Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Viber is a VOiP iPhone app that allows you to make free phone calls to other Viber users wherever they are around the globe. The app requires no in-app purchase to be made and all you do is simply install it and use it.
The application works over WiFi and 3G and allows you to run the app in the background and receive calls when needed. [Read more…]
We could be seeing the Apple Mac App Store as early as December 13th. The details come from the AppleTell website who heard information from an inside source at Apple [AAPL].
The reason for this date is that the Mac App Store is believed to be running ahead of schedule.
An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month, but our contact would be shocked if that happened at this point.
The mysterious White iPhone 4 that never arrived on time might actually have a new release date. The release date hasn’t been announced by Apple [AAPL], but was spotted on some official signage in an Apple store as having a launch date sometime in the Spring of 2011.
What this means is that the iPhone 5 could also be launching about the same time. Other rumours/suggestions hint that the iPhone launched next year might instead just be a minor update that will increase the speed, perhaps RAM, and perhaps antenna of the device but yet, still have the same design, ie Just like the iPhone 3GS did to the 3G. [Read more…]
The Google Chrome OS netbook release date could be as early as the 7th December. Google [GOOG] sent out invitations last night to a press event called a Chrome event. Just prior to that, Engadget had heard rumours that the Chrome OS netbook would be unveiled/launched on the 7th. AllThingsD also reported similar news although they mentioned the Chrome Web Store being launched. [Read more…]
Someone has managed to get hold of a Playstation Phone and give a very brief demo. The good side is that this is the clearest video we have seen of the Playstation Phone, but at the same time, no games are available to show being played on it.
The video shows the phone opened up with the control pad section opened up. The user then taps on a Playstation icon which loads up the PS library. Once in there it says on screen that there are no content items. [Read more…]
Rover Computers, a company based in Russia, has announced a new Android tablet called the RoverPad.
The RoverPad has a 10 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is resistive rather than capacitive. The tablet supports full HD at 1080p. It has a 1GHz ZT180 processor along with 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal storage. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is believed to be revealing a subscription system that can automatically bill users. The system would allow you to download a magazine for example and then choose to subscribe at a frequency of monthly, yearly etc… Currently the only way you can get magazines is by downloading a free app and then manually making a purchase in the “in-app” payments system which for various reasons, magazines and papers don’t like. [Read more…]
The video below shows New York City being captured on video by an RC plane. It was captured using a Ritewing Zephyr plane along with a video camera attached and when mixed together, it created some stunning visuals of the city. [Read more…]
On November 23rd, Google in HK released a video of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread user interface. The video has since been pulled after it started hitting the blogs yesterday, but thankfully another was put up in its place.
The video first shows the Google App on the iPhone but then moves on to Android 2.3 and shows over a minute of video captured professionally. It is in Cantonese so you might have problems understanding it, but looking at how smooth things run on the device, it looks to be quite impressive. [Read more…]
Earlier this year the iPhone 4 was released. Some units leaked out a day early thanks to delivery companies shipping before the release date. On the first day that users got the iPhone 4 it was quickly noted that the iPhone antenna had a problem in that when you held it in your left hand and your thumb covered the black bar on the bottom left of the phone, the signal weakened. Although the problem wasn’t much different to any phone, it stung Apple in terms of bad press about it.
The HTC HD7 seems to suffer from the same “problem” if you can call it that. When holding the HD7 in a certain way the signal strength seems to drop a little. HTC has now provided a response to this… [Read more…]
The Kinect for Xbox has been hacked to make you invisible. The effect allows you to use the Kinect to make you invisible as you walk past it in a way similar to what looks like the Predator on the movie from the late 1980’s.
The invisibility hack was created by Takayuki Fukatsu and uses OpenFrameworks, open source C++ tool kit and a Microsoft Kinect. [Read more…]
For those of you running AVG 2011, free version… yesterday’s virus signature update may have caused you problems if you run Windows 7 64-bit. The update yesterday caused a problem with a STOP error which prevents your windows PC from booting up.
If you didn’t update then you were lucky! AVG has now confirmed that it is OK to update and that the problem with the latest update has been rectified. [Read more…]
