When we first spied Huawei’s SmaKit S7 Android tablet, we were at CeBit and it was… well, non-functioning . Now Huawei’s officially announced the tablet now, and we have to say that it looks just like every other Android tablet being hoisted upon the world these days, but it’s got some nice features that make it worth a second gander.
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Huawei announces SmaKit S7 Android tablet
It looks like T-Mobile’s webConnect Rocket USB modem will be released right on schedule, even if you currently have to be in Philadelphia to enjoy those HSPA+ speeds (then again, if you’re in Philadelphia you probably deserve a break).
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T-Mobile webConnect Rocket available March 14, already blowing minds in Philly
Unless they’re incredibly quiet or potentially explosive , you won’t find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We’d tell you about that in a heartbeat — even if the wonderfully wasteful contraption turned out to be a viral ad by agency Euro RSCG rather than an actual household organizer, and even if its pages aren’t nearly as saucy as Stihl’s usual NSFW fare.
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Stihl’s autumn calendar automatically rips through to tomorrow
When you think about HP, do you think about printers or maybe IT outsourcing? How about HP smartphones, ever think of them? You do know that HP still sells iPAQs right?
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HP ropes in Dr. Dre for ‘Lets Do Amazing’ personality makeover
Before the iPad and before the Slate , the most exciting touchy tablety thing in our lives was Toshiba’s JournE multimedia tablet . Now that the Japanese compu-maker has seen what the competition has on offer, it’s proudly proclaimed itself back in the running with an entire family of slate devices it’s planning to introduce near the end of 2010 or in early 2011.
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Toshiba will have its own family of slates by this time next year
Remember those network investments that AT&T was talking up just days before Time Warner slipped over an offer for help?
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AT&T completes 100-Gigabit Ethernet field trial using new Cisco gear, proves it does care
No surprise here: Sony just officially announced the PlayStation Move motion controller at GDC 2010, calling it the “next generation of motion gaming” because it’s so precise — latency is about the same as the DualShock 3. As expected, it uses the PlayStation Eye camera to track the controller, and Sony says it becomes an “extension of your body.” The plan is not only to engage casual gamers, but to use the precision of the controller to create “new experiences for core gamers” — many of the demo videos we saw involved using a controller video in each hand, and there were quote a few demos of action / RPG games. We also saw a demo of Move Party, which uses the camera to do augmented reality gaming and video chat.
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PlayStation Move motion controller launched at GDC, starter kit to be under $100 with game
We’ve been slipped some additional information on Motorola’s imminent Android-powered i1 for iDEN networks today — actually, one correction and one interesting note. First, the correction: we’re now being told (by the same tipster as before ) that it’s actually got a 5 megapixel camera on board, a nice upgrade from the 3 we’d previously been told to expect. More interestingly, though, we’re also hearing that Opera Mini has been tapped as the i1’s default browser — a move that Moto is more than welcome to make since this is a Blur -powered, non-”Google Experience” device.
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Motorola i1 gets clearer: 5 megapixel cam, Opera Mini default browser?
Western Digital has played this card before with the strategically named My DVR Expander , but for those who don’t realize that an external hard drive is an external hard drive, there’s the My Passport AV. For all intents and purposes, this 320GB HDD is nothing more than a standard drive with a fancy marketing scheme following it closely. Oh, sure — it may work “seamlessly” with Sony’s Direct Copy feature on the outfit’s range of Handycam camcorders, but outside of that, we don’t see anything in particular that makes us long to pay more for something that doesn’t really do more than any other 320GB HDD on shelves today.
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WD’s 320GB My Passport AV external HDD wants to have and hold your media
It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the wait for OnLive is finally coming to an end: the service is now officially slated to launch on June 17 in the 48 contiguous states. The game streaming service will run users $14.95 a month, though buying or renting games is an additional cost (it’s unclear exactly what that cost might be). Luckily there will be lower prices available for multi-month buys, and the first 25,000 people to sign up will get their first three months free.
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OnLive Game Service to launch on June 17 in the US for $15 a month
