iPhone Sausage Stylus Comes To The US
March 6, 2010
iphone-sausage-stylus_234.jpg" />Word was going around that the folks by in South Korea have been using snack sausages, which apparently are electrostatically compatible with the iPhone’s touchscreen, as a stylus for their iPhones, making them particularly useful in the winter when you can’t use the iPhone’s touch screen through your gloves. Now CaseCrown, a company that busies itself selling iPhone cases has picked up a large shipment of said sausages, and is currently offering them for a limited moment at $0.99 each. Of course, carrying a snack sausage around with you to operate your iPhone doesn’t precisely scream “cool”, but at least you won’t get hungry, right?
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Garmin Colorado 400 series discontinued
March 5, 2010
For folks who have followed Garmin and its myriad of GPS navigation devices by the years, chances are you would have noticed the Colorado series. Sad news thereupon as Garmin will be discontinuing the Colorado 400 series. Of course, not many will shed tears as the Colorado series never really took off since it always languished in the shadow of the Oregon touch-screen devices. Hopefully technical as well as hardware support will continue for at least a few more years before the original owners move on to something better whether they haven't done so already.
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General Mobile Cosmos 3G Up For Pre-order At $299
March 3, 2010
You’ve probably read about General Motors’ Android-powered Cosmos 3G cell phone, and now it seems that the phone is already up for pre-order at BenBazaar. Seeing that the features of the Cosmos 3G aren’t all that poor, it’ll be interesting to see how well users take to that phone. It should be available in the first week of April, so we aren’t all that far off from it, particularly since it’s already up for pre-order. In case you can’t recall, the specifications of the Cosmos 3G include:
- Powerful CPU (Marvell PXA935 (Tavor P65)
- HSDPA/WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM)
- Android OS 2.0 Eclair
- 5.0 MP AF camera
- 3.2” HVGA (320*480) full capacitive multi-touch screen and rich multimedia format supported
- New 3D animated UIs
- Built in GM android market application (Storeoid)
- Internet access via EDGE/HSDPA (3.6Mbps DL)
- Bluetooth2.0, WIFI 802.11 b/g
- 256MB NAND, 128MB DDR, Micro SD up to 16GB
- Track ball
- GPS and digital Compass
- FM Radio
- 1500mAh Battery
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Acer BeTouch E400 Android Phone
February 17, 2010
[MWC 2010] Acer is showing its BeTouch E400 mid-range Android phone at Mobile World Congress. It’s a decent Android phone and it has a few Acer-specific widgets and software (including free-music streaming!), but overall, it’s an average Android offering. It has the advantage of being loaded with Android 2.1 (Éclair) out of the box, while older phones are still waiting for an update. Facebook and Twitter are plus integrated by default. Finally, it is available in White, Black or Pearl Red.
Highlights:
- Android 2.1
- 3.2” HVGA touch screen (resistive)
- 3.2 Megapixel Camera (autofocus)
- GPS
- Nemo Media Player
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T-Mobile New myTouch 3G with 3.5 mm Jack and Swype
February 10, 2010
T-Mobile unveiled its new iteration of the myTouch 3G, aka the 1.2, that features a 3.5 mm headset jack, additional memory with 288 MB of RAM and an 8 GB microSD card and Swype input technology, that provides, a faster text input on the touch screen. Swype offers a virtual keyboard that lets users drag their fingers across the keys to style a word, take a look at the Swype demo video whether you want to see how it works (in the full article). Additionally the new myTouch3G, will come with preloaded applications including Barcode Scanner, Music Player, myAccount and Visual Voicemail.
The design remains unchanged and it will be available starting today at choose T-Mobile retail locations and online at www.T-MobilemyTouch.com for $149.99 with a new two-year plan.
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Panasonic Toughbook H1 Field – Rugged Tablet PC
February 10, 2010
[MWC] Today, Panasonic announced the latest model of its Toughbook series, the H1 Field. Geared toward field sales personnel, maintenance workers, first responders and healthcare professionals, the new Panasonic Toughbook H1 Field gets the optional Qualcomm Gobi2000 mobile broadband technology allowing multi carriers connectivity, the IP65 and MIL-STD-810G certification - with a six foot drop rating-, Smartcard, RFID and barcode readers, making the device highly mobile and productive in extreme conditions.
The Toughbook H1 Field packs serious performances including a 1.86 Ghz Intel Atom Z540 processor, six hours of battery life complemented by twin hot-swappable batteries, a 10.4" dual-touch display for both tablet and touch screen use, 2 GB RAM and a 64GB SSD. The device will be available worldwide in March 2010, for an estimated price of $3,379.
Find more info at http://www.toughbook.com and read the complete feature list after the jump.
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More Leaked MOTOSPLIT Details
February 6, 2010
Some additional details on the rather interesting Motorola MOTOSPLIT have surfaced, though it’s hard to tell whether the renders are the real deal or not. Aside from its wacky keyboard design, it’s now said that that phone sports the same specifications as the Motorola Backflip. There are a couple of other vague details released, though you can build what you may out of it, as that is turning out to be one weird phone. Do you think the following leaked info is accurate?
- The keyboard keys are inset and probably have no tactile feedback, however, they should be quite easy to use. It looks like the cutouts are pretty finger-friendly, as they contour to the shape of a standard finger. Under those cutouts is a low-resolution monochrome touch screen, one for each side of the keyboard. that is where the finger presses. The contact area is small, but the plastic grid that surrounds it contours to the fingers. The label and operate of each key can be changed to suit assured layouts and applications.
- The keyboard has multiple orientations. The keyboard can be pulled from side to side for typing on a surface. A small kickstand angles the phone when typing in that manner. The keyboard can plus be pulled to the left for a standard landscape layout. There is additionally a dial-pad layout.
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