Archive for December, 2009 - Page 23

Netbooks have come a long way to become what they are today and by the looks of it, next year’s CES Show in Las Vegas is going to swarmed with lots of new models. What’s even more interesting though, leading chip makers have identified the big potential in the ultraportable [...]

The war for mobile customers in Canada is getting more tensed by the day. Just moments after learning that LG is releasing their first Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone, the LG IQ, on Telus, we found out that Bell are doing their little something for more media attention by announcing that [...]

LG have announced that the company’s first Windows mobile 6.5 handset, the new LG IQ, is to be officially released in Canada on Telus in time for Christmas. Billed as the fastest carrier-linked phone in North America, the LG IQ runs on the super snappy 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, has [...]

Despite the “massive” demand for the new HTC HD2 and the fact that up until now the smartphone has been considered a sales success, out of the blue Vodafone UK  have decided to trade the recently announced Windows Mobile 6.5 handset for Apple’s iPhone. No official statement has been released [...]

The American car industry may be in trouble, but they’re still trying new things. Last week at the LA Auto Show, American car giant Chevrolet gave a press conference on the Chevy Volt, their all-electric car, and revealed a quick PowerPoint slide that the carmaker was developing a mobile phone [...]

Sungale has released information on the ‘Kula’, a small portable TV that uses WiFi to retrieve IPTV channels from the web. Users will buy into a channel subscription package from Sungale, which will offer between 100 and 500 IPTV channels. Although no specifics have been announced, Sungale has promised that their channel packages [...]

Amazon’s new Disc+ service allows customers who have purchased certain DVDs or Blu-Ray discs to watch their movie right away, via streaming over the internet. Amazon is calling the digital version a ‘free gift’ and Amazon is reportedly testing customer reaction with this service before expanding it.

The folks over at eviGroup has been planning their 5″ MID device for some time (well, since August 2009) and they’ve run into some roadblocks in the manufacturing stage, but that hasn’t stopped them from showing off a new redesign of the device. The “Wallet” MID will come with a [...]

Swedish giant Electrolux has been making vacuums for over 90 years, so it’s about time they included an iPod dock in their models. Their “UltraSilencer” line of canister vacuum cleaners will soon include an iPod dock, and they didn’t stop there, as they even did a scientific study to prove [...]

The Peek drew some confused looks when it was first announced, as it was purely a mobile e-mail gadget, with no phone, no apps or no web browser. Now, the Peek is heading to Europe, courtesy of Spanish WiFi Router company FON, who says the device is perfect in Europe because [...]