Posts Tagged ‘ handhelds

Another Android tablet spotted? Say it ain’t so! 16 June 2010 at 9:04 am by admin

What’s this? Oh, just yet another Android tablet spotted in the wild hanging out, looking cool. This one, made by Acorp, is a 5-incher with Android 1.5 (upgradable to 2.2) and we have to say, it definitely looks a lot like the Dell Streak .

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+ Blue Nintendo DSi XL headed to the US of A By admin 09 June 2010 at 11:43 am and have No Comments

Nintendo rather quietly announced earlier that as of July 11th, it will see the DSi XL in Midnight Blue. The new color model will cost $189.99 — just like every other DSi XL — and will also come with all the same installed software and apps. Yes, other than the color (we’ll give them this, it’s a pretty sweet shade of blue) this one’s identical to every other DSi XL

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+ Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 now available in US for $850 By admin 02 February 2010 at 10:49 am and have No Comments

Remember back at CES, when we got ahold of Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 ?

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+ Lenovo possibly developing e-book reader By admin 28 December 2009 at 10:37 am and have No Comments

Look, we don’t like having to constantly be skeptics who don’t believe in anything unless there’s absolute proof of its existence… oh, wait: yes we do. Especially in scenarios like this, where sources are unclear, a bit vague, and poorly translated.

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+ Peek teams up with FON to liberate Europe… from roaming charges By admin 10 December 2009 at 12:19 pm and have No Comments

Although the bright and cheerful Peek (and its somewhat ill-advised Twitter-centric brother ) has long been a source of fascination for us, we realize that for most Americans a dedicated email device doesn’t make too much sense.

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+ Foxit busts out ebook store for eSlick owners By admin 09 December 2009 at 10:37 am and have No Comments

It’s been a season of e-readers, that’s for sure… and while Foxit is a smaller player in the scene as compared to the Nook or the Kindle, it’s got some news of its own to boast about today.

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+ Army, Lockheed Martin team up for DisOPS ‘battlefield PDAs’ By admin 18 November 2009 at 4:07 pm and have No Comments

Remember the Land Warrior program, which only took 15 years and half a billion dollars outfit our troops with high-tech battlefield uniforms? With DisOPS (”distributed operations”) Lockheed Martin is taking a different tack. Deployed to Special Forces in Afghanistan, the system is comprised of the Connect software which runs on ruggedized laptop computers, allowing squad leaders to plan missions on a map, and View PDAs that receive info over tactical radio, cellphone, or even WiFi networks

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+ Qualcomm Mirasol-equipped color e-book reader said to be on track for late 2010 By admin 18 November 2009 at 11:19 am and have No Comments

Qualcomm’s Mirasol displays have already found their way into quite a few products, but the company looks to really be branching out into some new territory with its latest prototype: an e-book reader with a full-color, 5.7-inch display. Of course, Qualcomm isn’t planning to sell this one itself, and it isn’t revealing any OEM partners just yet, but it has set the somewhat ambitious target of getting it on the market in the “latter part of 2010.” From the looks of it, however, it doesn’t seem like it’ll have too much trouble attracting interest, considering that the XGA (220ppi) Mirasol display is not only full-color, but allows for video playback, is supposedly readable in direct sunlight, and reportedly has a “minimal impact” on battery life

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+ Nokia abandoning S60 for Maemo on future N-Series devices? By admin 18 November 2009 at 4:22 am and have No Comments

Confused by Nokia’s dual-platform, Maemo 5 and S60 5th Edition smartphone choices?

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+ Canada gets International Kindle support, no longer feels inferior to Trinidad and Tobago By admin 17 November 2009 at 11:54 am and have No Comments

Good news for our Canadian brethren! While the realization that you’d been excluded from the International Kindle may have angered you, or frightened you, or engendered feelings of shame or lust, all hope is not lost! We have just got word that Amazon has added your fine nation to the list of countries it will now ship the beloved e-reader to. And if that ain’t enough, a smattering of your native content is being offered, included a couple of publications that sound exotic and fanciful to American ears: The Globe and Mail and The National Post . Sound like something you’d like to get into?

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Canada gets International Kindle support, no longer feels inferior to Trinidad and Tobago