Category: Gadgets

The Windows Phone Team was playing nice with the jailbreakers from ChevronWP7, today there is a official announcement from the devs of ChevronWP7 Labs would be open soon, with the approval of Redmond, allows users to load homebrew apps on their devices. Unlike the tools from iPhone dev team, this service will not be free. The users will have to pay a small fee through PayPal.

The Kobo eReader Touch Edition went on sale in the US and Canada now for $129.99 (or $139.99 for Canada) at Best buy, Borders, Walmart, and the Canadian Bookseller Indigo. The 6-inch Kobo eReader is thinner, lighter, and more compact than Nook Touch, the screen is also same size. It also prices a $10 less, but there is only 1GB of internal memory. For more details read the press release

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was coming, but some shoppers eagerly waiting for the tablets arrival will go empty handed. We just told by Samsung rep that there have been shipping delays to some stores in certain regions. They also said that, they are expecting most retail locations to have inventory by today while supplies last. Thats all we know at the moment, we will hit you back with the update if we know more.

There is a leaked image above to go now, but what you are looking at is purported to be unannounced Xperia Duo, it may be a Sony Ericssons first dual-core phone. It resembles the Xperia Arc, it appears to be large, edge to edge display and a UI that is apparently tweaked a bit from what we have seen, includes a different weather widget, and media player controls under the dock. It is just a single image, so we recommend taking it with the usual grain of salt for the time.

Now the Verizons confidential information is now leaked out in YouTube channel, the guys over Droid life spotted a VZW ad starring a mysterious new Honeycomb tablet, the design elements will make you to think it may be Motorola Xoom. Verizon yanked the video almost as soon as the screengrab was lifted, but the 10-inch tablet looks very much like a Xoom. We know that Motorola has a Xoom2 is getting ready, so we taught that Verizon is putting together the finishing touches of the promo video. Dont forget to look out the promo video

Nokia VP Victor Saeijs said this week that the Nokia-Microsoft partnership make the six Nokia Windows Phones and will launch them in six European nations first. France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK will all count themselves as hosts to Nokias Windows Phone Debut, but the companys mother nation of Finland has been left out in the cold. There is no doubt that Windows Phone 7 devices are ready and they will find themselves swiftly available worldwide, but if you care among the first to own, it will hitting Europes western shores and he also reaffirmed that there will indeed be a Nokia Windows Phone coming out in 2011.

Here is a battery boosting power sleeves, the two Androids can now get juiced with the new charging case from the PowerSkin. HTCs Inspire 4G and Desire HD are getting little more extra power with the release of the black silicone skin, it promises about 1500mAh and up to 8 hours of added battery life. The PowerSkin will costs you at $60 and now available now in Amazon. Click on the source link to get yours

The Motorola Droid 3 gets official in China and calling it Milestone 3. The new XT883 model has been just made official by Motorola during China Telecoms CDMA Summit, the tagline the third Milestone and new five-row slide out QWERTY keyboard. It features a 4-inch touchscreen with qHD 540*960 resolution, dual-core Tegra 2 processor capable of 1080p video recording, 8MP camera with LED flash, 32GB of inbuilt storage, and Android 2.3 OS. Its coming to China this summer, the US is launch is before actual units start shipping to China. For more details read the press release.

LGs own Optimus 3D aka Thrill 4G for AT&T got the official release, debuting in Europe. The specs of the Android 2.2 device is 4.3-inch g1assesless 3D LCD with 800*480 resolution, 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor, 512MB dual channel RAM, 1.3MP front facing camera, pair of 5MP camera on the back, it can capture 3D 1080p video at 24fps, or 3D 720p at 30fps. It includes 14.4Mbps HSPA+ connection, HDMI-out port, removable 1500mAh battery, it weighs 5.93 ounce. No date mentioned for phones US launch, but Europeans will get the phone first now. For more details read the press release

The Sonys official teaser video for S1 and S2 tablets starts off isolated sounds and bit of quick motion before setting into a sumptuous, paced feast for you. The electronic promo, if you compare it to ASUS or Huaweis efforts in the field. There is sadly little information, all we get to witness are reassuring Android Honeycomb tablet software keys on the larger S1, but this is the first impression clip is the start of a 5 clip series around a pair of alabaster figurines and their tablet-assisted love affair. Dont forget to check out the video

For: Dual-core processor performance, qHD resolution, glasses-free 3D display, quality camera buttonAgainst: Poor battery life, not much internal memory, call quality can be better, display should be higher qualityThe HTC EVO 3D got a 4.3-inch phone with WiMAX wrapped in a white body. The 3D capable device at CTIA we are impressed and it got 1.2 GHz dual core processor and qHD display.

Everyone from US can pick up a Galaxy Tab 10.1 from today. The WiFi only honeycomb slate will run $499 for 16GB and $599 for 32GB at your choices of retailers, and Samsung says it will be available through Sprint in mid-summer. Samsung is also promising to deliver a number of new features in future software upgrade, includes the TouchWiz UX was originally intended to be included on tablet, and Samsung Media Hub easier downloads of rented or purchased content, and additional capabilities when the slate is connected to a TV via dick or adapter. For more details read the press release and dont forget to look at the promo video