Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Nokia N8 is expected to launch on September 30 after a many month wait. We also hear from NokNok that those who are pre-ordering the N8 will actually get it a week early on September 23.
The information comes from a Google Adwords ad that Nokia ran saying it would ship September 23 1 week before anyone (else). [Read more…]
We’ll take this one with a pinch of salt, but there are rumours going around that the Apple iPad could get an external camera to make FaceTime calls with it.
This rumour started because of the iOS 4.2 release date of November being mentioned last week at the Apple Special Event. In that presentation, Steve Jobs said that everything goes to the iPad for iOS 4.2 which included HDR photography amongst other things. The problem is that the iPad can’t do HDR without a camera and certainly can’t make FaceTime calls. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab UK price hasn’t been officially announced yet although it hasn’t prevented some places from speculating on the price.
Next up is Clove in the UK who has priced the Galaxy Tab up at £617 which takes it to around the $950 price point in USD. This price point gets you a 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab that is SIM free and not locked on to a contract.
The £617 price tag also includes taxes. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy S has a fast CPU inside that allows it to shift three times the amount of triangles when compared to a Nexus One and iPhone 3GS.
The chip used inside is about to seem old though after a new announcement came today about a chip called the Samsung Orion. The Orion runs at 1GHz, but rather than being a single core device, it’s a dual-core which brings more power to devices it is used in.
The chip is an ARM Cortex A9 that Samsung say can achieve the following… “5 times the 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation from Samsung,”. [Read more…]
The Toshiba AC100 MID smartbook is now ready in the UK.
The Toshiba Smartbook is a Tegra 2 based system that runs the Google Android 2.1 operating system. Rather than using a basic vanilla 2.1 build, Toshiba has created a custom UI.
Price wise, it costs £292.52 including VAT. This gets you the non 3G model although it does still have wireless connectivity at 802.11b/g/n speeds as well as Bluetooth. For storage it has 8GB of flash memory. [Read more…]
The price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab is looking rather random at the moment, partly because Samsung hasn’t made an official announcement. We are not sure if prices are to be fully believed online. The US price is supposedly somewhere between $200 and $400 while the UK price is £679.99 over on Expansys which is the equivalent of $1045 at todays exchange rate.
Over in Germany the price tag has been revealed on Amazon at the equivalent of $1019 which almost lines up with the UK pricing.
We are guessing at the moment that Expansys and Amazon in the UK and Germany respectively, will be selling the device unlocked with no contract. If the US pricing is to be believed then it looks to be selling with contract. [Read more…]
Nike has created a new Nike+ app for the iPhone and iPod touch that lets users track their running progress without using the external sensor attached to a shoe.
The new app called Nike+ GPS is compatible with the iPhone 4, 3GS and the iPod touch 2nd gen through 4th gen. Of course the iPod touch doesn’t have a GPS sensor. For those with a touch, you’ll be restricted to tracking runs through the accelerometer which means you wont get maps of your run (unless you have an external GPS case). [Read more…]
In the UK an advert for Windows Phone 7 was seen on a private screening of Lawrence of Arabia. The Windowsphoneuk Youtube account says the following…
The Windows Phone 7 trailer that was shown before the Secret Cinema screening of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.
We don’t know if this advert will actually released to the public but it does show that the release date is getting closer. [Read more…]
Several rumours have pointed to September 9 as the release date for the Samsung Fascinate. This has now been confirmed on an advert pictured above.
The Samsung Fascinate is a Samsung Galaxy S class smartphone that will launch on the Verizon [VZ] network. The advert is embedded below although the advert showing below is the older version with just a “coming soon” as the release date. The one that is available on TV does specify the date. [Read more…]
Hannspree is releasing a new Android Tablet. The new tablet will have a 10.1 inch multitouch display and will run the latest Android operating system (2.2).
The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Powering the Android tablet is a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC processor.
Price wise, the tablet will cost £399 when it becomes available in November of this year. [Read more…]
T-Mobile and Orange merged a while back and became “Everything Everywhere”. Silly name aside, the two networks still operate as single entities as in all T-Mobile customers get billed by T-Mobile and Orange customers are billed by Orange although the companies are both part of Everything Everywhere.
When the announcement was first made, the network said that they would by the end of this year allow roaming across both networks allowing you to have a better signal in areas if your own network was bad.
From 5th October, 30 million customers – the combined customer base of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK – will be offered the opportunity to access both networks, enabling them to make calls and send texts in more places in the UK for no extra cost.
BGR has been informed by a connect that the Motorola DROID 2 on Verizon [VZ] has the lowest return rate of any phone on the same network.
It seems from the details that a number of people are happy with the DROID 2 and wont be returning it any time soon. We also hear that although there is an antenna issue, that the DROID 2 also has the lowest drop call rates on the Verizon carrier. [Read more…]
