Yes, you heard it right. This is some bizarre news. Though your spanky new Internet Explorer 9 is quite good and comparable to Firefox 4? Well, Microsoft ain’t slowing down, and just demoed a new Internet Explorer 10 early alpha build at the MIX developer conference in Las Vegas.
You can download the new Platform Preview right now at Microsoft’s Test Drive site and see where the company’s going with this early iteration, which adds support for additional web standards like CSS Gradients and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout.
What’s more interesting here is the platform that they’re using. Apparently this Dean Hachamovitch demoed IE10 on a 1GHz Arm chip. Shortly after, Nvidia tweeted that the SoC that’s used is their Tegra 2.
Looks like Windows 8 on ARM platform isn’t much of a problem.
Right, remember the deal that CEO of Team Lotus, Dato Tony Fernandes made with the Virgin Racing CEO Sir Richard Branson? They both had a deal, that whoever loses in the Formula One 2011 will serve on the airline of the other in a stewardess’s outfit!
Well, Sir Richard was supposed to serve on Dato Tony’s AirAsia flight from London to Kuala Lumpur on the 21st of February. However, Sir Richard injured his legs, and couldn’t perform the stunt on high heels.
Well boys and girls, the CEO of Virgin Airlines is back, and ready to fulfil his promise. Your once-in-a-lifetime chance to be served by a Knight – Sir Richard Branson! AirAsia through @AirAsiaGo is offering the opportunity to join this party and make history 35,000 feet in the sky. Thought, I have to say that this one way ticket ain’t going to be cheap.
3 packages are available for booking: Package 1 : Richard Branson Charity Flight + Hotel Package + Charity Cocktail Evening (£5,200/$8,455) Package 2 : Richard Branson Charity Flight (£4,500/$7,317) Package 3 : Charity Cocktail Evening (£350/$569)
All proceeds collected from the sale of seats will be donated to the beneficiaries identified by AirAsia & Virgin Unite (the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group).
Booking starts at 7 a.m. (GMT+8), 13 April 2011 at www.airasiago.com! Only 160 seats for the charity flight (Stansted to Kuala Lumpur) are up for grabs – so don’t miss out your chance.
All these while, the news has been skeptical. But now, HTC has officially stamped the launch date for its 7-inch Android tablet to be 9th of May, for the UK region. Other continents will have theirs follow shortly after. Now, will we see this 1.5GHz Gingerbread tablet in our shores next month too?
Previously known as the HTC Pyramid, this dual-core Android phone is now officially known as the HTC Sensation 4G!
Yes baby, everyone’s got dual-core except for Apple’s iPhone, and HTC is now introducing a new dual-core smartphone. This new Sensation 4G is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor (Qualcomm MSM 8260), though at this point we still don’t know the GPU that’s paired with it.
The phone’s very big at 4.3-inch, much like the Desire HD. In contrast, the Incredible S is only 4-inch. This here is a qHD screen running at 540 x 960, using Super LCD technology. The OS that’s coming with it is Android Gingerbread (Android 2.3) with Sense 3.0.
The 8-Megapixel camera at the back has LED flash, and can record 1080p video at up to 30fps. Speed wise, this his HSPA+ device promises download rates as fast as 14.4 Mbps. As for Sense, the Sensation also ushers in various tweaks to the company’s UI, including customizable lock screens, 3D transitions, an improved weather app, and HTC Watch, the service introduced with the company’s Flyer tablet that lets you download DVD-quality movies.
Before hitting the states this summer, the Sensation will launch in the UK, Germany, and the rest of HTC’s “key” European markets in mid-May, with Vodafone scoring a Europe-wide exclusive for “a couple of weeks.” No winder DiGi is throwing the Incredible S at such a dirt cheap price.
Ever thought of a smartphone that’s capable of dual-booting into Symbian AND Windows 7? Yes, I see your nerd face smirking, and it seemed that the Japanese are going to make your wish granted.
I’m not sure which is the main course and which is the side dish, but Fujitsu and DoCoMo has teamed up to unleash a dual-boot device that can boot into the desktop-version Windows 7 and Symbian, just at a flip of the switch!
It appears that this thing will be called the L00X F-07C for the moment, and will come with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a four-inch 1024 x 600 display, and an Intel Atom CPU. Will this be powered by the new Oak Trail Atom? What’s more, there’s a 32GB SSD in it! Talk about monster smartphone.
It’s inevitable, that Sandy Bridge has been launch, and thus we’re looking at lots of new notebooks being introduced. Toshiba just unveiled the Tecra R840 and R850 — both of which ape the R700′s slim build — along with the Portege R830, a refresh to the R700 itself.
Yes, it’s finally official. The Nokia X7 has been launched by Nokia, and will be available from Three in the UK. The stainless steel handset runs an updated Symbian^3 “Anna” (aka, PR2) OS that finally introduces a vastly improved browser and portrait QWERTY with split-view data entry among its 50 new enhancements that Nokia hope will restore abit of the Symbian’s glory.
Slightly less biffed up than the N8, the X7 will have an 8 megapixel cam with dual-LED flash that’s capable of 720p video recording, 4-inch OLED ClearBlack display, HD video recording, and 256MB RAM / 1GB ROM with an 8GB memory card tossed in the box.
What’s powering this stainless steel baby is a somewhat slow and very old 680MHz (ARM-11) processor that is identical with the N8 and E7. Right, when everyone’s running either a 1GHz Snapdragon or Hummingbird. And the GPU will be the same BCM2727 that’s somewhat disappointing in the E7.
The X7 will be available in Q2 with a price set at €380 before taxes and subsidies.
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