Archive for March 8th, 2009
Sony Vaio P coming to T-Mobile Germany for Only €599.95
By Jenn K. Lee, Pocketables T-Mobile Germany will begin selling the entry-level Sony Vaio P (1.33GHz, 60GB HDD) for 599 euros including 19% VAT with a two-year web’n’walk Connect L data contract. The retail price of the P in Germany is 999 euros, so although the long-term cost is higher because of the recurring contract [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ulysse Nardin Creates The World’s First Green Smart Phone
In one of the stranger dalliances we’ve seen in quite a while, perennial Hodinkee favorite Ulysse Nardin has partnered with a European tech firm to create the world’s first “Hybrid Smart phone”. It is called The Chairman (which should give you an idea of who their target market will be), and will be released in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sharp AQUOS DH77 Slimline LCD HDTV
By Sze, itechnews.net Sharp launches in the UK its new AQUOS DH77 series “Green” slimeline LCD HDTV that is eco-friendly. Available in serveral models, including the 32-inch LC32DH77E, 37-inch LC37DH77E. 42-inch LC42DH77E and 46-inch LC46DH77E. A 52-inch model will be released later. The AQUOS DH77 features 1080p Full HD resolution, 30,000-50,000 contrast ratio depending on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Motorola i9 touches down at Sprint stores, available March 12th on Nextel
By Zach Epstein, BGR That saucy little Motorola i9… It just can’t stop posing for your pals at BGR. If you’re a Boost Mobile customer you probably already know that the i9 has launched in all of its deceptively bulky glory, well, because it’s far and away the sexiest handset Boost has ever seen. What [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sony Experia Launching in Korea Next Week
By Kevin (Kilmo) Kang, Cnet Asia Finally, Experia is landed in Korea. One of the best smartphone developed by Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson opened their local office to launch it to Korean market and many of members hired from Sony Korea. It¡¯s good, since Sony Korea also squeeze their size of human resources in Korea [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Verizon’s Touch Diamond in the wild
By Chris Ziegler, Engadget.com “Better late than never,” so they say. Perhaps — but with Sprint’s version of this in the rear view mirror for half a year now, just how relevant is a Touch Diamond on Verizon these days? Odds are we’ll find out next month — or, at least, that’s where the latest [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Panasonic DMP-BV100 Portable 1Seg TV also a Blu-ray Player
By Sze, itechnews.net Panasonic offers in Japan its new DMP-BV100 portable 1Seg digital TV that serves also as a Blu-ray disc player. The player has four antennas for receiving 1Seg TV signals. Panasonic DMP-BV100 features a 8.9-inch Viera α-Si TFT LCD display, support for BD-Live, Ethernet connection, HDMI port, Viera Link and an SDHC card [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Nokia and Verizon to Launch a 4G Phone?
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com Is Nokia getting ready to launch a new flagship phone? We’re still waiting for the N97 which is not a 4G phone as far as we know. Because that’s exactly what Nokia is thinking about, 4G phones. It mentioned how LTE is going to be its main focus for future phones so [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Verizon’s A3700 EV-DO/HSPA/GSM Hybrid Modem Goes through the FCC
By Chris, Mobilewhack.com Verizon has a new hybrid modem for you. The ZTE A3700 which has just passed through the FCC and it will be heading to a Verizon store near you. And it’s quite a smart hybrid phone too. It will handle EV-DO, GPRS, EDGE and HSPA connectivity so you’ll be able to surf [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gateway P-7808u FX 17″ Notebook PC
By Sze, itechnews.net Gateway launches the new P-7808u FX notebook PC, which is now available from J&R. Powered by an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 2GHz processor and a NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS with 1GB RAM, the P-7808u FX is perfect for gaming. This new laptop has 4GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVDSuperMulti [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Samsung SCH-r211 joins Cricket’s club
By DaX, Mobilewhack.com Cricket has announced the availability of Samsung’s new entry-level phone, the SCH-r211, on their network. Similar in form factor and features to Samsung Spex, which already found its way on to Cricket’s lineup last year, this new functional phone will be an ideal match for someone looking for a no-frills phone with [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Intel’s upcoming mobile chips to squeeze 3GHz out of Penryn, bring high-performance ULV to the masses
By Paul Miller, Engadget.com Yeah, we’ve had just about all the Atom we can handle, and it looks like Intel’s just about ready to help us back away from the difficult choice of sexy form factors for low prices and sexy form for exorbitant prices. Intel is working on Montevina Plus, which will push Penryn [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Asus G71Gx Gaming Notebook with GeForce GTX 260M
By Sze, itechnews.net Asus brings the G71Gx gaming notebook to the CeBit 2009. As an upgrade to the G71, the G71Gx is equipped with world’s fastest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M notebook graphics processor with 1GB of DDR3 video RAM. Asus G71Gx is based on Intel’s Centrino 2 platform supporting up to 12GB of DDR2 memory [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Nokia confirms North American 5800 3G reception issues have been fixed
By Chris Ziegler, Engadget.com It’s official: Nokia has a fix. It seems that a “configuration change” — which we’re assuming means a software-based setting of some sort — was responsible for the 3G disaster on the first batch of North America-spec 5800 XpressMusics to hit the market, and the company has been able to fast-track [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )PlayOn adds Amazon VoD and Revision3 content
By Dave Freeman, Crunchgear.com If you haven’t heard about PlayOn, MediaMall’s PC-to-console video streaming software, you will soon. Moving to become a major player in the streaming content world, PlayOn has grabbed some major wins lately, and it doesn’t look like they’re planning on slowing down. In a software update hitting today, PlayOn has added [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Myspace for BlackBerry gets updated to v1.5
By Greg Kumparak, Mobilecrunch.com Not looking the soon-to-be-released Facebook for BlackBerry v1.5 get all the glory, Myspace has gone and loosed v1.5 of their own application. Our BlackBerry handset is giving us all sorts of trouble right now, so we’re not having any luck testing it out for ourselves – so let us know in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Onion Goggles
By Scott Merrill, Crunchgear.com It must be pretty cool to be a professional inventor. Chris Hawker, the guy who runs Trident Design in Columbus, OH, is a professional inventor and has brought us the Power Squid and the Thirsty Light. He’s also responsible for Onion Goggles, which I review in this brief video. Preparing for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )G1 trouble in Germany: Patent company sues HTC
By Serkan Toto, Crunchgear.com Tech companies are getting sued for patent infringement regularly, but this recent case of patent litigation might mean serious trouble for HTC, at least in Germany. Munich-based IPCom, which is not your usual insignificant patent troll, says the Taiwanese company is infringing its patents (IPCom doesn’t have a website). According to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Acer thinking about an App Store, maybe an App Boutique?
By John Biggs, Crunchgear.com Acer, a company whose proud tradition of smartphone engineering has wrought nothing you can particularly remember right now, is planning its own App Store, an odd prospect considering most of its smartphones run Windows Mobile.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Carnival Hammer for the iPhone
By Greg Kumparak, Mobilecrunch.com Step right up, ladies and gentleman! Test your strength and potentially break the hell out of your iPhone! Carnival Hammer is a new game for the iPhone that simulates.. well, a carnival hammer. You know, that game where you smash a little pad with an awkwardly weighted hammer to try and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )More Bad News For Online Music Fans: Economy Kills Fabchannel
By Robin Wauters, Techcrunch.com Amsterdam-based online concert destination site Fabchannel is calling it quits after 9 years of digital goodness, blaming the poor state of the economy as a whole and the crisis in the online music and advertising industries in particular. This is the official press release: FABCHANNEL STOPS ITS ACTIVITIES Online concert channel [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Jailbreakers Junction: Cydia Store and others to sell apps outside of the App Store
By Greg Kumparak Long before the launch of Apple’s official App Store, Jay Freeman (otherwise known as Saurik) unleashed Cydia, an open repository of third-party applications for jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches. If you knew the right server addresses (or “Sources”), you could get just about anything. Sure, some folks use it for getting around [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )ZoomInfo Scores Deal With Microsoft To Integrate Search Into CRM
By Leena Rao, Techcrunchit.com ZoomInfo, a popular business information search engine used to find information about industries, companies and people is partnering with Microsoft to integrate its search engine into Microsoft’s Dynamic CRM platform. ZoomInfo’s search engine has proven to be useful tool to incorporate into CRMs because its research capabilities help identify new sales [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Tinyarro.ws: tiny URLs get even tinier
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad.com Sure, we’ve reported on some seriously miniscule URL shorteners before. Bit.ly and tr.im are both respectably lacking in length, and ought to work fine when you need to cram a link into a Twitter post. Tinyarro.ws takes the shrinking game to a whole new level, though, by using unicode characters to [...]
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