Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Earlier today, we showed a couple of pictures of a new device believed to be code-named the LG B. The LG B has a very bright screen and is super slim from what we saw.
LG has now confirmed that this device is real and also have confirmed that they will have the device on show at CES in the next few weeks in Las Vegas. [Read more…]
Hackers have managed to root the Google Nexus S just hours after it launched to the public.
The Nexus S root allows users to gain full access to the file system of the phone and hence, make many changes to the Android operating system. Changes could include overclocking the Nexus S, changing the UI, installing a custom Android build as well as many other modifications. [Read more…]
Several months ago, rumors were going around about the HTC Scorpion smartphone.
At the time, we heard that the smartphone was to use a 1.5GHz CPU that would be dual-core and that it would run Android 2.2. The Android 2.2 part has obviously been and gone as we are now transitioning to Android 2.3, but what we have yet to see is the phone or the processor. [Read more…]
The Dell Streak is currently available at Best Buy for $99.99. The offer is limited it seems and just for the holiday season. You also need to sign up for a two year agreement to get it at the new low price.
Two versions are available, both priced the same. The options allow you to choose either a black model or a white model. [Read more…]
Advent announced yesterday that Adobe Flash 10.1 running on the Advent Vega tablet has not passed Adobe’s certification. What this means is that all Advent Vega’s sold from now on will have Flash 10.1 removed.
A version of the Adobe 10.1 download for the Vega is expected to be made available early in 2011, we assume when Advent iron out the bugs with Adobe. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] is rolling out a new service that allows the company to learn your voice and how you speak. The reason for doing this is that voice to text services are occasionally a bit off. You say one thing and the conversion says something completely different in the transcript. By learning your voice, Google can see patterns in how you speak and how you pronounce certain words. It can then adapt accordingly to your voice. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has announced that Gmail for mobile now works in 44 languages for users using the HTML5 version in the mobile browser on the iPhone and Android based smartphones.
The only language it was available in, right till yesterday, was US English. It is now available in the following languages…
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.
Rovio has announced that they have hit 50 million downloads of the popular Angry Birds series of games.
The breakdown wasn’t fully complete when Vesterbacka spoke to TechCrunch, but what he did say was that 10 million of those were downloads on Android and we suspect that the majority of the rest will lean towards iOS rather than webOS versions. [Read more…]
The Nexus S is launching this coming Thursday over in the US. For those wanting to get hold of it, one of the options is Best Buy who have now released the details of what you can expect on December 16.
Best Buy will open at 8am and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis with varying inventory across the stores in the US. A maximum of two Nexus S smartphones will be made available per customer. [Read more…]
Back in November, a picture of the HTC EVO Shift 4G was spotted. That time, it was just the device front with the screen and 4 buttons below the screen.
We now see a picture of the same device but with the QWERTY keyboard out. The Shift 4G does have a case, so we don’t see exactly what it looks like, but we get a good idea of what’s new and different about this model. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has posted a video demo of Google Maps 5.0 running on the Android 2.3 Nexus S smartphone.
The new version of Maps brings a few new features to Android devices which includes the ability to navigate in 3D around various cities around the world. The video embedded below shows how that works and what kind of frame rate is achieve which I have to say is quite impressive. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has announced that Google Instant for Mobile has now been rolled out to 40 countries and that the service now works in 28 different languages.
Google Instant was launched just over a month ago and allows users to type and see changing results being built as they type a keyword. Google indicate that this improves user experience by making it quicker to search. Originally the service was available to users logged in to the desktop. Recently the desktop version moved to all users who are logged in or not, and now has begun arriving on smartphones. [Read more…]
