The EB-850R made an appearance at Computex Taipei today. It is a color ebook reader by ECS and boasts a lot of features; can’t say the same for its specs. It has an 8-inch resistive touchscreen with screen clarity of 800 x 600 pixels.
The Cisco Cius tablet is meant for enterprise use and carries appropriate specs for the purpose. The tablet was actually announced last June; it is now being made available through channel partners and should start retailing actively by May.
Motorola has begun the process of providing long due upgrades to Android 2.2 Froyo for its Milestone model of smartphones. The USA, where the phone is available through Verizon, and the U.K are countries where the upgrade is available. Phone owners need to have their phone connected to a computer via a cable to carry [...]
The Mobile World Congress to be held February 14th-17th in Barcelona will see the debut of the Samsung S58360; it is rumored to be of the Samsung S Mini series and sports a candybar form as can be seen from the images.
Rumor mills are rife with news on the Samsung Forte, a 4G-enabled smartphone for the MetroPCS LTE network. Samsung Hub states that the phone looks very similar to the SCH-R910 but it appears that MetroPCS has plans for two LTE smartphones; the Samsung Forte and the SCH-R910. Or maybe, these are two variants of the [...]
Although its existence has been spoken about, the actual presence of the Galaxy Mini S5570 has been confirmed via pics attributed to the Chinese equivalent of the FCC. Apparently, Samsung will be debuting two versions of the Galaxy Mini at the MWC next month and the pics are of the smartphone coded S5570.
MicroVision, known more for its display technology products, has come up with a prototype mini-tablet with an embedded PicoP laser display engine. The 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen tablet runs Android 2.2 (it may upgrade by the time the tablet debuts), comes with a 720p camcorder module, motion sensor, HDMI in and out.
The ViewSonic ViewPad 10S tablet shown at the CES seeks to redress the shortcomings of the original ViewPad 10 and it does succeed. It is expected to be available in the U.S by the end of Q1 and cost around $399. The 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The ViewSonic [...]
The Acer Liquid Mini has appeared at the CES 2011 and lives up to its name. It sports a 3.2-inch display (480 x 320 pixels), is powered by a Qualcomm 7227 600MHZ CPU and runs Android 2.2. 512MB RAM is more or less sufficient to do whatever you’d like to with this smartphone. The Acer [...]
Hanvon has introduced a new tablet, the HPad A116. It’s a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen tablet that runs Android 2.2 or 2.3 and is powered by a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU. The TFT display has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels.
Velocity Micro has announced three new Android 2.2 tablets under its Cruz brand at the CES. These Micro Cruz tablets will be available in 7-inch (Cruz Tablet L37), 8-inch (Cruz Tablet P38), and 10-inch (Cruz Tablet L510) capacitive touchscreens. No information on price and release date, but when it happens we can expect to find [...]
The HTC Inspire 4G displayed at the CES some time back too strives to bring something fresh to the table, unlike other smartphones covered thus far on this blog, the HTC piece stays clear of the slimness fad and instead gives us a new user interface, the HTC Sense UI…to be precise. What does this [...]
Viliv has introduced three tablets at the CES, one Windows 7 slate – the X70 and two Android 2.2 models, namely the X7 and X10, respectively.
Perhaps the most interesting smartphone release of the CES 2011 so far, the AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G has got a feature-set that makes you want to read further. A 4.5-inch display is as big as you get on smartphones, anything bigger and you’ve got a Dell.
AT&T has introduced at the CES, what it is calling the world’s most powerful smartphone, dubbed the Atrix. When you have a smartphone powered by a 1,920mAh lithium-ion battery then you know it’s a little crazy. Add to that 1GB RAM and an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor and you have a mini-monster. Its got [...]
LG has unveiled the LG Optimus Black and the company is touting it as the slimmest mobile phone ever at 9.2-mm thin. Another plus here is the 4-inch NOVA touchscreen, which in the manufacturer’s words takes the cake for being “the brightest, clearest and most readable” mobile screen. Does 700 nits of brightness mean anything [...]
The Lenovo Ideapad U1 hybrid runs dual operating systems (in a very interesting manner, as we’ll see) and sports a 11.6-inch multi-touch resistive touchscreen display (1280 x 800 pixels).
The Samsung SHW-M190S smartphone has finally emerged from the murky world of guesses and speculations;thanks to a forum posting. Now we have images, specs, and know that this 4-inch AMOLED (WVGA) screen phone will be released in Korea via SK Telecom’s Hoppin service. It features an HDMI out, otherwise it is similar in design to [...]
Ramos has announced that it will be displaying three spanking new tablets – the W10, W12, and the W15 at the CES next week.
The Woori Pad, manufactured by “Appeal System” features a 9.7-inch touchscreen with 1024 x 768 resolution and makes no secret of the fact that it is an iPad clone. All the same, its got microSD and USB support; something that iPad does not. A 1GHz CPU and Android 2.2 are specs that bode well for any [...]
The Huawei IDEOS X5 smartphone announced earlier this month has now acquired the degree of respectability that comes with officially declared technical specifications. Read on and lay to rest the speculations on screen size, RAM, and whatever else that’s plaguing your mind. It runs Android 2.2. Early speculation had suggested that this piece will have [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Player (YP-GB1) looks set to mount the first serious competition to the iPod; the 4-inch LCD screen (800 x 480) Android 2.2 PMP will make an appearance at the CES 2011.
Pantech, South Korea’s no. 3 cellphone maker, has launched the Vega Xpress in the country. The smartphone is available in two models, namely the IM-A710K and IM-A720L. It features a 4-inch touchscreen and is powered by a 2nd generation MSM8255 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. It comes with DDR2 memory and runs Android 2.2. The DDR [...]
The Hannspree HSG1164, a.k.a the Hannspad has made an appearance at the FCC. It made news last month when it was introduced in Europe. As far as we know, it has still to hit the stores, back then it was priced at £349 and there was word of a 3G version in the pipeline.
When a budget tablet comes with Android 2.2 and processor speeds of 800MHz, then its reason enough to check out the rest of the features. And this is exactly what you want to do with the E11 tablet. It costs $135 and I learnt about it at Nicepro.
