Palm Pre Breaks Sprint Sales Record
Palm Pre 6
It’s official: the Palm Pre, released Saturday has broken the sales record of all Sprint’s other cell phones. The Palm Pre has said to have sold the outrageous amount of “somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000″ units within the first two days of it’s release. Read more
NYT: Palm Pre to be Released First Week of June
Palm Pre 6 Unveiling
The New York Times has just announced that the Palm Pre is coming soon. Soon as in the beginning of next month. Announced at CES 2009, the Palm Pre had already been set to launch in June. We now know that it will be up for sale at some point within the 5th or 7th. Read more
AUO To Unveil World’s First Curved Display
At the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2008 which will be held in the next few days in Los Angeles, California, AU Optronics (AUO) will unveil the world’s first curved TFT-LCD on glass substrate. They seems to like to be “world’s first” as they will also unveil world’s thinnest ultra-thin 0.63mm TFT-LCD for mobile phone apps.
HTC Advantage X7510 Available For Pre-Order
Last month HTC announced that they will release the Advantage X7510, now they stepped-up and made it available for pre-order. They didn’t make official the prize or the release date, but some retailers already made a pricing list. Clove Technology wants £595 and eXpansys £700, meanwhile GearTrade is asking $800, Smart Mobile Gadgets and On The Go Solutions demands $1300. Who’s right? We don’t know, but we are waiting anxiously for the release.
OQO Model E2 With HSDPA Announced In London
OQO made a press conference only to announce an update to the OQO Model E2, which is the European version of the Model 02. This updated model features HSDPA / UMTS 2100MHz and GSM / EDGE / GPRS 900/1800 MHz data. It will be priced at €250, somewhere around $367. That is all that OQO announced, but we hope to heare more about the updated OQO Model E2 soon.
Sony’s PRS-505 eBook Reader Ready for Shipping
Sony recently announced the official sale start of their PRS-505 eBook reader. It is now available for $299.99 and users can purchase it in silver or dark blue colors. Upon buying it you will also get 100 Connect eBook Classic titles without paying an extra dime. It boasts on providing a new experience for readers with a 6 inch display that uses Ink technology in order to make it look as similar to paper as possible at the moment. You can easily read the eBooks even in bright sunshine and there is a near 180 degrees viewing angle with high contrast and high resolution capabilities. You can also magnify the text if the reader has impaired vision. The PRS-505 eBook reader is very portable and easy to carry around on trips. It is very lightweight and this allow the possibility of taking it with you wherever you go. It can hold up to 160 eBooks at a time and weighs just 9 ounces while measuring a thickness of just half an inch. One charge allows for up to 7,500 page turns so it is more than likely you will not run out of battery in the middle of that important chapter of what you are reading. It is definitely easier to carry around Sony’s PRS-505 eBook reader than a regular book and the price is also not that high.
Sony VAIO NR Series Announced
Sony recently announced the VAIO NR Series, the cheapest laptops ever launched by the company and still baring that beautiful textured finish we have come to enjoy with VAIO. We can notice a pretty nice 15.4 inch display and a good enough widescreen resolution at 1280 X 800. The most powerful processor can be noticed on the NR’s most expensive model, an Intel Core 2 Duo platform.In any case, it is not the specs that draw attention with the Sony VAIO NR Series, but the fabric-like finishes. Sony is quoted in saying about the as feeling like “cool linen to the touch”. There are also variations in design as we have one that has a matte silver case looking like linen with rock, one that is Wenge, copper accents on brown texture and Silk, which is quite white but very interesting. If you plan to purchase a Sony VAIO NR series model be ready to pay between $750 (for the 110 model) and just over $800. It looks like this line of models will go on sale next month and we can’t wait to get our hands on one.
No more 4Gb iPhones, cheaper 8Gb ones
Apple is no more producing 4Gb iPhones and is selling the remaining ones in stock for $299. Along with the release of the new generation iPods, especially iPod Touch, the 8Gb iPhone went cheaper, to $399 from $599. Now it might really be worth buying one.
Nintendo Conquered UK
Nintendo is still dominating the UK video game scene. Of the top 10 selling games in the last week, 8 are exclusive games for Nintendo’s Wii or DS handheld console. What is interesting is that the other two titles are multi-format games that can also be played on Nintendo machines.Number one on the list was Transformers, a title based on the movie that is an all-platform game. Second place was held by DS title Pokemon Diamond and number three was Wii Play. Nintendo Wii is quickly becoming the biggest success story of game consoles history as it currently sold over 9.27 million companies across the world since being launched last year. In the UK it is the biggest thing by far and if we stand to compare the results with that of Microsoft’s it is no surprise at all. The Xbox 360 video game console shipped around 10 million copies but the machine went on sale before the Wii. Sony was a real disaster with just 4.1 million units of PlayStation 3 shipped.
The Nintendo DS handheld console is currently the global market leader, with around 45 million units sold since its introduction in 2004.
AT&T Expands Video Sharing Services With Trax
LG Electronics recently declared that the new Trax multimedia phone that is to be launched soon will only be available through an exclusive deal with AT&T, a company that is gaining more and more support through the iPhone deal and the expansion of its offers with a nationwide launch of a wireless video-sharing service last month.
Trax is a special device, designed under the shape of a sleek clamshell that connects to AT&T’s 3G UMTS/HSDPA network. This will make it possible for videos to be shared, different video streams to be watched, music to be downloaded and a whole lot more through a high-speed network. The device stands in at a thickness of around half an inch, measures 4 inches by 2 inches and weighs 3.5 ounces. MicroSD memory cards can be included to add storing capability up to 4 GB and Bluetooth wireless technology is supported in hands-free handsets. As with any new device nowadays, Trax also features a 1.3 megapixel camera with in-camera photo editing possibilities.
The price of Trax seems to be very good, at just $130, this after a mail-in rebate and the signing of a two-year service contract. AT&T is quickly gaining new customers and the deal with LG Electronics will combine well with the recent launch of the mobile Video Share service in 160 markets across the United Stats. Two subscribers can share video during any voice conversation.
Trax is not the only phone that will feature the service. Four other handsets can use it: LG CU50a, Sync, Samsung A717 and Samsung A727. Price varies on these devices from $30 to $130. The actual service costs $5 a month for 25 minutes and $10 a month for 60 minutes. There is also another version available at 35 cents per minute.
Fly Mobile SL600
The Fly Mobile SL600 is a slider phone that comes as the follow up to the Fly Mobile SL500i. It is a lightweight mobile phone and comes to conquer a part of the value-for-money part of the market. It is available at Woolworths, UK, for under 60 pounds and can be purchased from other locations at similar prices.
At a first look the Fly Mobile SL600 is similar with a Samsung slider phone but when looking closer we can see a different design. The mobile phone wieghs 81 grams and has a TFT display in 262 thousands colors at a 176×220 pixel resolution. A 2 megapixel camera with multishot and flash capabilities comes as a must have nowadays in new cell phones and the possibility of expanding memory with microSD cards is again a thumbs up. Multimedia capability includes WAV, 3GP, AAC, MP3 and MP4 and we can also use Java, Bluetooth and the included FM radio.
There is no break through in design with the Fly Mobile SL600 and there is a clear compromise in this case. Battery life is just 2.5 hours of talk time and 6 days in standby mode. The 176×220 pixel display does not stand a chance in competing with the regular 240×320 pixel display the competition presents in numerous models but it is exactly this that keeps weight and price down when combined with battery features.
The Fly Mobile SL600 is very attractive in terms of costs and is available in Black, a two-tone Black and Pink and silver-grey combinations.
Dell Purchases Zing Systems
Dell will acquire Zing Systems, a company that is specialized in creating software meant for distribution and management of music on mobile devices. This move is thought of being the start of an assault for handheld gadgets by Dell. By using Zing technology you can navigate, store and play music from various digital streams.
There is no secret that Dell is trying to boost sales of computers and different other devices in a market that sees the company as struggling to grow in the US. A line of PCs running on open source Linux operating system was also launched and the opening of the first retail channel with Wal-Mart stores were both moves aimed at the same objective.
Two desktop PCs and a laptop are currently sold with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution pre-installed in the United States by Dell. Now these versions are also available in Europe and more are believed to come in both continents. There is no information on the acquiring of Zing as nobody really knows what Dell is planning to do in the future while using new technology has to be a reality. The past showed a lot of popularity for the Mountain View, Calif. based company, including selling software to Sirius Satellite Radio, SanDisk and Fon Technology.
HTC Advantage Released in the US
Today, the HTC Advantage has become available in the US and is also known as Athena or X7501. It sports 256MB of internal memory, HSDPA 850 / 1900, 128MB of RAM, 802.11 Wi-Fi, quadband GSM, a 3MP autofocus camera, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS and a 5-inch VGA display.
The HTC Advantage measures 134×98x16mm, features Windows Mobile 6 Professional and it’s currently priced at $900. This really is an incredible device, with great features, not so expensive.
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iPhone Review from PC Mag
PC Mag Review: Does the iPhone Live Up to Its Hype?
The product of the year has finally arrived, and who on the tech-loving planet would waste a second before tearing it open and taking it for a test run? Not the PC Mag analysts, that’s for sure. Over the past 24 hours, our lead audio and cell phone gurus have been poking and prodding the much-touted uber phone, running it through every imaginable test to find out if it really is “all that.â€Â So, what’s the verdict: iGenius or iDud?
Mio P360 and P560 to come
Two new GPS PDAs are going to be released by Mio, the P360 and P560. Currently, we don’t have many details on them, but we know they will feature WiFi, an embeded GPS antenna, Bluetooth 2.0, a miniUSB port, a microphone and their memory can be expanded via the SD/MMC memory card slot.
Both the P360 and P560 will sport an LCD touchscreen, that controls almost everything, the rest of the device featuring only a few buttons.
via NaviGadget