HTC’s Flyer tablet, aka the EVO View 4G, will be arriving in the states this spring, exclusively to Best Buy (WiFi-only version). Sprint’s 3G version will be arriving in summer though. The HTC Flyer is an odd-baller in the tablet world.
There’s no Honeycomb, as HTC ops for Gingerbread instead. There’s no dual-core processor, as HTC choose to go with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm chip instead of the popular Tegra 2 dual-core solution. Honestly there’s no handset from HTC that’s running on Tegra 2 right now, so I guess there’s some particular corporate-level reason for that.
What’s more, the 7-inch tablet will support a capacitive stylus like how Asus Eee Pad Memo Tablet does. As usual from HTC the Flyer will have an aluminium unibody shell.
Previously available with a “room for two” size, but now they’ve decided to change it to a “one-man-show” charger for single peeps. Here’s Energizer’s new single-pad Inductive charger. Like before it supports the Qi standard and offers compatibility with a variety of devices. No word on price or availability at the moment though.
Yes, we know that Nokia has partnered with Microsoft to develop smartphones for Windows Phone 7 platform, but these new phones won’t arrive until next year. And what is Nokia to do with their rapidly shrinking market share of mobile phone in the US and worldwide? Well, they continue to nurse their Symbian platforms.
Yes, Symbian isn’t totally out of the window, as Nokia has just launched a new C7 smartphone using the Symbian^3 operating system, with T-Mobile USA (which has since been bought by AT&T Inc. from Deutsche Telekom AG for $39 billion).
Nokia recently cancelled their X7 smartphone for the US market, which ran its Symbian software, after not receiving enough marketing and subsidies support from its intended carrier, AT&T Inc. Nokia launched its higher end N8 late last year without carrier support in the U.S., hindering its chances of finding many users.
Nokia started shipping the C7 world-wide in October at an estimated €335, or $475, before taxes and subsidies. During Nokia’s fourth-quarter analyst call, Mr. Elop mentioned the C7 as one of a number of new Symbian launches that helped contribute to the over five million new devices it shipped in the quarter.
When people say that a picture speaks a thousand words, sometimes a video can tell what a picture can never explain in 50-pages of words. We’ve seen the new catfish-like Pagani Huayra in auto shows, but the pictures doesn’t seem to justify the uniqueness of the car. This time, the Huayra is caught showing off around city area and can I say that this car is definitely unique in its own way.
You may have a very luxurious Ferrari or a brutal Lamborghini or an elegant Mercedes, but the Pagani Huayra will still standout in the crowd being the oddest looking supercar which the owners will stand proudly in front of it. Mind you, everything about the Pagani Huayra is hand-fitted, from the quad-exhaust to the jet-like interior.
Google Inc.’s co-founder Larry Page’s dream to have the world’s 150 million or so books accessible to users of Google’s Web-search engine received another setback blow today at the hands of United States federal judge Denny Chin.
Judge Denny Chin rejected a 2008 settlement in a ruling filed in United States district court in Manhattan, where Google forged with author and publisher groups to make millions of books available online, reason being the Internet giant would gain the ability to “exploit” books without the permission of copyright owners, directly making Google a “legal pirate” of books.
“While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many,” Judge Chin wrote, Google’s current pact would “simply go too far.” The deal would “give Google a significant advantage over competitors, rewarding it for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission,” he said.
In his decision, Judge Chin also noted antitrust concerns related to the settlement, including that “would arguably give Google control over the search market” for books.
Google started to work with several libraries in late 2004 to scan and digitize books and other writings in their collections, and has said it has completed 10% of the effort
Google’s lawyers said that they will return to the discussion room for yet another ‘refined’ deal.
Samsung Electronics Co. has finally given an official pricing for their upcoming Galaxy Tab honeycomb tablets. Yes, this includes the 10.1-inch and the just-announced 8.9-inch honeycomb tablets, as Samsung tried to break into Apple Inc.’s iPad superiority market.
The newly announced Wi-Fi version of the 8.9-inch tablet will sell for $469 to $569 pending on memory storage and will arrive in early summer, while its bigger sibling the 10.1-inch tablet will sell for between $499 and $599 and will arrive in June 8.
Nevertheless, the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab will still carry on in the market.
As we all know, AMD has launched their flagship dual-GPU card the Radeon HD 6990, and Nvidia has been very pleased about that, probably because they have very high confidence in their own version of a flagship dual-GPU card, something that has been missing for quite some time now, since the last dual-GPU card from Nvidia is the GTX 295. However, the NDA hasn’t officially lifted, but Nvidia has decided to go ahead and tease the world with a rather awkward video at YouTube, calling the product “a top secret project we’ve been working on for 2 years”. I can’t recall any flagship Nvidia card of this time and era besides the GeForce GTX 590, so it’s either that card, or a very small nuclear reactor that can power the next generation Nvidia cards, but they did say it’s a flagship graphic card, so… Let’s just wait until March 24th at 6am PDT.
I remember watching a B-rated Sci-Fi movie, and there’s a scene where the couple makes love by using some sort of virtual-reality helmet, and actual physical contact is actually considered dirty. Alright, that’s so awkward. I hope the future isn’t something like this. But apparently humans have managed to detect our neuron signals in our brain and use it to control things, like… a car! Here’s a video that shows how scientists managed to drive a car by just one item, and that is our mighty human brain.
Ever see the bulky speakers fitted on the ceilings every time you go to the restaurant? Don’t you think they spoil the aesthetic looks of those restaurants? Well, now we can actually hide the speakers, in a very stealth method that you cannot imagine. Online store Hammacher has started selling the Audio Light Bulb that allows you to light up a room and fill it with your favorite tunes at the same time. Yes, it’s a combo of light bulb and speaker.
Audio is transmitted wirelessly to the light bulbs through a transmitter plugged into the audio output of your stereo or computer. Providing crisp audio, the full-range, 10-watt speaker receives interference-free wireless audio signals from up to 50 feet away from its transmitter, which docks with any iPod/iPhone equipped with a 30-pin connector. The speaker has integrated LEDs that provide bright light similar to a 60-watt light bulb. The included remote controls volume, play/pause, and light dimming to 50% of brightness.
Now you can manipulate your own restaurant or shop or whatever you have, even your house, and have music sung to you from corners that you cannot imagine. Awesome! Of course, don’t expect the speakers to be able to sing ‘boom boom pow’ nicely.
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