- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Feb 9,2010
It’s been quite a while since an Algiz tablet last popped up on our radar, but Handheld US is now back with another model: the Algiz 7.
In addition to a fresh new white enclosure, this one packs a 7-inch touchscreen display, along with a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, and Windows 7 Professional for an OS.
To help you out in the field, you’ll get a hot-swappable 2400 mAh dual battery pack, built-in GPS, and optional 3G – not to mention ruggedization to MIL-STD-810G standards.
No word on a price just yet, but this one will apparently start shipping next month.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Aug 20,2009
Orange, the exclusive UK carrier for the eagerly anticipated GD910 watch / wrist / just plain cool phone, has this morning announced the date, cost and location of availability.
After plenty of talk of meteoric prices, it turns out the GD910 will be even cheaper than we thought, coming in at £500 ($825) on Orange’s Pay As You Go service, meaning no contract tie-ins to worry about.
Limited time availability and only one device per customer don’t suggest an overwhelming amount of stock — or that the price will hold — so if you must jump on the cool train, the place to be is the Orange shop at Bond Street Station, London, 9am sharp. Read the rest of this entry »
Most of us have our sights squarely fixed on the iPhone 3G S launch today, but in the UK, there are a couple of other heavyweights that are finally hitting retail: the N86 8MP and the N97.
All About Symbian is covering the launch live, though it looks like there isn’t much chaos and bedlam outside the Regent Street store — maybe it has something to do with that other flagship store reflected in the window?
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Jun 19,2009
Here’s the one-line summary of the Kindle DX: It’s Kindle 2 with a larger screen, hair-trigger orientation sensor, and an awful keyboard. Seriously awful.
Yes, we know we should be focused on things like PDF support or even content partners like newspapers and textbook publishers, but we’re having a hard time getting over the keyboard — it’s emblematic of some puzzling design choices Amazon made with the Kindle DX. What do we mean? Read on. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Dec 8,2008
If you haven’t heard already, 5 states have already enacted laws to ban cell phone use when driving your car unless you are using a hands free device such as a bluetooth headset enabled phone.
The five 5 states are California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York or Washington. It will be illegal to operate a phone while driving without a hands-free headset in many more states to come so this is definitely a good time to get one and avoid the tickets.
But no need to fret, we can help you to avoid making an irrational impulse buy because we’ve scoured the reviews at Amazon, Froogle, CNET and Epinions to bring you a broad-based assessment of the best bluetooth headsets money can buy. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Feb 24,2008
After some digging around in the recently posted user guides, some have turned up a possible rainbow of colors for the Centro.
If you follow the guide and click on the AT&T branded white Centro, you will be given a page that shows (pictured above) the rainbow of Centro colors.
We have seen the “AT&T only” model, the white with green keys that seems to either be loved or hated, but included in the picture is also the white with the grey keys that we have seen, and previously thought was going to AT&T. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Jun 14,2007
Those curious to see just how much E Ink Corp.’s new and improved Vizplex display enhances the e-reading experience now have an actual e-book reader they can get their hands on, although they’ll have to find a way to get one out of South Korea.
Apart from that new 6-inch, 600 x 800 display (which promises twice the refresh speed and 20% better brightness than previous models), NUUT’s NP-601 e-book reader is a fairly standard affair, with 512MB of internal memory, an SD card slot for expansion, and a headphone jack to take advantage of some of its (unspecified) non-reading functions. Look for this one to set you back about $300.
[Via MobileRead]
No offense, Amtek, we’re sure that McCaslin-based U560 of yours has ample reason to be so big and ugly, but we’re going to put our dollars on this “MIMD” (Mobile Internet Multimedia Device) Menlow-based UMPC from EB if you don’t mind. Yes, it’s the same “MID” device which Intel was proudly showing back in April only now with a bit of meat around the source.
Along with the promising advances brought by Intel’s UMPC-oriented Menlow chipset, the MIMD promises Mobile WiMax, HSDPA, GPS and a 4.8-inch high resolution screen. We should be seeing this one running Linux and hitting sometime in 2008. McCaslin, we hardly knew ye.
[Via UMPCPortal]
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Jun 6,2007
OEM manufacturer Amtek’s rolled into Computex with a fresh new UMPC prototype, and it looks like it may have already signed up a partner in the US to offer it under their brand name. That bit of news comes from GottaBeMobile, which has also managed to scope out a few of the device’s specs.
As is par for the course these days, the device is based on Intel’s McCaslin platform, and packs either an 800MHz A110 or 600MHz A100 processor, a 3600mAh 2-cell battery with an optional 4-cell extended battery, and an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, not to mention a full QWERTY keypad. Apparently, Amtek is set to put the device into mass production by the end of the year, although it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer to hear anything on pricing or availability, as well as any word about that mystery US partner.
[via engadget]
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: May 26,2007
We’ve known for almost two years now that Palm has been cooking up a mysterious mobile computing device for what founder Jeff Hawkins calls the company’s ‘third business’ (with the other two being PDAs and smartphones, obviously), and now several sites are claiming that attendees of Walt Mossberg’s D: All Things Digital conference will be the first to learn hard details about this ambitious project.
Although it’s been public knowledge that Hawkins would be speaking at next Wednesday’s D for some time now, both Brighthand and I4U are reporting that he will indeed be divulging material information on what many people are predicting will be a UMPC-like tablet codenamed ‘Hawk’ and powered by Palm’s recently-announced Linux-based OS; when we contacted Palm, they would only say that "Jeff…will be presenting something to do with Palm."
For whatever it’s worth, we do know that Hawkins shares our love of cramming as much power, storage, connectivity (well, for the most part), and usability into as small a package as possible, so to those folks who have been discounting Palm and its seeming inability to innovate, you may be in for quite a surprise next week.
Read – I4U
Read – Brighthand’s predictions
via engadget
