Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
More details of the HTC HD7 have leaked. This time the news comes from a tipster who posted some specs from O2 Germany on to a popular blog.
What we know is that the HD7 will be a Windows Phone 7 device. It will be a flagship smartphone. The processor running inside will be clocked at 1GHz. For storage it will have 8GB and the camera will be 5 megapixels.
For connectivity it will have wireless 802.11b/g/n. [Read more…]
The WeTab has finally started shipping. The Tablet device is an Atom based MeeGo slate and is available over in Germany with a price tag of 449 for the 16GB model and 669 for the 32GB model which also comes with GPS built in along with 3G/UMTS for connectivity.
The unboxing of course doesn’t go in to too much detail as its literally just an unboxing. It will be another day or two before we get to see what the WeTab is all about and if it will provide any competition to the Galaxy Tab and iPad.
The technical specs on the tablet show that it has an 11.6 inch screen that is capacitive touch. The Atom CPU is clocked at 1.6GHz. It has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. [Read more…]
Recently, some pictures of the Motorola DROID 2 World edition were posted online. DroidLife who published those pictures now home some benchmarks and other details about the device.
The processor running inside is an ARMV7 and is clocked at 1.2GHz for this test. Its score was 1709 on the test which isn’t bad at all. Results below…
System
SDK version: 2.2CPU
ARMv7 rev 2
Current freq: 300mhz
Max freq: 1200 mhz
Min freq: 300 mhz
Cores: 1Memory
Total: 488700 kBDisplay
480×854
68Hz
Orange has announced the Orange San Francisco Android based smartphone. The San Francisco is the first Orange branded Android smartphone and will also be the first of others to follow.
Price wise, it falls in to the budget category at £99 and can be purchased along with a pay as you go Dolphin tariff.
Specifications reveal that the San Francisco has a 3.5 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. The camera on the back can capture images at 3 megapixels. For connectivity it has WiFi, Bluetooth and USB as well as SatNav mentioned which we assume means GPS.
[Read more…]
HTC has added the T-Mobile G2 to it’s website. Along with the device being listed, we also get another look at all the technical specs of the phone which include the processor, RAM, ROM, Network compatibility, battery capacity and a bunch of other things.
A lot of these details have already been confirmed previously, but now the details have been added to the HTC site, it kind of sets them in stone as it were.
First off, the processor is an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM 7230. It is clocker slower than the 1GHz Snapdragon, but this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s slower. [Read more…]
IBM has introduced a new microprocessor that is capable of being clocked at a hefty 5.2GHz. IBM claim it is the fastest CPU currently available although there are a number of overclockers who have managed to beat 5.2Ghz quite easily. One big difference between the IBM chip and overclocking other chips is that the IBM one doesn’t require extreme cooling.
The chip uses zEnterprise technology that was created from an investment of $1.5 billion in R&D at IBM.
If you’re into details, the z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter (mm) surface. It’s manufactured using IBM’s 45 nanometer (nm) SOI processor technology, and it makes use of IBM’s patented embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology, which allows IBM to place dense DRAM caches, or components, on the same chips as high-speed microprocessors, resulting in improved performance.
It has been confirmed that the T-Mobile G2 will run Android 2.2 when it launches. Other details also reveal that the MSM7x30 CPU to be found inside will be clocked at 800MHz rather than 1GHz.
T-Mobile are still calling it the fastest smartphone experience in America although that could be in regards to it’s fast HSPA+ network connectivity.
It could still run very fast though. If HTC opt for cutting out a lot of junk from the OS, commonly known as bloatware, it could gain an advantage over other smartphones. [Read more…]
Motorola has announced that the DROID 2 will be heading to Europe as the Motorola MILESTONE 2, like the Motorola DEFY, it will also be “enhanced” with MOTOBLUR. Unfortunately.
The MILESTONE 2 will launch with Android 2.2 installed which also allows for Adobe Flash 10.1 to be run in the browser. The CPU on the MILESTONE 2 is 1GHz and the device features the same slide out keyboard as the DROID 2. Essentially, it’s the same phone but branded slightly different for whatever reason.
Features of the Motorola MILESTONE 2 include the 3G mobile hotspot capabilities that allows for up to five wireless devices to connect up and share the 3G connection. [Read more…]
Nintendo has announced that it will be dropping the price of both the Nintendo DSi and the DSi XL over in the US beginning September 12.
Prices will drop down to $149.99 for the DSi and $169.99 for the DSi XL. Price drops over in the UK and Japan have happened already as well as a price drop in Australia a number of months ago.
It seems like the prices are dropping in preparing for the Nintendo 3DS to arrive which could be towards the end of this year or early next year. [Read more…]
The Tablet Dune has been revealed. This tablet is a Windows 7 Slate that has been spotted over in Belgium.
Technical specs reveal that it has a 10.2 inch screen (no details of resolution are known yet), and that it runs on an Intel Atom N450 processor that is clocked at 1.67Ghz. Memory wise it has 2GB of DDR 2 and Intel Integrated Graphics are also included.
For storage it has a 160GB 2.5 inch hard drive. There is also plenty of connectivity with wireless 802.11a/b/g/n as well as Bluetooth and optional 3G. A 1.3 megapixel webcam can also be found on the device. [Read more…]
Qualcomm towards the end of this year will start shipping dual-core chips for smartphones. The new chip runs at 1.5GHz and is a dual core device numbered QSD8672.
As well as working in smartphones, the new 1.5GHz chip is expected to also arrive in tablets and low-cost laptops.
Release dates are mentioned as being next year although it is expected that manufactures of smartphones (if aggressive enough) might be able to get them shipping by the fourth quarter of this year. [Read more…]
We originally wrote about the MoviePeg iPhone Stand back in March this year. The original was a single peg that attaches to the side of an iPhone to prop it up at a better angle for watching movies. It’s a simple, cheap and fantastic idea.
The iPad launched in April and a lot of people have been wondering if a MoviePeg iPad stand would be made available… the answer is yes, and it’s available now.
The MoviePeg iPad stand is similar to the iPhone version, but because of the iPad being larger, you need to use two MoviePegs instead. When ordering the MoviePeg for iPad you actually get two that can snap together to keep them safe whilst travelling around. [Read more…]
