Entries by Vincent Nguyen
Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 combines four programs that make your ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista even easier to use. Origami Experience 2.0 is available as a free download to UMPC owners. Back in January, Origami Experience 2.0 was released to OEMs for potential inclusion in their units and the HTC Shift is probably the [...]
Last week we took you behind the scenes of DreamWorks Kung Fu Pandaand the brand new server-farm HP put together for the hundreds of animators. Now we’ve got some more exclusive photos and video for you, this time of the DreamColor monitors HP created to replace the CRTs traditionally relied on in animation and graphics. Developed with DreamWorks, [...]
Giant dancing pandas aren’t usually in the SlashGear remit, not unless they’re robotic or play Blu-ray discs in their multimedia mouths, but when HP and DreamWorks invited us to see how the two companies had created the animated film Kung Fu Panda it was hard to resist. Hitting movie theaters this week, Kung Fu Panda [...]
The HTC Touch Pro features a slide-out five row QWERTY keyboard, a hefty 1350mAh battery allowing for up to 8 hours of talk time (which is much larger than the HTC Diamond), 2.8-inch VGA touch screen and 3.2-megapixel camera equipped with video calling, microSD memory card slot, 512MB flash, 288MB RAM and GPS capabilities.
Google will be announcing quite a bit of news over the next two days, starting with the opening keynote and a press conference this morning.
The keynote will be given by Vic Gundotra, VP of engineering, at 9:30am in Moscone West. The title of the keynote will be “Client, Connectivity, and the Cloud.”
After a Memorial Day delay, Samsung’s F480 Tocco has been delivered and we’re ready to show you the SlashGear unboxing video and share our first-impressions of the touchscreen handset. It’s one of the more unusual unboxings; this is the first time I’ve had to “uncrate” a gadget! The Tocco is an important handset for Samsung [...]
When Aliph released the original Jawbone nearly two years ago, I felt as if I was the only person in the world that didn’t like the look, thought the design too bulky, and wasn’t all that impressed by the company’s “noise shield”. So how do I feel about the Jawbone 2? Well, let me put [...]
It is still too early in the game for lower-end devices such as the Eee PC 901 to feature WiMAX technology. Asustek CEO did planned on integrating WiMAX technology into its next generation Eee PCs, but recently decided to make WiMAX available only as an option. The decision was based on two quarters [...]
RIM finally took the covers off of the highly anticipated and much-rumored BlackBerry Bold smartphone. RIM wants you to think of the phone’s beautiful display when you think of the “Bold.” The BlackBerry Bold is no doubt beautiful, at least for a BlackBerry anyways. So everyone, please say and give a warm [...]
I just received a detailed itinerary for the HTC London press event on Tuesday May 6, 2008. I arrive in London at 8:45 AM, registration starts at 11:00 AM and the HTC press event kicks off at 11:30AM. I have a briefing with HTC CIO, Horace Luke at 3:30 to 4:00 PM. There’s a cocktail [...]
