Now, far be it from us to suggest that Sprint are looking to trick would-be iPhone 4G seekers into watching their latest Overdrive promo, but calling your video “Make your iPhone 4G” and then criticising AT&T’s 3G network isn’t going to go down well in Dallas. The Overdrive is of course Sprint’s 3G/4G MiFi-style portable WiFi hotspot, capable – if you’re in one of the 25 areas with WiMAX coverage – of up to 6Mbps downlink speeds.
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Love the HTC Desire but not feeling the standard brown casing that we’ve seen up until now? Your luck is in: a silver version of the Snapdragon-based Android handset has been spotted over in the Netherlands, where it’s already up for pre-order. Both devices are functionally identical, beyond the brighter casing on the silver model.
Having spent almost two years putting together his to-scale R2D2 – complete with authentic sound effects – Victor Franco is now attempting perhaps an even tougher challenge: documenting the whole thing. The 140lb robot has become a mainstay at charity and publicity events, and can be completely remote-controlled.
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Didn't get enough of ASUS' O!Play HD2 mediaplayer, complete with its segment-leading USB 3.0 connectivity? ARM-loving Charbax has offered up a demo video of the O!Play HD2 in action from CeBIT 2010, and while the UI may not be the most inspiring we've ever seen, you can't really knock the ports ASUS have squeezed in.
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Microsoft have been demonstrating some of the software that has already been created for Windows Phone 7 series in Silverlight, including the Associated Press’ news reader app and The Harvest, a 3D Xbox game which links the gamer’s achievements into Xbox LIVE. The ongoing theme throughout has been how straightforward development can be, together with the strength of the platform (and the Snapdragon-based hardware, of course). Check out video demos after the cut.
It’s fair to say the early reviews of the ASUS Eee PC T101MT were disappointing, in no small part because it felt like we’d been waiting a whole long time for the company’s latest touchscreen convertible. According to netbooklive, however, we may all have spoken too soon: turns out that the hardware we’ve seen so far has been sprinkled with pre-production bugs; they’ve got a production-ready sample, and the end result is much more impressive.
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Palm Pre not fast enough for you? The Pre Plus doubles the webOS smartphone's RAM but leaves the processor (a 600MHz TI OMAP 3430 underclocked by Palm to 500MHz) unchanged; happily where Palm themselves seemingly fear to tread, owners themselves have no such qualms. A couple of mod-happy Pre owners have overclocked the smartphone to 800MHz, resulting in swifter performance and, surprisingly, no significant increase in power consumption.
Given the number of wireless-enabled, high-aspiring ereaders we’ve seen promised for launch and then failing to turn up on schedule – Plastic Logic and Spring Design, we’re looking at you – there are times when you wonder if you’re better off with a regular ebook device that does the basics well. One such example might be the Pocketbook 360°, a non-wireless reader around the size of a CD case and half the weight of a Kindle or nook; it may not let you download ebooks while on the move, but it does apparently boast super-fast speed and usability.
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Hanvon’s BC10C (and its BA10E sibling) was a surprising stand-out from CeBIT 2010 recently, a multitouch-capable 10-inch slate running Windows 7. jkkmobile managed to bring one home from the show, and has been testing it out to see whether it’s all good news. The upside is that media performance – thanks to the 1.3GHz Celeron ULV processor – is decent; the downside is that CULV notebook style components don’t add up to extremes of battery life.
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If we’re being honest, we far prefer clever renders of what designers think the next-gen iPhone should look like rather than so-called “leaked” shots that smell unduly fake. Italian design firm ADR Studio have thrown their oar in with this, the iPhone Pro, coupling iPad styling with some Transformer-like slide out panels offering gaming controls.
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