HP is said to be unveiling a webOS tablet related news in February, but now DigiTimes is claiming that Inventec has received instructions from HP to start producing and shipping a webOS slate (most probably the Topaz) in March. This matches HP’s promise that the first webOS tablet will come “in early 2011.” This might be a fluke seeing the source always miss the target, but the time does agree on the wind. It sounds more sensible for HP to announce “a new webOS tablet will available next month” then September.
We’ve seen how manufacturers spice their tablets up with lots of accessories to push their tablets out to the market and being outstanding, but credit goes to MSI for being the most outstanding at CES. The Taiwanese company has equipped their WindPad tablet with a projector. Reason? Nobody really knows and care. MSI has cobbled together a rather bulky, Atom-powered, 10-inch tablet with a built-in swivel projector. This further proves that tablets are very capable of cannibalizing the netbook/nettop market. Apparently the projector can be maneuvered to display on a wall or even flipped around to project downward onto a table. A MSI rep implied that the latter function could be used to enable some sort of laser projected keyboard, though the software for that cool function is yet to be available.
T-Mobile USA will be rolling out Froyo updates to their Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant in just a few hours’ time. Indeed, the US carrier will be pumping the much anticipated Android 2.2 into its customized Galaxy S by Samsung, stated by T-Mobile chief marketing officer Cole Brodman, who shared the news with PC Magazine yesterday. The update is actually months late, as we’ve already seen Gingerbread being offered by Nexus S, yet the company blamed “quality control and timing issue” for the delay.
Apparently, there’s extra work involved in skinning the operating system and adding exclusive apps like WiFi calling — though he didn’t confirm either would specifically appear in the Vibrant’s build of Froyo. Here’s some more welcome news, though: the gentleman promised that in general, Android updates on T-Mobile will be more prompt from now on, as the firm’s shooting to update all phones to new versions within five months of Google making source code available. Hopefully they keep to their words, and if that’s so we could expect Gingerbread offered around or even before summer.
Since T-Mobile has Froyo for their customers, how about the other very fascinating, captivating, and totally epic Galaxy S in US?
Opera has officially announced that its web browser will be arriving into Sony TVs and Blu-ray players very soon, making a presence in Sony’s upcoming 22 new connected HDTVs. Since the browser is based off of the Opera devices SDK backbone, there’s a possibility that those Opera-enabled web applications, widgets, or other content using standards like HTML5 could also march onto Sony gear at some point, though Flash would arrive only in a later date. Now what would Google do, since Sony is one of the Google TV hardware partner, and yet their Chrome isn’t featured inside Sony’s TVs and Blu-ray players instead?
ChevronWP7 is the one that brought us the first hack for Windows Phone 7, but now they’re back for one more, despite having their original hack being pulled down. Now its functionality has been extended with a second hack that enables you to use Zune to sync your HTC handset without it getting all locked up tight again. As a fair warning, this will work for now as the next update to Windows Phone 7 will permanently remove this unlock ‘feature’. But no worries though, as I’m sure by then there’ll be another new version coming up, as always.
Here’s a very inspiring video, but it’s not an inspirational video at all. This’ll probably arouse many engineers worldwide. Like they say, the difference between a kid and an adult is the size of the toy. Nokia Asia teamed up with two Chinese coders, An Jiaxuan and an unnamed friend, to whip up a C7 app that controls a BMW 1 Series. From the video, they didn’t start straight with the car, but with fridge, RC cars, even the light switch of their home (or lab). The video mentioned that it took them only 20 days to get everything ready, but this is very doubtful. Adding the remote controls to the car itself would have added quite some time. Cool stuff. But how long is the range?
8GB microSDHC is so 2008. This coming festive season, get yourself prepared for all the good times, and let Silicon Power prep you up with 32GB of microSDHC card just to make sure that you won’t run out of space during the holiday week. This tiny card can store up to 9,000 photos, 6,000 songs or 500 minutes of HD video, and promises to provide transfer speeds of at least 4MB/s, as the card is a Class 4.
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Samsung is very obvious in a slightly steep position after Motorola announced their Atrix 4G and Bionic LTE. What’s more, Apple has also been rumoured to be working on a dual-core processor on their next iPhone and iPad. That’s where Samsung’s new campaign comes in. the “Evolution is Fate” campaign promised a replacement for the ever popular Galaxy S, and obviously specs would have to be leaked to fend opponents off and attract potential buyers. The treat here is a new 1GHz Orion processor based on the dual-core ARM Cortex A9 cores, paired with an 8-Megapixel camera and loaded with Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Read more…
We’ve seen Yamaha coming up with iPhone/iPod docking stations, but now they’re mixing up iPhones and ‘what they do best’. For musicians, now here’s a good reason to get an iPad, because Yamaha just announced the Ion Audio Concert Piano. It’s an 88-key piano that comes equipped with a classic wood grain exterior, built-in speakers and a downloadable music-learning Ion Piano Master app that turns your iPad into a synthesizer workstation. Yes, there’s app even for a pianist. Besides the huge piano with the iPad dock, Yamaha has also released Piano Master, a midi controller keyboard with a docking station for an iPad. Sadly, there is no info on pricing at this moment.
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