Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
At the Dive into Mobile event held last night, Andy Rubin was demoing a Motorola Tablet device running Google Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).
The tablet is called the MOTOPAD which is a prototype model that was used for the demonstration. As expected, Honeycomb is designed for the tablet. When booting up you get a new lock screen and once past that you get a new designed home screen “desktop” that contains widgets and buttons. [Read more…]
The Google Nexus S release date has been revealed as December 16 in the US and December 20 in the UK.
The Nexus S was made official today by Google. The device is made by Samsung and has a 4 inch WVGA screen. The processor running inside is a 1GHz Cortex A8 Himmingbird. It has 512MB of RAM and 16GB of storage built in. [Read more…]
You might have heard already today that Android 2.3 has been announced. We now hear that the Nexus One Android 2.3 update is now being pushed out. From what we understand, the update brings all features to the Nexus One other than what requires new hardware such as NFC and Gyroscope. [Read more…]
We could be seeing the Apple Mac App Store as early as December 13th. The details come from the AppleTell website who heard information from an inside source at Apple [AAPL].
The reason for this date is that the Mac App Store is believed to be running ahead of schedule.
An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month, but our contact would be shocked if that happened at this point.
The Google Chrome OS netbook release date could be as early as the 7th December. Google [GOOG] sent out invitations last night to a press event called a Chrome event. Just prior to that, Engadget had heard rumours that the Chrome OS netbook would be unveiled/launched on the 7th. AllThingsD also reported similar news although they mentioned the Chrome Web Store being launched. [Read more…]
Someone has managed to get hold of a Playstation Phone and give a very brief demo. The good side is that this is the clearest video we have seen of the Playstation Phone, but at the same time, no games are available to show being played on it.
The video shows the phone opened up with the control pad section opened up. The user then taps on a Playstation icon which loads up the PS library. Once in there it says on screen that there are no content items. [Read more…]
Rover Computers, a company based in Russia, has announced a new Android tablet called the RoverPad.
The RoverPad has a 10 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is resistive rather than capacitive. The tablet supports full HD at 1080p. It has a 1GHz ZT180 processor along with 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal storage. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is believed to be revealing a subscription system that can automatically bill users. The system would allow you to download a magazine for example and then choose to subscribe at a frequency of monthly, yearly etc… Currently the only way you can get magazines is by downloading a free app and then manually making a purchase in the “in-app” payments system which for various reasons, magazines and papers don’t like. [Read more…]
On November 23rd, Google in HK released a video of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread user interface. The video has since been pulled after it started hitting the blogs yesterday, but thankfully another was put up in its place.
The video first shows the Google App on the iPhone but then moves on to Android 2.3 and shows over a minute of video captured professionally. It is in Cantonese so you might have problems understanding it, but looking at how smooth things run on the device, it looks to be quite impressive. [Read more…]
Sony has developed a new system that allows LCD screens to respond quicker to changes. The new technology is called Hybrid FPA (field-induced photo-reactive alignment). What this allows the screen to do is achieve a response time of under 3ms. The technology also improves on stability through the manufacturing process.
The new system follows on from the original FPA technology, but in this case it is now able to align the crystals better with the Hybrid method. [Read more…]
Since 1998, Google has once in a while produced what is called a Google Doodle. The Google Doodles are re-drawn Google Logos that are used on specific days where something important happened in history such as man landing on the moon.
These have always been restricted to the desktop version of Google though, but now are being pushed out to mobile browsers such as m.google.com on the iPhone and Android devices. [Read more…]
PeeWee has launched the PeeWee Power 2.0 laptop that is specifically designed for children.
Each of the PeeWee models has been designed to be used by children at home and at school. The PeeWee 2.0 is a basic model that is essentially a netbook that has been made more rugged so it can take a bit of a beating from time to time. [Read more…]
