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Archive for April, 2011

Amazon confirms Kindle with Special Offers shipping now

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Amazon has begun shipping the ad-supported Kindle it announced earlier this month, around a week earlier than expected. The Kindle with Special Offers gives users the opportunity to save $25 off the price of a third-gen WiFi-only Kindle, in return for agreeing to view adverts on the homescreen and sponsored screensavers. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm’s AR Platform exits beta: Android apps ahoy!

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Qualcomm wowed us with its augmented reality photo frames last year, and appealed to our retro whimsy with virtual Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, and now the company is making the AR Platform responsible for the underlying technology commercially available. In beta since October 2010, the freshly official Qualcomm AR Platform consists of an SDK and a Unity3 game engine extension, opening the door to Android 2.1+ smartphone apps overlaying digital graphics onto real-world views from the camera. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm/BSQUARE MDP Giveaway!

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [14]

Qualcomm and BSQUARE have just announced the Mobile Development Platform (MDP), the latest developer smartphone with the Snapdragon MSM8660 1.5GHz asynchronous dual-core CPU and Adreno 220, and SlashGear has one to give away! It’s a developer device worth $1,350, and could help change the fortunes of any Android coder looking to polish his apps for the Android Market. Find out how you can win after the cut…

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AT&T warns unofficial tethering will auto-trigger $25 extra fee

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [12]

AT&T obviously isn't relying on either honor or guilt to get people to stop unofficially tethering their phones. Having sent out SMS warnings last month to smartphone users caught tethering without a special data plan that they were flouting the carrier's policies, AT&T has apparently followed up with a second message, reports TiPB, saying they'll be automatically upgrading users to the appropriate package, an extra $45 $25 per month. Read The Full Story

Acer HS274H NVIDIA 3D Vision monitor claims world’s first title

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

The Aspire Z5763 isn't Acer's only piece of 3D kit today; the company has also outed what it's claiming is the world's first 27-inch FHD 3D monitor, the Acer HD274H. Relying on NVIDIA's 3D Vision tech - and having an integrated IR emitter to keep things clean - the HD274H offers three HDMI inputs along with VGA and DVI, and runs at 1920 x 1080 resolution. Read The Full Story

Acer Aspire Z5763 throws 3D into the all-in-one

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Acer has outed its latest all-in-one PC, and this time there's 3D in the mixture as well. The Acer Aspire Z5763 has a 23-inch 1920 x 1080 display and uses NVIDIA 3D Vision with an integrated emitter for the active shutter glasses; inside there's a choice of Intel Core i5-2400s, i5-2500s or i7-2600s CPUs along with Intel HD Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce GT440 or the GeForce GT435M. Read The Full Story

BSQUARE MDP puts 1.5GHz dual-core MSM8660 Snapdragon into developer device [Video]

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon CPU has found its way into the BSQUARE Mobile Development Platform (MDP), a device targeted at developers looking to test and optimize their apps on Qualcomm’s new 1.5GHz dual-core MSM8660 chipset – as found in the HTC EVO 3D – and Adreno 220 GPU. The MDP runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a 3.61-inch WVGA touchscreen, and has a 13-megapixel rear camera, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage and various preloaded monitoring apps.

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iFixit shows off clear back panel for iPhone 4

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [7]

I really like my gear to look different from the other stuff that my friends have. I can appreciate the cool factor that comes with being able to see what gear looks like on the inside, yet covered leaving it protected with some sort of clear plastic. This is the reason that many gamers buy cases for computers with windows in the side. It's cool to see the hardware that makes things operate. Read The Full Story

Nokia is working on new Vertu smartphone

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [3]

Nokia has been busy the last few months since it landed a new CEO. The company has shunned Android, one of the most popular mobile operating systems and instead went with Windows Phone, one of the least popular operating systems around. The company is also hurting badly and has axed a large number of workers, and moved Symbian off to another firm. Read The Full Story

Apple releases iPhone tracking Q&A: Denies spying, tips incoming traffic updates

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Apple has responded to the iPhone tracking controversy, denying that it has ever tracked users of the iOS handset in a new Q&A (which you can read in full after the cut) and claiming that the location cache is in fact “a crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database” that is used to speed up positioning fixes by the smartphone. However, Apple also says it will release an iOS update in the next few weeks that reduces this cache’s size, ceases backups on the user’s Mac or PC, and deletes the database altogether when Location Services is switched off.

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iPad 2 hits Japan, Hong Kong, Korea & more this week; China on May 6

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [5]

It's not just the white iPhone 4 going on sale this week; the iPad 2 is also making its debut in a further twelve countries, including Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore. Both the WiFi-only and the WiFi + 3G models will be offered in almost all the new locations; China will also get the iPad 2 on May 6, though only in WiFi-only format. Read The Full Story

Google seeking manager for Games at Google division

, Apr 27th 2011 Discuss [0]

I will admit in the days before smartphones that I thought mobile gaming wasn't that great. Before my iPhone I used a Razer and you could hardly play games on the device and the ones that were offered were boring and had graphics that reminded me of an 80's Atari and not in a good way. The iPhone launched and showed us all that gaming on a smartphone could be very fun and then Android came along and gamers found another OS that was good for gaming in later builds. Read The Full Story
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