Android concept phones were ten-a-penny back when we though Google themselves would be producing the hardware, but they’ve dwindled since HTC started pumping out devices. Happily that hasn’t stopped designer Tryi Yeh, whose Google-G0 concept is one of the better we’ve seen.
Time to roll out the old render, as news emerges about what could be considered the true PSP2. According to Eurogamer Spain, they’ve acquired the spec-sheet for Sony’s in-development successor to the current PSP, a long leap ahead of what’s on offer with the PSPGo.
For a moment there, the UK was almost ahead: Mio’s Navman Spirit TV PNDs wowed and impressed with their blend of GPS navigation and digital TV, only to be blown out of the proverbial water by Korean firm Hyundai Telematics. Their new PROVIA A7+ PND takes the Navman Spirit TV and uses that as a mere kicking-off point, stuffing in simultaneous T-DMB digital TV and TPEG road status reception and more.
UK carrier Orange may not have secured the Palm Pre, but from the sound of it they don’t really mind; their next high-end device is far more unusual than a simple slider smartphone. The carrier has revealed that it will be exclusively offering LG’s GD910 Watch Phone in the UK this August, complete with capacitive touchscreen and integrated video calling.
Video demo after the cut
NVIDIA are expected to announce two new GPUs at the end of September 2009, built using 40nm processes. The NVIDIA GeForce GT220 (GT216) and GeForce G210 (GT218) have been tipped by sources at graphics card manufacturers, with the products expected to go up against ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830 products.
Don’t you just love a cellphone teaser campaign? The answer you’re looking for is “No, Chris, we don’t” but sadly news of that fact is yet to reach LG. After the success of their Chocolate series of cellphones, the company is unsurprisingly looking to milk that enthusiasm for all it’s worth: hence the shadowy preview photos and the PR hyperbole that the new LG Chocolate “will be a disruptive force in conventional mobile screens”.
Careful where you pour that hot water: on the right is a 12oz coffee cup, while on the left is Synology’s latest NAS, the 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. Squeezing up to four 2.5-inch hard-drives into a 120 x 105 x 142 mm box, the DS409slim still offers up to 2TB of storage or various levels of RAID secure data redundancy.
Seidio’s first extended battery for the Palm Pre may have had the charge – it promised almost double the capacity of the standard 1,150mAh pack the smartphone is shipped with – but it also had the bulk to go with it. Now Seidio are back with an alternative; you only get around 20-percent more capacity, but there’s no change in your Pre’s profile.
Bookeen have been showing off their upcoming 5-inch ebook, the Cybook Opus, and it’s being met with favor by the e-ink obsessives over at MobileRead. They describe the 150g ebook reader as “positively gorgeous” with excellent ergonomics; the screen doesn’t look half bad either, a 200dpi 600 x 800 pixel panel with auto-rotation courtesy of an integrated accelerometer.
Sony’s VAIO P was never the netbook many people expected it to be – its unusual screen aspect, stand-out form-factor and high sticker price meant it never quite competed with the regular Atom N270 netbook crowd – so the company is back with a far more mainstream alternative. The Sony VAIO W is an “internet book” with a 10.1-inch screen and Intel’s typical N270 1.6GHz processor.
Update: It’s official for the US; more details after the cut
Video demo after the cut
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