Author: Amarnath Natarajan
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Samsungs Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hits The FCC
Samsung s 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab hits the FCC, dont mistake it as thicker 10.1v sibling that is gradually rolling out across Europe and Australia. The older Honeycomb tablet bears GT-P7100 code name, this FCC filling and a Wi-Fi alliance certificate show off the GT-P7510 for this Wi-Fi only 10.1incher. The drawing of the backside…
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Dual-Boot ViewSonic ViewPad 10 Gets Android 2.2 Upgrade
The dual-booting ViewSonic ViewPad 10 with Android 1.6 be damned, we got some good news for these users, this tablet is getting the Android 2.2 Foryo edition update. Now the users can now get updated Gmail, Calendar, Google Maps, and YouTube apps, onscreen keyboard, compatibility with newer apps, and a dose of sorely needed eye…
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Olympus LS-20M Features Dual Mics And 1080p Recording
The company best known for cameras and voice recorders, just brought both together by announcing the new LS-20M, a device with relatively high-end audio specs should help it go toe-to-toe with zoom. In addition to 1080p, this device records 24bit / 96mHz Linear PCM audio using a pair of condenser mics. At $300 it has…
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Plex Media Server On For Roku
Plex has served up streaming video for more than a minute, brings content to Mac, iDevices and a jailbroken Apple TVs. For those who are neither a Apple user and nor a Android user, the company has now rolled out a client that runs on Rokus. It is currently in beta version and only supports…
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Amazon Tablet Shipping Later This Year
According to DigiTimes, the media tablet will feature a Fringe Field Switching LCD display and Touch panel from Amazon fave E Ink Holdings, a company better known for the technology behind the Kindles EPD e-paper displays. Quanta has received the manufacturing honours with production expected to peak at about 700,000 800,000 units per month. Amazon…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Spotted In Germany
The Samsungs Galaxy Tab8.9 seen at an event in Germany over the weekend. One of the people Johannes went hands-on with the tablet in Frankfurt, and liked what he saw. The version he saw is thinner that the 8.9-incher that we got to smudge up in March, and if this Europe appearance is any indication,…
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Lenovos LePad Gets Teardown
Lenovos LePad finally made its Chinese debut back in March, and while we may not ever see the tablet stateside not as LePad, – we can get a peek under the hood. The IMP3 tears down the LePad, we are seeing the machine for the first time and there is not much surprise, it is…
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Carriers Crack Down On Android Tethering Apps
Carriers in the US have started to seriously crack down on Android tethering apps. Go to the Android Market site and try to install an apps that turns your smartphone into a Wi-Fi hotspot, there is a pretty good chance you will be told this item is not available on your carrier. We checked out…
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MSI Wind Top AE2070 The 4th Generation Touch UI
The MSIs Wind Top AE2050 arrived in stateside a month ago, and the company is back with AE2070 now. The 20-incher features 1600*900 display, steps up to USB3.0 and can be upgraded to a 3.1GHz Core i3 Processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT540M graphics. Other specs are 500GB hard disk with 7,200 RPM, two-three watt speakers,…
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Nokia Announces N8 With Symbian Anna
The Nokia announced its new Pink N8, the device already benefited from the widest set of colour options among any smartphone flagships, and ready to add a T-Mobile friendly shade of light red to its anodized aluminium case. The curvy icons on its 3.5-inch AMOLED screen, the Pink N8 will also feature the latest version…
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Qualcomm Shows Off MSM8660 Slick Video Performance On Development Kit
Qualcomms latest video of its Mobile Development Platform hits the Internet now. The Snapdragons Adreno 220 is seen effortlessly handling in page HTML 5 video streaming, Flash video streaming, and 1080p playback. And as a slideshow, Qualcomm even put its current-gen-single-core QSD8255 with a rival dual-core chipset no doubt Tegra 2 in an LG Optimus…
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HDHomeRun Prime TV Tuner Available For Pre-Order For $207
SiliconDusts Cable CARD-compatible HDHomeRun Prime ready to bring its triple tuner TV magic home, having gained CableLabs Certification as of April 28th and subsequently showing up for pre-order on Amazon. It also supports other DVR software like MythTV on Copy freely-market content. HTPC builders dont have to choose between this HDHR3-CC and the Ceton InfinitTV4…
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Samsung Galaxy S Wi-Fi 4.0 And 5.0 Launched
While Samsung has yet to announce the actual date for its new Galaxy Players in the US, their international counterparts are already heading towards. The Galaxy S Wi-Fi 4.0 is said to be debuting in Russia followed by other countries. The Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0 will be launched in Switzerland. The specs are same, these…
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HPs Veer Gets AT&T Logo
HPs diminutive webOS 2.2 smartphone might be on its way to AT&T, and now leaked photographs rocking a panda like colour scheme have further confirmed our suspicions. As in the image, the logo is on the upper-left hand corner of its 2.6-inch display. The HPs smallest webOS smartphone first appeared over at Pocket Now on…
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Researchers Create Ultra Fiber Optics, Sets New Record
Japan has tested two separate 100 terabit per second data links that use single optical fiber to carry their loads. New Scientist reports that the NEC scholars stuffed the light from 370 lasers into 165 kilometres of fiber to achieve a speed of 101.7 Tbps, while NICT researchers set a new record of 109 Tbps…
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Gigabytes S1080 Windows Tablet Hits FCC
Gigabytes S1080 tablet landed in Taiwan this month, is getting ready to hit US. The 10.1-inch Windows 7 tablet stopped by FCC, it got cracked open, and had its silicon-packed innards exposed for camera. The specs are still the same; it features dual-core Atom, 320GB HDD, and so on. We havent heard anything about the…
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HDCA UT3.0K Drive Offers USB3.0 And 3TB Storage
If you are looking for biggest, fastest hard drive around, I-O Data now introduced the HDCA UT3.0K external hard drive, offers USB3.0 support and 3TB of storage, as company notes, makes it an ideal companion for TVs with a USB recording mode. It struggles to resist to charm of its blue LED and the possibility…
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FCC Opens For Public Comment On AT&T/T-Mobile Deal
Now the opportunity to let the FCC read youre thoughtful, reasoned take on how a GSM monopoly in US might or might not work. To comment, simply visit the source links below of FCC, has some handy forms one for short comments, one for long one and one for with the magic number of the…