Not now, but by second quarter of next year(2009). Samsung will be introducing an Android phone in the US market. Last year was the year for iPhone. Now, it looks like the coming year 2009 will be an Android year. Samsung seems to be very serious with this as it has employed nearly 80 developers to work upon their Android phone, which includes many Java and Linux developers.
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Viviv S5 is a new Atom based MID on the MID block. Next week, the Viliv S5 MID launch party is going to be there in Korea (23 December, 2008), where the Viviv S5 will be made official.
Quick Specifications:
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Paul at Modaco has made a custom ROM in which he has integrated IE mobile 6. Though Microsoft said that the IE mobile 6 won’t be available as separate download for the current devices, ROM cookers have found ways of streamlining it inside the ROM itself.
And since this is a ROM upgrade, it will wipe out all of your current data. So, make sure that you do a backup before doing the upgrade.
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Go to this modaco thread for download details
Read IE mobile 6 review (on a HTC TOUCH DIAMOND)
Toshiba becomes the first country to introduce the first Industry’s 512GB solid state drive. This NAND based flash storage is a standard 2.5″ drive based on 43nm MLC. It supports excellent read speeds of 240MBps and write speeds of 200MBps! The drives comes with AES encryption, which improves data protection. Toshiba also plans to introduce 64GB, 128GB and 256GB SSD versions.
Wow! Time is changing at a speedy rate. Who knew that we would see the news of 512GB SSD so soon considering the fact I’m still running 4GB SSD in my 8month old EEE 701.
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Until now we knew that the Dell’s Inspiron Mini 12 came only with Windows Vista Basic. This was not a nice thing to do on Dell’s part as not everyone is a fan of Windows Vista Netbook. Looks like Dell has listen to the people’s wants and has now made available the Mini 12 in both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04.1.
As for pricing, the Ubuntu-based model is available at $499 while the Windows XP is priced at $549.
This is a great news as I’m not myself a big fan of running Vista on such a weak 12″ netbook especially the Vista Basic which does not have the Aero Engine. Windows XP is a great performer on the netbooks. Wise move Dell!
We already had the Samsung YP-P3 on our radar of being launched anytime. Compared to the old P2, it is now improved with a haptic touchscreen and a new silver color metal body! The P3 will be launch in Korea coming January 2009 for a price tag of ~240,000 Korean won for the 4GB and 279,000 won for the 8GB.
Features: Continue reading “Samsung P3 now launched in Korea”
Introducing the Cyber Sport Orbita Mouse, the Mouse which has a spinning scroll-wheel that replaces the right and left buttons. This gives you 3-axis control over objects in 3D and you can also use this to make quick scrolls in documents. Orbita communicates wirelessly over 2.4GHz “zero lag” RF to the USB charging base. It is set to go on sale in January 2009.
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Gateway plans to launch netbook “LT101j” in Japan. Gateway is made by Acer. So the LT1001j has been called brother of the Acer Aspire One by some. This beautiful netbook will be launched in the end of the month. It will be Gateway’s first netbook in Japan.
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Are you a S60 user? Do you carry sensitive stuff in your device? If the answers to both of those questions is yes, then this application is a must-have for you.
SafeWallet Pro includes a mobile version for your S60 phone and a PC companion keeping your wallet synchronized all the time! Use SafeWallet Pro to store credit cards info, passwords, bank account info and much more.
click here to visit the product page for more details.
The MSI Wind Netbook U100 again took top honors during the annual Taipai computer show, taking half of the total sales volume of MSI. Furthermore, the multimedia notebook EX400, elegant and colorful VR220YA, and high-end gaming notebook GX600 were among the top sellers at the show.
The MSI Notebook booth at the Taipei computer show is packed with consumers, tripling the sales volume of MSI notebooks over the past year!
