Category: Gadgets

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.

The rumours are coming true now, Fujitsu and DoCoMo are teaming up to unleash a dual-boot device this year that can go from Windows 7 (the Windows 7 is the desktop version OS and not Windows Phone 7) to Symbian at the flip of a switch. The LOOX F-07C with come with a slide out QWERTY keyboard, a 4-inch display with 1024*600 resolutions, an Intel Atom CPU, and a 32GB SSD, we do know its odd couple OS pairing has piqued for somewhat morbid curiosity.

The official announcement from Nokia, that Nokia X7, unfit for US launch, has finally found home with Three in UK. The handset runs on updated Symbian Anna OS that introduces vastly improved browser and portrait QWERTY with split-view data entry among its 50 new enhancements. The specifications are 8MP camera with dual LED flash, 4-inch OLED clear black display, HD video recording, Flash 10 Support, and 256 MB RAM/ 1GB ROM and it features 720pvideo recording, 680 MHz CPU. The pricing and availability are expected soon.

For past few months, Chinese site cnBeta has been releasing alleged screenshots of Windows 8. Now they have released the screenshots of Windows App Store, showing functionality similar to Apple’s App store and Ubuntu Software Center. From what was show, we can hope that one will be able to download a vast number of applications, ranging from games to office applications. It may also host lot of free and paid applications by the time it launches.