Archive for February, 2010 - Page 19

If you have even the slightest interest in phones it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re already acutely aware of the up and coming Sony Xperia X10 – after all, its received more than its fair share of attention and hype (not least from ourselves). You’ll understand then, on getting [...]

Although it seems like smartphones have monopolized the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (quite the picture we have in here) we’re hearing that more products are coming from other mobile manufacturers. One of the them, Toshiba have just made the official announcement for their new Toshiba T130 notebook PC that [...]

Rumors are coming out that some in the computer hardware press are receiving review copies of a new ATI graphics card, which is codenamed “Trillian”. Despite likely being under NDA, leaks are reporting that the new Trillian cards will be ATI’s answer to NVIDIA’s upcoming Fermi GPUs, which’ll be marketed [...]

A global specialist and leading retailer of smartphones and handheld devices, as they like to be called, the guys from eXpansys have officially announced that they’ll be carrying a lot of new smartphones — most of which debuted at this year’s MWC (check out our London coverage), to their UK [...]

Sony unveiled their newest point-and-shoot camera yesterday. The DSC-TX5 is what Sony calls “rugged”, as it can go underwater and survive certain drops. In fact, Sony says it’s the world’s smallest certified waterproof digital camera. The camera will have a slim compact design and will also be carrying a 10.2-megapixel [...]

Nokia and Qualcomm used to be bitter enemies as they waged a war with each other via lawsuits and lawyers. But, now they’re working together and the CEO of Qualcomm let it slip that this year, we can expect Nokia to produce a Symbian phone that’ll be running a Qualcomm [...]

Even before the oversized iPod Touch iPad was announced we saw tons of slate-style tablets emerge from companies hoping to take a piece of Apple’s pie. The folks at iiView have introduced a new tablet, dubbed the vPad which will come with a 10-inch screen.

Samsung’s got a pair of new point-and-shoot cameras coming. These two new cameras, which will be in the HZ-series, are what Samsung is calling “high-zoom” cameras, as they’ll feature a monster 15x optical zoom. It’s rare that you’ll find a point-and-shoot with such a high optical zoom.

Windows Phone 7 was unveiled this past week in Spain at the Mobile World Congress. It has been well-received by the tech press, and considering that previous iterations of Windows Mobile have been (to put it bluntly) horrible, one might expect Microsoft to quickly end Windows Mobile 6. However, that [...]

At the end of January we told you how Mozilla has announced the Firefox mobile version for Nokia’s Maemo platform and today we have more good news for you. It looks like Firefox for Android is coming by the end of 2010 and Mozilla is also considering launching mobile browsers [...]