The Acer Liquid Metal is the latest generation of Acer smartphones, featuring the best solutions currently available on the mobile market. Designed for all those who live a modern, dynamic, and fully integrated lifestyle, this is the perfect tool to meet the growing need to be connected anytime and anywhere. Thanks to extremely quick web surfing and an incomparable use of multimedia contents, these dreams become reality.
When we speak about technological evolution, Acer is always one step ahead thanks to its proven capacity to translate the most sophisticated technological innovations into products that are easy to use. Moulding the most advanced technologies and integrating them into the latest smartphone is the logical consequence.
Off of the back of some worrying news for Sony and mooted takeover talks, it seems the company has finally put the long rumoured Playstation phone into reality. While many argue that, especially with Sony’s current precarious position, the company should have done years ago, it’s certainly a very interesting prospect. Whether this is related in any way to the also rumoured PSP2, the so-called “Z-System” appears to at least be Android based, with the prototype currently armed with the 2.1 flavour of the OS and a slide out control pad. Currently it’s only equipped with digital gaming controls (U,D,L,R and the PS shape quintet) and a set for stop / start and an undefined button from what can be seen, although there could be shoulder buttons lurking underneath.
As this is the first rumours, there is no word on games – will we begin to see Sony’s IPs on the green robot or will the Playstation part run as a separate entity? Could this even bring a hardware standard to Android gaming, the lack of which is strongly rumoured to be the reason that so few developers have so far released Android versions of their iPhone apps? Furthermore, would this be killed stone dead if the rumoured Apple buyout were to happen (clue – almost certainly)? We’ll have to wait and see, but certainly in a world of Android hardware blending into each other, a Playstation phone is certainly an interesting dot on the mobile horizon.
Source: Engadget
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If you’ve been paying close attention you’ll know that James has already had his hands on the HTC Desire HD for about a week and recorded an unboxing video of the plain-white boxed PR version from HTC.
However, yesterday I got my hands on the full retail version of the HTC Desire HD from our friends over at Devicewire.com and thought I would record my own unboxing video of the retail package and have a quick look at the hardware.
Over the next week James and I are going to finish up our full review of the Desire HD and we’ll have that online for you shortly. There will be some more demo videos for you too. In the mean time if you would like to ask us any questions please do so via the forum and we’ll do our best to either answer directly or via the review.
With the device being announced just less than 24 hours ago Devicewire have already been alerted to their first shipment which will be due in soon although no date is conformed at this point. You can however pre order the 9780 sim free from them to ensure you are one of the first to get it.
The BlackBerry Bold is essentially an upgrade to the 9700. They look very very similar, with the 9780 having a black bezel running around it instead of the silver one on the 9700, but the 9780 has a few extra internal changes. Memory rises to 512mb, the camera is improved to 5mp and best of all we get the new OS, BlackBerry 6.
To pre order just follow this link.
Posted by: James
This week saw the second of HTC’s recent meet ups. This time it was to show off their Windows Phone 7 handsets so I went along to a venue in Central London to check out what they had to offer.
Here is a brief summary of the evenings events:
Virgin Media have confirmed the roll out of their 100Mb broadband service this year, saying it will be available to 12.7 million homes.
Neil Berkett, Virgin Media’s chief executive officer, humbly described the launch of the service as, "a historic moment." It "will mean the UK will be comparable to other leading broadband nations," he said.
Those who were hoping that the increased downstream speed would mean an equal increase in upstream bandwidth are in for a treat – the company has confirmed that the 100Mb/s service will also feature an impressive 10Mb/s upload rate.
The 100Mb/s service, which replaces the company’s current 50Mb/s connection as its flagship offering, will cost £35 per month when bought as a bundle with telephone and TV offerings, or £45 per month as a stand-alone product.
Interested? You can pre register here.
Being a Virgin media customer myself I have registered my interest. Could come in rather handy for video uploads.
Posted by: James
Waterloo, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry® BoldT 9780 smartphone – the newest addition to the BlackBerry Bold series of smartphones. Featuring a premium and iconic design with an incredibly easy-to-use keyboard and optical trackpad, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 is elegantly styled and packed with advanced communications and multimedia features. It is also the first BlackBerry Bold smartphone to come with the new BlackBerry® 6 operating system.
"We are very excited to introduce the BlackBerry Bold 9780 featuring the new BlackBerry 6 operating system,” said Carlo Chiarello, Vice President, Product Management at Research In Motion. “This new model builds on the highly refined mobile experience that BlackBerry Bold users already know and love and delivers a wide range of enhancements including a rich new user interface, a fast and powerful WebKit-based browser, broadly improved communications and multimedia capabilities, an incredibly useful Universal Search feature and a high quality 5MP camera.”
Kevin over at crackberry.com got his hands on the new BlackBerry Style and has done a nice video overview and first thoughts. We have mentioned the device a couple of times even though it is not likely to come here to the UK. Over in the States the Style is exclusive to Sprint who are a CDMA network. This kind of messes up any plans to get it over here on our GSM networks.
Having a flip form factor BlackBerry is very much an acquired taste but with millions of Americans loving that form factor the BlackBerry Style is sure to sell.
Check out Kevin’s video below and feel free to let us know what you think of the Style in the forum.
You read that right! Andy makes about as much sense as a cracked record this week but the boys and girl struggle on without regard. James delivers a report on the San Francisco, Matt gets his hands on the N8, Tracy wears a suit, Andy gets annoyed at 3UK and Gareth’s fiancée falls foul of a prank call.
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