News & Updates
Sony Vaio leaks Vaio P netbook….fit in a pocket
Sony on Christmas has unintentionally confirmed its netbook model through a placeholder on its VAIO homepage. Now officially labeled the VAIO P, the “revolutionary” system is described as small enough to fit in a pocket yet having a full notebook-level resolution: the 8-inch, LED-backlit display has an extremely wide 1600×768 resolution that covers much more [...]
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now shipping ,annonced by NOKIA today
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now, or soon will be, available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to [...]
iPhone 2.2 update is released by Apple
Apple released a hefty update for the iPhone on Thursday night.
The 2.2 software update is available through iTunes, and it’s packed with lots of goodies. Apple released its 2.1 software update in September.
Some of the highlights of the update center on GPS and Google Maps. For example, version 2.2 includes Google Street View in Google [...]
Dane-Elec PMPs launch it’s own MP3 & MP4 Media Players
After being a small place in marketing the Meizu M6 and M3, Dane-Elec has announced the launch of its own range of MP3/MP4 player with: Music, Music pix, Music and Music mediatouch touch.
Start with the most interesting, the Music mediatouch which is a PMP 4GB or 8GB extensivle via a microSDHC slot with a touch [...]
Bell launching “Rollover Plans” November 1st
Bell has certainly make some massive progress over the last 100 days, and they’re looking to make even greater strides with launching their much leaked “Rollover Plans”, on Saturday, November 1st.
Launching ahead of schedule (well leaked schedule), we are not sure of what the plans will actually be, but Boy Genius Ninjas reported these numbers [...]
[FPDI] Samsung Exhibits Bend-resistant Flexible E-paper
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd exhibited a flexible color electronic paper display that uses carbon nanotubes (CNT) for the common electrodes at FPD International 2008.
The 14.3-inch display is 0.3mm thick and has a resolution of 1060 x 750.
The company employed CNT to prevent the performance degradation of the electrodes after the flexible e-paper is repeatedly bent. [...]
SoftBank to Release 1seg TV Tuner for iPhone 3G
SoftBank BB Corp and SoftBank Mobile Corp will release “TV & Battery,” a product that enables the iPhone 3G to receive 1seg broadcasts and can also be used as an external secondary battery.
They made the announcement Oct 30, 2008. The product will be released in mid December 2008 or later. It will be sold through [...]
T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart
Best Buy has its fancy little iPhone 3G, but it’ll be Wally World offering up the G1 outside of official T-Mobile outlets. As we’d heard yesterday, 550 Walmart stores across the country will begin selling the Android-powered handset beginning tomorrow, and folks who opt to pick one up here versus a traditional T-Mob store will [...]
Mystery RC29 update hits T-Mobile’s G1
While many of you are still waiting for T-Mobile’s RC28 update to hit your G1, at least one reader has trumped us all. KoSoVaR is sitting on fresh, over-the-air software after receiving an update notice a few minutes ago. The process rebooted his G1 “a few times” only to stabilize at RC29. Hard to say [...]
Google release Gmail Mobile 2.0 for Java phones and Blackberry
Today’s release of the Google Mobile 2.0 client for feature phones and Blackberry brings offline email plus a handful of other improvements. They seems to have redesigned the app from the bottom up and besides the overall performance improvement there is now multiple accounts management, multiple mobile email drafts and new shortcuts.
Unfortunately, not all of [...]
