Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Acer are launching a number of Olympic edition notebook computers shortly that are built from othe Acer Aspire 1810T, 4810T, 1410 and G245H LCD devices. However, there isn’t too much to get excited about spec wise as the notebooks have exactly the same hardware specs.
The only difference with the Olympic edition notebooks is the 5 ring Olympic logo that will be put on the lid as well as the palm rest area of the devices. [Read more…]
Panasonic have designed and built a new battery designed for laptops that has an increased capacity and is less explosive. The new battery uses a form factor numbered 18650 that see’s the battery measuring 65mm in length with an 18mm diameter making them just the right size to be built as laptop batteries.
The batteries are lithium-ion and have a larger capacity allowing 3.1Ah of capacity to be stored vs the standard batteries which generally reach 2.9Ah. [Read more…]
If you have a jailbroken iPhone then you can now connect up a bluetooth keyboard to it so you can more easily type while on the move.
To get a bluetooth keyboard working you’ll need an iPhone 3G(S) and the bluetooth driver as well as a keyboard of course. All you need to do is install the driver on your iPhone and then pair the keyboard to the phone.
The driver is based on the open source BTstack project and is available in Cydia. There is one problem at the moment though in that the BT keyboard will only work with in the application although the developers of the app have said that compatibility with other apps (running the program in the background) will be available soon. [Read more…]
Earlier today we reported on the latest Intel Atom series that saw the launch of a few new processors as well as express chipsets. Dell have announced that the Dell Mini 10 will be getting an upgrade to the new Intel Atom series by launching a new Mini 10 netbook running an Intel Atom N450 processor.
The new Dell Mini 10 will be launched on January 5th and will have a starting price of $299. The Jan 5 launch is initially just the US with a worldwide launch following 2 days later on January 7.
The Dell Mini 10 will ship running Windows 7 starter edition with the option of choosing Windows XP instead if you prefer. Other options will follow a month later seeing Linux being made available. [Read more…]
If you are looking for a more stylish nettop for your home office then perhaps these new nettops from Artopz will be good for you. Artopz are a company based in San Diego and have created some NVIDIA ION based nettops that function both as a computer and a desk lamp. The desk lamp side of things is made possible by using fibre optic light panels.
Three designs of this nettop are being made available called Romanz, Lavaz and Deluxz and they have a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 330 dual-core CPU inside along with a nice amount of memory at 4GB along with a fast 128GB SSD.
Each nettop runs Windows 7 Home Premium in the 64-bit variety. [Read more…]
Amazon currently have a good deal on the Acer Aspire One 10.1 inch netbook and are selling it for $279.99 including 2 day free shipping which should see it arrive before Christmas.
The Acer Aspire One model number AOD250, comes pre-installed with Windows 7 Starter edition, has a 10.1 inch screen and the battery provides up to 8 hours of usage on a single charge. The Acer Aspire One netbook often comes in the top 10 and even top 5 of Amazons best netbooks and is one of the popular netbooks available today. [Read more…]
A Maine legislator is trying to make it a requirement that mobile phones used in that area carry warnings that using a phone can lead to brain cancer.
It’s still unclear if mobile phone usage can cause brain cancer though and as of yet there is no general consensus on there being cause for worry or not.
Although it’s a bit of a strange requirement, I guess there is no harm in putting a warning message on the back of a phone to warn people that there might be dangers. [Read more…]
With a number of items being charged by USB these days this USB Wall Charger is a very handy device that lets you attach up to two devices to be charged at the same time.
The USB Wall Charger is very useful as it allows you to leave the charging bricks (transformers) at home for your MP3 player, smart phone, portable video player and all other gadgets and just carry around a single unit. [Read more…]
Intel have announced a new range of Intel Atom processors for the next generation of netbooks. The new Atom processors will come with integrated graphics and memory controllers allowing for power reduction along with performance improvements.
The new processors are being made available in netbooks from ASUS, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Samsung and MSI that will be shown off at CES in a couple of weeks time. The new processors have a 20% reduction in power usage and are also smaller too allowing for longer life on battery as well as smaller netbooks to be created.
‘We’re excited to be delivering the next-generation Atom platform and working across the industry as we head into a second phase of growth, powering innovative new system designs with better performance, smaller footprints and better battery life.
A couple of weeks back several HTC phones being launched in 2010 were leaked when a firmware was found, opened up and a number of codenames found. One of those phones was the HTC Espresso. Not much is known about this particular phone just yet, but an Italian site claims to have managed to pull some images from the Espresso that reveals it uses a new Sense UI.
A few changes on the Sense UI show a bar across the bottom of the screen that gives direct access to people. Icons on the main pages have also been spruced up a tad by adding a transparent effect around them. [Read more…]
Vodafone have announced details of the Apple iPhone that will be coming to their network in the UK shortly. The iPhone will be made available on January 14th 2010.
Three iPhones are being made available on the network which includes the iPhone 3G as well as two iPhone 3G S models (16GB and 32GB).
The iPhone 3G is available in black and will be available free on all plans £35/month and up (24 months) although if you pay £30/month you can get the phone for £59. Full details of pricing available here. [Read more…]
Palm have launched a new in-browser SDK called Ares pitch that allows you to create apps for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi with out a lot of coding knowledge.
The service uses drag and drop features where you can place buttons, boxes and other types of functions on to the screen. When all objects are placed in the correct location you then need to know a bit of coding to get them to work correctly together. [Read more…]
