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The Kubuntu Team has decided that with release of Kubuntu 10.10 there will be no Netbook Remix. Instead Plasma Netbook Workspace would be packaged with the standard Kubuntu distro. According to Digitizor an algorithm would run during the install which would decide the default workspace: desktop or netbook, though it would be manually changeable. Digitizor [...]
Cisco has just announced its new tablet Cius which is expected to arrive early next year. The tablet would be running Android 2.2 and has 7″ SVGA display with camera facing both towards and away from the user. You can download Cisco-Cius brochure. Also some key features of Cius
We just heard that Cisco Systems Inc is all set to release a tablet PC very soon. The tablet named as Cius is 7 inches tall which is a little smaller than Apple’s iPad released this March. The tablet’s main focus would be on video conferencing, therefore the Cius would have two cameras facing both towards and away from the user. We would like to remind our readers that iPad does not have any camera whatsoever.
With release of iPad and new iPhone, the ebook reader market is a bit low. But thanks to this a new price war has started among Kindle and Nook. Amazon has reduced the price of its Kindle to $189 from $259, and Barnes & Noble’s Wi-Fi-only version of the Nook is available for $149. We anticipate that release of new iOS 4 and iPhone is the key factor behind all this.
Apple has launched the iPhone 4 at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 7th. As was expected the iphone hogged the majority of the spotlight with some time devoted to the iPad.
Apple has launched the latest iPhone which it is calling “iPhone 4″ and it is the biggest update to the iPhone since the first.
The WSJ has confirmed that Microsoft will introduce their newest mobile phone OS on Monday at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Finally a new Windows Mobile OS, God knows it needed the boost.
The announcement will come during Steve Ballmer’s Windows Phone press conference, scheduled for 3pm local time. According to the WSJ, Windows Phone 7 will have an entirely new user interface that closely resembles that of Zune. This is in line with what the other sites have been saying.
With MWC right around the corner, all eyes are on Microsoft for the launch of Windows Phone 7. Even through FCC troubles this looks like Sharp’s Turtle phone.
People close to the Project Pink have revealed that it is not the star of the collection but rather an evolution of the SideKick. The diagram for the model PB10ZU shows a short, stout device that bears an unmistakable resemblance to the Project Pink Turtle images we saw last Fall. The filing reveals that the PB10ZU packs dual-band CDMA, EVDO, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity
The much anticipated Samsung Wave, its first Bada OS based phone’s pics have stated circulating the web. It is probably the first phone in the market to be equipped with the Bluetooth 3.0 standard. Besides Bluetooth, the Wave will offer a 3.3 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, five megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, 720p video, DivX support, 2GB internal memory with microSD expansion, HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, 1 GHz processor, 3.5mm headphone jack, aluminum body, 1500 mAh battery, and the Bada OS with Touchwiz 3.0. The Wave has the typical appearance of a Samsung phone with two flush front buttons, a triangular four way navigational button, triangular camera and flash, and brushed metal accents.
It still looks like the Hero only with a unibody aluminum shell, but according to Dutch carrier KPN it’ll go on sale March. KPN’s advert for the Legend touts it as having a 600Mhz processor, an optical trackpad instead of the ball seen on previous models, and a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. The other specs include—a 5.0-megapixel camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and Android 2.1 (Eclair), and it looks like it’ll be running HTC Sense, the Android skin which they’ve used on a lot of their recent models.
At today’s highly-anticipated media event, Apple announced the iPad tablet device, featuring a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 display and 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB capacities. Carrying a custom 1 GHz “Apple A4″ chip, the iPad weighs in at 1.5 pounds and is .5-inch thin. The iPad will be priced at $499, $599, and $699 for the varying capacity models without 3G, and $629, $729, and $829 with 3G.
