Obviously smarting from the touchscreen attention paid to the O2 Joggler, Orange France are planning to bring out the Tabbee. Unlike the Joggler, which is resolutely desk-bound, the Tabbee is a 7-inch touchscreen WiFi tablet with a battery good for 3hrs “intensive use”; that can include media viewing, internet widgets and more.
Video demo after the cut
In case you’ve not been keeping track of our sister site My Pre – and shame on you if that’s the case – you may have missed Palm’s latest official Pre demo video. After the first video’s run-through of the basic Pre calendar, email, internet and messaging functionality, this new piece – called “This Weekend” – showcases some of the freshly-announced apps: Fandango and Pandora.
Palm Pre video after the cut
As promised, Zer01 Mobile have announced the commercial launch date for their unlimited voice and data cellphone service. The package – which is priced at $69.95 per month, and uses a proprietary VoIP system to route voice calls over the data network – will be available for new users to sign up to from July 1st 2009.
Nokia have announced Point and Find, a new app for Nokia handsets which can recognize barcodes and cinema posters. The software uses the phone’s camera, internet access and GPS to call up pre-programmed tags; that can then bring up local movie times, the ability to book tickets, and – eventually – price comparisons.
Grandstream have announced a new IP phone, the GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone, and unlike most of its rivals this isn’t a launch solely for the benefit of big enterprise customers. The Grandstream GXV3140 supports VoIP and video conferencing via an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, together with IM, internet access and streaming radio, and the company claim that out-of-the-box you can be making video calls within minutes of plugging it into a broadband router.
Further details on the Moses SmartQ 5 MID have emerged, together with live photos. The 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen mobile internet device – first spotted back in February - is now known to have a 667MHz ARM11 processor, 1GB of internal storage (of which 256MB is available to the user) and an SD slot for cards up to 32GB in size. The SmartQ 5 is also compatible with EDGE USB modems, thanks to USB-host connectivity.
After reporting financial performance that could legitimately be called disastrous, Archos have announced their plans to turn around business in 2009 and beyond. Key among those plans is the release of the company’s Android-based multimedia internet tablet, first tipped back in February, together with a new range of MP3 products and pushing out its Archos Internet Media Club film download service.
Sun have been commissioned to fit the internet into a box: a shipping-container sized box, to be exact, packed full with 60 of the company’s Sun Fire X4500 Open Storage Systems. It’s all for The Internet Archive, who wanted a secure way to keep their three petabytes of backup data safe.
iRiver’s P35 PMP could possibly be the company’s most MID-like device to date, with a 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen good not only for audio and video playback but, in the model with WiFi b/g, a full internet browser. We’re still waiting to hear the final judgment on the P35 from a full review, but until then this video demo of the PMP’s GUI and functionality will tide us over.
Video demo after the cut
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