Gadgets

Google TV was the biggest news from I/O 2010

As we promised yesterday, another big news from Google I/O 2010 was the announcement of Google TV. The motto of the new invention is: TV meets web. Web meets TV. During that live event Google boys presented their future release as a revolutionary product designed especially for US people, who spend five hours per day watching TV. They are trying to merge Web, which is a part that Google conquered ever since the search engine started with TV world, something totally new for them. LES...

HTC HD Mini: Small, simple and brilliant

These days HTC is celebrating 13 years since they started designing smartphone devices. Their success story is posted on their site, but this is not the subject we are going to debate. The "small" reason we are writing this post is called HTC HD Mini. You may found the name familiar, because the phone was presented during MWC 2010, but now we want to get a depth look inside and see what is all about. Why Small? Having just 110 grams, 10.3 cm long and 1.1 cm thick will fit perfectly for our pa...

Steve Jobs and Apple hate Adobe Flash too much

Have you ever wonder why Apple CEO, Steve Jobs hates Flash(Adobe) so much? We haven't done this till now, but we think is something strange between two big names. All started in 2007 when Apple launched iPhone mobile device and same time with him, the iPhone OS. From the beginning they refuse to comment about any Flash support or things related to it, but few years after it seams they couldn't resist and say directly: we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Apple made a clever m...

Could Nokia N8 mean something this year?

Till now, 2010 it's a harsh year for finish producer Nokia, who seem to be outclass by Apple, HTC, Motorola or even Microsoft. Why do we say that? A touchscreen model was needed like a fresh breath for Nokia, but the bad news is that will be released Q3, 2010. The display has a 3.5-inches size and is an OLED capacitive based one with 640 x 360 pixels resolution. Along 16M colors the screen have orientation sensor, compass, proximity sensor and ambient light detector. Under the display we have...

Bluetooth 4.0 technology set to be released this year

Last week during All Hands Meeting in Seattle, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the upcoming Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. Expected to be launched in Q2, Bluetooth 4.0 technology will have a "powerful low energy mode designed to enable expansion of the technology in m-health, sports and fitness, security and home entertainment scenarios where button-cell battery devices proliferate". If classic Bluetooth offers a range of 10 metres, the new one will range 60 metre...

Allview F1 X-perience, the touchscreen dual sim phone

As technology evolves day by day, cell phones can now support 2 sim slot cards. We featured in the past two other Allview dual sim models(G1 and S2 Guld), but today we present you a touchscreen dual sim device called F1 X-perience which weights just 120 grams and is 12.6 mm thick. The touchscreen display has 3.0-inches wide 256.000 colors and supports a resolution of e 240 x 400 pixels, big enough to enjoy your media files. Accelerometer sensor and handwriting are available as features. ...

The next step into social is Microsoft Kin

It was a big day at San Francisco yesterday as Microsoft presented their first two phones: Kin One and Kin Two. The press event was called "It's time to share", probably because Kin phones will be the next step into social lives. With this Kin, Microsoft wants to forward social networks to the next level and get a valuable part of the mobile phone consumers. To merge social life with real life, Microsoft even made an experiment and picked a girl called Rosa to visit her social friends. The...