Author: Amarnath Natarajan

Verizon has finally pushed out version 1.9 of its Media Guide Software to set-top boxes in Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and Harrisburg. Other regions will be expected to be upgraded in a couple of months. If you have forgotten whats coming with this software, here are the new features: a wide screen HD guide, (its replacing the old 4*3 SD one), support for switching 3DTVs into correct mode automatically, native passthrough, 1080p, external hard drives, DVD style capturing on DVR recordings, new search functions, and access to DVR recordings from boxes in the house.

Word on the street is that Samsung will not be able to meets its demand of 6 inch to 9 inch variants of AMOLED displays for the tablet market this year. Due to recent earthquake and tsunami disasters in Japan, Samsung is facing few problems including a delay in receiving scanners for these displays production lines from Nikon.

After months of fighting between these both, Motorola and Huawei have finally come to an agreement to settle their differences once and for all. Both of them dropped their pending lawsuits, with Motorola originally accusing Huawei of stealing trade secrets from its former employees, and later on Huawei getting all worried about Motorola leaking confidential information over their partnership revealing Nokia Siemens Networks.

Check out the A4 and A3 paper sized AeroBee terminals from Bridgestone. The company unveiled two new tablets with 21-inch and 13-inch colour e-paper screens the largest available on the market. You can check them in the video; dont get too excited, these beasts arent destined for consumers. They are being marketed to businesses which will likely use them as in-store displays.

Gigabytes S1080 is about as far as you can get from an iPad, with its dual-core Atom N550 processor, 320GB hard disk and Ethernet port. It runs on Windows 7. The company is going head to head with Apples magic slate it is just priced the 10-inch, 3G enabled tablet at NT$22,900($787), a shade higher than the NT$22,800 price of first generation iPad with 3G with 64GB storage. If you have Windows tablet with mouse buttons, with all the things, though finding a cheaper Window slate should be cinch.

The first benchmark of Samsung Galaxy S II makes the other phones cry in shame. Its a speedy phone, got dual-core Exynos CPU, pulled off 3,053 in Quadrant, and scored double. The scores also represent a more than 3 fold improvement over the original Samsung Galaxy S. These are purely synthetic benchmarks and may not translate into an equally improved experience in a day to day use.

The Company explains on its Facebook page that the demand for Eee Pad Transformer has apparently been so high that the first few batches have sold out much quicker than planned. That really left the global launch of Android Honeycomb tablet a bit in air, with the company only directing folks to its Facebook pages for individual countries for more information.

Yesterday, Vodafone become the first UK carrier to confirm the launch of the brand new HTC Sensation. This was soon followed by Orange, T-Mobile and Three who unveiled that they would also offer HTC Sensation in the UK.

The Netbook news has managed to get its hands on reference tablet based on Intels brand new Atom Z670 processor at IDF Beijing, but one running a new version of MeeGo with a spiffed up UI. In the video shown, its looked to be marked improvement over the tablet interface that was just shown off at Mobile World Congress in February, with it offering a both more refined appearance and more intuitive navigation system.

The Andi-One a universal remote boasts compatibility with thousands of devices, unlike the most. It runs on Android 2.1. This 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen clicker can check email, browse the web, control your HTPCs mouse and keyboard, runs over100,000 Android apps, act as a VoIP phone, and kick movies directly to your TV through HDMI enabled charging cradle. It is not only controlling your entertainment devices, it is giving you the choice between changing the channel and playing Angry Birds- if thats not innovation, we dont know what it is. Its now available for $350

Korgs Wavedrum can make your inexcusable actions a wee bit less annoying. The Q3 bound Mini camps the companys digital drum pad technology into portable package with a built in speaker, and its myriad buttons let you choose from 100 different sounds. You can get 100 pre-set rhythms for those who prefer their instruments play themselves. There is even a loop function so you can build a layer upon layer of cacophonous noise. The best part is the included sensor; it can be clipped to almost anything, turning your ceaseless toe tapping into bass hits.

The Chumby has never exactly been a device for everyone that is not likely to change anything with the new Chumby 8, which recently started shipping. The new Chumby 8 users are not likely to be disappointed by the new 8-inch model. According to the CNETs review of the device, the Chumby 8 is the Chumby 8 is the best and biggest Chumby yet, with the larger display and additional USB port. It is better suited for for use as a photo frame or a Media player. The plethora of apps making it versatile as ever, its still a Chumby, which CNET notes that it will be difficult to sell in a World filled with tablets, smartphones, and widget-filled TVs.

As we told already today about the HTC Sensation, here is another update. The HTC latest worst kept secret is live on Vodafone UKs website. So here is the scoop: 4.3-inch qHD with 540*960 pixel resolution and SLCD display, 1.2MP front facing camera augmented by an 8MP shooter with dual LED flash in the backside. A 1.2GHz Snapdragon dual-core Processor, 4GB of internal memory and 8GB supplied on memory card. Thats the news for new Android Sensation up to now.

A VGA resolution on 2.46-inch equals 326ppi, thats the Nokias new E6 handset. Nokias Symbian Anna update has found itself a little carrier to the market in the new E6. The business-centric device touts awesome battery life, with up to a month of standby time, got both QWERTY keypad and touchscreen, for more details check and press release and the video.

The HTC Thunderbolt owners neednt wait another day to test a video call in a video-enabled version of Skype. Verizon announcing at the 11th hour, that its flagship LTE phone would be shipped as Sans Skype. Its still unavailable in the Android Market, but the build has appeared from ether and seems to be humming along just fine. The Skypes video calling seems to be good and handsets 1.3MP front-facing video call camera is really nice.

RCA has announced the way back at CES; its finally rolled out its new line of portable hybrid televisions, which are able to receive both Mobile DTV and standard digital TV signals. It includes two different 3.5-inch models that run $119 and $159, as well as the 7-inch model that will set you back $179; these prices are all $10 higher than those originally announced. Those who are looking to fully round the package can also sang a car kit that includes charger, remote control and monopole antenna for $129.

The HTC Sensation handset doesnt officially exist. But here is the proof of what Qualcomm promoted the tweet in the Twitter account. We expect to learn a lot more about this not so mysterious handset during HTC press event. Until then check the video for Snapdragon dual-core capabilities.

G-technology just announced it will be adding support for high-speed devices to its Thunderbolt equipped line of RAID devices. The product will be starting with companys smaller arrays in four to eight-disc sizes. A prototype of 4-disc device is shown in the picture, which rep Pete Schlatter described as the sweet spot in terms of portability and storage. Calling a 8 drive array as portable sounds like a stretch, these are designed to be paired with laptops and carried people editing video on the go.