Readius is looking more and more like the Kindle killer. A lucky few get to paw this HSDPA and Bluetooth-enabled e-Book reader at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Unlike Kindle, you can put the Readius in your pocket. It uses a flexible display that you roll out when you want to read and [...]
Continue reading...11. February 2008
At the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Skype demoed its much-talked about version for the PSP. Yes, you can now do free international (Skype-to-Skype), inexpensive SkypeOut, and receive SkypeIn calls. The full package, on something that you actually bought just for amusement. How great is that? Click the link to watch the video of [...]
Continue reading...10. February 2008
Nokia has developed software that just might expand the use of your phone’s GPS past mere navigation. When in a car, the program can send location and speed data back to the home base, where all data is compiled to allow prediction of traffic patterns. In fact, Nokia demonstrated just that, in a live test [...]
Continue reading...8. February 2008
Israeli manufacturer Modu claims their eponymous phone is the smallest in the world. It certainly looks like the smallest with barely room for a regular numeric keypad. Instead, users have a set tic-tac-toe buttons. The screen is tiny as well, so I guess we can forget about watching videos on this 42-gram cell phone. [...]
Continue reading...6. February 2008
Version 9.5 of Opera Mobile is looking mighty fine and navigates smoothly, thanks to a re-engineered Presto rendering engine. Featuring downloadable Opera widgets and a new browser interface, Opera Mobile 9.5 can get data from Flickr, Google Maps, and CIA World Factbook simultaneously. Check out the video for a sneak peek of [...]
Continue reading...4. February 2008
An antenna that can receive multiple-in, multiple-out signals and multiple frequencies. Sounds impossible? Not quite! An antenna company called Skycross developed a new technology called iMAT (isolated mode antenna technology) which allows a user to get two ports for one frequency in one antenna - without the signals interfering. The result is [...]
Continue reading...4. February 2008
Does anyone remember the Surface? You know, the multitouch table from Microsoft. It can sync with Zune and your Bluetooth cellphone that rests on top of it. The Surface recognizes the device instantaneously and displays it on the table content so you can gesture and multi-touch photos and videos as you like. Such technology, surely, [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2008
HTC makes Windows Mobile handsets. The problem is that Windows Mobile is slow to respond to the competition (iPhone). HTC’s solution is to develop additional features on the Windows Mobile platform resulting in a GUI that though not exactly as pretty as the iPhone GUI can, nevertheless, pass as an alternative. That was the HTC [...]
Continue reading...28. January 2008
Somebody over at CrunchGear just discovered that the “biggest problem with the Kindle” is that you can’t read it during take-offs and landings. I’m not entirely sure if the rationale behind that is that it looks like a laptop, therefore bad, or it has the same electronic configurations as a laptop, therefore interfering with the [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2008
Clipta - new video wave: CES 2008 Elantech multitouch trackpad Apple’s decision to put multi-touch technology on its first phone certainly paid dividends. So why not put the technology on a MacBook? Before we start looking into the not-too distanct future (MacWorld 2008 begins in a few days), here’s a company in Taiwan showing off its [...]
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17. February 2008
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