Archive for January, 2011

Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S successors to be announced at Mobile World Congress

Monday, January 31st, 2011

A recently leaked document from inside the Samsung camp confirms the handset maker’s plans to unveil successors to its popular Galaxy devices at next month’s Mobile World Congress. The sheet, which has since been pulled offline, detailed PR planning for the company’s Unpacked event. It looks like Samsung expects to debut the Galaxy S 2 [...]

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Finally a USB 3.0 to eSATA Adapter Powerful Enough to Handle Performance Drives?

Monday, January 31st, 2011

In what certainly is interesting news, comes word of the NewerTech eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter. This is certainly not the first such adapter we have heard of (like the SiiG and Addonics we previously talked about), but it IS the first to claim to be the fastest with benchmarks to back it up! The [...]

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Does a Facebook Phone Make Any Sense?

Friday, January 28th, 2011

A flurry of rumors circulated about HTC launching Facebook-branded phones. Let’s talk about this! Why this rumor doesn’t make sense What CityAM is saying about the facebook phone might be right. But it seems off. CityAM didn’t quote any sources, instead relying on old favorites “City A.M. has learned” and “it is understood…”. OK, that [...]

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Capacitive and resistive touch to go head-to-head in next portable gaming showdown

Friday, January 28th, 2011

A major difference between the NGP and 3DS lies in the two devices’ touch-sensitive technologies. The 3DS will reuse the original DS’ resistive touch screen, whereas the NGP will have two capacitive touch areas (front and rear), of the type most tablets and smartphones use today (including the iPhone and iPad). The 3DS’ resistive touch [...]

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The Sony PSP2, codenamed NGP

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Betcha didn’t think this day would come, but it finally has. Sony has just come clean with its next-generation PlayStation Portable. It’s actually codenamed NGP and will revolve around five key concepts: Revolutionary User Interface, Social Connectivity, Location-based Entertainment, Converging Real and Virtual (augmented) Reality. It will be compatible with the PlayStation Suite. Tweet this!

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LG gearing up to launch 3D line of smartphones

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

LG has started sending out invitations to an event at next month’s Mobile World Congress. Though it stops just shy of unveiling a device, LG says that it plans to take us into a “new dimension” on February 14. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the company will be showing off [...]

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Compulab makes a tiny Tegra 2 computer for the lilliputian community

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that you can fit a Tegra 2 in your pocket — how else could we have these phones? — but it’s still impressive to see the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 and GeForce ULP chip find its way into a bona fide fanless nettop that sips just three [...]

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Control your iPod like a Jedi with Monster iMotion

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

The Monster iMotion CarPlay 3000 connects to an iPod or iPhone via its dock connector, providing power through a 12-volt car charger and sending line-level audio through a 3.5mm patch cable to the host vehicle’s auxiliary input. However, the iMotion’s most interesting feature is the way it enables the user to control the connected iPod [...]

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Panasonic unleashes Lumix ZS10, ZS8, FX78, and TS3 point-and-shoot cameras

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Thought Panasonic was done unleashing Lumix point-and-shoots for a bit? Us too, but apparently the compact cam fun isn’t over yet. Yep, in addition to the eight it released earlier this month at CES, the company has four new ones for your eyes only tonight. Tweet this!

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More details on HP’s WebOS Topaz tablet

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

As February 9 draws nearer more details about HP’s slate of WebOS tablets that the company is expected to announce keep leaking out. Today’s edition is brought to us by PreCentral.net, which obtained a very detailed spec sheet for the Topaz tablet HP is reportedly working on. PreCentral’s document is about a year old, but [...]

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