Category: Gadgets

Electronics companies are amongst the fiercest rivals when it comes to protecting their patents even a lioness with her cubs seems like a purring cat in comparison. Thats why in the world of high technology, lawsuits fly left and right, one of the most recent examples being the Apple – Samsung dispute over the their smartphones. Nevertheless, we were surprised to learn today that LG Electronics and its subsidiary, the component-making LG Innotek Co., filled a lawsuit with a South Korean court seeking to block BMW and Audi from selling their cars in the country.

Samsung has again introduced a new tablet, which is due for release this year in Austria and Indoneisien. Back in the 7 inch range, as the first-ever Galaxy Tab, with Android 3.2, and a DCS screen displays of 1024 x 600 pixels. This time the Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0 is only 9.96 mm thin and weigh 345 grams. With 16GB or 32GB internal memory you can buy it and also expand with up to 32GB via MicroSD further.

The Firebird X was announced almost a year ago, packed with piles of impressive technology, and delayed so many times that practically everyone forgot it existed. Well, on September 30th the Firebird X will finally start filtering into retail channels for the rather excessive price of $5,570, in your choice of either Redolution of Bluevolution finishes. On board are a boatload of effects as well as an automated tuner, which we’ve come to expect from the so-called “robot guitar” series.

A small Android has once again managed in the four walls of nDevil and somewhat excited. This little kit has a good 2 Watt speakers , which can even reach 95 dB and to do so by holding up to 5 hours at meetings. It can be charged directly from mini-USB in just 80 minutes and a stable on-off switch is also available, with 300 hours standby time, talk to yourself.In no time the Android Bluetooth is paired with IOS or other devices, the robot is not picky and you can listen to music or answer calls. In the two eyes is the stereo microphone, which also results in the car to clear understandable conversations.

The much-awaited $35 computing-cum-access device, to be made available to students right from primary schools to universities, will be launched on October 5. “The computer will be launched next month,” HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said at a function here. “This is not just a dream, it is a reality,” he added. Officials in the Ministry said the low-cost device will be launched on October 5. Sibal said the name has already been finalised for the device and will announced at the launch. He, however, did not elaborate about the the device, which is being billed as the cheapest computer globally.

Amazon today announced on their Tablet event in America, three new devices, which include among others the coveted hot fire, with an unbelievable price of only $ 199. The Android-based 7-inch IPS device Gorilla Glass, 1Ghz OMAP dual-core CPU, 512MB RAM, 8GB internal memory and of course, WiFi b / g / n. One surprise is that it only has access to the Android App Store and Google are not. Kindle, books, magazines will be stored on the Amazon cloud servers and a free 30 day trial coupon for Amazon Prime is from the 15th November in America settled.

For: Call quality, Bright display, Solid build, Verizon LTE 4GAgainst: Specs of the device – processor and RAM could be better, Battery life, Bulky, Camera is averageThe LG brings the new LG Revolution to the battle field; its released on Verizons LTE network. This is only the third LTE phone, there is even less phones on LTE and 4G battle field. Some more LTE devices are HTC Thunderbolt and the Samsung Droid Charge, they all close together in dimensions and features, it is natural to compare all of them.

Take control of your memory: On your phone. On your card. In the cloud.SanDisk Memory Zone offers you more memory management functionality than any other application available for the Android phone.SanDisk Memory Zone puts you in complete control. Manage and backup both your local and cloud memory with one free app. Move files back and forth from your memory card to select cloud services, or from the cloud directly to your phone.

So far we have had a couple of rumors about a follow-up to Motorolas original XOOM, but nothing too substantial other than a mention of the name XOOM 2? tucked deep in a site redesign. Today, we may change that with pictures of what we believe to be Motos next big tablet, the MZ617 aka the XOOM 2. Our sources tell us that the device is similar in weight to the original XOOM, has an HDMI and micro USB port on the bottom, big physical flush buttons on the back, a SIM card slot (LTE were assuming) , and no SD slot at first glance.

After HTC makes a very good business with its Android tablets, the company will certainly not miss the transition to the new Windows system 8. With the great interface, lots of apps and a huge and still unsaturated market which will soon arise with the introduction, it is only logical that we will soon see from the smartphone manufacturer also a desktop system.

HTC’s Runnymede’s getting a whole lot of pre-release love. This Beats Audio-branded handset’s received the quick and dirty hands-on treatment on YouTube. If you’re looking for details on where the phone came from or what’s going on here, you’ve come to the wrong place, but judging from the Vodafone branding on the home screen, we’re fairly certain that this is our first real-life spotting of the 4.7-inch Android phone.

Sony’s introduced Netbox at IFA recently, and now the company has revealed pricing for the SMP-N200 in the United States. It’ll be on sale for $99 in October, and updates the old box with support for 3D, live streaming content and other unspecified new features. The original featured then-impressive support for local media playback and streaming.

The HP TouchPad story does not end this year simply because the 100 Apple iPad tablet with 2 hardware was incredibly often sold and are still not exhausted all the camps. With a few enthusiastic people who seek the port of Android to the Tablet to the outdated WebOS completely to give the country pass, it always bring back into the news. The latest CyanogenMod 7 has not yet been downloaded, but in a video you can see how well the team had good progress. The sound, wifi and even the accelerometer working first. Also, access to the Android Market is already possible in some cases and makes sure the owners had run along the water in the mouth.

RIM has released yesterday its quarterly results and thereby disappointed the Analaysten strong. Although the phones have sold quite well with the expected 10.6 million con 11 to 12.5 million, but the 7-inch Tablet with the new QNX Software lagged far behind expectations. Although only 200,000 units were sold were planned after 700 000 have gone in the first quarter good 500,000 over the counter.

Pioneer launched in Japan early January a new Digital Cordless phone with the TF-FN2000. Pretty conventional, the TF-FN2000 comes however today in a rather unusual, yet so Japanese only version with a new TF-FN2000 Hello Kitty series! This new Hello Kitty version is in all aspect identical to the stock version and comes by default with an LED Display, Answering Machine, Call screening system and a hands-free mode in just 192x75x89mm, while the handset offers a 6h battery life span (continuous talk) comes with a compact cradle and an ultra minimalistic handset.

Firefox for the new Android Tablets is definitely on the road and you can have a first idea of do it yourself, if you’re a little risk tolerance. Firefox Mobile 7 is in fact from the Nightly Build Beta available for download and if you desire and the talent you have, you can also help when debugging. Otherwise you will every night a new update with the latest version recorded and get a hopefully more stable system with Sync function get Firefox and other great features.

Boost Mobile today announced that it is making some adjustments to its Android voice and data plans starting October 6, one day before the Samsung Transform Ultra launches. Boost Mobile is adding a $5 monthly charge to the cost of its Android smartphone plans. Its Monthly Unlimited plans will still include unlimited talk, text, and web. Existing Monthly Unlimited customers will be able to keep their $50 plan without the added surcharge, but any customer who upgrades to a CDMA-based Android phone after October 6 will be subject to the $5 monthly charge.

Most Tablets run with a Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor that is clocked at 1GHz. Towards the end of the year we can first smartphones and tablets with the Quad Core processor Kal-El and expect to see as the roadmap, Nvidia is mid-2012 Kal-El + bring to the market. Unfortunately you can not read from the properties of the roadmap, but with Kal-El + it should be, also a quad-core processor that is clocked slightly faster and therefore certainly a plus in the name receives.