Monthly Archive: January 2012

Direct sunlight and Amazons Kindle have always gone hand in hand you cant read the E-Ink without a strong light source. Now SolarKindle cover basks in the suns rays, charges for days and days. It is making sense of lighting requirement with a solar panel, pack into a convenient case, toss in reading lamp and give readers the gift of effortlessly extended battery life exactly what SolarFocus intends to do. It is scheduled to be shown in this week CES, it adds three months of unplugged use, in addition to 5 hours for its included LED lamp. It is slated for January 15th bow, and costs you $80. For more details read the press release.

The 3D feature is incorporated in everything from movies to TVs and now mobiles, gaming consoles and smartphones. Now a Chinese manufacturer Aigo coupling the device with Googles Ice Cream Sandwich and their own glasses-free 3D display (3D Pad) that utilizes a high resolution LCD display similar to Nintendos 3DS, lets users turn the effect on or off. No words on pricing yet or launching plans, but it can be announced outside of a planned February 2012. Dont forget to look at the video.

ViewSonic smartphone has just revealed ViewPhone 3 (V350) which just cleared the FCC. It is previously geared towards Russian and European users, now the company hopes to make a splash with the device at CES. The View Phone 3 features dual-SIM technology and will be marketed in Latin America. It offers quadband GSM and EDGE, and also for North American purposes, 3G limited to 850MHz spectrum. It packs 3.5-inch HVGA display, 512MB RAM and delivers two upgrades over international version an 800 MHz Qualcomm CPU and Android 2.3. ViewSonic planned to sell the unlocked version for mere $250.

Motorola launching two Android devices for the Greater Chinese, European, and Latin American Markets, first one is higher end Motorola MOTOLUXE which we have already seen in China as XT615, packs 4-inch display, 8MP camera with flash, and a nifty lit lanyard slot on the front for email, text, and voicemail notifications. The least dynamic of this duo is the dust-proof, water-resistant, Gorilla-glass-toting DEFY MINI, features 3MP camera, 3.2-inch display, 1650mAh battery that got 10 hours talk and 21 days stand by time. There is no word on pricing yet, but the devices will be available on February. Dont forget to look at the video and for more details read the press release.

Brando introduces a new tablet named GADMEI T863-3D Tablet. The slate runs on Gingerbread offers up 3D images and video on its 8-inch display, without the need for glasses. It also got a HDMI out, a microSD card slot it can be extended up to 32GB, a front-facing camera. It got 512MB RAM on-board, this tablet just costs you $199. Dont forget to look at the video of the tablet and the specs.

US cellular let it be known on Twitter that its first LTE smartphone would arrive in April. Now the question is the device is from Samsung, known internally as SCH-R930. Previously outed by Pocketnow in September as a US cellular device, the device has just made its way through FCC, with a LTE support. The Belief Network currently lacks a top-tier Samsung smartphone, the model number indicates that, we will be looking for a clone of Galaxy Indulge.

AT&T has done a thing for its 2012 Developer Summit, this slot of them making most of them a pause. Titled A Metro Style Hemi, an afternoon session at event will showcase a Windows 8 tablet, reportedly powered by Qualcomms many chips. There are no details on whether or not a physical unit will be on hand with an active LTE radio, but it is useful to know that Microsofts already talking with the carrier about hosting such devices. We are still believing that Windows 8 based tablets are a few months out, but if already AT&Ts already got one in its lab for testing, we should be looking to handle a LTE + Windows 8 tablet sooner than expected.

OLPCs XO 3.0 tablet is finally ready to be unveiled at CES. Nicholas Negroponte apparently either found the unbreakable screens he was looking for or simply decided the crowds at CES 2012 should get to see the tablet first. Its powered by Marvell APM PXA618 SoC that runs Android or Linux and has the same pixel Qi display seen in other OLPCs. It has special charging circuitry, it can top up its battery using solar cells, and hand cranks like its XO1.75. Its useful feature in places electrical sockets are hard to come by. For more details read the press release.

UK retailer Clove technology is accepting pre-order for Googles latest smartphone, complete with 16GB storage and smothered in a milky-white finish. Interested people living across can part with 498 ($770 VAT included) on February 6th to acquire this white Ice-Cream-Sandwich running device. If you are stateside, the retailer also offers shipping to US you can import the Nexus for around 431 or $666. Hit on the source link to pre-order yours.

Samsung introduces some new accessories for its mobile devices. A pair of Bluetooth headsets is on the tap, the HM1800 and HM6000, but, oddly enough, it the companys your sound wired models that are getting the bulk attention. The EHS-60, 63, 70, and 71 all offers a twist on the wired stereo headset models. The high end 70 and 71 are crafted of aluminium and includes welcome features like anti-tangle cords. The interesting one here is, the EHS63 features an in-ear bud for higher frequencies and an open air speaker for lower end. For more details read the press release.

A contact microphone is connected to a system that processes sound from unique gestures and then triggers the appropriate instrument in its database; thereby turning virtually any surface into an experimental jam band. Different gestures can be added to Mogees, can also recognize the difference between fingers and objects as coins. The project is not commercially available, if you are unfamiliar with contact microphones, you can look at the video below.

BryteWerks introduces its new line of High Definition Digital Projectors, you can find a 16:10 wide screen 1920*1200 projector with brightness of 6,000 to 11,000 lumens, depends on the configuration. There is also a Home-Theatre PC, complete with Intel Core i3 to i7 CPU, Blu-Ray drive, and storage options includes a 2TB Hard disk drive, or a 500GB SSD. The system can be controlled using the embedded 720p 8.9-inch touchscreen, or remotely using a keyboard and mouse or an Android or iOS app. There is no word on release date yet, but the prices range from $2,449 to $5,999. For more details read the press release.