Archive for September, 2010

TomTom iPhone app takes you to the pictures

September 3rd, 2010

apple iphone reviewTomTom has revamped its iPhone app, and added a brilliant new aspect whereby you can set the app to take you to the destination of a photo, essentially turning your iPhone’s camera album into a living, breathing address book.

The new feature works by tapping into the geo-tag location stored within an iPhone’s photo, and ties-in with what TomTom’s GPS product manager told Pocket-lint at IFA; when he said that the sat-nav giant was “definitely looking at” the massive boom in location based services and that it would be “silly not to be looking at it”.

It means that you’d be able to take a picture of all your favourite addresses, restaurants, shops, or even just random spots and never have to worry about a postcode ever again.

As well as the photo-location feature, the new update brings with it iPhone 4 optimisation, to get the best out of that retina display, multi-tasking, and the latest up-to-date maps.

You’ll also still get access to all the usual TomTom stuff like HD Traffic (with a subscription), IQ routes, spoken street names, advanced lane guidance and local Google searching.

The new app will be hitting the App Store imminently and the Western Europe and UK apps are priced at £42.99.

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Apple iPod nano

September 3rd, 2010

apple ipod nano reviewOf all the devices that Apple refreshed at their September music event, it is the iPod nano that has had the most extreme makeover. Gone are the controls and the elongated screen, and in comes a square touchscreen design in its place. We got our hands on the new iPod nano at the launch event, and this is what we thought.

The iPod nano exhibits all the hallmarks of Apple’s attention to detail. It is not only lovingly crafted from aluminium, but it looks and feels like a premium device. We’re used to this sort of design and build quality from Apple, so this doesn’t come as a surprise.

But we also loved the last iteration of the nano. The slender curving front and back nestled between the fingers, with a bright vibrant screen and those controls which made it easy to skip around the menus and find what you were looking for. » Read more: Apple iPod nano

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Sony Reader Pocket Edition and Sony Reader Touch Edition refreshed

September 3rd, 2010

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Sony has confirmed the launch of new Sony readers in the UK and the US at its keynote speech at IFA in Berlin, Germany.

The new Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition digital readers will come with a new tweaked design and technology enhancements, such as touch screen control and more memory.

Sony has restyled both devices, reduced their size and weight, and made its responsive touch screens available across both lines. Both models come with 2GB of onboard memory, which allows you to carry up to 1200 books.

The new Reader line also offers users the ability to look up words and phrases with the built-in Oxford Dictionary of English, as well as 10 translation dictionaries to and from English in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

Wordsmiths can also now create “word logs” to track the words they’ve looked up in both chronological and book order while quickly switching between dictionaries.

» Read more: Sony Reader Pocket Edition and Sony Reader Touch Edition refreshed

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Ipod

September 3rd, 2010

ipod reviewWant to know what’s been hot in the world of technology and gadgets today?

Not surprisingly there’s plenty of Apple goings on in the weekly news roundup as the last 7 days were punctuated by the Apple special event on the 1 September. Launches included a new iPod touch, updates to iTunes in the form of iTunes 10 and various other bits and pieces.

Other news coming out this week included the BBC iPlayer going global, a new tough Motorola handset and out top feature: Best Windows Phone 7 apps and games in development.

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Apple Puts Up iPad 4.2 Update Page For You To Gaze Wistfully At

September 3rd, 2010

Apple Puts Up iPad 4.2 reviewThe big Apple event on Wednesday came with not one, but two updates to iOS, but unfortunately only 4.1 is actually imminent. 4.2, which will bring several new features to the iPad in particular, will be arriving in November.

The news got kind of buried in the rush, but if you’re looking for official information, Apple’s 4.2 update page should do it.

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HTC Imagio

September 3rd, 2010

Taiwan based HTC, a major  phone marker to  a new samrtphone in  by the October 2010 named as HTC Imagio. The Innovative mobile will blessed with latest technology features and attractive body design.

htc imagio reviewIt has 150.3 grams weight with the dimensions of 118 height, 1×61 width and 7×14 mm length. The new mobile comes with 3.6 inches touch-screen display and 800×480 pixels resolution.

The classy Operating System blessed HTC Imagio runs on Windows 6.0 which makes it fast and it is powered by 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7600 processor. The fastest OS and machinery loaded mobile has got CDMA2000 1X / GSM / WCDMA (UMTS) technology that supports WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 / CDMA2000 1X 1900/800 band. Supported wireless interfaces are IEEE 802.11b/g and Bluetooth.

The HTC Imagio comes with better 5 megapixel camera with one touch focus which able to provide good quality video recording and pictures. The Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional OS based new mobile supports 3G HSDPA network with speed of 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA with speed of 2 Mbps.

» Read more: HTC Imagio

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Apple Tablet Coming in October

September 3rd, 2010

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The device will have a 9.7-inch touchscreen, reports InfoTimes, and three Taiwanese gadget manufacturers–Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack–have received orders for different components of the tablet.

At Gadget Lab, we’re treating this latest rumor with the same skepticism as previous Apple tablet and “Mac netbook” rumors. In May, Gadget Lab reported that well-known Apple analyst Gene Munster predicted Apple will have a tablet in the market in early 2010. But this is the first time that specific information has been discussed in terms of screen size and price.

» Read more: Apple Tablet Coming in October

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Palm Pre

September 1st, 2010

palm pre reviewThe name Palm was virtually synonymous with PDAs not too many years ago. But when PDAs gave way to the more versatile smartphones, Palm was left behind by the likes of BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone. While they continued to make some pretty good devices, the legacy Palm OS didn’t get much attention so their entry level Centro phones quickly became outdated. Palm chose to use Windows Mobile as the operating system for their higher end, business oriented Treo smartphones but that eliminated the uniqueness that they had enjoyed by making both the software as well as the hardware and the Treo became just another WinMo phone. For a side-by-side comparison and objective reviews visit the smartphone page.

The Palm Pre has been widely hyped as the device that will put Palm back on top and, from what we’ve seen so far, that may be just what happens. The Pre uses Palms new WebOS which not only puts the manufacturer back in control of the device and its software but also melds the phones internal capabilities and data with information that’s available on the mobile internet. The Pre is just the first of several anticipated smartphones that will be based on the Palm webOS.

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