May 25, 2013

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LG Shows off its New “LU-3000″ Smartphone; Faster than other Smartphone available?

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While LG has a select few Android powered smartphones available here in the United States there isn’t one device that really makes a huge impact like the Samsung Galaxy S, iPhone 4 or HTC EVO 4G does. However, the new LG LU-3000 Smartphone is expected to impress a lot when made available for purchase, as [...]

Acer announced Android Smartphone with 4.8-inch 1024×480 Display

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Acer announced at its global event a 4.8-inch huge touchscreen smartphone that actually looks more like a tablet. The screen is not only larger, it offers 1024×480 high resolution with a 21:9 aspect ratio. As Acer’s next flagship, the device sports a 8 Megapixel camera with LED flash, auto-focus and  720p HD video recording capability, [...]

Apple’s iPad 2 expected to have 2 Cameras and USB Port

Rumors continue to swirl over Apple’s next generation iPad, and one reliable Taiwanese newspaper says the new device will be out in the first quarter of 2011, complete with video calling, two cameras, new display and touch technology, and a USB port to connect easily to other devices. First off, the original source of this [...]

ITG xpPhone comes with “Windows XP embedded-Smartphone”

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In Technology Group (ITG) has been toying with the idea of a Windows XP smartphone for close to 2 years, and is finally putting their xpPhone on the market. The xpPhone brings the embedded version of Windows XP to a large, 4.8 inch 800×480 touchscreen device with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Besides the fact [...]

7-inch Ziio tablet made by Creative hits the FCC

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Creative announced their plans for a pair of Android based tablets a few months back, but since then we haven’t heard much of the device’s details. The European devices are set to launch with 7-inch and 10-inch models, and the 7-inch model has just hit the FCC. complete with user manual and lovely snapshots of [...]

Sony PRS-650 Touch Edition Review

Sony PRS-650 Touch Edition

The new Sony Reader Touch Edition has its work cut out competing with the all-new UK-specific Amazon Kindle. It doesn’t have integrated wireless, you can’t buy and download books without hooking it up to a PC, and it’s considerably more expensive too. In terms of quality, the screen is the same size and resolution as [...]

Sony Reader PRS-350 Pocket Edition Review

Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS 350

The Sony PRS-350 is Sony’s second generation “Pocket Edition” ebook reader. Like its predecessor the PRS-300, the PRS-350 is marketed as an ereader that can fit in your pocket, and this new model is even smaller than the last. It measures 5.75″ x 4.13″ x .34″ and weighs a mere 5 and a half ounces—that’s [...]

WogPad: “World Of Goo” Heads To iPad

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2D Boy, makers of WiiWare/PC hit World of Goo, are bringing their game to Apple’s iPad, bringing with it support for up to 11 fingers at once. 2D Boy said that “There’s a lot of iGoo to pour in, and we don’t want to release something if it doesn’t run absolutely buttery smooth.” 2D Boy [...]

“Swype Apps” for Symbian Beta now with Support for French,German & Polish Languages

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The beta flavor of Swype for Symbian, the application the Swype team developed in collaboration with Nokia’s Beta Labs engineers, has just got enhanced with support for a wider range of languages. Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen [...]

World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

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Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]

Motorola MILESTONE 2 Android 2.2 smartphone SIM-free now in UK

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The Motorola MILESTONE 2 Smartphone, which is the non-U.S. version of the Motorola DROID 2 for Verizon Wireless, is now available in the UK. Expansys is currently offering the device for GBP379.99 ($605.00) SIM free. If you are still considering if the MILESTONE 2 is a worthy purchase let’s review what Motorola latest brings to [...]

NOKIA N8 facing Power Issue:Niklas Savander confirms

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Nokia N8 is the current top of the line Symbian^3 based multi-media handset. However, in last few days, several Nokia N8 owners complained that the phone powers off all by itself. Niklas Savander, Exec. Vice President for Nokia, acknowledged the issue at the official Nokia Conversations blog that a small number of users have been [...]