Category: Gadgets

TomToms Go Live announced the companys new 800 series of PNDs. With the purchase of 820 or 825 GPS, you will get a years worth of free access to HD traffic, a speed camera alert system, local weather updates and all rest of TomToms live service. The devices came with intelligent orientation sensors, allows for easy dashboard mounting, as well as Bluetooth capabilities that enable drivers to make hands free calls while driving. The 5-inch 825, ARM11-powered Go Live 1000, generates routes using TomToms IQ Routes technology, it wont cost quite as much as its brother. No word yet on pricing on 820, which hits Europe in September. But 825 will retail for about 230 ($373), launches this month. For more details read the press release

Nokia now unveiled a new smartphone. Its your good old C7 3.5-inch, AMOLED screen, 720p video recording, 8MP camera, a pentaband radio, and Symbian as your OS. But externally it taken on a lick of gold paint and rear cover made of real leather. The price of the phone built so quietly so luxuriously is said to be upwards of 800 ($1,126) before taxes and subsidies and launch expected in Q3 in countries across Europe and Asia. Russia is called out as successful market for such premium phones; Nokias General Manager Gabriel Speratti says that We have a large number of users who are looking for products with a build quality and superior materials that attest to their success and social standing. In some areas, possession of such premium products is the passport to being taken seriously. Dont forget to look at the video

LG Revolution now came to Verizon at $250. LG seems to think that Revolution has more to do with such niceties as HDMI out, the Android 2.2 mobile OS, and 16GB microSD card. The pre-installed Netflix app does seem nice. The nationwide talk plans starts at $40 with unlimited data for $30. Click on the source link to buy yours, and dont forget to check out the press release and full specs.

Digital Stroms first pre-built gaming system, the ODE. Available on Good, Better, Best, or Ultimate configurations, it packs Core i7-2600K Processor, can be overclocked to 5GHz, NVIDIA GTX 570 graphics, 8GB RAM and a 1TB HDD can be paired with SSD up to 120GB. The starting price will be $1,499 for base model and $2,499 for ultimate edition. For more details read the press release and click on the source link to order yours.

If you are in US and had a Sonos whole-home audio system than the world of streaming audio is now yours. Today Sonos adds the MOG music service with high-quality 320kbps streams available on-demand or through customized artist only radio stations. You can sample the 11 million songs library for free over the next 14 days before being asked to subscribe to $9.99 per month. For more details read the press release

Students at California State University will be at least make a set up to fast food. CSU announced a 3 year deal with Nature Publishing Group for low-cost, interactive, web-based textbooks with access options for disabled students. Students on the L.A., Northridge, and Chico campuses will each have varying payment and licensing models, but $49 gets anyone a full edition starting September 1st. It includes 175 interactive lessons, access to database research papers, and assessments for students. For more details read the press release

Qualcomm confirmed that Microsoft has chosen it to bring a new generation of Windows Phone devices exclusively featuring Qualcomms Second Generation Snapdragon Mobile Processors to the market. The companys executive vice president says that Qualcomm is excited about next Windows Phone Mango Release, and it will leverage the synergy of our highly integrated second generation Snapdragon Processor and Microsoft Windows Phone software.

Pantech released its new Android Tablet Phones and named it as Vega No.5. It features 5-inch, runs on Android2.3.3 powered by Qualcomms brawny dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8660. Its packed with Vega Racer: 800*480 LCD display, 8MP camera with 1080p and front facing camera, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 16GB Memory, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 14.4 Mbps HSPA+ connectivity. No words on availability but expect to hit Korea by this month. Dont forget to look at the video.

Windows Phone Mango update would bring 500 new updates that are what we said before today. In addition to the long awaited landscape mode address bar, IE9 for Windows Phone promises to bolster performance through GPU acceleration and an improved rendering experience. The browser update features: the aforementioned GPU-accelerated browsing, full-screen video through HTML5, GPS-based geo-location, ECMAScript5, 2D CSS3, etc.

Microsoft had some Mango-flavored updates in store for its Windows Phone operating system. Steve Ballmer promised over 500 new features in the next major release of the OS and we cant wait to hear him list them all out.

Many of the consumers have figured out how to overclock it. Now XDA forum posted a custom kernel allows the hackers to crank the tablets clock speed to 1.4GHz, the same peak reached by ViewSonic G Tablet. The performance at that speed is unreliable anyways, so for now the dev recommends a more modest 1.2GHz to avoid data loss, a meltdown, and injury of assorted puppies. Click on the source link to xda-developers forum

Some sources from Taipei says that Amazon launch 10-inch LCD tablet before holidays and they also heard of 7-inch models and plans to use NVIDIAs new quad-core Tegra SoC. Tims sources say that Amazon wanted to use a switchable black and white E Ink display and a color LCD hybrid but two vendors approached. It wont be ready to display until 2012 or 2013. None of this has been verified up to now, but we stay tuned to get some updates from them.

You may have already seen the leaked pictures of Droid 3, but now TechBuffalo claims the inside scoop. According to them Motorola is upgrading it well, 4-inch qHD panel, inside one of them is a dual-cores of all cool phones may be a Tegra2 variety. It has a new 5-row keyboard layout and front facing camera for video calls, while rear facing camera will be 8MP. The Droid 3 will be lack in LTE. We cannot confirm these specs up to now.

Livescribes note-recording smartpen now getting some apps, hacks, and upgrades, the company now got a software update called Connect, lets you to share your scribbles like Emails, Google Docs, Facebook and Evernote, through the Pencast platform of Livescribe. Some of the sharing options are already available but Connect is speeding up the things by letting you set sharing instructions even you jot down a note. Draw a double line and write, say, Facebook or Google Docs somewhere on the page, and sharing will take place automatically next time you Sync to your Mac or PC. Most of them are free. The new entry level will cost you at $99.95 2GB Echo you had to buy $15 upgrade. Dont forget to look at the video and for more details read the press release.

During a press conference in Cannes, HPs Eric Cador said that his companys new slate wont just be the best on market, it will be bestest. He explains In the PC World, with fewer ways of differentiating HPs products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world were going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus. The device will be launching in UK with apps from Guardian, Sky, and Last.fm, but promised thousands of other apps are available.

Toshibas Honeycomb tablet finally get named as Thrive, we found some chatty Twitter accounts that Toshiba is sticking to the former, a seemingly verified by new J&R listings for the device. The retailer has 8GB and 32GB versions of the tablet up for pre-order at $449 and $579. Some of the specs are10.1-inch screen, NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 1GB RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity, 2MP/5MP front and rear cameras. It is listed as coming soon on the site. Click on the source links to order yours.

The AR technology that promises augmented reality without need for unsightly tattoos? Anew live-demo shows Sonys markerless object recognition system focusing on posters, tables, books, and coffee cups in traditional AR card, allows recognizing multiple objects at once, focusing on objects rather than markers allow augmented entities to interact more naturally with their environment. Objects dont need to remain on screen, as demonstrated by AR pop up menu that remained viewable after object marker that spawned it left the viewers field of vision. Dont forget to look at the video

The Professional sneaker customizer has significantly stepped up his game after commissioned by Sneaker Freaker Magazine, creates two pairs of speakers from some giant. Nash consulted MF Doom for the project, and the emcee offered up suggestions like sci-fi and laser guns, modern architecture and geometry, and mad exclamation marks. The Sneaker Speaker Doomsday Edition Models have mic inputs and red, green and blue lights with eight effects, like speed control and dim functions. Dont forget to look at the video.