Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Barnes & Noble will be making an announcement this coming Tuesday. What they are announcing isn’t known just yet, but rumors are now pointing towards a full colour Nook eBook reader that runs the Google Android operating system.
The new Color Nook will also have a touchscreen allowing users to interact more easily with the device. It isn’t clear if these are just hopes, or if B&N will actually announce this. [Read more…]
HP has finally announced the HP Slate 500 tablet. The announcement comes months, actually almost a year, after the HP Slate was first unveiled in January of this year.
The HP Slate 500 runs an Intel Atom processor and uses Windows 7 as the operating system. The tablet its self is actually aimed at business and enterprise users although there is no restriction on who can buy one. It has a price tag of $799.
For technical specs it has a 1.86GHz Intel Atom processor. 2GB of RAM can be found inside along with a 64GB SSD for storage. A Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator is also included allowing it to take care of 1080p HD video content. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] announced yesterday that the Mac App Store was scheduled for 90 days time to be launched for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and above. Following shortly after that announcement, Firemint has now said that it will be launching Flight Control HD for the Mac App Store. The screenshot seen above is not just a mockup, but an actual screenshot (encased in a photo) of the application running. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has announced a couple of new MacBook Air models. The first is the regular sized 13.3 inch screen model.
This particular model measures 0.68 inches at the thickest point and 0.11 inches at the thinnest point. It weighs 2.9 pounds. Inside it has the option of either a 1.86GHz or 2.13GHz processor.
2GB of RAM is included inside that can be upgraded up to 4GB if needed. For storage there are two options of either a 128GB flash or 256GB flash. No HDD options are available on these models. [Read more…]
Today at the Apple Back to the Mac event, Apple [AAPL] announced iLife 11. This new version costs $49 for those buying it now, or comes free for those who buy a Mac from today onwards.
New features of iLife 11 include a new version of iPhoto (version 11) that brings the app to full screen mode on the Mac. New features show that the software can email photos, themes, and more easily integrate with Facebook and Flickr. Books can more easily be created with this new version as well as letterpress photo cards. 12 new themes are also included allowing you to make better slideshows for your pictures in full screen. [Read more…]
With the Apple [AAPL] Back to the Mac event just an hour away, we thought we’d quickly post some rumored specs that have been suggested for the new MacBook Air that is expected to be announced.
The picture above shows what it believed to be a new 11.6 inch version to be announced later today. Rumored specs show that it will (or might) have an 11.6 inch display, 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with an optional 2.33GHz option. It will have 2GB of memory in the basic config. No optical drive will be included. It will have a trackpad that matches that of the MacBook Pro. It will be about the same thickness as the current MacBook Air. It also is expected to have a power key next to the eject button on the keyboard. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] will be holding the Back to the Mac event in a couple of hours time. They have now announced that the event will be live streamed. THe stream will be available on the Apple website.
The stream, as it has done the past few times, will go live a few moments before the event starts. Also, as usual, the Apple Live Stream will require that you have an Apple device to play it back such as a Max OS X computer or an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Those with Windows based computers, you’re out of luck. [Read more…]
In an interview with CNN, Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer noted the companies lack lustre for 3D gaming for the time being in saying…
“As an entertainment company, we’re trying to do things that millions of people can go enjoy today… And for better or for worse, people just don’t really have TVs in their house right now that are going to do 3-D in a way that’s going to work.”
Apple [AAPL] is holding an event today called Back to the Mac. Rumors about a new OS X version have been passing around due to the logo used on the image above. Perhaps OS X 10.7 will be launched.
We are also hearing today that there’s a chance a new MacBook Air could be announce which is believed to include a new unibody casing and run a fast booting version of OS X. [Read more…]
Archos looks set to be launching another new Android based tablet. This time the tablet will be called the Archos 70 and will run the Android 2.2 operating system. The tablet has a 7 inch screen that has a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels.
The processor inside runs at 1GHz and is a Cortex A8 processor that also utilises a graphics accelerator. [Read more…]
HP announced the latest version of webOS yesterday. The new version is webOS 2.0 and it will come installed on the new Palm Pre 2 that was also announced.
The new webOS is now called HP webOS and will be landing first of all in France on the SFR network this coming Friday and will be followed by a launch on other networks over the coming months in other countries.
Engadget managed to get hold of webOS 2.0 to review it and see what its also about. [Read more…]
TomTom has added new features to the latest version of TomTom for iPhone. The new version is 1.5 and it brings a few new features which includes optimisation for the iPhone 4, ie, higher res graphics to make use of the Retina Display.
Thanks to the better optimised graphics, the roads and maps are also sharper.
A new feature called Navigate-To-Photo is also included. If you scan through your photos on the iPhone and see one that you want to navigate to (perhaps a park you went to recently), you can tap the photo and navigate to the geo-tagged location on the photo. This of course, assumes that the photo you are looking at has been geo-tagged. [Read more…]
