Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Vodafone in the UK has announced pricing of a couple of new Windows Phone 7 smartphones.
The first of the two is the HTC Trophy 7 that will be free on a £25/month contract. For £25/month you also get 300 minutes, 500MB of data and unlimited text messages. The contract is for two years. [Read more…]
TDK has created a couple of new passive matrix OLED screens, one of which is flexible.
This particular model pictured below is just 0.3 mm thick and can be rolled up to have a radius of just 25mm. The resolution of this flexible screen is 256 x 64 pixels although contrast ratio and brightness are not known just yet. [Read more…]
After a month or more of waiting, Samsung has now revealed the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in the UK. SIM free the Galaxy Tab will cost £599.99 which makes it around £70 more than the equivalent iPad 3G+WiFi model.
Although its difficult to put the two together in terms of features, a lot of people still use the iPad as a benchmark for pricing. In this case the Tab is higher although you do get cameras and the ability to use it as a phone should you wish. [Read more…]
Windows Phone 7 hardware is classified in “chassis”. The main Chassis that all current test devices have been are Chassis 1 devices which basically means a large screen covering the face of the device with just three physical buttons below the screen. An optional slide out QWERTY keyboard also falls in to the Chassis 1 category with the LG C900 and LG GW910 being the only Windows Phone 7 devices that currently use that option.
Chassis 2 details have now been revealed. The screen resolution on these devices will be 480 x 320 which leaves room for a physical QWERTY keyboard on the front of the device, ie like a BlackBerry or E series Nokia.
WP7 devices will have one of two screen resolutions – either 800 x 480 for large touchscreen devices with the potential for slide-out Qwerty keyboards, or 480 x 320 for ‘BlackBerry’ style handsets that can incorporate a Qwerty on the front of the device. Microsoft expects the majority of WP7 devices to have the larger screen resolution at launch, with smaller resolution handsets coming later, said Foster.
As reported by Cnet, Sony has sent out an invitation for an NYC media event to introduce to the world, the first Internet Television on October 12th.
“[Milo] is a technology demo that continues to exist, but right now it’s not a game that we’re planning to bring to market.”
That’s what Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg told Australian TV show Good Game in July concerning and don’t forget that ‘Milo’ was one of the highlights during Microsoft’s press release at E3.
But then Peter Moleneux said to Eurogamer last month concerning the creation of Project Milo, a simulated relationship between a young boy named Milo and the player…
“I wouldn’t be working on it if I didn’t hope that to be true, yes.”
Drawings and pictures as well as a bit of rumour has been revealed about the HTC HD7. The only thing we don’t know at the moment is what it will be actually called. The image above shows it as the HD3, but most documents seen recently online show it as the HD7 which seems like its in answer to the Windows Phone 7 OS that it will run.
What we have now is the technical specs that reveal the handset is slightly larger than the HTC HD2. Size wise it measures 122 x 68 x 11.2 mm. For connectivity it works on the T-Mobile USA 3G frequency of 1700 MHz (might be just this model only) with other markets supporting other networks.
The HD7 is expected to be a flashship smartphone in terms of technical specs. [Read more…]
Recently, some pictures of the Motorola DROID 2 World edition were posted online. DroidLife who published those pictures now home some benchmarks and other details about the device.
The processor running inside is an ARMV7 and is clocked at 1.2GHz for this test. Its score was 1709 on the test which isn’t bad at all. Results below…
System
SDK version: 2.2CPU
ARMv7 rev 2
Current freq: 300mhz
Max freq: 1200 mhz
Min freq: 300 mhz
Cores: 1Memory
Total: 488700 kBDisplay
480×854
68Hz
The HTC HD7 is a Windows Phone 7 based smartphone. Previously, it was thought to be the HD3 but perhaps due to the 7 in Windows Phone 7, HTC looks to have adopted the new HD7 name.
The images above (larger below), are drawings of what is believed to be the HD7. As can be seen in the drawings, a large camera lens can be found on the back and on the front, a large screen and the regular three button configuration that is a requirement in Windows Phone 7 devices. [Read more…]
More information about the HTC HD7 has been revealed. The HD7 is believed to be previously named the HD3 and will launch with Windows Phone 7 sometime in the middle of October.
The document says that the HTC HD7 release date will fall in the 42nd week of the year which ends up being on or around October 18.
The information is from O2 in Germany. Prices are also revealed which indicates it will cost 79 Euros on a 24 month 20 Euro contract, or if you want commitment free it’s 559. [Read more…]
There’s a shortage of AMOLED displays in the world which is forcing HTC to switch to a different screen technology on some of its smartphones. The HTC Desire and Google Nexus One have already transitioned to Super LCD displays. Next up is rumoured to be the HTC DROID Incredible according to a document posted on Android Central.
A new SKU is mentioned in the document which is ADR6300VW3, and the documents goes on to say that the Incredible with SLCD will start shipping by the end of this month. [Read more…]
Today, HTC has announced a few new smartphones. The first up is the HTC Desire HD that we have seen a number of times before in various leaks.
Features of the HTC Desire HD include a large 4.3 inch LCD screen. The processor powering the Desire HD is a Qualcomm Snapdragon running at 1GHz. The OS running on the Desire HD will of course be Android 2.2 Froyo and the device will also run HTC Sense which might or might not be a good thing depending on if you like Android 2.2 in plain Vanilla. It is however, the first phone that will hook up the the HTCSense.com system.
The camera on the back is 8 megapixels and has a dual LED flash. The camera is capable of capturing video at 720p HD. [Read more…]
