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Now the opportunity to let the FCC read youre thoughtful, reasoned take on how a GSM monopoly in US might or might not work. To comment, simply visit the source links below of FCC, has some handy forms one for short comments, one for long one and one for with the magic number of the related proceeding, which is 11-65. Let them know just how you will be impacted if the deal goes through, for better or for worse.
The first of Lenovos CES announced S-series, S205, came to the online store this week, albeit lacking the 8GB DDR3 SDRAM option mentioned as its announcement. The base model priced at $499, features a 1.60GHz dual-core AMD Fusion E-350 CPU, 11.6-inch 1366*768 resolution 16:9 widescreen panel, 3GB DDR3 SDRAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 6310 Graphics, and a 350GB hard disk. Two higher cost configurations scored an extra gig of RAM, optional Bluetooth radio, and a 500GB or 750GB HDD. At logic buy the base model is priced at $429 until Wednesday. To get your IdeaPad go to the source links.
The Toshibas upcoming Honeycomb tablet is already headed to Japanese store as Regza AT300, but its been a little slower in arriving stateside. Now the company could be close to shipping real, working product in US. The unnamed slate dubbed the ET100/WT100 for now, it has won the FCC approval for its 802.11n, and Bluetooth radios. The slate features 10.1-inch 1280*800 display, runs on NVIDIAs Tegra2 platform, dual cameras, HDMI and USB ports, an SD card reader, and a removable battery.
Verizon document suggests that will be getting some brand new radio firmware for beleaguered HTC Thunderbolt. The device is not only fallen victim Verizon LTE outage but has 3G data and CDMA / LTE cycling issues since day one. So we lets hope this latest baseband will bring atleast a modicum of relief for affected speed demons across the country. But we dont know when this patch will show up we thought the Xooms security update would be imminent.
With the updated code comes tablet friendly layouts and fast-scrolling in all grid and list views so you can zip through your large local media library. It also includes direct play, internet streaming, sans-transcoding for sating those right now vid carvings. The update is also for small Android devices as well, which makes the newly egalitarian app more enticing than ever before. It costs only five bucks. Get your Plex app by clicking on the source link.
The new J1772 to Roadster Connector bridges the Roadsters 2008 designed charge port to the industry standard J1772, adopted by automakers and energy firms over a full year after its debut. The coupling cable will juice up your wheels in just 4 hours at EV stations outputting 70 amps, or in seven and half an hours for the average 32 amp level-2 charger and this costs you at $750. For your order of the new Tesla J1772 click on the source link.
The Skinny device that is Bluetooth keyboard KT-1087 popped up on Federal Communications site, stripped naked for government filling enthusiasts of the world to collectively ogle. That hopefully means the rest of us will see the wireless add-on for sale in the near future, AA battires not included it will sure go nicely with the HP TouchPad you have been eyeing.
The Sony is offering the one of the best cameras now: Bloggie 3D. The latest addition to the companys line of pocket camcorders was made available this week for $249.99 a $80 more than recently released Bloggie Duo HD, because extra dimensions isnt cheap. The camera takes a cue from Nintendos latest portable, features 2.4-inch 3D display that eschews the need for glasses. If you are not in the mood to squint, you can output the video to a 3D enabled HDTV. For your orders click on the source link
RIM is apparently getting to set debut a new touchscreen-equipped BlackBerry Bold Touch at BlackBerry World next week. While still not completely official, that is now been all but confirmed by RIM itself, it briefly featured the teaser picture on its website. RIM couldnt help itself and promised that it will be a bold step ahead, and it appears that this device is running in BlackBerry 7, which until recently was better known as OS6.1.
The Sprint would sell the Xoom a calendar entry here, an accessory there but there is a conforming peep from the Now Network itself. It announced it would join the legion of retailers peddling the Wi-Fi version of Motorolas tablet for $599.99 on May 8th. The carrier will start selling the Honeycomb slate soon enough, but a Xoom Sprint cellular data is a bit of let-down. For more details read the press release
We have been inundated with tips that there is a sticky sweet new build of Android on the way for recent crop of slates that OEMs and carriers are rolling out and that just like that last time you will need that software to take advantage of all hardware rendering compositing that your Tegra 2 silicon can afford. The 720p video playback wont be a problem this time. The Android Market item above was updated this morning to read requires an upcoming release of Android 3 rather than Android 3.1, but it is unclear whether the original number was inaccurate or Adobe got in trouble
Motorolas Xoom LTE upgrade has been delayed. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha told that we will be seeing the Bionic, delay that we were already sulking about ans said that the company is waiting for its LTE rollout to get a little further along. So, it seems to be one less G for Xoom users until summer and no Bionic at until then. Motorola also says it shipped over 250,000 Xooms in the Q1 of this year, and managed net revenues of $3 billion. That is 22percent up from last year, which brought losses down to $.27 per share mush nicer than $.72 in Q1 2010.
Google is about to start delivering Android 2.3.4 to Nexus S devices out in the wild, and in among all the bug fixes and optimizations, users will find the addition of video and voice chat to Google Talk. You will be able to do it anywhere, by virtue of Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G or the force, and other Gingerbread devices are expected to get same improvements in time. Googles own branded handset is the only one device enjoys the freshest Gingerbread around. Dont forget to check the video.
The smartphones platforms are legitimated by KIRF manufacturers tenacity to rip them off, and then Windows Phone 7 has truly arrived. We are looking at a larger than life HTC-branded knock-off of the Omnia 7, replete with 800*480, 4.8 inch display with capacitive touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon Processor. Given the massive size of this phone, there is plenty of room for features, it some of the specs are Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity, 5MP camera, dual-SIM and two microSD slots (can store up to 32GB). The device comes saddled with Windows Mobile 6.5 which has been heavily modified to resemble WP7s tile interface. There is no word yet in pricing.
The electronic giant teased a couple of interesting VAIO laptops. First one is Freestyle Hybrid PC that slides between tablet mode and laptop mode like Samsung Sliding PC, but with a seemingly slimmer bottom-half sans trackpad. No word on specs, prices or availability here, but you may recall our proven tipster mentioning a 9.4-inch screen and a $799 launch price.
The report expectedly remains confidential, but HP was at least kind enough to repeatedly mention TouchPad in its latest FCC filling, which saves us a bit of digging, and it means that the webOS tablet remains on track for a US launch soon sometime in June. It may get some cloud-based additions before then? HP will have more to say its Veer-focused event that is already scheduled for May 2nd, we already told about that
Windows Phone and BlackBerry Mobiles struggle to attract the developers attention. It applies to only the users of cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development entertainment, but it appears what Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingly uphill battle for mobile mind-share. Only 29 percent of devs responded to the companys quarterly survey they were very interested in putting their waves on WP7, a fall of 7 points from last quarter and far less than market leaders Android and iOS. News is even worse for RIM, it saw a fall of 11 points in developers interest for BlackBerry, and now trails the folks from Redmond. The survey is based on only 2,760 developers using a particular product. As you see the charts, you can see the struggle of both WP7 and RIM.
The official announcement has come; Casios macho GzOne Commando is coming to Verizon on April 28th for the price of $200 on-contract. In addition to meeting 810G military specifications for water, dust, shock, vibration, salt fog, solar radiation, and temperature extremes, it runs Android 2.2(Froyo) and features 3.6-inch (480*800) display, 5MP camera with autofocus, microSD slot, Wi-Fi, Stereo Bluetooth, and a hotspot for sharing 3G with up to five devices. It got bundles of apps for outdoorsy types, compass, pedometer, star gazer and thermometer. For more details read the press release.
