay has been launched for Android OS based devices. What it does is allow you to use your Android smartphone or tablet as a secondary display for your computer. Once installed and connected, you can then drag windows on to the smaller screen such as a Skype conversation or perhaps a media player you want to be able to see but not clutter up your main screen.
To get it to work, you need to first download the app on your Android device and once installed, you then need to install some software on your Mac or Windows computer so that your Android smartphone/tablet can hook up and get the data it needs. [Read more…]
