Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
By this time next year, Samsung is confident that over 10 Million Samsung Galaxy Tab devices will have been sold.
The Galaxy Tab was officially unveiled at IFA last week where it was confirmed that it has a 7 inch screen, runs the Android 2.2 operating system and will be running head to head with the Apple iPad.
By shifting 10 million Galaxy Tablets the company estimate that this will take about one-third of the tablet market worldwide. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab UK price hasn’t been officially announced yet although it hasn’t prevented some places from speculating on the price.
Next up is Clove in the UK who has priced the Galaxy Tab up at £617 which takes it to around the $950 price point in USD. This price point gets you a 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab that is SIM free and not locked on to a contract.
The £617 price tag also includes taxes. [Read more…]
The Toshiba AC100 MID smartbook is now ready in the UK.
The Toshiba Smartbook is a Tegra 2 based system that runs the Google Android 2.1 operating system. Rather than using a basic vanilla 2.1 build, Toshiba has created a custom UI.
Price wise, it costs £292.52 including VAT. This gets you the non 3G model although it does still have wireless connectivity at 802.11b/g/n speeds as well as Bluetooth. For storage it has 8GB of flash memory. [Read more…]
Hannspree is releasing a new Android Tablet. The new tablet will have a 10.1 inch multitouch display and will run the latest Android operating system (2.2).
The 10.1 inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Powering the Android tablet is a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC processor.
Price wise, the tablet will cost £399 when it becomes available in November of this year. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has just landed on the Vodafone UK website. It isn’t available for pre-order just yet although the company does allow you to register your interest in the new tablet.
Pricing is not known and also the release date isn’t mentioned on the Vodafone site although we have heard it isn’t far away now, perhaps early next month.
As for the technical specs, the device can connect to both 2.5G and 3G networks. It has Wireless 802.11n built in along with Bluetooth 3.0. [Read more…]
BGR is reporting today that a CDMA variant of the Samsung Galaxy Tab could be going to Sprint [S] in November of this year.
The CDMA version hasn’t been priced just yet although BGR does seem quite confident in the source of information that they have.
As well as it being on the Sprint network, they also mention it will be a 3G and 4G device. [Read more…]
Royal Mail has created the worlds first Intelligent Stamp. The new stamp is capable of working with image recognition technology.
The intelligent stamp works with an augmented reality app called Junaio. When receiving a letter with a new stamp attached you can hold the camera of an iPhone or Android phone over the stamp. The software recognises the stamp and is able to pull up information, video clips and other details about what is on the stamp and play back the information to you. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] is looking to employ somebody to head up it’s music launch this year.
As well as looking for someone to lead the project, it appears that Andy Rubin (Android guy) is in talks with record labels to get them signed up.
Reuters is reporting that Google has yet to sign up any labels to the service which indicates they need to work rather quick if they plan to launch by the end of this year. [Read more…]
Gizmodo managed to spend some time with the Samsung Galaxy Tab earlier today. The Galaxy Tab is an Android tablet that will be launching soon. It runs TouchWiz, has a 7 inch screen and has 3G/Wireless connectivity built in.
It’s well made, and doesn’t seem as plasticky as the Galaxy S range of phones—or indeed, most Samsung phones. Just like with the iPad, the bezel around the display is possibly too large for its own good, but the touch-sensitive buttons (menu, home, back and search) almost don’t have a purpose with that large 7-inch display.
Skyfire is a browser that is capable of playing flash content on the iPhone. The way it works is that Skyfire has a cloud server which recognises content on a page is flash. The server then converts the flash to HTML 5 content on the fly (when the user wants to play flash content). The content is then streamed down to the user to view when needed.
When converting the content from Flash to HTML 5, the system is capable of compressing the file size making the content as small as 25% of the original size. [Read more…]
Yesterday at the Apple [AAPL] special event, Steve Jobs mentioned that iOS activations were running at 230,000 new per day. He then commented that these are “new” activations and not upgrades. He then went on to say that some companies give large numbers of upgrading customers. This was an attempt to make Apple look better.
Google [GOOG] has responded by saying…
“The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services.”
Windows Phone 7 has now been released to manufacturing by Microsoft [MSFT]. What this means is that smartphone manufacturers can start making the hardware that will run it in preparation for launch which is expected in the middle of next month.
There are several hardware manufacturers creating hardware for Windows Phone 7 such as Samsung, HTC, LG, Dell and ASUS. It is expected that each company will release a smartphone in preparation for launch.
Although the official launch date hasn’t been revealed, there were indications that the HTC HD7 will launch on October 18 in the UK which could indicate this is also the official launch date of the new Microsoft OS. [Read more…]
