Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Next week, Motorola will launched the Motorola Charm mobile phone. The Charm will launch on August 25 on to the T-Mobile network. Price wise, it will cost $74.99 along with a contract.
The Motorola Charm is a QWERTY Android smartphone that has a small screen up top with a keyboard below it. The screen is in landscape mode and has capacitive touch from what we can see in the video. On the back is a 3 megapixel camera. [Read more…]
For those Star Wars fans who are not ready to let go of their iPhone 3G or 3GS in favour of the Motorola DROID 2 R2-D2 version, the Star Wars site is taking pre-orders for an R2-D2 case that is styled to look like R2-D2.
The case is hard and has sculpted details according to the Star Wars website.
Price wise, it will set you back $30 and will be shipping in October of this year.
iFixit has torn apart another device. This time it’s the tablet/smartphone called the Dell Streak.
The Dell Streak Teardown reveals that it’s quite easy to open up the device. iFixit mention that they were able to reverse engineer the assembly process within minutes.
Before we go on to what was found inside, iFixit also mentioned in an email to us that they were beginning a new rating system as explained below.
With this teardown, we’re starting something new: rating hardware from 1-10 based on how easy it is to service. Our repairability ranking will factor in the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of servicing the device. A ten means the manufacturer did everything possible to enable repair, while we might award a one to a car with the hood welded shut. We are quite pleased with the Streak, awarding it an 8 out of 10.
Almost 2 years ago, the T-Mobile G1 was launched. When launched, it ran Google Android which started a new class of smartphones. The phone seemed to quickly grow old in that many other Android smartphones have been launched although the G1 has a good following of people who still use it.
The T-Mobile G2 will soon be launching as the successor to the G1. With it will come updated features with the device it’s self capable of connecting up to the T-Mobile HSPA+ network allowing it to transfer data at 4G speeds. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy S will be made available soon in South Korea in White. The Android smartphone will be called the Snow White Galaxy S according to Samsung Hub although we are not too convinced it’s the right name to go with.
On to sales figures of the Samsung Galaxy S, we also hear that 800,000 units have been shifted in South Korea since the phones launch 55 days ago. That’s quite an impressive number for one country and makes it the fastest selling smartphone in South Korea. [Read more…]
It appears that the latest Sony PSP advert is taking a dig at Apple [AAPL] iPhone users. The advert features a kid who says you can get decent games for the PSP for just $9.99 (older games) that are far better than what’s available on the mobile phones. The ad doesn’t specifically mention Apple although the phone one of the guys holds up clearly looks like an iPhone.
It isn’t clear why Sony are targeting mobile phones for gaming considering that recently it was revealed that Sony Ericsson could be making a PSP Go Android smartphone specifically aimed at gamers. Perhaps those rumours wont happen though. [Read more…]
Adobe has finally pulled Flash 10.1 out of Beta for the Google Nexus One Android smartphone.
The latest/final and stable version of Adobe Flash 10.1 is 10.1.92.8 and is available for Google Nexus One owners to download from the Android Market. If you have already installed a Beta version then the latest will upgrade you to the latest version.
We also hear that those using the Motorola DROID will also be able to get Adobe Flash from the Android Market some time soon. However for those using the HTC EVO or Motorola DROID 2, the wait seems to be a little longer. [Read more…]
Samsung look set to launch a Samsung Galaxy S PMP. The new device will be called the YP-MB2 and will be similar in how the iPhone and iPod touch are different in that it will be a Galaxy S without the cell phone functions inside.
As well as lacking cellular connectivity, the YP-MB2 also has a lower resolution camera at 3 megapixels. What it will have is an Android based OS and a 1GHz CPU. The screen will still be 4 inches and be Super AMOLED. For connectivity it will have Wireless and Bluetooth. [Read more…]
Official details of the HTC Desire HD have not been made available yet. There is a small possibility that the phone will be revealed on September 15 at an event being held by HTC. This didn’t stop Amazon in the UK posting details about the smartphone (briefly) yesterday. The page is now pulled but it provided a few details about the HTC Desire HD along with a confirmation that it is coming.
Amazon in the UK priced it at £415 which will be off contract and not subsidised. The product was listed with the following title… “HTC 99HLZ001-00 ACE/Desire HD” with the ACE part being heard of before. [Read more…]
With the recent opening of the Amazon Kindle UK store, the Kindle Digital Text Platform has now also arrived in the UK.
“Publishers and authors can now take advantage of the Kindle Digital Text Platform and make their books available to the millions of customers that visit Amazon.co.uk,” said Greg Greeley, Amazon Vice President, European Retail. “Sales of Kindle books in the US continue to rise and we are now selling more Kindle books than hardcovers. We expect to see a similar pattern in the UK with publishers and authors benefitting from greatly increased sales as a result of adding their titles to the new Kindle Store via the Kindle Digital Text Platform.”
We just mentioned that the Samsung Galaxy Tablet firmware had been spotted. In that firmware some details were found about the specs of the new Galaxy Tablet due to be announced at IFA 2010.
We have now come across this screen capture showing the Samsung Galaxy Tablet coming to the Vodafone network in the UK which indicates it will have 3G connectivity built in and perhaps be sold subsidised.
Although the Samsung Galaxy Tablet has been confirmed by Samsung in the past, and confirmed it will run Android, we still lack all the official details including pricing and release dates. Although Vodafone does have it listed on it’s system, it is unclear when it will launch and how much for. [Read more…]
The 35 dollar tablet was recently revealed. It appears to be another type of cheap computing device that probably wont launch at $35 like previous attempts at the $100 laptop. But, we’ll remain hopeful that it does happen.
The video below shows the Android 1.6 based tablet running at some speed although the video looked to be running a little faster. If it runs as quick as it does in the video it will be quite amazing. What will be more amazing is seeing it launch at $35 which we hope it can as that will help out a lot of children learning in the future. [Read more…]
