The SIM free version of the Nokia Lumia 800 will be going on sale on November 16 here in the UK. This contradicts what was said earlier today by Clove who had said the SIM free version would be shipping early next year.
Toshiba AT200 Tablet Delayed till 2012
It appears that the Toshiba AT200 tablet will not be launching until January 2012. The new slim tablet was expected to launch sometime this year although confirmation on the official Facebook page says otherwise.
NVIDIA Tegra 3 Officially Announced
NVIDIA has finally made an announcement about the NVIDIA Tegra 3 and has made it official. The new chip follows on from the Tegra 2 and is a quad-core processor that was previously known as the Kal-El.
iPhone 4S Production Slows Down Due to Possible Shortages or Low Sales
A new report indicates that the iPhone 4S might not be doing as well as initially thought. Although the iPhone 4S had record sales at launch, it seems that after that, sales have dropped down as Apple is believed to have cut production for the next quarter down by 10 to 15 percent.
Firefox 8 Download Now Available
Mozilla has launched Firefox 8 and the download is now available. Although those who knew how could get FF8 a couple of days ago via the Mozilla FTP server, it is now available to all on the main Firefox download page. New features include Twitter search integration amongst several other things we’ll mention below.
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Made Official
Asus has officially announced the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The new transforming tablet will be made available in the US in December with a price tag of $499. What you get for your money is a unique device that comes with a tablet and detachable keyboard. This allows you to use the device as just a tablet, or carry around a keyboard in a laptop form factor for typing whilst on the go.
Dictate a Note to Evernote with Siri
Although Siri doesn’t allow any direct 3rd party integration just yet, there are a number of work-arounds that allow you to get data in to other applications. In this case we see Siri being used to put notes in to an Evernote account.
Amazon Kindle Family Coming to 16,000 Stores in the US
Amazon has announced that the Kindle family of products will be launching at over 16,000 retail locations in the US. Stores that will get the range of Kindle devices includes Walmart, Best Buy and Target as well as a number of other locations listed below.
Mobile Browser Flash Development Stopped by Adobe
Adobe is stopping development of Flash for mobile devices. Instead, it will focus its efforts on HTML5.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.
Apple Confirm to Developer that Siri Is Not Coming to Older Devices
A few days ago some rumours were spreading about Apple working on bringing Siri to the iPhone 4, iPad and various other iOS devices. It appears that this isn’t the case though as one developer suggested to Apple that they charge for the update to which a response came back saying they had no plans to introduce it.
iOS 5.0.1 Seeded to End Users for Testing
Apple [AAPL] is beginning to send a beta version of iOS 5.0.1 to end users for testing. The group is quite small from what we understand and will give an opportunity for further testing of the battery life problems that a number of users are getting.
SIM Free Nokia Lumia 800 Delayed till Jan 2012
We have had confirmation that the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone Mango smartphone will not be available SIM free on November 16. From what we understand, Nokia has moved the date to January 2012.
Good news is that the device will still be available on November 16th on contract at various locations.