Author: Tarandeep Kaur

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Got a 3G phone? Save yourself $500 when buying an OQO Model 2+ [UMPC]

We were all very impressed when the OQO Model 2+ was released. Although the price $1499 put it out of the scope for many people. Although the base model costs $999, it does not come with inbuilt 3G.

If you own a 3G Nokia phone or a 3G Windows Mobile, you can emulate your mobile as a Wifi hotspot by using these utitlies:

Note: You can also use Bluetooth or the standard data cable to connect your device to Model 2+

The difference of $500 is quite huge. The base model comes with 1.33GHz Atom Z520 processor rather the 1.86GHz processor, but it comes with Windows XP tablet, which would fly on the 1.33GHz processor anyway.

[oqotalk]

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ASUS F80S review [Laptop]

ASUS has been lately producing impressive range of laptops and netbooks. I see one common thing in ASUS products: amazing built quality. There is a fierce competition in the category where the ASUS F80s wants to compete in. Is it able to offer some good competition to it’s fellow competitors? With a ATI Radeon HD 3470 graphic card with 256MB RAM and 4GB RAM under it’s hood, it would be interesting to see how it performs.

Design and Build

As said earlier, the Asus notebooks always are build from great materials especially when it comes to the plastic. It has a basic black body and a glossy cover with a nice modern pattern. ASUS claims that the glossy surface is scratch resistant and it does seems so. Although, I won’t like to do any tests to prove myself wrong. Continue reading “ASUS F80S review [Laptop]”

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Even the Nvidia CEO believes that Netbooks are the future [Netbook]

Venturebeat had an opportunity to have an interview with the CEO of Nvidia. He told them that they are very optimistic about Intel allowing the netbook vendors and manufactures to use the Ion platform along with their Atom processors.

Even the Nvidia CEO believes that Netbooks are the future

We also personally feel that use of Ion platform will open new fields and areas which have so far been beyond the scope of Netbooks like watching HD videos (1080p). The main boost will be seen among the consumers who yearned more from their PMPs. By using Ion, they will be able to play some great games and will be able to watch movies in HD format.

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Acer Aspire one 103 now available at J&R [Netbook]

Now you can pre-order the new 10-inch Acer Aspire One at J&R, which is now available for quite affordable price of $349.99. It is available in four different colors: black, white, red and blue.

Specifications

  • Intel Atom N270 (1.6GHz)
  • 10.1” at 1024 x 600 resolution display
  • 1GB RAM
  • 160GB HDD
  • GMA 950 graphics
  • Windows XP Home SP3
  • Webcam
  • 802.11b/g wireless
  • 6-Cell Battery
  • 2.95 lbs

The one available at J&R is different from the one available at PCcorner, which sports an Intel N280 Atom processor @ 1.66GHz and a 320GB HDD instead of 160GB HDD found at J&R

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Whiskers for Windows Mobile released

What is Whiskers?

Whiskers is an educational PocketPC application under the GNU/GPL license which tries to exploit all the hardware available on most common PDAs providing a link between different features such as GPS-Bluetooth-Wireless. Generally whiskers was built with radio reconnaissance in mind as help for geocachers or wardrivers but also as penetration and audit tool. There is support for in depth device scanning, triggering actions based on filters when certain devices are in range, centralized GPS logging with search functions for private or public databases and much more.

Download Whiskers

Features:

  • Continuous scanning for Wireless and Bluetooth
  • Device logging (open, save etc..)
  • Bluejacking (two supported methods, more to come soon).
  • Autojacking
  • Device scripting, triggering specific actions when a device is in range based on filters such as device name, address, device class (laptop, phone, smartphone whatever…).
  • GPS logging based on GPX file with centralized database
  • Ability to contribute to the database: scan and upload to the central database.
  • Searching for devices in the database by name, address and Wireless or Bluetooth radio.

Thanks to SevenRains for this exciting utility [related xda-devs post]

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S2U2 updated to version 1.42 [Windows Mobile]

Although, we normally do not post about dot upgrades, but this update from A_C comes with a nice feature, which would be welcomed by the non-HTC Diamond/Pro users. It is “Vibrate on connect”. This feature is already there in HTC DIAMOND. When you do a call, it vibrates your device to notify you that you are connected to the other party.

Go to ac-s2.com and download the latest version

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Ariel Battery Monitor – show battery percent [Windows Mobile]

In Windows Mobile devices, there is a very irritating quirk that it does not show the actual percentage of the battery left. Instead it shows just 3 bars. When the user clicks on the battery icon, he is taken to the battery settings panel. In some devices like HTC DIAMOND, it does not tell the user the percentage of battery left.

Ariel Battery Monitor comes to rescue you from this problem. It replaces the nonsense battery icon with a more meaningful icon that displays the amount of percentage of battery left in the device.

Main features:
-Makes good use of the unused space of the “Start” button icon.
-Battery power is always visible, because it is on the taskbar.
-Very low CPU consumption (Only about 0.001% !!! Much less than any other battery monitoring program !!!)
-Tiny memory usage, Much smaller than kBattery, pBar, magicbutton, batmon or xbutton.
-Just put it on StartUp folder or link to it, and it will do the job!
-WM2003, WM2005 (WM5) , WM6 ( Now fully compatible ).
-Full control of all displayed colors.
-The gauge can be moved to replace any icon on the taskbar
-VGA screens are supported ( Drag the “pick color” window by it’s title to see it all )
-Landscape mode is supported

Oh. And did I mention that it is a free?

[Download Ariel Battery Monitor]

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iPlayer for HTC DIAMOND/HTC TOUCH PRO [Windows Mobile]

iPlayer is now finally available for Windows Mobile. However, to run it, you must have Net Framework 3.5 and Coreplayer.

Features:
– Finger friendly UI including flick kinetic scrolling, swipe gestures and vibration feedback.
– Supports Nav Sensor and Stylus Removal
– Higher quality video/audio than Samsung User Agent hack
– Browse content by Highlights, Popular, Channel, Category or Date.
– Search for content and save history.
– Checks for latest version of player and AppToDate support.
– Downloads video to device for later viewing (I download at home over wifi and then watch videos on the tube on the way to work).
– Video launched in your default player associated with ‘.mov’ files

Please note that current version of iPlayer only runs on HTC DIAMOND and HTC TOUCH PRO

Note: Coreplayer is not freeware. It is a commercial application. The videos are encoded in h.264+AAC format, which only coreplayer can play.

[Net Framerwork 3.5] [Coreplayer]

[download iPlayer]