Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Apple iPad only allows videos to play natively that have been processed through iTunes. If you copy other video formats to the iPad, they are not recognised.
This new app is called CineXPlayer and it allows you to play a number of formats on your iPad. To get it working you use iTunes File Sharing where you can easily drop files in to a folder to be copied on to the iPad. Once copied over, the videos (in most formats) can successfully play. [Read more…]
The BlackBerry 9300 Curve 3G was made official yesterday by RIM. A few of the details were provided although no information of who was providing the smartphone was given.
T-Mobile has announced that they will be offering the BlackBerry 9300 Curve 3G in the US when it launches. Unfortunately no release dates of prices have been provided just yet.
T-Mobile is the only network at the moment who has announced they will be offering the phone, but we expect to hear from AT&T [T] shortly as it should be on that network also. [Read more…]
Tawkon is an app that can be used to measure radiation on a cell phone. When gripping a mobile phone with a so called “death grip”, the amount of power needed by the call increases to keep the signal active. In turn, radiation levels rise.
A video has been posted by Tawkon that shows three popular smartphones being tested with a death grip see if they each suffer with death grip problems.
The death grip is normally associated with signal loss. This test shows the radiation increase which is caused because of the signal dropping. [Read more…]
BGR managed to get it’s hands on a roadmap for Verizon [VZ] that shows new device launches for this year and in to next year. As well as going in to 2011, the roadmap also makes mention of a few 2012 plans for the company.
New items include Android 3.0 tablets, LTE MiFi units as well as video conferencing to name a few things.
Before heading over to BGR, a few of the more interesting items I could find include a new Motorola Droid called the Motorola DROID Pro. This device will run a faster 1.3GHz CPU and have a 4 inch screen along with global roaming capabilities. [Read more…]
The white iPhone 4 has been delayed a number of times since June 24. Last we heard was that it would be released “this year” with no specific time scale of when this year it would arrive.
It seems like one though has been smuggled out of the factory looking at some pictures found over at MIC Gadget. Before we get too carried away here though, it’s important to remember that some companies offer white iPhone 4 conversion kits although there have still been a few official white iPhone 4’s spotted here and there. [Read more…]
AT&T [T] has announced that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will be landing on AT&T as of August 15.
When launched, the Xperia X10 will cost $149.99 which includes a two-year service agreement on the minimum smartphone dataplan.
Technical spec wise, it has a 4 inch screen along with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. GPS is built in along with an 8.1 megapixel camera with smile and face detection. An LED flash can be found on the back also. [Read more…]
When the iPad launched a camera connection kit was also launched along side it. The kit contained two connectors. The first connected direct to your camera and the second allowed you to attach an SD card to the iPad so that image files can be read direct from a memory card.
The is new version is a two-in-one version that puts both together in to one unit for the same price. Right now, it’s only available over in China and isn’t officially made by Apple. It costs $29 just like the official kit that comes in two parts. [Read more…]
The guys at Yankodesign have posted a concept gadget called the E-Ink ruler. The e-ink ruler is a Tape Measure that uses e-ink on the tape rather than fixed drawn on measurements. By using e-ink the measuring system can be easily switched between metric or imperial to show a number more familiar with you.
The e-ink tape would be designed flexible to allow it to roll up like a regular tape measure and thanks to e-ink technology, the battery could last a month or more. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] took the Apple store down briefly earlier today so that the Apple Mac Pro with 12 cores could be added.
The cheapest Mac Pro you can pick up has a starting price of $2,499 (quad-core model) with the 12-core version going up to a starting price of $4,999. For that price you get two 6-core 2.66GHz Intel Xeon Westmere processors along with 6GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive on the basic spec.
If you want to max out the whole order then expect a bill of $25,673.85 for all the available options should you have a bit of spare change in your pocket. [Read more…]
We wrote about getting iPhone flash working earlier this morning. When we first came across Frash (the iPhone version of Flash), we came across a set of instructions with 8 steps to complete the installation process. The steps required you download the software, log in to you iPhone via SSH, enter a username and password along with port numbers as well as a bunch of other things.
Thankfully a more simple install process has already arrived thanks to a Cydia Repo. Rather than going through the whole process of SSH’ing in to your iPhone from a Mac, you can now simply do it in 3 or so steps. We say “or so” as jailbreaking is a requirement as well as tapping on the Cydia icon to load it up with the latter not really being a step as such.
Either way, jailbreak if you haven’t, open Cydia and add the following…
Add this source http://repo.benm.at Frash on iPhone 3
Go to search and type in Frash. Install it. Frash on iPhone
Check out the video below to see what the future of DJing could all be about.
The display is called the Token and it accepts multitouch inputs on a surface designed for DJ’s to use. The system works with a sheet of glass and a rear mounted projector. When the glass it touched, the input is detected and fed back to the computer to make the necessary changes to the video stream and to the audio stream that plays the music. [Read more…]
The Nokia N8 was announced all the way back in April with the first hints of the new smartphone being found as early as March as well as even more details reaching back in to February.
All along we have been told to expect the end of August as the release date and in this instance, it seems Nokia [NOK] were exact in what they said as we hear now that the launch date in the UK will be August 26.
The information comes from a mobile phone retailer in the UK who called MobileFun who has the N8 listed on it’s site with an August 26 release date and a price tag of £419.95 inc VAT off contract we assume. [Read more…]
