Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Vodafone has announced that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be landing on its network in the UK as an exclusive.
The announcement was made on the official Vodafone UK twitter page.
Great news! Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will launch exclusively with Vodafone UK. More info soon! #mwc2011 #android #honeycomb
As well as announcing the HTC Flyer tablet as well as the ChaCha and Salsa smartphones, HTC has announced three other smartphones called the HTC Incredible S, HTC Wildfire S and the HTC Desire S.
The HTC Incredible S is pictured above and is a GSM device designed for the European market. It has an 8 megapixel camera on the back. The screen measures 4 inches and is a WVGA Super LCD screen. A front facing VGA camera is also included on the Incredible S. This particular smartphone will also be made available in Q2 although we see it will come with Android 2.2 rather than 2.4 like the other devices mentioned earlier. HTC does promise an update to 2.4 shortly after the phone launches. [Read more…]
HTC has announced several new smartphones today. The first two are the HTC ChaCha and the HTC Salsa.
HTC has designed this pair of smartphones to function as “Facebook phones” in that the HTC Sense UI designed for these devices, heavily integrates Facebook connectivity.
Both phones feature a dedicated Facebook button allowing one-touch access to the social network. The Sense UI also integrates Facebook through out the functions of both smartphones. [Read more…]
After months of waiting, Sony Ericsson has announced the PlayStation Phone. The device is called the Xperia Play and as already mentioned since the beginning of the rumors, the device runs the Android operating system.
Features include a 4 inch multi-touch screen, it also has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and an embedded Adreno GPU that allows for up to 60 frames per second when using 3D graphics.
The Android OS running on the device will be the latest 2.3 Gingerbread and this particular device is labeled as the first official PlayStation Certified device which could indicate another model will be coming soon. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy S2 – i9100, is expected to launch next week at MWC. The specs of this particular smartphone have been leaked online and show that it runs a 1.2GHz Samsung Orion processor and has a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, also by Samsung from what we understand.
The device, possibly pictured below, will have NFC communications built in. It will run Google Android 2.3 when it launches and we assume this will be updated to the even newer Android 2.3.3 that boosts the NFC capabilities even further. [Read more…]
HP has announced a new tablet called the HP TouchPad. The TouchPad is a webOS 3.0 device that has a 9.7 inch XGA capacitive touch screen. The 9.7 inch screen has 1024 x 768 pixels.
The technical specs reveal that this webOS based tablet has a storage capacity of either 16GB or 32GB. For connectivity it has wireless 802.11b/g/n as well as Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. The two capacity models will also come in two varieties with one having 3G and the other being WiFi only (same as the iPad). [Read more…]
Apple has given the go ahead for the iPad 2 to go in to production. This is according to the WSJ who reported that the second generation tablet device would have a front facing camera allowing video calls to be made.
We also hear more confirmations that the screen will not be a higher resolution. Earlier reports have been swayed both ways with some saying the screen will be retina and others saying it will be the same but thinner with a thinner bezel around the edge. This report from the WSJ hints at it not getting a retina display this time around although this could happen on the iPad 3. [Read more…]
The Verizon iPhone wasn’t expected till February 10 although some devices already started to arrive to customers as early as yesterday. Along with that early arrival, some very interesting information has been found out about apps for the Verizon iPhone. What ZDNet found out was that some apps might require some changes to be compatible with the new iPhone 4 on Verizon. The difference isn’t due to changes with the telco, but instead, it appears that differences with the CDMA chip inside has caused a problem (or has it?).
The first app that needed to be modified was the Telenav Navigator app. The company who create it has not specifically said what hardware caused the change to be made, but ZDNet speculates that it’s the GSM to CDMA switch. When looking in to this more though, it’s nothing at all to do with the hardware of the device. [Read more…]
Earlier today we mentioned that Sony Ericsson was to officially announce the Xperia Play smartphone this coming weekend at MWC. Since that announcement, O2 in the UK has now stepped up to indicate that they will be carrying the Xperia Play on its network. O2 made the announcement on its official Twitter feed this morning.
Awesome news – the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is coming to O2. Loving their ad too:
Nokia has announced the launch of the Nokia E7. The new business class smartphone will begin shipping to select markets this week although the company haven’t specified exactly where that is.
We have heard hints that the E7 will launch first in the UK, but other than that we could take a guess that it will be also introduced in a handful of countries across Europe. Nokia does mention that the E7 will quickly move to other markets within the coming weeks though. [Read more…]
Although Verizon ran out of pre-orders within the first day, the smartphone actually set the record on the Verizon network for the fastest selling device in 24 hours. In fact, it sold that quick that it took the record in just 2 hours of the doors opening. Virtual doors opened at 3am Eastern and by 5am the record was set.
Due to the quick depletion of pre-orders, Verizon is not able to open up pre-orders until the 9th February. [Read more…]
It looks like the iPhone 4 on the Verizon network is in high demand. Verizon and Apple have now stopped taking pre-orders for the smartphone just one day after it was made available for pre-order.
For those wanting to still get the Verizon iPhone 4 on the day of launch, all is not lost as Verizon and Apple are re opening pre-orders on February 9 at 3:01am Eastern, so make sure you stay up late that night. If you don’t want to wait up till the early hours of the morning, the other option is to get in line at an Apple or Verizon store on February 10 at 7am when the device will go on sale in what looks to be limited numbers. [Read more…]
