Apple, Gadgets, Android, Microsoft
WWDC promises, iPhone can make some solace in the fact that the updates have already begun. At least a portion of the new functionality is now available by opening up the Purchased tab in iOS 4s App Store, revealing the history of apps that have been downloaded with your account, includes those are not currently in your device. These are not presently installed feature a cloud icon, makes it possible to re-download them to the device.
ASUS UBB powered monitor 24-inch with a single cable and USB 3.0s extra current and bandwidth. The LED monitor is 16.5mm thick, 1080p with 2ms response time and has a 10000000:1 contrast ratio. Some extras have to be thrown overboard to bring the power consumption down. There are no additional USB or audio ports, webcam, card reader, or ability to daisy-chain.
Microsoft including some new features for Xbox 360 lice Voice search and new look for service. The Kinect add-on, looks like the system is being refashioned with the support to build in form the ground up as opposed to the current menu system thats more of afterthought. The page are Dance Central 2, Kinect Sports Season 2, and two new Halo games. One is Combat Evolved Anniversary in HD, other one is Halo 4. YouTube has been announced as Xbox Live Partner and Bing is to be used as a search engine for Netflix, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Hulu all at once. It also extends to Live TV partnerships with Sky, Canal+, and Foxtel. The UI got into metro look with the old Kinect UI elements.
MSIs made the simplification of PC overclocking the priority over the past few years, and an updated Wind BIOS from last decade putting all sorts of power into hands of mere mortals. At Computex, the things are one step further with the Afterburner Android App. The GPU tool enables users to monitor the temperature, voltage and fan speed of their graphics card through a Wi-Fi connection, you can overclock and overvolt to your content. For more details read the press release.
The Sprint has now announced the official release date: June 24th. On this day, the EVO 3D smartphone, and View 4G tablet is going to be released on Sprint, they both equipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread as their OS and WiMAX radios. The 4.3-inch EVO 3D boosts 1.2GHz dual-core processor and priced at $200 on contract, we already hit you up with the news of pre-order for both of these. The 7-inch View 4G boosts single-core 1.5GHz processor will double that price with $400 on a two year contract. The Sprint Premier customers are able to buy the EVO 3D online on June 21st, for more details read the press release
Acer now founding itself grappling with data breach, it has reportedly cost in the details of over 40,000 customers. The details includes their names, emails addresses, phone numbers, addresses, also names of products purchased by the customers. As Hacker News said that the Hacking group are from the Pakistan Cyber Army is a well-known hacking outfit. Still the attack is unclear, hacker themselves have assured that for a press conference.
Microsoft demonstrated the Windows 8 this week, and the OS has an interface almost nobody expected for predicted. It looks like the Windows Phone 7 OS. So both your PC and tablet will run Windows 8, but your PC will be able to run your current version of Office or QuickBooks. On the tablet you will have to wait for new, Metro-specific versions to be created. The main reason behind this is the people now started using the tablets than PCs; the plan of them is good. The Microsofts clueless about the future of touch computing proved by the companys latest demo.
Kingston Digital has now launched a wireless storage device called Wi Drive for iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone 3G/3GS/4. There is a USB port to make it compatible with other non-Mac PCs. It comes in two storage capabilities 16GB and 32GB bundled with mini USB to USB cable. It got special app for Wi Drive acts as an interface. The Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with WPA/WEP network security supports various media formats like ACC, MP3, MOV, MP4 and more for both audio and video and there is JPG, PDF and many other formats for images and document files as well. There is still no word on pricing yet.
The Apple is now working on the new patent. It intends to bail the recording industry out of the illegal photography and video recording of concerts by the general public. The devices iPhones, iPod Touch, and iPad 2 will include invisible infrared sensors integrated into iOS devices with built in camera. Its functioning on the sensors on one mobile device will be used to look another signal which would instruct the user if it good to click the image, or record video of the concert. If it is illegal the camera will be automatically disabled.
The Knos software plans, with the release of the Textbook apps are becoming reality now. It brings some 70,000 discounted educational titles to iPad. The free app lets students read and organize texts, affix annotations, and communicate with study partners, offers creative new way to pass notes in class. For more details read the press release and hit on the source link to download your free apps
Verizon and Motorola have kept the secret of Droid 3, but the Phonepads got three tutorial videos of Droid 3. It got a 5 row QWERTY slider, no discussion of dual-core session, there is a 8MP camera on board, and its capable of 1080p HD video recording. Other specs are it got volume keys on the right edge, the apparent lack of dedicated camera button, and micro-USB and mini-HDMI on the left edge. You can also get a Swype virtual keyboard and no clues about what version of Android its using. Check out the videos
These are so called Ultrabooks at Computex 2011; the Lenovos IdeaPad U300S is an ultra-thin, sub-$1,000 notebook game. Lenovo wasnt disclosing exact specs at the show, the company upgraded the slick IdeaPad U260 design with Sandy Bridge chips and a 13.3-inch screen and a trim-uni-body laptop to attain supermodel measurements. Dont forget to look at the video
Now there is an official announcement from RadioShack that Red HTC Inspire 4G is available for $29.99 on a two-year contract AT&T (or $550 off the contract). It features 4.3-inch WVGA display, 1GHz Snapdragon Processor, 8MP camera with LED flash, and Android 2.2 with Sense. There is still no word on Gingerbread update. Hit on the source link to get yours
The Sonys new S2 tablet headed to USA now, FCC got a glimpse at Sir Howards dual-screen honeycomb tablet. It got some crucial specs: Sonys SGPT 211US features 2.4 GHz, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 850MHz and 1900 MHz 3G bands launching at AT&T. The 3G speeds represented will hit you on the 21Mbps HSPA+ speeds. It got 3080 mAh lithium-ion battery as well.
The Creative designed a new multi-core audio and voice processor called Core3D. The external device and an integrated chip on Creatives vendor devices can also include consumer electronics. The chip is based on a 56-pin QFP package. The Sound Core 3D chip uses four cores, 4 and 6-channel audio 24-bit DACs and a headphone amplifier output. There is support for usual digital outputs as well as a digital microphone in. It also has enhancements for echo cancellation, noise reduction, and normalization of audio.
Huawei seems to be latest to enter the tablet market. It is launching its new tablet called MediaPad. They noted it as Next Generation Smart Device, and Smallest and Lightest tablet released in history. But what we assume from them is the tablet may be running Android honeycomb, and sports a 7-inch screen. We will hope to get more news update to that stay tuned with us.
Sony is actively working on the developing the next generation gaming console successor to the PS3. R&D budgets have already been allocated for the new gaming console. Masaru Kato, Sonys Chief Financial Officer says that We have a portable, NGP, to be launched later this year, so we have development expenses to be incurred for this product. And for home equipment, the PS3, this still has a product life, but this is a platform business. So for the future platform, when we will be introducing what product I cannot discuss that, but our development work is already underway and the costs are incurred there, he added.
The Notion Ink Adam tablet is once again on sale. The Adam is powered by NVIDIA Tegra 250 Processor with dual core Cortex A9, allows it to play 1080p video on HDTV via HDMI port. The tablet is low power consuming 1024*600 display, Optional Pixel Qi can be viewed under direct sunlight. It also features 3.2Mp camera, can capture 720p HD video, Wi-Fi, 3G. Wi-Fi only models also available.
