Kevin from crackberry.com was lucky enough to get a demo of the new BlackBerry PlayBook yesterday from Ryan Bidan, who is the Sr. Product Manager on the BlackBerry PlayBook team for RIM.
The video gives us another insight into the wonderful world of the PlayBook and as Ryan confirms this beauty is still going to be available in Quarter one this year – Hooray!
See the video and also a reminder of the PlayBooks specs after the break:
This week it’s CES, and Google have finally come out after endless rumours about the next Android release, Honeycomb 3.0. The major bite of news is that it will only be for tablets – there won’t be a phone, even the Nexus series, that will run 3.0. Phones will stick with Gingerbread and skip to the next release.
Honeycomb’s UI has been reworked for larger screen and higher resolution tablet devices which is good considering that previous versions of Android haven’t really been the most intuitive for use on tablets. Only the browser and Gmail app remain somewhat familiar, with the UI getting a needed overhaul. Hopefully this will mean there will be less compatibility issues that have shown with the same operating system on both phones and tablets, making the overall experience (as well as the UI) much more tablet friendly. Now I’m sure I’m not the only one expecting awesome iPad competitors!
Check out the video of Honeycomb in action after the break.
Motorola has just walked of the stage in CES where they announced their latest products for release. And literally first of the blocks was the Motorola Atrix 4G. The Atrix has supports a Tegra duel-core 1Ghz processor, 1Gb of RAM, a 4-inch qHD screen(960 x 540), Android 2.2 with Motoblur, 16GB on-board storage with support for MicroSD cards upto 32GB, 1930mAh battery, 5MP camera, a front facing camera, fingerprint login, 4G and it can be put in a dock so you can use the phone much like a laptop or desktop. Tempted yet?
The Atrix will be available on AT&T in the states but it is also coming to the UK on Orange. Yay! I can’t wait to get my hands on this handset because of all the awesomesauce mentioned above!
Check out the press release and more images below.
Angry Birds has taken the mobile gaming scene by storm, and now our feathered friends have arrived on laptops! Angry Birds is now available for download via Intel’s AppUp store, which is a application store designed primarily for netbooks and laptops. Intel AppUp is available free for Moblin and Windows XP and 7 and Angry Birds is one of many apps available.
Rovio has promised regular free updates just like it’s mobile counterparts with 195 levels already as well as some ‘unique enhancements not found in the mobile version’. That’s just as well at £5.99, making it the most expensive way to get your bird flinging fix but hey, it’s Angry Birds!
Posted by: Vince
Research in Motion have released another video demonstrating the capabilities of the forthcoming BlackBerry Playbook. This video concentrates on media and shows you how smoothly the device handles Flash and HTML5 based sites.
As you will see, using Facebook is a wonderful experience using the PlayBook as you can play games without leaving the site and therefore still being able to chat with your online friends.
See the video after the break and please let us know what you think in the forum.
The Galaxy S has only been available for around 7 months (since June 2010) yet the superphone with the mammoth spec sheet has reached a global sales total of 10 million. Us Europeans contributed to roughly a quarter of those, with the USA topping it at 4 million. Samsung did set itself a target of 10 million, which has been reached (according to Samsung Electronics) at an average speed of one sold every two seconds!
If you’ve forgotten, the Galaxy S does have a few variants across the globe, but they all share the same basic features like the 4 inch Super AMOLED display and a super speedy 1GHz processor – you can click here to read our views on it.
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We mentioned last week that we had heard that Samsung were planning to unveil their Galaxy Player at CES. Well, now the player has appeared on Amazon.co.uk and is available to pre order.
There are two versions to choose from. The 8GB at £149.99 or the 16GB for only £179.99. Amazon are listing the Samsung Galaxy Player as being in stock from the 7th but we all know this quite often changes. Anyway, I have my pre order in so we will bring you some videos and a full review in the coming weeks, fingers crossed.
See the product info and specs (as listed on Amazon) after the break:
For those of you that love your photography and want DSLR quality in a compact form the new Panasonic DMC-GF2 might be worth a look. The GF2 was first revealed back in November and now Panasonic are accepting pre-orders and are offering early adopters a free photopack worth £150!
We hope to have one of these to review early in the new year too.
Full details in the press release from Panasonic below:
A few days ago I mentioned that Skype were planning to make video calling available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Today we’ve heard from Skype and they’ve told us that the the Skype update for iPhone is already available from the App Store. Indeed a visit to the store this morning reveals the update sitting there waiting for me.
I’ll be checking it out later today and will report back!
Check out Skype’s full press release below:
We have know for a while that Motorola have been working on a Android tablet running Honeycomb, but what we didn’t know was when it would be officially presented to us. Motorola have released the below video which apart from being genius (so i think) confirms that they will be showing off the new device at CES in the USA early next month.
Rather than guessing at specs etc lets just be patient for a couple of weeks and get it from the horses mouth. Could this put a dampener on the Samsung Galaxy Tab?
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