Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Over the past weekend, the Apple site in the UK briefly mentioned that the iOS 4.1 release date would be September 8 which puts it at this Wednesday. Shortly after though the date was pulled with a Coming Soon message being in place.
It isn’t clear if you’ll be able to grab the new update this Wednesday. If not then it will be sometime this week at lease as Steve Jobs confirmed it at the Apple [AAPL] event held last week. [Read more…]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has just landed on the Vodafone UK website. It isn’t available for pre-order just yet although the company does allow you to register your interest in the new tablet.
Pricing is not known and also the release date isn’t mentioned on the Vodafone site although we have heard it isn’t far away now, perhaps early next month.
As for the technical specs, the device can connect to both 2.5G and 3G networks. It has Wireless 802.11n built in along with Bluetooth 3.0. [Read more…]
Forgetting to log out of Facebook can be a problem. I’ve seen many friends post strange updates only to find out later that they forgot to log out of Facebook and it wasn’t them updating their profile.
If this has happened to you then Facebook Remote Log-out should come in handy. The new service lets users see where they are signed in to Facebook and deactivate sessions from those connected devices as they wish. Right now you can log in via mobile phones, computer, internet connected TV’s, tablets, library computers, school computers… the list goes on and on. [Read more…]
Rovio has launched Angry Birds for Android devices. The new app is still in beta testing stages.
By porting the already iPhone/iPad successful game to Android, the company behind it allow mllions more users to potentially download and buy the game.
“And Angry Birds have landed on Android:-)” the company said, adding “If you have any problems with the Android beta, let us know. It’s a beta, so we know it’s not perfect. Help us make it better.”
Steve Jobs mentioned in the Apple [AAPL] special event held earlier this week that the iPhone 3G iOS 4 speed problems have been fixed with iOS 4.1. The iOS 4.1 release date is next week which brings a number of fixes such as speed fixes and proximity sensor fixes to the iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4.
Although iOS 4.1 isn’t available for download just yet to the average iPhone user, it is available to developers. LifeHacker decided to run a test on an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.0 and iOS 4.1. As they only had one iPhone 3G to test with, the tests were not done side by side although the tests were practically identical in terms of what the user was doing. [Read more…]
BGR is reporting today that a CDMA variant of the Samsung Galaxy Tab could be going to Sprint [S] in November of this year.
The CDMA version hasn’t been priced just yet although BGR does seem quite confident in the source of information that they have.
As well as it being on the Sprint network, they also mention it will be a 3G and 4G device. [Read more…]
Early this week, Google [GOOG] announced Gmail Priority Inbox. The service is designed to prioritise your inbox to give you the emails that are most important at the top with the less important ones being left below.
After checking today we now see that the service is active. When you log in you’ll see a message about priority inbox at the top right of the screen. Click on it and at this point you can start to train the rule system that lets it work. To do this, Gmail shows a few messages which you click on + or – to determine the priority of the messages. [Read more…]
The Sony Bloggie Touch MHS-TS20K is a HD video camera capable of capturing at full HD 1080p. It has a 12.8 megapixel sensor inside that can capture through an F2.8 lens.
The 12.8 megapixel sensor used in the camera is an Exmor CMOS sensor. Storage wise it comes in either 4GB and 8GB capacities.
Connectivity wise, it has a built in USB connector along with a HDMI output. The camera integrates with social networking sites to make uploading of photos and videos easy. [Read more…]
Over at IFA the Samsung I5510 smartphone was spotted. The I5510 is a QWERTY slider phone that was seen to be running Android 2.2 at the Vodafone booth.
Price wise, the Samsung I5510 will cost 200 Euros. It has a 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, Wireless networking, UMTS along with a microSD card slot for adding extra storage capacity to the device. [Read more…]
ViewSonic is launching a few tablet computers. One of them is the ViewPad 7. The ViewPad 7 is an Android based tablet that will be launching this year from what we understand.
As well as creating the ViewPad 7, ViewSonic is also creating the ViewPad 100 that will be capable of dual-booting with both Android and Windows 7.
The ViewPad 100 has a 10 inch screen which has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is multitouch but only with a couple of points although it is capacitive touch. [Read more…]
Royal Mail has created the worlds first Intelligent Stamp. The new stamp is capable of working with image recognition technology.
The intelligent stamp works with an augmented reality app called Junaio. When receiving a letter with a new stamp attached you can hold the camera of an iPhone or Android phone over the stamp. The software recognises the stamp and is able to pull up information, video clips and other details about what is on the stamp and play back the information to you. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has uploaded a new page to it’s website that provides the official details of iOS 4.2 for iPad. The iOS 4.2 release date is November this year which will bring everything to iPad which includes multi-tasking, folders as well as the ability to print among a number of other enhancements.
On the official iOS 4.2 page, Apple mention that over 100 enhancements will be added to the iPad with the update. These features include the much wanted multitasking that allows you to switch quickly between apps. This works exactly how it does on the iPhone running iOS 4.
Folders is another feature wanted by many. Folders also works the same was as the iPhone/iPod touch running iOS 4 in that you drag 1 icon on to another to create a folder. [Read more…]
