Apple, Gadgets, Android, Microsoft
The Modu founder Dov Morgan found that new source of capital he went for last November. To pay back to creditors and unpaid wages, the firms patent portfolio is slated to be snatched up by Google for $4.8 million. Israeli news Calcalist reports that he is already invested three million smackers in mysterious new start up about which Moran remains tight lipped.
The Best Buy gets the launching of HTC Flyer Android tablet in US, and has revealed Sunday as the official first day of availability of Flyer at $500. The 16GB equipped 7-inch Wi-Fi only tablet will be available with a magic pen that can be bought separately. You can buy yours online at Best Buy Mobile Stores. Click on the source link to order yours.
NEC got the attention in CES with dual-screen Android Tablet/e-reader, calls it as LT-W Cloud Communicator. Now its been re-branded as Life Touch W and officially hits on Japan this June. It features 7-inch, 800*600 resistive touchscreens, 384MB of RAM and Cortex A8 CPU. It got same out-dated Android2.2 OS and a five hour battery. No word on cost up to now and when it will appear outside Japan.
Kingston announces its new data traveler flash drive has been up for second generation offering up 100MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write speeds when plugged into USB 3.0 port plugging into USB 2.0 ports gives you 30MB/sec for both read and write. The 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB drives will costs you $77, $116, and $213 respectively. The drives are available now and for more details read the press release
Recombu reporting that some iterations of the phone Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Arc will be getting upgraded to Android 2.3.4 next week. They are the first non-Nexus phones to get the update. In addition to various Android related updates Sony Ericsson So called Facebook inside Xperia update, to more deeply integrate your phone with the social network. The company also confirmed that the Facebook integration will be included on all future Xperia phones and will be headed to all Xperia models released so far.
The University of British Columbias Electrical & Computer Engineering in Medicine Team managed to bring its Phone Oximeter to our attention, a handy little device for monitoring vitals outside a hospital setting. The meter hooks up to a smartphone iPhone for trials (works with Androids, Windows and Others) displaying wearers blood oxygen level and heart respiratory rates and transmitting the readings to the hospital. Check out the video.
Montana, the GPS-makers new handheld series, offers three models, includes tow built-in with 5MP camera. The base model Montana 600 includes a 3-axis compass and 4-inch sunlight readable touchscreen display for $550, while the Montana 650 features a camera and costs $630 and Montana 650t pairs that camera with pre-loaded topographic maps costs $700. All models include a 16-hour battery or you can insert in three AAs for 22 hours. For more details read the press release.
Fujitsu is now gearing up to release its 7-inch Android tablet. According to DigiTimes, Fujitsus forthcoming slab is scheduled to hit the market during third quarter of this year. It will run on Android 3.1 Honeycomb. It is also unclear that the tablet will sport a same stylus support and a keyboard that its Windows 7 counterpart. They are planning to sell the tablet between the price of $350 to $700.
HTC Trophy arrives on Verizon wireless, finally got the official announcement that it will be launched on May 26th. It runs on Windows Phone 7, and features 3.8-inch WVGA display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 16GB on-board storage, costs $149.99 on contract. For more details read the press release.
Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale only to be dismayed by its inability to display your weight on your living room TV? The Company has just announced that a Withing app is now available for Panasonic VIERA Connect-enabled TVs; access your complete health dashboard from comfort of your crouch or recliner as the case may be. For more details read the press release
Sonys augmented reality is been slowly losing its appeal given its sometimes laggy and unreliable performance most implementations required a weird marker to be in clear sight and graphics rendering speed on your handheld device. Sonys SmartAR announcement came along and said the technology took us by surprise with its super slick responsiveness, and marker less object recognition makes a compelling hassle-free selling point. Virtual objects continue to animate even when the original object is out of sight, Sonys SmartAR is available to game developers and advertisers, for more details read the press release and dont forget look at the video
The Droid X2 makes the official announcement yesterday, the 4.3-inch Android2.2 can be upgraded to 2.3 smartphone with a qHD screen resolution and dual-core 1GHz processor, 8MP camera with auto-focus and HD video recording, it will cost $200 on contract and will be available to buy online from today and will hit the stores on May 26th. NVIDIA has confirmed the Tegra 2 chip is the unnamed dual-core chip inside the Droid X2. Click on the source link to order your Droid X2 for $199.99 on a two year contract and $449.99 as full retail price and for more details read the press release.
Samsung entices with its electrowetting displays at SID 2011. There was a monochrome model that operates at low frequencies to cut down on current consumption. According to Mirasols tech, electrowetting has ways to go to match the image quality of IMOD. They said that its reflective screens can be constructed with minimal mods to existing LCD manufacturing plants, while making Mirasol requires lab facilities. Mirasols large scale production plant wont be around until 2012. So Samsung hopes to snatch the market at first. Dont forget to look at the videos
The recent Boxee Box1.1 update fixes the surround sound problems, brings back volume control. The company has completed the work on the fix and released the version v1.1.1 update. Users of the Box can now matrix stereo audio sources through their surround sound setup again and if you prefer volume control to be on, its just a click of settings checkbox away. Its still not decoding the Dolby TrueHD to 5.1 channels PCM internally, appears to be the change originally intended due to the licensing between Dolby and D-Link. The update can be downloaded automatically or if you want to update it manually means click on the source link.
The Fujitsus LifeBook tablet PC hits in US for the cost of $1899. It features Intel Core i5-2520M Processor, 13.3-inch, 1280*768 LCD supports NVIDIAs Optimus Graphics, display also got active digitizer, for that you have to pay an additional $100 for dual digitizer that enables five finger capacitive multi-touch. For extra life, there is a modular bay that allows you to swap in a second battery or hard drive, along with integrated fingerprint sensor that will keep your kids away from your precious TPS reports. Hit on the source link to buy yours.
Garmin announced the high-end GPS navigator, the nuLink! 2390. It was Europe only affair, leaving American consumers wondering why the company was giving us the cold shoulder. We now spotted the unnamed 4.3-inch Garmin making its way through FCC. The newest nuLink!-enabled device is even showing its face in companys US website. It is not available to order and you will have to do some serious digging to unearth it. You will be able to pull in 3D traffic data and search Google, its GSM radio is nice, tether your phone using Bluetooth for hands-free calls, also got voice recognition software and tracking features are available. Click on the source link to buy the device
Motorola was the first one for getting the update of Android 3.1 after releasing it by Google. Now Acer and ASUS are following the suit with plans to freshen up their tablets. To recap the Android 3.1 benefits includes resizable widgets, support for USB peripherals, new Movies and Book Apps, and some other perks. Acer confirmed to us, it aims to start selling the Iconia Tab A500 with Android 3.1 next month, as well as upgrade existing units running Android 3.0. ASUS has been touting the impending update for the Eee Pad Transformer on Italian Facebook Page.
KDDIs just announced INFOBAR A01, hits the country by July. It runs Android 2.3, completely custom UI designed by Yugo Nakamura that follows similar glanceable design principles to Windows phone 7, KDDI describes it as a single band of information. It boasts 3.7-inch qHD display, 8MP camera, 1seg TV tuner, dual-mode GSM/CDMA connectivity; it got some tile buttons and common themes of INFOBAR phones. It will be coming in four different colors and some optical silicon leather case. Dont forget to look at the videos to see the phone in action.
