Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The new 27 inch iMac was announced a few days ago by Apple [AAPL]. OWC decided to quickly tear it down to see if adding an SSD drive was an easy option in the second drive bay.
Unfortunately it isn’t in most cases. If you ordered a single drive machine then Apple has left out the cable and mounting areas on the single drive iMac 27 inch model. To add another drive is possible, but you need to do a few things before just slotting the drive in. [Read more…]
We just mentioned that the iPhone 4 on T-Mobile is now available in the UK. Also the iPhone 4 on Three is also available as of today. Out of the two carriers who launched the phone today, Three has some amazing deals. If you opt for a 16GB iPhone 4, you can pick one up for £99 costing £30/month. For that you get 500 minutes cross network, 5000 texts, 5000 three to three minutes and 1GB of internet which beats T-Mobile any way you look at it. If you opt for the £45/month plan you can pick up the iPhone 4 for free.
For the 32GB iPhone 4 on Three, the £30/month plan has the phone listed at £189 and on the £45/month contract you can pick up the phone for just £89. [Read more…]
iFixit has down a teardown of the Magic Trackpad which launched just a few days ago.
The device is a multi-touch pad designed for the Mac and allows users to use another method to interact with their Windows or Mac based computers.
iFixit point out that this is one of the few Apple [AAPL] products where users can easily get to the batteries. The screw to get to the battery compartment has a square thread which make it more mechanical efficient. [Read more…]
HP is updating the HP EliteBook 8740W notebook computer. A new GPU is being offered in the form of the NVIDIA Quadro FX5000M card.
The NVIDIA Quadro FX5000M is a powerful GPU that has 320 cores and 2GB of memory all assigned to the GPU. The notebook is also powerful in other areas in that it has the option of up to 16GB of RAM and an Intel Core i7 CPU. Other features of the notebook include a 17 inch screen making it far from small, but still a very powerful and portable device.
As well as being powerful, HP has made it rugged by creating an aluminium chassis. [Read more…]
It’s not often, if at all, that we have a need to carry a portable dictionary around with us considering we live in an age where computers with spell checkers and phones that also spell check are fully available. However, there must be some requirement for a dedicated dictionary because Sharp has created the PW-AC10 electronic dictionary.
UberGizmo point out that it looks like a Blackberry although it lacks many features of a blackberry due to it being just a dictionary.
The device is claimed to be the most compact dictionary. It has a colour screen and measures 118.6 x 68.6 x 18.8 mm in size. The screen on the front measures 2.4 inches and is capable of showing 320 x 240 pixels in QVGA. [Read more…]
A new Android smartphone from Modu has been spotted in the wild. Phandroid have dubbed it ModuPhone for now and managed to get some pictures of it uploaded to their site.
The phone has a block-ish style design and has a pure plastic bezel around the edges. The device it’s self lacks 3G for some reason which leaves you getting data at speed via WiFi only. This however, could be because of it being a prototype at the moment, so we’ll keep an eye on that missing point.
The device has an FM radio, stylus, resistive touchscreen (not confirmed but likely because of the addition of a stylus), a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microSD card slot. [Read more…]
Yesterday we found some leaked pictures of a new Panasonic 3D camcorder named the HDC-SDT750. Panasonic has now officially released the details of the 3D camcorder.
Panasonic has announced the HDC-SDT750 as the worlds first consumer 3D camcorder. it comes with a 3D conversion lens that lets users capture video in 3D for playback on a 3D TV.
The 3D camcorder can capture video in full 1080p HD video in the AVCHD format when capturing in 2D with a standard lens.
“As a result of research conducted through Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, Panasonic developed a professional 3D system camera and successfully brought high-quality Full HD 3D images to the home for viewing on Panasonic VIERA Full HD 3D televisions. But now, Panasonic has taken it one step further and developed the world’s first consumer 3D camcorder, the HDC-SDT750 creating a 3D ecosystem available for consumers in the home,” said Chris Rice, Senior Product Manager, Imaging, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. “Incorporating Panasonic’s professional broadcast technology and bringing it to an easy-to-use consumer model, the SDT750 makes high-quality 3D video content a reality in the home.”
AT&T [T] is fully backing the Windows Phone 7 platform built by Microsoft [MSFT] we hear today.
“We’ll be the premier carrier for Windows Phone 7,” a spokeswoman said via e-mail on Monday. “We haven’t given guidance on timing.”
Just last week Michael Gartenberg mentioned on Twitter that AT&T has pre-ordered 8 million WP7 smartphones ready for launch.
At the moment, Verizon [VZ] and Nextel [S] have not commented on their plans for rolling out Windows Phone 7. T-Mobile also has not commented. [Read more…]
Microsoft [MSFT] is working on a new street view style service that allows you to view a wider perspective of a particular street.
The Street View service that Google [GOOG] uses is currently restricted to what Microsoft calls bubbles. When viewing a street you sit in a particular bubble that you can look around. By clicking an arrow you jump to the next bubble and carry on that way. You cannot view details of location on the street without jumping to a bubble, or close to another bubble. This is where Microsoft differs in there new technology.
Street Slide differs in that you can zoom out of the bubble and see a perspective view of a lot more of the street. In effect you are seeing all the bubbles on a street stitched together in perspective. The service allows you to slide down the street, flip around to see the other side of the street and see a lot of related information about the street such as company logos and building numbers. [Read more…]
Back at CES at the beginning of this year, Panasonic introduced a 3D camcorder. The 3D camcorder has now been spotted in a few leaked images which indicate the new 3D camcorder could be called the HDC-SDT750.
The page has now been removed from the internet, but a few details were captured in regards to the technical specs which we have after the break, courtesy of here. [Read more…]
AAXA has created a new Pico Projector called the M1 limited. The M1 limited is said to have the highest brightness of any pico projector currently built by AAXA technologies. The device has a 1000:1 contrast ratio with a resolution in the SVGA range of 800 x 600 pixels.
The brightness is rated at 75 ANSI lumens. White LED lamps are the light source and have a life span of about 15,000 hours before they die.
Screen size wise, the LED’s and lens are capable of projecting an image of up to 100 inches in size although at a 75 lumens rating, it will need to be relatively dark in the room to comfortably see a picture that size. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has announced the new Apple Mac Pro today along with several other new Apple products. The new Mac Pro is a powerful computer that can contain from 4, 6, 8 or 12 cores. The processors used to achieve this are the Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehamel” or the new “Westmere” series. The Mac Pro accepts up to two processors which means if you choose a 6-core Westmere you can have up to 12-cores running inside with a speed up to 2.93GHz. Other options with less cores take speeds up to 3.33GHz on the top end.
Many multicore processors are composed of two separate dies, which means some cached data has to travel outside the processor to get from core to core. That’s an inefficient way to access information. Enter the Quad-Core and 6-Core Intel Xeon processors. Their single-die, 64-bit architecture makes 8MB or 12MB of fully shared L3 cache readily available to each of the processor cores. The result is fast access to cache data and greater application performance. Combine that with the other technological advances and you get a Mac Pro that’s up to 1.5x faster than the previous generation.
