Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The 8 inch KYROS MID8020 internet tablet was on show this year at CES. The tablet has a 800MHz CPU, a 4:3 aspect screen that is multitouch (800 x 600) and it has 1080p playback via HDMI.
For connectivity, it has WiFi built in. It runs the Android 2.1 operating system although the Android Market doesn’t look to be available. Instead, it will run the AppsLib marketplace which allows you to download the apps you need. [Read more…]
Kevin Rose from Digg has suggested that the iPad 2 could be announced within the next 3 to 4 weeks, possibly on February 1st. As well as providing the announcement date for the next generation Apple Tablet, he also suggests that it won’t have a Retina display. The lack of Retina display falls in line with what we have seen before around the web.
Although the iPad 2 is expected to be announced in the next few weeks, we still believe it will be launching towards the end of March or early in April to follow on a year from when the original iPad was announced. Kevin’s words add to various other iPad 2 rumors. [Read more…]
Motorola has introduced details of its first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet at CES 2011. The new tablet will be called the Motorola XOOM and will have a 10.1 inch screen.
The device detailed was first spotted a month or so back when Andy Rubin gave a very brief demonstration on stage although not much was seen at the time as to what OS it was running. As for technical specs, the 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and can playback 16:9 content. [Read more…]
More details of the PlayStation Phone have arrived, thanks to a few leaks here and there.
The leaked details come from a website called IT168 based in China who confirm that inside is a Snapdragon processor running at 1GHz. Also, it runs a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU. The smartphone/portable games device has been benchmarked at just below 60 frames per second.
The memory on the PlayStation Phone is 512MB RAM and 512MB ROM and it has a microSD card slot for storage purposes. [Read more…]
Dell has officially announced that the Dell Venue will be made available to those in the US. The company announced it over at CES 2011 in a press conference that was held. In that meeting, Dell also confirmed that right now they have no carrier partners which means the smartphone will be made available on the Dell.com website.
With no carrier partners, it also means that the device will be sold unlocked. A T-Mobile version might happen from what they’ve said, but the unlocked version wont work on the T-Mobile 3G bands. [Read more…]
Sony Ericsson has announced a new smartphone called the Xperia Arc. The smartphone will run the Google Android operating system when launched, and surprisingly it will be Android 2.3 rather than the older versions that SE commonly chooses.
Features include a 4.2 inch touchscreen (multitouch) along with an 8.1 megapixel camera. The sensor in the camera is an Exmor R sensor that is capable of capturing video at a resolution of up to 720p. [Read more…]
More pictures of the HTC Thunderbolt 4G have been captured and put online just before the expected official announcement at CES 2011.
What has been learned from the hands-on with the HTC Thunderbolt 4G is firstly, that the battery seems very bad although that could potentially be fixed with a few software tweaks. We also learn that it has an ARM v7 processor with a Single Core running at 1GHz.
Other details show it has 8GB of internal memory along with the ability to add another 32GB to the device via a microSD card. The device has a 4.3 inch screen. [Read more…]
ASUS has introduced several new tablets at CES 2011. The company seems to be following along with how the Eee PC’s were shipped out, ie… loads of different varieties.
What ASUS is doing here is creating all these different variants so that it can test and see what sticks. [Read more…]
Earlier today we mentioned that a Vizio tablet and phone were spotted. Just a few hours ago, the details were not available, but now Vizio has formally announced the devices.
The Vizio Tablet has an 8 inch screen (as previously known) and uses capacitive touch. 3 speakers are built in to the tablet. The tablet also has a front facing video camera.
The phone has a 4 inch display that is also capacitive touch. On the back is a 5 megapixel camera as well as a front facing camera. [Read more…]
Skype for the iPhone has received an update bringing it up to version 3.0. This is the very same version we reported on a couple of days ago that had leaked on one of the Skype websites.
What Skype 3.0 brings to the iPhone is video calling, but video calling isn’t restricted to just WiFi, good news here is that Skype allow video calls over WiFi and 3G.
Two-Way video calls can be established between various devices including the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th gen although on the 3GS the rear camera will need to be used which doesn’t help things. [Read more…]
The message above shows what we could be seeing early next year… that is video calls on Skype on a Verizon iPhone if the image is to be believed.
As well as posting the image above on the Skype website, some documents were also posted that provided details on how to use video calls on the iPhone 4 using Skype. [Read more…]
One of the hot gadgets of 2010 has been the Apple iPad. Ever since it was first revealed back in January of 2010, rumors of the iPad 2 started. Most notably, it was pointed out that no cameras were to be included on the original which then made a good point to start with the iPad 2 rumors.
This post is intends to track all the rumors including what size screen it will have, what type of screen as well as many hardware changes. Also, iPad 2 release dates, or rumored release dates we should say, will be mentioned.
A lot of the rumors start with comparisons against the iPhone 4. This includes the Retina Display, front (and back) facing cameras as well as the flat back. [Read more…]
