Gadgets
Slim Tablet PC’s From the Makers of the $100 Laptop
The makers of the $100 laptop and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) have unveiled a new slimline tablet PC, the XO -3. The new tablet PC which is proposed to be released sometime in 2012, will be retailing for a price less than $100 and will be aimed at connecting children around the world. The company had earlier scrapped all plans of developing the XO 2 which was a foldable notebook kind of device.
The XO which was the actual $100 laptop had run into troubles with its cost right from the beginning and it was retailing for almost twice the price. The company has sold around 1.5 million units in over 34 countries and aims that the ever decreasing price of electronics would only bring the prices of these laptops down. The company would also be releasing the XO 1.75 in 2011 which was an upgraded version of the XO with a new processor and a touchscreen.
Source : BBC
4G Comes to Scandinavia!
4G networks have now become a reality and people in Norway and Sweden could be first ones to use the fourth generation in mobile networks. Telecom company TeliaSonera has announced that they have been working on two mobile networks in Stockholm and Oslo and people will be able to use the networks from sometime in early 2010. The networks are based on the Long term Evolution technology and users will first be able to access the network only through a laptop and a dongle as no mobile devices currently support the 4G network.
TeliSonera has said that the networks will be able to offer downlink speeds of upto 100 megabits per second and that many other operators will take on this new network. TeliSonera has not announced the costs a person will incur when he accesses the network. Customers will have to use a dongle to connect the network and it will be manufactured by Samsung. Mobile handsets supporting the 4G network will be available from the later half of 2010.
Source: BBC
Review of Nokia E72
Nokia is known for its top class smart phones. Recently, E72 was launched into the market. “E” stands for executive, so this is the latest addition in Executive class phones by Nokia.
E72 has an elegant smart design, that can impress anyone, but the more important thing about this phone is that it is feature packed.
Features of E72
- Full QWERTY keyboard.
- Measures elegantly 114 x 58.3 x 10.1 mm and weighs merely 128g.
- 3.5mm headphone sockets.
- 5-megapixel camera.
- It has 2.36-inch 320 x 240 QVGA display.
- Battery: 12.5hrs GSM talktime & 492hrs GSM standby
Along with these features it comes with all tradition features of a smart phone. This phone gives lot of reasons of why to buy it, so guys if you looking for a cool smart phone, E72 must be your choice.
World Cup to be Filmed in 3D
Here’s some interesting news for football fans. The regulation authority of the world’s most famous sport has decided to film the World cup 2010 to be held at South Africa is 3D. FIFA has announced that it will shoot around 25 of the matches with 3D cameras. Thought they haven’t said any plans about telecasting the matches in 3D, the governing committee has said that they have shelved the idea for now and will decide on it in the upcoming months.
The footage will be shown at seven major cities around the world and will be shot using camera technology from Sony. Conventional 3D films are shot using two cameras for the viewers left and the right eye, however, the new technology from Sony will help capture the sport using a single lens camera. FIFA has also said that the footage will be made into a film. Rejoice football fans!
Future of Mobile Phones: Sticker Phones
Every technologist is trying to invent environment friendly gadget. So that the use of conventional sources of energy can be diverted to newer sources like solar and wind energy. In this way a new concept of sticker phone has been put forwarded by Liu Hsiang-Ling.
He has designed and developed a mobile phone that can stick to the wall and utilize solar energy to get recharged. This is a new technology that has a challenging prospect. These prototype are made from silicon, it is easy to use and very simple in look.
This sticker phone is the latest addition to the list of the so called green gadgets. These are Eco friendly and cool phones. Ofcourse environmentalists will surely like this new concept in this age of increased green house gases production.
These phones are in their testing stages and still needs many modifications.
Google’s Keyboard the “Gboard”
Google is always on a path to offer something new and better to its customer. The latest addition in this list is the brand new Gboard launched by Google on this Friday. At just $19.9 it can be a handy tool.
Packed with 19 colored shortcut keys to Gmail it can reduce your hand movements on laptop. This new gadget needs a USB port only for its working. There are keys like; starring messages, starting search and jumping between messages. This cool gadget was actually not created by Google but by a film producer Charlie Mason.
Advantages of Gboard
- It’s available in just $19.9.
- Good build and quality
- Color coding and no set up required.
Disadvantages of Gboard
- Does not include all Gmail shortcuts.
- If else Google changes its shortcuts, it may become useless
- No more choice of color.
Tesco to sell iPhones in the UK
UK supermarket giant Tesco, has joined the league of companies that are selling Apple’s popular phone –the iPhone. Though Tesco has not commented on the exact release date or the prices of the phone, company sources say that the phone would be released sometime before Christmas and the handsets are expected to be priced competitively. This news comes after O2, the only operator that was licensed to sell the iPhones in the UK lost its contract earlier this September and with networks like Orange and Vodafone offering the iPhones sometime soon.
Orange has started offering its customers the iPhone while Vodafone will start sometime in January 2010. Tesco mobile is a joint venture with O2 mobile which already has a large subscriber base and the popularity by selling the iPhone in the UK for 2 years. O2 had reported that it had sold about a million handsets earlier this year. Both the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS will be available with Tesco and all other operators.
Second Worm Hits iPhones
After the first worm attack in iPhones earlier this month, engineers at security company F-Secure have unearthed what they claim to be a harmful worm that affects iPhone users. The earlier worm was considered harmless as it just replaced wallpapers of users with the one of a popstar. The new virus was mainly targeted at people in the Netherlands who used the online banking facility of the Dutch bank, ING. The worm extracts sensitive banking information from people by taking them to a bank lookalike site.
The worm is also known to mainly attack jail-broken iPhones and ones that are installed with the Secure shell installed. Users who hadn’t changed the SSH’s default password were the ones at risk as the attackers could control the phone remotely. Though the worm remains localized in Netherlands for now, possibilities of the spread of the worm to other countries also have been ruled out.
New E-matic E4 Series; 8 GB Touch-Screen MP3 Player with a 5MP Camera
E-matic has released a new version of the top selling E4 series. The E4 is an 8 GB touch-screen MP3 Player with a 5MP built-in Digital Camera and video recording capabilities. It also contains an FM Tuner/Recorder, Webcam capability, TV-Out, and is available in six colours.
This looks like a great little device, but more than that E-matic are an environmentally conscious company that uses recycled packaging for al their products and they donate 1% of all of their profits to charity! Not bad.
Features:
- 8GB Flash Memory – Stores up to 3,000 songs, 34 hours of video, or thousands of photos
- MicroSD Slot – Allows you to expand your memory up to a total of 16GB
- Versatile Playback – Supports a wide variety of formats, including MP3, WMA, AVI, MP4, FLV, JPG and more
- FM Tuner and Recorder – Listen to your favorite stations and record right off the radio
- Digital Video Recording – Record over 48 hours of video in AVI format and in different video modes
- 5MP Digital Camera – Take quality JPG photos in different camera modes
- Voice Recorder – The built-in mic allows you to record quick notes and lectures, playback through the external speaker or headphones
- Webcam – Connect the device to your PC and use as a Webcam
- TV-Out – Use the included A/V cables and view videos and photos on your TV or monitor
- Social Networking – Easily upload your pictures and videos to your favorite social networking websites
You can get the E4 from Walmart.
Also the rumour is that E-matic will have a new player coming at the end of this summer, the E6, which will feature a unique user interface. What this space…
Microsoft Gets Hard on its Xbox Users – Well Those Who Play Pirated Games
Microsoft has come down hard on people who modded their Xbox consoles to play pirated games and banned them from the Xbox Live service. The banned players will not be able to use the Xbox Live service anymore and will have to purchase a new console in order to use the service. Microsoft has also said that, this move was to check piracy in the video game industry as it incurred losses of about £750 million each year due to privacy.
With over 20 million Xbox Live users throughout the world, Microsoft has banned about a 1 million people from using the service. Banned players however, will be able to play offline. Many internet analysts feel that this ban was mainly aimed at preventing players from playing pirated versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Microsoft also has not revealed how it does crackdown on such pirated game players but said that people who violated the terms were banned!
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