Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Sony Tablet S is now available for pre-order here in the UK. It is set to launch on September 16th with a price tag starting at £399 for the lower spec model. The device actually went up for pre-order at 4:01pm a couple of days ago, so if you want one pre-ordering now then act quick.
The pre-order availability is an exclusive to the Dixons Group which means you’ll be able to pre-order from Currys, PC World or Dixons.co.uk ready for the launch on September 16.
Toshiba will soon launch a new tablet called the AT200. This new model is the next generation version of the original AT100. The new Toshiba tablet will have a 10.1 inch screen with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. It will run the Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system and be powered by a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor.
The LG Optimus 3D is a device that takes the smartphone in to the realm of glasses-less 3D. The screen is quite unique in that when watched in landscape mode, you can watch 3D content that appears to pop out of the screen. Lets take a look to see if it’s any good.
Samsung has announced the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 3.6. This new device follows on the back of two other announcements today which are the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the Galaxy Note.
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Note smartphone. The device is a little larger than an average smartphone in that it has a large 5.3 inch screen. One of the unique feature of the device is that it has been designed to use a stowaway pen so that notes can be taken (hence the Galaxy Note name).
Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy II is headed to the US. Rather than launching the standard Galaxy S II, variants will arrive on each network which includes T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T. The device is not yet coming to Verizon.
AT&T is launching the LG Thrill 4G on to its network in the next few days. The release date is September 4th. The LG Thrill 4G is the LG Optimus 3D but branded for the AT&T network.
The white version of the Samsung Galaxy S 2 has arrived in the UK. The announcement was made today by Samsung who said that starting today (August 31 2011), the new white version will be available. The device is exactly the same as the black Galaxy S2 with the only difference being the colour of it.
Ian Barlow of Mozilla has provided a quick glimpse of what Firefox for Tablets will look like when it launches. When used on a smartphone the company tried to hide away a lot of the navigation to keep as much of the screen available for the web page you are viewing. Due to tablets having a larger screen, this has allowed the company to use some of that space for navigational purposes.
The Motorola Defy+ is the next update to the original Motorola Defy. The + adds a few new features to the popular smartphone. The Defy+ was first announced when Google announced the acquisition of Motorola.
Three will be getting the newly announced Samsung Galaxy W next month. Details of the smartphone are listed on the Coming Soon page over on the Three website.
RIM is getting ready to bring an update to the BlackBerry PlayBook that will finally bring native email to the tablet computer. At the moment the PlayBook lacks basic functions to a number of people because you cannot check email with it unless you connect to a BlackBerry Smartphone through a bridge service. When connected to a BB smartphone the emails show up on the device, but as soon as you break the link the emails vanish.
