Friday, May 28, 2010

iPhone 3G disappears from the Apple Store online

Apple have removed the ability to choose the iPhone 3G from the online store. We expect the iPhone 3GS to replace this at $99 in the next few days, making way for the new iPhone HD on the 7th June.

Coming soon AT&T iPhone HD launch in june 2010

 
Title says it all, but you didn’t really need a confirmation, did you? The phone will be available for purchase in June, not July, and from what we’ve heard, it won’t even be late June.

Apple fans wait outside of the apple store befor launch Apple iPad

 At midnight in Sydney, Australia, 18 diehard fans wait in the pouring rain for the iPad which launches in 8 hours. Crazy! The Apple store’s ground level has been blacked out with curtains as the finishing touches are put on the entire ground level as iPad madness takes over the store on Friday.

Garmin-Asus A10 with pedestrian-optimized GPS to European and Asian Android lovers


The new Garmin-Asus A10 is a humble 3.2" HVGA communicator powered by Android OS. It comes with a 1,500mAh battery, a multitouch-friendly WebKit browser, and a 5Mpix AF camera with automatic geotagging. The preloaded Garmin Navigation maps and software provide location info and turn-by-turn voice instructions while the handset is in offline mode. In-car navigation is also obviously fully supported and encouraged. We also know pedestrian-optimizations are included, such as the public transport-aware cityXplorer maps.




You can expect the A10 to hit the European and Asia-Pacific markets in mid-2010.
You ain't nobody if you don't have an Android handset (or two) these days, and Garmin-Asus has just added the A10 to its own stable of devices. It's a pretty humble 3.2-inch H VGA communicator, but it has a healthy 1,500mAh battery, a multi touch-friendly Web Kit browser, and an auto focusing 5 megapixel camera with automatic geotagging. Coming with preloaded Garmin Navigation maps and software, the A10 eliminates the need for a web connection when looking up your local topography, and similarly retains turn-by-turn voice instructions while used offline. It's not altogether clear what the pedestrian optimizations are, aside from the public transport-aware city Xplorer maps, but in-car navigation is also obviously fully supported and encouraged. We're told to expect the A10 in mid-2010 for European and Asia-Pacific markets. Full PR after the break. 

Thursday, May 27, 2010

New Android Browsers Hands-on

Here's a quick video review of the SkyFire 2.0 and Mozilla Fennec (pre-Alpha) browsers running on a Google Nexus One.



A pair of new browsers for Google's Android OS were launched this week. We get our hands on the SkyFire 2.0 browser with Flash video support, and the FireFox Mobile (aka Fennec) browser, with FireFox Weave Sync built

Samsung Galaxy A and LG's LG-SU950 unveiled in Korea





















Introducing three new Android handsets for the Korean market.
First the LG-LU2300 and LG-SU950. Both of these will feature a 3.5" WVGA display, DivX playback, 3.5mm headphone jack, DMB mobile TV, multimedia playback and will be released in May / June period in Korea.

Next is the Samsung Galaxy A, also known as the SHW-M100S. It is available now from SK Telecom, and features:
  • Android 2.1 OS;
  • 3.7" WVGA AMOLED display;
  • 720MHz CPU;
  • mobile TV onboard;
  • DivX playback;
  • 5 megapixel camera;
  • HD video recording;
  • A-GPS;
  • Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Now first Vodafone-branded Android handset

This is the Vodafone 845, the first Android-powered handset to bear Vodafone branding on it. It will be available for purchase in the UK next month, and has the following key features:
Vidafone 845
  • Android 2.1 OS;
  • 2.8" (240 x 320) touchscreen;
  • 3.2Mpix camera;
  • 128MB RAM, 512MB ROM