New Android 3.0 Gingerbread details have emerged, courtesy of notorious mobile industry insider Eldar Murtazin of mobile-review and his Russian-language Digestive podcast. According to Murtazin – handily translated by UnwiredView – we can expect Gingerbread in mid-October 2010 with the first handsets preinstalled with the new OS arriving in November/December. They’ll be impressive beasts, too; [...]
We were just starting to get over the Courier, moving on after the tantalizing first reveal, the delish conceptual walkthrough, the heartbreaking cancellation, and the inevitable fallout. Now, Microsoft is dragging us back down memory lane with the receipt of a new patent covering the design of the thing. It was filed back on January [...]
As notebook markets go, the 15.6-inch segment is probably the most hotly contested; manufacturers are forced to look to gaming, multimedia or battery longevity in order to differentiate their wares. Gateway’s NV59C09u picks HD video as its forte, squeezing in a Blu-ray drive as standard together with easy connectivity for your HDTV. Check out the [...]
German internet provider 1&1 has outed a new Android-based tablet for its home subscribers, a 7-inch touchscreen slate with WiFi b/g/n and the ability to use a USB 3G modem. The 1&1 SmartPad will come preconfigured with various Android apps, including a digital photo frame viewer, ebook reader and weather widgets, and be sold alongside [...]
Got a nook? Want the latest v1.4 firmware but don’t want to give up your Android pleasantries like VPN support, third-party app support and root access? Head over to nookDevs, then, as they’ve just pushed out their hacked nook v1.4 firmware that lets you access all of Barnes & Noble’s latest functionality together with the [...]
PC Watch Japan has spent some quality time playing hands on with the new Panasonic C1 Tough Book Tablet. This might be the perfect machine for you if you want a convertible notebook, but you fear that you might drop it and break the thing. The machine in the review is powered by an Intel [...]
Looks like the Android-toting Cius wasn’t the only tablet out of Cisco this week — the company’s also announced a countertop unit for home energy management with a 7-inch, 800 x 480 capacitive touch screen. Running Ubuntu Linux for MID on a 1.1GHz Intel Atom chip, the Home Energy Controller connects to smart thermostats and [...]
Cisco is putting their foot in the door of the tablet market although they have a bit of a different vision and they will purposely not be going head to head with the iPad. They are instead aiming for this to be a business tablet with emphasis on “Mobility, HD Video ,Virtualization, Collaboration, Android OS [...]
Shenzhen-based company Phecda has recently showed off their newest Android tablet for the mass market. Known as the P7, the device comes equipped with a 7-inch 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen display, a 650MHz ARM11 processor, a 256MB ROM, a 4GB of storage, an SD card slot, 1080p Full HD video playback support, a mini-USB [...]
VidaBox is working on releasing its upcoming Web App that is currently on display at the Asian Pacific CEDIA EXPO 2010 that enables users to control Media Center as well as navigate their VidaBox Server’s Pictures, Music, and Movie collection. Not only that, they are able to view meta data while launching selected content to [...]