Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The Google Latitude app for iPhone and other iOS devices is now available in the app store. The app first appeared last week but was quickly removed. This time it’s here to stay from what we understand.
What the Google Latitude app does is lets you track where your friends are on a map. When logged in to the system and when it’s enabled, your position on the globe is made available to your friends so that you can see who is where. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has quietly dropped an API in iOS that is used to detect if the iPhone has been jailbroken.
The iOS jailbreak detection API was first added when iOS 4.0 was launched in June of this year. In the latest version that was released a couple of weeks back, iOS 4.2.1, the API is either now disabled or completely removed. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has launched version 2.1 of the YouTube app for Android based smartphones. This new version takes YouTube out of the Android build allowing the app to be updated when needed rather than updated each time Android increases a version.
The new app also brings a number of new features such as in-page playback, posting comments, subscription updates as well as a full screen UI.
The aim of YouTube 2.1 for Android is to mirror the desktop version on smartphones. [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…]
ThinkGeek has a huge sale going on at the moment where you can get discounts on 423 products. The full list of products on offer can be found here.
Products on sale include RC Helicopters, Stickman Action Figures, LED Jelly Fish Mood lamps and a heck of a lot more.
The biggest saving we could find in the store was 72%, so head on over now for some online shopping.
The Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone has been benchmarked at 24.4 frames per second by using the Qualcomm Neocore benchmark app. This number isn’t the best around when you compare that to the Nexus S that can achieve double that amount.
However, one thing to note is that the PlayStation Phone, or Zeus Z1 as it’s also called, is still a few months away from launching and that a lot of work can be done behind the scenes to bump that frame rate up a little. [Read more…]
Engadget has reported some problems with the Adobe Flash plug-in running on the new Chrome OS laptop. They reported that YouTube and other flash based video content stutters a lot and that the plug-in keeps on crashing while using it.
Luckily, Adobe is aware of the issue and is working on a fix that will be pushed out to the OS automatically in the coming weeks. Once installed, it should sort out all the problems. It seems that Adobe is first focusing on getting video playback just right. [Read more…]
The Google Cr-48 laptop only just arrived in the last 24 hours on peoples door steps, but we already see that one of them has been torn apart.
Inside the Chrome OS laptop, all the usual things can be found such as the main board, Hynix memory chips and a SanDisk SSD. [Read more…]
The Microsoft Kinect has been used to create a Minority Report style computer interface. The hack was achieved by students at MIT who managed to use Kinect drivers for Linux and make a program that can detect all 10 fingers on your hands as well as the palms of your hands. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has improved the Gmail app for Android OS devices. The latest version now supports priority inbox as well as an improved compose mail function.
The new version is called Gmail for Android 2.3.2. The priority inbox section of the app allows you to see those emails that matter most to you. These are highlighted with a small yellow arrow, just like the desktop version, and you have the option to mark emails as more important or not important. You can then click Priority to filter out the non important emails. [Read more…]
The standard YouTube upload limit normally allows for 15 minutes of video to be uploaded. YouTube has now announced that on some accounts, this restriction is being lifted. This limit removal is believed to be related to the launch of Google TV.
To ensure that uploaded content is allowed to be there, YouTube is putting controls in place to protect copyrights. The system to be used is called Content ID and that software will be used to scan for illegal content as files are uploaded to YouTube. [Read more…]
In a few hours from now at 1:30pm EST, the Notion Ink Adam will be made available for pre-order. At that time, the tablet will be available to existing commenter’s and then at 7:30pm EST it will be available for pre-order for those who haven’t commented or registered an interest on the site..
The price of the tablet has changed since the last announcement although it has changed in the right direction, as in it has dropped. The price for the tablet will be $375.33 rather than $399. The 3G model is now priced at $435.33. [Read more…]
