Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The World Cup 2010 is almost ready to start (1 day, 11 hours and 14 minutes at the time of writing this). Google [GOOG] has decided to add some nice looking 3D tours of the stadiums used at the event.
Google Earth is used to achieve the 3D tours and allows you to add the 3D World Cup layer to the globe so you can pan around and zoom in and out of the stadium.
The 3D tours can be found over here which opens up a .kmz file for you to import in to Google Earth. [Read more…]
One of the big features of the Apple iPhone 4 is the new display that Apple [AAPL] calls the “Retina Display”. Since the screen plays a huge part in how you interact with the iPhone 4, it makes sense that Apple has opted for the highest resolution screen made to date on a smartphone.
The iPhone 4 screen manages to quadruple the number of pixels when compared to the iPhone 3GS and successfully packs in 960 x 640. Having 640 pixels across the 3.5 inch diagonal screen allows for the ppi (pixels per inch) to reach 326. Apple say that the human eye can only distinguish around 300 ppi which is why they give it the name of the Retina Display.
What the retina display does is allows graphics and text to look smooth at any size with no visible pixelation. It’s quite difficult to demonstrate the difference without actually holding an iPhone 4 in your hand along side an iPhone 3GS or other smart phone, but the picture above (larger below and even larger if you click on it) I think gives you a good idea of what is in store on the new iPhone 4. [Read more…]
Nokia [NOK] will be launching the Nokia N8 in August. The Nokia Conversations YouTube channel has a few videos uploaded with one of them detailing the Nokia N8 photo editing along with the video editing functions of the device.
The video shows a few examples of how to browse through photos and although not the most exciting of things to watch, it does move on to the video editing functions of the phone where transitions can be made between clips that have been combined together. The application actually looks very good and seems that with the mix of a high resolution camera and some nice transition features it could be a good selling point for the Nokia N8. [Read more…]
We’ve seen a number of tablets get announced and often delayed. Most of them don’t look that good, but one that falls in to this “delayed” category is the Notion Ink Adam. The difference with the Adam is that it looks fantastic and is one we are waiting for.
However, recent rumours indicated that we might not actually see the Notion Ink Adam till almost the end of this year in November. Reasons cited for the delays this time around revolve around the investors who want the Notion Ink Adam to hit the market near Thanksgiving rather than earlier. The quote spotted on a few websites was actually quoted with a bit missing. SlashGear managed to get some details from the guys at Notion Ink to see what they had to say about it. [Read more…]
HTC [2498] seem to have done well with the HTC EVO 4G since it’s launch last Friday. BGR had a source tell them that “well over 200,000 units have been sold since launch”. That’s quite an impressive number and something Sprint [S] will be happy with on their 4G network.
The “well over 200,000” could be just an estimation and not based on actual numbers although the successful launch that was widely reported on over the weekend with some reports saying that the HTC EVO 4G outdid the Palm Pre launch a while back. [Read more…]
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…]
Yesterday Apple [AAPL] released the renamed iOS 4 GM (formerly iPhone OS 4.0) to developers. After only a day a developer has managed to create PwnageTool bundles for the iPhone 3GS iOS 4 GM download allowing users to jailbreak their iPhone 3GS whilst preserving the baseband so that the device can be unlocked.
If you are an advanced iPhone user then you might want to go ahead now and apply the iOS 4 GM jailbreak although we recommend just hanging on a bit longer as the iPhone Dev Team have promised a jailbreak and unlock this month for iOS 4. [Read more…]
Sony has announced the new Sony Vaio J all-in-one PC. The Sony Vaio J has an impressive 21.5 inch screen that is capable of showing a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Powering the Vaio J is an Intel Core i7 CPU. 8GB of RAM is also included.
Other features of the Vaio J all-in-one PC include a Blu-ray disc and a multi-touch enabled screen.
“The J Series changes the way consumers interact with their PC enabling them to tap, drag, zoom, rotate and engage with their content and entertainment like never before,” said Mike Lucas, senior vice president of the VAIO business at Sony. “And with its attractive price point, this cutting-edge technology will reach a whole new audience.”
Apple [AAPL] appears to have accidentally confirmed the existence of iWork for the iPhone 4, or perhaps iOS 4 which would also bring it to the iPhone 3G and 3GS.
The image seen above shows iWork running on the iPhone 4 particularly when it mentions to open in Keynote. The image was captured a few hours ago but has since been removed from the Apple [AAPL] site indicating that the company are not quite ready to launch the application, or worst case, that it was just a mock up image to see what it could look like. We are inclined to believe the former rather than the latter and expect to see details soon from Apple. [Read more…]
T-Mobile today became the forth carrier to announce it will be offering the Apple iPhone 4 in the UK in the next couple of weeks.
As with the other three carriers, no pricing has been made available yet although we expect that T-Mobile, Orange, O2 and Vodafone will all announce prices either on or before June 15 when pre-orders open up for the new device.
For those unaware, Apple [AAPL] announced the iPhone 4 yesterday morning at WWDC along with a launch date of June 24 across five countries. Only US pricing is currently available which indicates on AT&T that a 16GB iPhone 4 will cost $199 with a 2 year contract or $299 for the 32GB iPhone 4 model. [Read more…]
If you watched the D8 interview last week with Steve Jobs, you might have noticed a question about dropped calls and call availability. Steve said something along the lines of reception “should be getting a lot better soon” on the AT&T network. We first thought that this was all related to AT&T making changes to their network and upgrading it across the US, but after watching the WWDC keynote yesterday, we noticed a lot of information was given about the new antennas included on the iPhone 4. It appears that both Apple [AAPL] and AT&T are working on fixing the issues.
You might have noticed that there are 3 gaps in the stainless steel band that wraps around the edges of the iPhone. These are not a design flaw, but rather a feature of the phone that separates the stainless steel band in to three sections that makes the whole structure of the phone act as antenna. The left side section of band handles the GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity while the right side band and lower band (that also stretches over the top of the device) handles UMTS and GSM connectivity. Having the whole structure of the phone act as an antenna should hopefully give a stronger signal and hence, fewer dropped calls or fewer “searching” messages that often show up in the status bar. [Read more…]
A few weeks back, Sony announced a couple of new cameras called the Sony NEX-3 and the Sony NEX-5. Both cameras looked very impressive. Each uses the Micro Four Thirds format making both cameras very compact.
The Sony NEX-3 and NEX-5 concept was first displayed a few months ago. At that point we saw a very small bodied camera with a DSLR lens on the front. We didn’t expect them to arrive this quick though.
Each camera falls in to the Alpha range of digital SLR cameras although the lens mount differs in that a new E-mount is used on the NEX-3 and NEX-5. [Read more…]
