Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc has announced that the Gran Turismo franchise has now exceeded 60 million in sales since it first arrived in December 1997. The franchise has now been running for 12 years and 11 months.
Sales are listed in the image below and start with the original that sold 10.78 million copies and moves on to Gran Turismo 2, 3 A-Spec, Concept 2001 Tokyo and on to various Prologue versions and then finally 4 and 5. Total sales have hit 61.41 million. [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…]
The Google Nexus S release date is almost here for the US and UK. For those of us here in the UK, we can now pre-order the Nexus S.
Pre-orders are now being taken at Carphone Warehouse where both contract and PAYG options are available. As for pricing, the Nexus S off-contract (PAYG) is £549.95. On contract, pricing is free for the phone on all plans £35/month or more and at the moment, £35/month is the cheapest plan. [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…]
It looks like the Google Chrome Cr-48 netbook release date has already arrived as some people are reporting that they have received theirs through the post today.
Those who registered first managed to snag one of the Pilot test units. An estimated 60,000 are being made for evaluation and testing purposes and unfortunately they wont be made publicly available, ie you can’t buy one. [Read more…]
For those of you using a Windows based PC, ie it has XP, Vista or Windows 7 on it, you’ll now be able to use the Google Cloud Print service (the Beta version of it) to print a test page.
Cloud Print comes just ahead of the Chrome OS launch. What the service does is put all your printer drivers in the cloud which in turn, lets you print a document over the internet to your printer (or any printer you are authorised to print to). [Read more…]
The Three network in the UK is starting to push out the Android 2.2 update to Samsung Galaxy S smartphones locked on its network.
Three, just like other networks, is unable to push out the Android 2.2 update OTA to the Samsung Galaxy S which means users will need to connect up to the KIES software tool to grab the update. [Read more…]
Fring has introduced a new technology to its services called DVQ. DVQ means Dynamic Video Quality, and by adding this service it allows for users making video calls to get the best possible video quality for the quality of connection they have at the time.
DVQ technology automatically, and continuously during a call, adjusts your video call quality to match your internet bandwidth at all times, giving you the best video and audio quality possible for your connectivity.
That means that rather than ‘making do’ with a basic, fixed video quality call, you get an optimized video quality that matches your calls’ available bandwidth. In math terms, our dev guys have gone from ‘lowest common denominator’ to best possible– wherever you are’.
The Google Nexus S release date has been revealed as December 16 in the US and December 20 in the UK.
The Nexus S was made official today by Google. The device is made by Samsung and has a 4 inch WVGA screen. The processor running inside is a 1GHz Cortex A8 Himmingbird. It has 512MB of RAM and 16GB of storage built in. [Read more…]
The iPad has around 10 hours of battery life on a single charge. If this isn’t enough for you, then you might want to check out this iPad battery pack case that adds 6000mAh of juice to your iPad.
The case is call the Veho Pebble Smartskin and works with all models of the Apple iPad. [Read more…]
Rover Computers, a company based in Russia, has announced a new Android tablet called the RoverPad.
The RoverPad has a 10 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is resistive rather than capacitive. The tablet supports full HD at 1080p. It has a 1GHz ZT180 processor along with 256MB of RAM and 2GB of internal storage. [Read more…]
Earlier this year the iPhone 4 was released. Some units leaked out a day early thanks to delivery companies shipping before the release date. On the first day that users got the iPhone 4 it was quickly noted that the iPhone antenna had a problem in that when you held it in your left hand and your thumb covered the black bar on the bottom left of the phone, the signal weakened. Although the problem wasn’t much different to any phone, it stung Apple in terms of bad press about it.
The HTC HD7 seems to suffer from the same “problem” if you can call it that. When holding the HD7 in a certain way the signal strength seems to drop a little. HTC has now provided a response to this… [Read more…]
