Category: Gadgets

For: Light weight, Solid build, comfortable to hold one-handed, excellent screen for reading and touch functions, easy to access public library, Internet, and Google books content, Multimedia features, pinch to zoom touchscreen.Against: Full screen refresh on every page turn, Costly compared to 3G models and future competition.Sony is still fighting the good fight in e-ink powered e-book readers, and its latest model is, the Sony Reader WiFi PRS-T1 looks like a gem. Amazon is the clear leader in the space with fourth generation Kindle and the Kindle Touch. But the PRS-T1 certainly takes some steps in that direction, both in terms of pricing and features. Is it enough? Find out in the review.

For: Good Design, Clear Screen, Solid Camera, and Great Performance while surfing.Against: Shorter battery life.Finally the Samsung Galaxy S II is on our hands, its fast, thin, light, and the screen is enormous and it never failed to impress us. We can call it as a One of the best Android smartphone yet. Samsung clearly wanted to concentrate somewhere else and the only thing that would make a company divert its attention from its most successful smartphone ever, would be its successor. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, its equipped with an 8 MP camera, and can record videos in 1080p Full HD, another 2 MP camera in the front for video calls and self-portraits.

For: Pocket sized, Fast processor, Cheap, Improved build quality.Against: No touchscreen, No memory card slot, Lacks MP3 Playback, Not ideal for one-handed reading.The new tablet makes the change for the companys Kindle line up, the company made a surprise move, offers a new device that will bear the Readers name. The fourth generation Amazon Kindle is least expensive, lightest, and easiest to use the reader we have ever tested. It is a cheap one $109 for standard version and $79 for the ad-supported. So is the new Kindle worthy of name that has become synonymous with e-readers? Find it out on our review.

FujiFilm has introduced an exciting new product that should be of particular interest for the use of 3D smartphones, cameras and camcorders. The FujiFilm FinePix REAL 3D V3 represent one of the first frames of the glasses-less 3D. It has a 7.2 inch screen, a resolution of 800 600 pixel display is active, but with wonderful handle material of 10,000 10,000 pixels.

HTC is mainly due to the wide range of smartphones and its beautiful quarter figures, which have once again recorded an 80 percent increase. After the HTC Wildfire S entry phone, now comes the HTC Explorer on the market soon with a similar design, but replaceable rear. The unique difference is the lack of flash to only 3MP camera and a lack of radio. Therefore, you pay less or equal to 20 and get the Explorer for 200 instead of 220 RRP as the brother. Hands On is a short video with the still slightly unfinished product.

Few days ago, Western Digital has introduced new version of its “all-rounder” named Mediabox. It is now kept completely dull and also has integrated with WiFi. When unpacking, you will also find a pleasant, large remote control, and even wireless keyboards or mice can be used with the NetStream. This allows the users to surf more conveniently in the Web to deal with Twitter and Facebook and other integrated services with the input.

Mobile phones do not increase the risk of cancer, according to a large study involving more than 350,000 people by Danish researchers published Friday. The results, released on the British Medical Journal’s website, chime with a series of other studies that have reached similar conclusions. Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at people aged at least 30 who subscribed to mobile phone contracts and compared their rates of brain tumours with non-subscribers between 1990 and 2007.

Slowly but surely, Google is finding more and more ways to integrate Google+ into all of their other products. The latest tweak: a one-click button, smack dab in the middle of your search results, for adding the author of the relative content to a Google+ circle. Google has been fiddling with the integration of Google+ into search results for weeks. It began with the integration of public Google+ postings into search results, and later grew to include blogger/author headshots (complete with links to their Plus profiles) next to relevant items.

Samsung has made it official: Its 7-inch Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus will arrive at U.S. retailers on November 13. Pre-orders start Oct. 23.The Wi-Fi-only Plus model with 16GB of storage will cost $400 at Best Buy, Amazon, Tiger Direct, Fry’s and other retailers. Samsung’s Friday announcement didn’t mention price and availability of other Galaxy Tab 7 Plus models with 32GB and/or cellular connectivity, although it’s likely they’ll arrive shortly.

In more bad news for bandwidth hogs, Sprint the last bastion of unlimited data plans among U.S. carriers will soon retire its unlimited 4G data plans for all non-smartphone devices.Effective this November, Sprint customers will have to pay for 3G and 4G data use combined, a departure from the companys previous policy of allowing unlimited 4G data while asking customers to pay only for 3G. Even worse, existing unlimited 4G hotspot data customers wont be grandfathered in. Thats right: Now everyone has to pay up.

Microsoft Research, the arm of Microsoft that’s seemingly from the future, has been busy creating what it has called a HoloDesk – a display, which allows a user to interact with digital objects.A video demo of the concept desk is impressive and shows off the technology that’s behind the kit.Using a webcam, a beam-splitter and some facial recognition technology, the HoloDesk creates the illusion that objects on a screen are actually projected on a desk below. The user can then play with these projections as if they are real objects.

We all know that soon a quad-core mobile processor from Nvidia is giving, is cut down to us, but this is the first video surfaced on the Web is with the various features in detail, almost too beautiful. No matter what you want to do with a tablet, the new Kal-El manages to smoothly and thanks to the new Android OS probably also in a few simple / few steps.

It seems Samsung has difficulties in keeping the strands and to conceal its new Nexus smartphone to the last moment from the presentation, that is going to be live in a few hours . The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Prime is already advertised on the Verizon Website in America where you can register for more information.

Asus has released a short video on its Youtube page online where the new Transformer 2 is probably visible. It is not specifically mentioned by name or shown exact functions, but you can see the clear contrast to the predecessor and “It’s coming” is probably enough information.

HTC is becoming popular with more and more customers, or at least known. This trend reinforces the smartphone company in Taiwan with an ” Inspired by You “have created campaign on Facebook in which thousands of members of a new fragrance. Together with the perfume expert Claude Zellweger and Kim Weisswange what’s right arose great. There are emotions, experiences and experiences are associated with it. The fragrance will also be harmonious.

In Hong Kong , the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and presented here ye may know well all the new features such as face matching. You find the place like a teaser for the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Prime) smartphone. It is of course a little knowledge of English required. Enjoy the show, we are already waiting for the first units in November!

Amazons second tablet, initially thought to be scheduled for a late 2011 or early 2012 launch, may not begin shipping to users until after the first quarter next year. According to a report from DigiTimes on Wednesday, Amazon will use manufacturing giant Foxconn to assemble its 10-inch tablets, and mass production is not set to begin until some time in the first quarter of 2012.

Research in Motion is in trouble last time, not only in what the sales numbers of their Blackberrys are concerned, but in addition also had problems with their servers, through which all communication is the business phone. After three days we could not send emails or check, there is now a small reparation for the company. Private users get different apps from the store that have a value of over $ 100. The list can be found immediately following, among other things, Sims 3 and Vlingo Plus.