The whopping 8 mega-pixel camera mobile phone with a touchscreen is here. These things get powerful by the day. Here’s a press release from Samsung.
Archives for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Wikipedia now on mobile
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Wikipedia has officially launched a mobile phone optimized version of their encyclopedia at mobile.wikipedia.org.
GPS Tracking with Iphone
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
The Trails application for iPhone makes GPX tracking and mapping super-easy and at a very very low cost.This full-featured GPS application by German programmer Felix Lamouroux does many things that turnkey GPS hardware will do but at a super-bargain price of $1.99.
Sony Ericsson, HTC say new Android-powered handsets due next year
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
According to two reports, Sony Ericsson and HTC are both semi-confirming Android handsets for 2009. An SE spokesman by the name of Garfield Brusewitz was quoted as saying that the company would introduce higher-end models of the Google-powered devices to start with, then supplement those handsets with cheaper versions aimed at a broader market. In [...]
Nokia N97 Hands-on Demo
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Following on from the earlier post about N97, here is a hands-on demo of the Nokia N97 scheduled to be released by mid 2009.
Nokia N97 – the fight for the Iphone spot is on now
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Finally Nokia has come out with a beater I guess. It invokes more a cool headed enthusiasm rather than the knee-jerk hysteria of the Iphone. For good measure the Iphone has given the mobile world a jerk and the results are good to see. The impressive Nokia N97 is here. Twenty-four hours after teasing us [...]
Seagate offers fix for Barracuda drives
Sunday, 30 November 2008
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/Apple/~3/466776037/ Earlier this month, a warning went out about problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 8200.11 hard drives with a capacity of 1.5 terabytes. While the initial warning was sounded for all operating systems, it may be that the issue was more for Mac and Linux users. Seagate this week told storage vendors that a firmware fix [...]
Motorola Krave ZN4 hands-on over at Engadget Mobile
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Motorola’s only — yes, only — touchscreen phone in the US market is on sale with Verizon, offering VCAST TV, two touch-sensitive surfaces (you’ll just have to read the hands-on to find out exactly what that means), and a 3.5mm headphone jack, among a host of other lustworthy features. But is the total package any [...]
RIM clears up BlackBerry Storm OS situation
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Well, it looks it looks like we can put the first Storm conspiracy theory to rest, as RIM has now come out and said that the supposed delay-causing Storm OS glitch was, in fact, more of a sticker glitch, and that there was never such a thing as an OS version 4.7.0.82. As you may [...]
Production Tesla Roadster gets glorious hands-on: stifle your envy, please
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/autos/Production_Tesla_Roadster_gets_glorious_hands_on’; Here at Engadget, we hold a special place in our hearts for Mr. Jason Calacanis, but regardless of whose name is on the pink slip, there’s no denying that the vehicle you’re peering at above just struck all sorts of jealousy in your chest. This Very Orange (seriously) Tesla Roadster is one [...]