Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Rumours started recently about RIM building a tablet after they ordered a number of 8.9 inch display screens from Hon Hai.
More information about this possibility has now arrived after a leak from someone who has contacts within the company. From what we hear, it will be both thinner and smaller than an Apple iPad and for now is being nick named the BlackPad.
Another name also mentioned was Cobalt although right now, neither of these is official. [Read more…]
Yesterday we wrote about Chopper 2 that used a bluetooth connection between the iPad and the iPhone allowing the iPhone to be used as a controller. That particular game wont be launched for a couple of months.
But, there is another game already released called PadRacer that also uses the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch as a wireless controller for the game. Up to four players can connect their iPhones to the iPad and race around various tracks.
The video below shows the game in action where response looks good and the game looks fun to play. [Read more…]
Palm has been up for sale for a few weeks now with speculation about HTC and other various mobile phone companies buying it.
We hear now that HP are to buy Palm. HP confirmed that they are paying $1.2 billion for the company which works out at $5.70/share and 23% higher than Palm’s stock price yesterday.
Purchasing Palm would get HP more in to the mobile arena and allow the company to develop and carry on building the webOS platform. [Read more…]
Thanks to the Gizmodo Apple iPhone 4G leak a couple of weeks back, we now know it is highly likely that the iPhone 4G will get a forward facing camera.
The reason mobile phones have forward facing cameras is usually for making video calls. In the latest iPhone SDK (beta 2), there are now references that go more in to detail on how the camera will work. This includes details of the type of connection to make it run.
The first message discusses video conferencing and indicates that the phone needs to register with a service somewhere to use conferencing features.
“ACCOUNT_NOT_REGISTERED_MESSAGE = “This device has not been registered for video conferencing.”;” [Read more…]
The JooJoo launched about a month ago in the US with a price tag of $499 plus shipping. We now hear that the JooJoo is now shipping to Europe with a price tag of ‚¬359 plus ‚¬15 for shipping.
The JooJoo has a 12 inch screen and is designed to browse the web. Technical specs of the JooJoo show that the 12.1 inch screen can display 1366 x 786 pixels. It is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor along with NVIDIA ION graphics. It runs a custom Linux OS. [Read more…]
In a recent interview, Google [GOOG] VP of Engineering Andy Rubin mentioned that the next version of Google Android, codenamed Froyo, would get Flash support… “…He also promised that full support for Adobe’s Flash standard was coming in the next version of Android, code-named Froyo”
It is expected that Android Froyo (2.2) will be launched sometime in May due to statistics packages already starting to pick up traffic from the platform under the 2.2 version.
Also in the interview Rubin spoke about Android eventually outselling the Apple iPhone due to the iPhone being stuck to 1 manufacturer (ie, Apple [AAPL]) where as Google take the open approach and have a number of different mobile phones running the OS. [Read more…]
Last week we wrote about Google Android running on an Apple iPhone. The video demonstration showed a dual boot setup where Android could be selected as an OS to run on the iPhone.
A lot of the features worked on the build including the ability to make calls and browse the internet. Some how-to instructions have now been made that show exactly how you can get Android running on your iPhone.
The instructions come thanks to Androidalot who have broken down every single step click by click so that even beginners should be ok with this. Remember this is for the iPhone 2G only at the moment though! [Read more…]
Digitimes are reporting today that the ASUS EeePad is to be announced at Computex 2010 that will be running between June 1 and 5. What we are also hearing is that the EeePad could launch as early as July this year.
The ASUS EeePad has been described as a challenge to the Apple iPad by bringing features such as a webcam, USB ports as well as Adobe flash.
As for the impact of tablet PC, Shih expects the device reduce overall netbook demand by 10-2%. The company is also monitoring the tablet PC and e-book reader markets closely to prevent related products stepping into each other’s demand and will maintain flexibility to launch products that suit the fast-changing market demand.
We are hearing today that Google Maps Navigation, the free satnav service, could be coming to the Apple iPhone. This hasn’t been confirmed or set in stone yet, but the indications come from comments made by Google [GOOG] saying they are looking at bringing the free navigation software to other platforms.
Apple [AAPL] already uses Google Maps on the iPhone for mapping services, so the possibility of that being converted to a free navigation application is too far out of question.
With Google also bringing Google Maps Navigation to the UK just this week, this also indicates that Google do have plans to expand the service beyond the US and beyond the Android platform. [Read more…]
We mention iFixit quite often here on gadgetvenue. The company are responsible for taking apart brand new products as they launch and have a focus primarily on Apple [AAPL] products. As soon as something big is launched, the company strip it down and provide the step by step instructions on how to do it.
They are planning on expanding now by creating a global repair community where the project will see them create a repair manual for everything.
* We’re opening up our guides to the world. Think Wikipedia, but for repair.
* Our platform is built from the ground up to make writing and using repair documentation easy.
* Both text and images are easily editable, and come with revision history.
* Reputation and badges reward participation, quality, and experience.
* You can get involved right now! [Read more…]
Details of the Google Chrome OS netbook have been revealed by the CEO of Google [GOOG] Eric Schmidt. The price we should expect to pay for netbooks running the Chrome OS will be in the 300 – 400 dollar price range with those prices being led by the proce of processors, glass and other components needed to make it run.
The price of the netbooks are all of what we just mentioned as there is no cost to using the Chrome OS other than the technology required to run it. Google make their revenues by other means rather than selling software licences. In the video below we also hear that Google want carriers to bundle the netbooks with contracts to get them out there at a lower start cost. [Read more…]
We haven’t seen too much of the HP Slate other than a quick unveiling at CES, some information regarding the technical specs and pricing and finally a promo video showing off what it can do.
Conecti.ca managed to get some hands-on time with the HP Slate to see what it’s all about and in their words, if it could be an iPad killer.
Their mini review indicates that the HP Slate should actually be compared to a netbook as it essentially runs Windows 7, takes time to boot up, requires you login with a username and password and acts just like a netbook without a keyboard. [Read more…]
