Right, we’ve just stepped onto March 11, and to be precise Cupertino should still be sleeping on March 10, but Apple has officially released the much awaited iOS 4.3. Download size is quite bizarre as usual; Apple probably released it earlier to reduce server stress. We’ve installed it into our iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. The iOS 4.3 does seem much smoother compared to iOS 4.2, as menus scroll like butter on both phones. Apple mentioned that ‘Mobile Hotspot’ is only for iPhone 4 (and Verizon’s iPhone 4 CDMA wont’ have it), but we found the ‘Mobile Hotspot’ menu on our 3GS. Not workable though, probably JoJo haven’t found the magic. Also, the so called ‘Multitask Gesture’ which is supposed to be under ‘General’ in ‘Settings’ was missing on both phones. We’re still digging around, so go ahead and download yours now.
We though it’s a joke, or a prototype; but Viewsonic is going for it. Viewsonic has made their dual-booting ViewPad 10 officially available as they’re shipping it out right now. The specs might not even beat the shadow of iPad 2, but when you’re prepared to buy a tablet with Android 1.6 and Windows 7 loaded, I’m sure you won’t care about the iPad 2.
If you’ll recall, this one’s rocking a 10.1-inch touchpanel (1024 x 600), 1.66GHz Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera and Android 1.6, right when everyone’s racing to throw in their Honeycomb tablet into the market. There’s also a microSD card slot, and a copy of Windows Home 7 Premium (with a 16GB SSD) or Windows 7 Professional (with a 32GB SSD). Then again, you’ll be shock to know that Viewsonic is asking for $599 and $679 for the 16GB version and 32GB version. Funny isn’t it? Well, the funniest thing is that the ViewPad 10 above is running Mac OS X.
These days we have printers the size of nearly a room to print colored books for us, heck we even read books on e-Readers not real printed materials, but have you ever though how books were made back in the early days of black and white?
This is the result when you want to have touchscreen, and yet you still miss your Nokia E71’s portrait QWERTY keyboard or your BB. A very blend product that tries to give you some touchscreen fun and yet keeps you at professional level with the keyboard, this is Samsung’s Galaxy Pro.
The Galaxy Pro has a 2.8-inch touchscreen panel, and a portrait QWERTY keyboard, just like a young teenager that cannot make up his mind. Samsung actually squeezes a four-row button array beneath a set of Android keys and a 2.8-inch glass, so it’s rather cramp down there. Horsepower wise, it’s quite modest yet not a true quarter-mile runner. You get an 800MHz processor with a 3-Megapixel cam that has autofocus skill. Tagging along as the butler is Google’s Froyo OS, Android 2.2.
Every computer platform launched these days is running DDR3, and you think DDR2 is legacy and dead? Well not really, because Kingston has just announced a new DDR2 memory product. The Kingston HyperX Genesis DDR2 memory modules are now available for purchase.
These memory modules are engineered and designed to meet the most explicit needs of PC enthusiasts. Available in capacities up to 2GB, the Kingston HyperX Genesis DDR2 memory modules provide speeds up to 1.2GHz in a variety of CAS Latencies, breaching the territory of DDR3 memory’s speed. Of course, you’ll also need to have a platform with support for such high speed DDR2 in order to run them. It’ll be worth buying if your current setup is still nicely serving you, and all you need is a memory boost for newer applications. If mere memory boost is insufficient, then it’s still better to go for a new setup.
Now here’s a unique keyboard tailor-made for socializing people. We have keyboards for gamers, and keyboards for HTPC, but now please welcome a keyboard for social network (might as well call it the Facebook Keyboard). Social Keyboards has recently launched the Social Network Access Keyboard (S.N.A.K.).
We’ve seen many movies and drama, and at times they show DJs and radio announcers talking in the room with the “On Air” light on. It’s a cool thing to have, as it’s a statement. But these days where many people stream their radio through online and be an online DJ, you don’t get that cool bulb anymore, unless you do something like this guy.
A month ago we heard about Google giving their Chrome browser a speed boost and making the interface friendlier for grandmas with version 9, but apparently they’re not very satisfied with the results, and went back again to the drawing boards to further improve it. So, a month later, here’s version 10.
It’s fresh off from beta today, with constant chrono boost. Google claims a 66-percent improvement in JavaScript performance on the 3.8-Litre V8 benchmark suite, along with a completely revamped settings interface that replaces the usual window with a tab in the browser, something similar to Firefox 4.
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