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Panasonic preps TVs with 5,000,000:1 contrast ratios
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Panasonic in Japan introduced two new ranges of plasma HDTVs, with its VIERA G2 and S2 series. The G2s are said to have image quality that is nearly a third better than the outgoing G1 range, and offer a contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1 thanks to Panasonic’s new PDP Black panel….
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Apple confirms January 27th event
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Apple today confirmed at least some rumors today by announcing a special event on January 27th at 10AM Pacific. The company plans to hold the gathering at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and teases it with just a spray-painted Apple logo and an invitation to “come see our latest creation.”…
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ASUS reveals OLED e-book reader
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Taiwan’s ASUS is getting into the highly-competitive e-book reader market, although late, with its DR-570. While the 6-inch device was conspicuous by its absence at the recent CES show, it will be technologically advanced, sporting a bright, OLED color screen and is said to have a 122-hour battery life. It should also be much more powerful than most e-readers as it will support Flash video over its built-in Wi-Fi or 3G connection….
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NVIDIA provides Fermi details, speed test
Monday, January 18th, 2010
NVIDIA edged closed to the formal release of boards based on its Fermi architecture with fuller details about the processor as well as an early test. The 512-core design is now known to also be a high-end graphics design and adds 16 geometry and 4 raster units that weren’t present in previous GeForce 200 cards. These newly dedicated units let a Fermi chip better handle tasks out of order….
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HP dv6t, dv7t upgraded to Core i5
Monday, January 18th, 2010
HP has quietly updated its existing Pavilion dv6t and dv7t notebooks and now offer the option of Intel’s recently released Core i5 processors. The former is a 15-inch system that can otherwise be optioned up with up to 640GB of hard drive space, as much as 8GB of RAM, a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M or 512MB GeForce G 105M, a Blu-ray drive and Bluetooth, among others….
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Review: Google Nexus One
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Although there are already a wide variety of smartphones available on the Android platform, the Nexus One marks Google’s first push into the hardware market. The N1 diverges from other smartphones by adding an AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and the latest Android 2.1 operating system. The search giant touts the device as the first ‘superphone,’ but our Nexus One review takes a closer look at how it stacks up against the iPhone and other Android offerings….
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Nokia vows “big news” for Ovi on Thursday
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Nokia this morning sent invitations to a London press event for “big news” about its Ovi services. The company doesn’t provide any details of the Thursday event but expects its Executive VP Anssi Vanjoki to show along with UK General Manager Mark Loughran. It expects the news to be short with just a 15 minute presentation and a Q&A session afterwards….
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Mophie to give Japanese iPhones FeliCa with apps
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Mophie today promised to give Japanese iPhone owners much-requested support for FeliCa wireless payments. The team-up with two local firms will see a version of Mophie’s casing that uses the same RFID wireless as the Sony standard. In tandem with an iPhone app, the add-on will let Apple’s device pay for many goods by bringing the iPhone within an inch of a FeliCa source, such as at a store. Mophie promises that it will work in reverse and that shops can use the accessory to take payments, especially at on-the-street shops where a usual counter isn’t an option….
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iRiver Smart HD packs high-res MKV
Monday, January 18th, 2010
iRiver on Monday touted an advantage in touchscreen media players with the Smart HD. It becomes one of the few players to support not just HD video resolutions but the MKV (Matroska) container as well. Adding the format gives it support for subtitles and other extras common to “unofficial” copies of movies….
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Aliph puts out Jawbone Icon with apps, iPhone features
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Aliph put a new emphasis on software today with the launch of its third-generation Bluetooth headset, the Jawbone Icon. The new design is slightly wider but overall smaller than the Prime. It also claims the title of the first headset with apps: a beta website will let owners install apps for voice dialing, directory searching and other tasks….
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Apple making 22-inch touchscreen iMac?
Monday, January 18th, 2010
A rumor floated by Taiwan’s Commercial Times newspaper today claims Apple is developing its first touchscreen iMac. The new version would allegedly be a 22-inch model and would be separate from the 21.5-inch and 27-inch versions already on sale. Quanta would be responsible for the manufacturing, while Sintek Photronic would make the touch overlays for the screens….
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Review: MoGo Talk headset for iPhone
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Carrying a Bluetooth headset often adds a certain amount of inconvenience, and iPhone owners have been accustomed to this as even fewer truly portable options exist for them. Newton Peripherals hopes to fix that with the MoGo Talk for iPhone that we’re reviewing here; it stows the headset into a discreet case that keeps the phone somewhat safe. It’s promising, but with an ultra-thin headset, will it be a question of sacrificing space for convenience?…
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