Android tablets aren’t exactly uncommon, so we generally reserve our extreme excitement until they actually arrive in stores rather than on display at trade shows touting for business. Still, when your tablet looks like an iPhone on steroids you’re bound to get some attention, and that’s just what’s happened to Chinese firm Boeye: their MID might run Android but its the striking Apple resemblance (and the estimated budget price tag) that has people excited.
If you’re in the market for a stonkingly fast gaming laptop then your options keep getting better; iBuyPower are the latest company to dip a toe into the Core i7 pool, with their new Battalion 101 W870CU notebook. Inside the hefty chassis there’s a 17.3-inch Full HD 1920 x 1080 LCD, up to 8GB of RAM and a choice of Core i7-720QM, i7-820QM or i7-920XM processors. Graphics are courtesy of NVIDIA’s GTX280 with 1GB of DDR3 memory.
Now that Polymer Vision’s new owner – Wistron – has been confirmed, it’s time for some speculation about what they might have up their sleeve with the folding e-paper technology. Wistron’s Brian Chong, chief of product planning, has confirmed that the company intends to release a 5- to 6-inch device using Polymer Vision tech in 2010. From the sound of it, it’s very much alike the prototype device Polymer Vision themselves were showing round before their sale.
Samsung’s Bada OS, freshly announced – though far from released – for mobile devices is reasonably interesting on its own, but we always prefer to have an inkling of hardware to go along with our software speculation. Happily that itch has been allegedly scratched this morning, with a render of what’s purported to be the first Samsung Bada device.
Willeke at GSMHelpDesk has been slipped an image of this touchscreen handset, though there are no accompanying specifications to tell us what sort of experience we can expect. That leaves us arguing the aesthetics, and while the device pictured is reasonably inoffensive, it doesn’t exactly distinguish itself from any other touchscreen-centric candybar. Perhaps there’s a slide-out QWERTY keyboard waiting to wow us, but right now hardware controls look to be minimal.
I’m personally happy to see Palm take a new direction with the upcoming Pixi TV spot. The days of that creepy redhead are no more giving way to hope, life and fun. Click over to watch the ad.
Last week, the buzz was clearly on the DROID (see my first take here) but there was another device that was also getting a lot of attention, albeit somewhat more restrained as few folks had one to work with. A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that emphasized people shouldn’t dismiss Windows Mobile. Over the last week I’ve been using the phone with the quiet buzz that proves that assertion. Sadly, it’s the best Windows Mobile phone that you can’t buy in the US yet. What device am I talking about? None other than the HTC HD2.
The HD2 is marked by two features not usually found on most Windows Mobile phones. The first is a capacitive touch screen. This is the first Windows Mobile device that has no stylus and is totally designed for input by touch alone. The second is a 1GHz Snapdragon processor that makes Windows Mobile and especially the HTC Sense UI fly. Finally, add in a gorgeous 4.3″ screen and you realize this is not your father’s Windows Mobile device.
Most Xbox 360 fans out there already know about Project Natal that debuted at E3 this year. The tech will deliver motion control to the Xbox 360 that requires no controller to operate.
Samsung has unveiled a new monitor in Korea that is packed with features and can be used as a HDTV as well. the monitor is the Samsung P2370HD and it has 27-inches of screen space. Being that the thing is called a monitor, we can assume it is aimed at computer users who also want to be able to watch TV in one device.
We all know that the Apple iPhone is doing very well in the market. When you stop to think that the device is only available on one network, the success is even more impressive. The new numbers are out for the mobile handset industry in Q3 2009 and Apple was tops for profitability.
Last Christmas my son got one of those Hot Wheels radar guns that can show how fast Hot Wheels cars are going in scale MPH and how fast other things are going in real MPH. The problem was that the radar gun was huge. If you like the idea of being able to see how fast things are going, but want a compact package the Pocket Radar will do it.
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