HTC will be holding a special event to unveil something new – the invitation we received for May 6th in London comes with the tag line “Witness the next wave of HTC Innovation”. We honestly have no solid leads on what HTC is going to unveil, however we have the hunch that an Android based phone (HTC Dream) will be announce on the event.
Since its birthday on October 14th 2007, Centro has been quite a success story for Palm. Yesterday Palm has released a statement saying it has sold one million unit of the $99 smartphone.
The rumored Intel Netbook has been knighted as 2go PC. According to Engadget, the unit is manufactured by CTL (Computer Technology Link) and aimed towards education market.
The first revision of Panasonic ToughBook 19 rugged tablet PC uses Core Duo processor (U2400) that runs at 1.06Ghz. Panasonic has given the ToughBook 19 upgrades and now Core 2 Duo (U7500) powers it. Although the new CPU still runs at 1.06Ghz, it has a newer architecture that made the system more energy efficient and faster.
Sometimes less is more. NTT DoCoMo decided to strip down its mobile OS to allow manufacturers to develop in conjunction to international market needs. Many phone manufacturers such as Mitsubishi has pulled out from Japanese market due to over crowded players – and to focus on international market instead. By doing this, NTT DoCoMo allows manufacturers to export low cost handsets to exploding market such as China and Thailand. Many analysts see this trend will be followed by NTT DoCoMo’s competitors.
[via Phone Mag]
Asus is showing their latest Lamborghini line, the VX3 at Cebit 2008. This is the next best thing after the real car! The 12.1-inch sub-notebook carries Lamborghini’s signature color of Yellow and Black.
When they can fit a webcam into a milimeter-depth notch in a laptop’s screen bezel, a manufacturer would have to be offering something pretty impressive to sell one standing eight inches tall on your desktop. But Boynq are positioning their Alibi unit as something more interesting than a simple way to video chat with your parents; it may be a 1.3-megapixel webcam with integrated speakers and microphone, but what you’re really paying for is the design. Like some monstrous limb cinched in with the brushed-finish silver volume band, the Alibi’s selling point is its pop-up, twist & rotate camera. SlashGear braved vague and unsettling memories of War of the Worlds and put the Alibi through its very purple paces.
The wait is over! I know many of you have held off purchasing Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro because of the updates rumor. Well, it happened. Apple refreshed MacBook and MacBook Pro with Intel’s latest Penryn CPU. Apple also added Multi-touch trackpad to MacBook Pro – it was first introduced in MacBook Air.
Road warriors, mobility geeks, and little elf, the lightweight ultra-portable X300 has finally arrived. Lenovo is now taking orders of the “MacBook Air” competitor, a 13.3” thin and light laptop.
How would you like having 5Gbps wireless connection around the house? Streaming HD videos would be flawless without much buffering issue. The guys at Melbourne University have officially introduced their new invention, the GiFi.
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