Archive for June, 2010
Few time ago Motorola and Verizon gather all journalists in New York to announce a new mobile device: Droid X. Like his brother(Droid), Droid X comes with some interesting features and will be one of the rivals for iPhone 4 or HTC Evo.
The front of the phone has a 4.3-inches WVGA screen that supports a 854 x 480 resolution and 16:9 ratio. Later this year, Adobe Flash Player will come to support video streaming as well as gaming experience.
The virtual keyboard supports multitouch, so you can type up to 50 words per minute using one continuous finger motion across the screen. Just under the screen there are positioned four physical buttons: Menu, Home, Back and Search.
Right on the back of the phone there’s an 8 megapixel camera equipped with digital zoom, auto focus, dual LED flash and image editing tools. +Continue Reading
E3 2010 is finished, but we didn’t want to end this important week without one last announcement from there: PlayStation Move.
Move is a motion-sensing game controller developed by PlayStation for their 3-rd generation of consoles and claims to be better than Nintendo WII one. As you may see from the left picture, this motion system has two components: Motion controller and Navigation one. Both use Bluetooth 2.0 wireless radio communication and an internal lithium-ion battery(charged by USB) to communicate with PlayStation unit. You can you use up to four move controllers same time.
The motion controller allows the user to interact with the game wirelessly with motion and positioning sensors through PlayStation Eye Camera. The color changing rubber sphere from the top of this controller helps PlayStation to track your position in 3D space with 3 coordinates(X, Y, Z). +Continue Reading
E3 2010 is still running at Las Vegas and we are glad enough to give you some of the latest innovations featured on the stage. Yesterday was the time for Nintendo to present the next Gaming device, called 3DS.
Nintendo released DS in 2004 and changed the way users experienced games. After that, another major release was the WII console that was the first motion controlled gaming console.
This week at E3 the new portable gadget sends Gaming industry to the next level: 3D.
The top screen is an LCD display with 3.53-inches and supports 800 x 240 pixel resolution. We almost forgot to tell you, the display has 3D view, whom can be activated or deactivated by switch button located on the right side(400 pixels are allocated for each eye to enable 3D viewing). Above the 3D screen is situated the inner camera and on the sides there are Stereo Speakers. +Continue Reading
Big news today: Microsoft Kinect(previous named Project Natal) is the next trend in consoles. The new Microsoft sensor was announced at Los Angeles during E3 and claims to be an entirely new way to experience entertainment in the living room.
The sensor connects to any Xbox 360 device and through it’s camera, audio and motion sensors tracks 48 points of body movements.
With this new add-on you have the ability to control every move inside the game: “You simply step in front of the sensor and Kinect sees you move, hears your voice and recognizes your face.”
A demo of Project Natal has been announced last year during E3 and everybody was eager to see if this was as Microsoft promised. We were able to see Milo being raised in front of the TV or a family which could play a Formula 1 game.
Starting today, Kinect is the official name of the sensor and some of the details can be seen directly from the games that were featured during the event +Continue Reading
Google had announced this week on their official blog that the new search index called Caffeine is now working on the search page. We think this is a major news and we like to feature a post today to announce how Google search works now.
The image posted by Google is quite clear where Google search is heading: to deliver best results in the shortest period of time.
Basically this is what Caffeine does, it woks 50% faster than the old index and it provides more fresh results in real time, now more than ever. Year by year Internet evolves and Google must search through more and more websites to deliver some of the best queries. PageRank had a big importance at the old index, but now Caffeine wants to go to the next level and take into consideration more factors. +Continue Reading
WWDC 2010 conference begun today, and Steve Jobs had a keynote where he presented the past and the future of Apple.
More than 1000 Apple engineers will attend at the event scheduled between 7 and 11 of June at Moscone West, in San Francisco, California.
The event begun as usual with numbers, huge numbers recorded by Apple: 2 million iPads sold, 5 million books downloaded, 15.000 new apps submitted each day and 95% accepted, 5 billion downloads and $ 1 billion paid to developers. Another big news for book readers is that PDF(viewer/reader) is now available at the iBooks section. Three major new apps were presented than: Netflix, Guitar Hero and Farmville.
Than, the major announcement was made: iPhone text appeared on the screen and so the next Apple phone will be called iPhone 4 and not 4G or HD as we were supposing. The shape and some of his specs were seen before, thanks to an Apple developer who forgot the device in a bar and Gizmodo. +Continue Reading
Dell, a big name for electronic consumers is releasing soon the first tablet phone ever made. The device called Streak is an Android based device with a 5-inches screen, 1Ghz processor and full connectivity options.
The big screen display is a TFT LCD one with multi-touch option and 800 x 480 WVGA resolution. Streak dimensions are quite big for a phone and maybe that’s why it is called the “tablet phone”. It measures 152.9 mm with 79.1 mm wide and has 220 grams and could become one of the heaviest modern phone. Three buttons are located near the screen, Home, Menu and Back.
A 5 megapixel camera is located at the back side of the phone and has auto-focus + dual LED flash, while on the front is a secondary one, VGA type. +Continue Reading
Few time ago Motorola and Verizon gather all journalists in New York to announce a new mobile device: Droid X. Like his brother(Droid), Droid X comes with some interesting features and will be one of the rivals for iPhone 4 or HTC Evo.
