Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Nokia has announced a new touchscreen phone called the Nokia 5250. The 5250 is a budget touchscreen device that follows along the lines of the 5800 theme of phones.
The technical specs reveal that the device has a 2.8 inch touchscreen that has a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. On the back is a 2 megapixel camera and it runs Symbian^1. Price wise, it will cost $145 USD when launched. This price is before tax or subsidies. [Read more…]
Verizon [VZ] is pushing out an OTA update to the Motorola DROID 2 starting today from what we understand.
The new OTA update is just a small update that fixes text and picture message scrolling as well as a few other small things as listed below…
Enabled text and picture message scrolling.
Streamlined set up of Visual Voice Mail feature.
Improved contact sync with Corporate Exchange categories and groups.
View accurate contact pictures when reviewing Recent Call Log.
Pocket Now managed to get hold of an LG Panther Windows Phone 7 smartphone. The new smartphone is obviously pre-release as WP7 hasn’t launched yet. This means the hardware might not be final and the OS is certainly not final.
Just to see how Windows Phone 7 is shaping up it’s self though, Pocket Now decided to run some tests of browser speeds between the Windows Phone 7, Apple iPhone 4 and Google Nexus One to see which was the best of them all.
Each was running the latest OS available at the time. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has made a new update for the Google Mobile App for iPhone. The new update brings a few new features, one of which includes push notifications.
The push notifications are capable of pushing information to your phone from Gmail and your Google Calendar so that you get reminded of what’s coming up.
The badge for the app shows that new mail has arrived. [Read more…]
Google [GOOG] has launched Google Earth 1.1 for Android smartphones. New features of this version include the ability to explorer the ocean.
The latest version of Google Earth for Android also introduces the ‘Explore the Ocean layer, which features hundreds of photos and videos from more than 100 contributors who are excited to share their stories of sea. Plan your next vacation during your daily commute by clicking on any of the little blue icons. The gold highlighted icons represent content from the Mission Blue Hope Spot initiative.
Steve Jobs has replied to an email about the iPhone 3G running slow when installing iOS 4.X.
A number of users have reported issues that cause the iPhone 3G to slow right down making it quite unresponsive to use. With there being no official way back to iOS 3.X when the iOS 4.X update is done, it’s left a number of people unhappy with Apple [AAPL].
One user sent in an email to Steve Jobs saying…
I’ve waited patiently through 4.0.1 and 4.0.2, looking for a fix that will make my phone work again. I’ve read the forums that advise me to jailbreak my phone or use some other method so I can downgrade back to a version of iPhone 3, however I’m not prepared to use a method that is not supported by Apple.
Verizon [VZ] is launching a new phone on to it’s network called the Salute. The Salute is a ZTE handset that is a basic feature phone that comes at a low price.
Technical specs show that it has a 2.4 inch screen and a 1.3 megapixel camera. The handset can go online although we are not sure if the browser works well or not. [Read more…]
We’ve seen a number of Windows Phone 7 devices over the last few weeks. Generally they run a basic Windows Phone 7 OS although one of the latest was seen slightly branded with an AT&T logo on a screen tile.
The latest to be captured by Mr BlurryCam is the LG E900. The LG E900 is similar to the LG C900 although this version lacks a slide out QWERTY keyboard.
It is expected that the LG E900 will be launched in Europe when the Windows Phone 7 launch day happens. [Read more…]
Late last week we heard from Vodafone that the HTC Desire Android 2.2 update would be pushed out starting August 23. Well, today is August 23 which means that all Vodafone UK HTC Desire users should start getting a notification that a new OTA update is available.
One thing to note is that not all devices will be updated today as Android 2.2 will be rolled out over the next 10 days or so to users. [Read more…]
It is possible to run a stock Android 2.1 firmware on a Galaxy Samsung S. Reasons for wanting to do this include getting rid of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface which a number of people don’t like.
The Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.1 update isn’t official though. It’s actually a modified version from the official Google [GOOG] Android updates and unfortunately doesn’t allow all features of the phone to work just yet.
Features that don’t work include the camera application. [Read more…]
If you have ever wondered how much an Android app developer can make, Arron La has decided to detail his earnings from an Android app that he created in February 2009.
The app in question costs $0.99 and is called Advanced Task Manager. What the app does is allows Android users to kill tasks and services that stay running even when a particular app has been closed down.
‘Advanced Task Manager is an Android application I created in February 2009. At that time, it was needed mainly to kill running services that a number of applications spawned but never ended. Some of these services would start at boot time and remain running indefinitely, causing slowdowns on the phone.
EKING is launching a new UMPC called the EKING M5. The M5 was launched on to the Chinese market back on August 17 of this year (Valentines Day).
Features included in this device include a full QWERTY keyboard and a tilting screen. It has a 5 inch screen that has a WSCGA resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen is backlit by LED and the screen is suplied by Sharp.
The screen is capacitive touch enabled and does support multi-touch according to Pocketables. [Read more…]
