Anticipation for the Nokia E72 belies the suggestion that there are no S60 enthusiasts left; the new QWERTY smartphone has a quiet but devoted following who have been anxiously tracking Nokia’s online store. Now the E72 has finally begun shipping in the US, priced at $469.
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MSI's rumored plans to corner the Pine Trail netbook market this month look to have been put on hold, with the company named as one of four firms - the others being ASUS, Acer and Lenovo - set to launch Atom N450 based models on January 11th. The new timescale apparently complies with Intel's launch schedule, with the N450 set to officially debut on January 10th, ahead of the Atom N470 processor's arrival in March 2010.
From a (fake) Motorola to another supposed Android Motorola handset. According to Androidin this is the China Unicom XT701, made by Motorola and similar in design to what we’re expecting the Sholes to look like. They’re saying the handset has a 3.7-inch touchscreen, no hardware keyboard, Android 2.1 and a 5-megapixel camera, a few megapixels down on the 8MP shooter we’ve heard will be on the Sholes.
Hot on the heels of the leaked Motorola Sholes pictures comes this, another as-yet unknown Motorola smartphone that again is tipped to run Android. Little is known about the unnamed handset, but it’s said to have a 3.8-inch touchscreen and an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash.
Update: Eagle-eyed Cellularmania have spotted that this looks like a Photoshopped Samsung Omnia II; the front has had the Motorola logo and DROID keys added, while the back (shown after the cut) is a dead ringer for the Samsung’s camera cluster.
Just a quick reminder that SlashGear’s Sleek Audio giveaway closes for new entries at midnight EST tonight, which means you have around twelve hours left to take part. Sleek Audio have given us two sets of their latest SA1 customizable earphones, together with a grand price of their SA6 W1 wireless bundle.
Entering is quick and easy, and you can find out all the details in the competition forum thread here. We’ll be announcing the winners tomorrow, so if you want to stand a chance head over and enter now!
If you’re looking to lose a half hour or so of your day, head over to Brett Dickins’ YouTube page. The kinetic artist specialises in hypnotic, enchanting mechanized wall sculptures, such as the prototype mechanism shown mid-splay here, which variously jumble and then righten themselves, churn away mindlessly or even saw away at their own casings.
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Motorola have invested in a French startup that uses acoustic feedback to mimic traditional touch and multitouch input. Sensitive Object use acoustics in their ReverSys system to "analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device." For example, the system could track points of contact across the entire body of a cellphone, without requiring expensive capacitive sensors to cover the device.
Yamaha have been quietly plugging away at their soundbar technology for a while now, and their latest model looks to be the most alluring yet. As ever, the concept is straightforward: why have a room stuffed full of speakers when a single row of them – together with some clever digital processing – can reproduce the same effect. Targeted at TVs up to 50-inches (as well as projector setups), the Yamaha YSP-5100 packs 120W and five HDMI ports.
Nokia’s promise to overhaul the Symbian UI yesterday was heavy on stats but light on screenshots, but thankfully the company’s webcast is fair overflowing with concept renders. The Finnish company has promised not only to make the UI more attractive – by cutting out clutter and upping scrolling rates from 15fps to 60fps – but more functional too, slicing out the number of taps required to complete tasks or launch features, and giving users “large capacitive displays” to do that tapping on.
As iPhone remote control projects go we’ve certainly seen bigger than this Arduino-based iPhone-controlled tank, but it does have the benefit of being somewhat more achievable for the average DIYer than a full-sized car, say. Chris Rojas threw together the tabletop tank from a basket full of SparkFun parts, and now has a solar-powered vehicle he can control from his cellphone.
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