Windows Phone 7 Series is official. Is anyone interested?
via engadget.com
I'm much more excited about MeeGo, but we can't deny that Microsoft has been trying hard lately.
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Forget the iPad: meet the new Chrome Tablet (or Google Pad, or gPad...)
Well, it might take perhaps a year for these mockups to become reality. However, they look very promising and make one wondering if it's worth waiting a bit longer instead of buying an iPad in March.
The pictures were posted on the Chromium website, accompanied by the following info:This is a concept UI under development. Designs are subject to change.This page contains visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware. Some possibilites they explore include:
- Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
- Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
- Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
- Zooming UI for multiple tabs
- Tabs presented along the side of the screen (see Side tabs)
- Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher
No idea about the price, but I am ready to buy mine.
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Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch [via Engadget]
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Can't wait to get my update pushed to the device. Apparently some might have to wait until the end of the week.
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ExoPC Slate Comes On The Heels Of the iPad [via Engadget]
According to Engadget:
A French computer maker has added another combatant in what has become a war between Apple’s iPad and the netbooks. Similar to the HP Slate, the ExoPC is a new tablet form factor netbook, featuring 8.9″ of multitouch goodness. It looks similar to the iPad, though most tablets in this field are probably going to have the same characteristic bevel layout.
This is a full-fledged netbook, minus the keyboard. Specs are standard: Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, 32 GB SSD w/ expandable SD slot. Naturally, the ExoPC will be running Windows 7, allowing for a much more functional if not visually pleasing environment than the modified iPhone OS. This also allows ExoPC to promise “the web without compromise,” a reference undoubtedly pointed towards the iPad’s lack of flash support.
There is one place where the ExoPC shows some weakness, and that’s in the battery life department. At only 4 hours, it lacks the godly battery life that we have come to expect from netbooks, but it is at least user replaceable. Still at $599 and release date in March it is placing itself as a direct competitor to its iPad counterpart.
Via Engadget.
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The perfect App for the new iPad
I am a Zinio user for years, and always admired their ability to translate the experience of reading a physical magazine into the digital world.
When the iPad was launched yesterday, while trying to think about potential uses for the device, the most compelling one that came to my mind was reading magazines, and Zinio is very well positioned for that.
Although the iBook application can be interesting, the e-Ink technology provided by the Kindled and many other devices (including my Cybook Opus) can't be beaten in terms of reading experience for books. However, when it comes to reading magazines and experiencing colors and different designs, than we are talking about a very compelling potential differentiation for the iPad.
The folks at Zinio are already working on porting their magazines to the iPhone, but this is not an easy task. Zinio is flash-based, and as you know, flash is not available through Apple's iPad and iPhone. They built an app that has potential, but is still not there. Also, there is only a limited number of publications available now.
In my opinion, to accelerate this process, Apple should partner (or acquire) Zinio, and make this unique capability a true selling point for their new device. Since I don't believe this will ever happen, I hope the team behing Zinio can be fast enough to take advantage of this unparalleled opportunity.
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Finally... the iPad! A gigantic iPhone that feels like a computer
via engadget.com
Apparently the picture on the previous post was pretty accurate in predicting Apple's "latest creation". The iPad, as expected, is a giant 9.7-inch iPhone that provides expanded computing capability, specially for corporate usage.
Specs are not impressive (processor has the same 1Ghz offered on Google's Nexus One phone), but it offers roughly what you'd get on similar-sized netbook. The price, though, was a surprise to me. USD $499 seems very compelling for such a sexy device, so people that wonder about the real need for such a gadget don't have much to lose.
Availability is expected for early March on the Wi-fi version and April for the 3G.
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Palm Pre (and Pixi) Plus review by Engadget
Bottom line: for the price difference ($50), forget about the Pixi. As for the Pre Plus, apparently it is strong competition for the iPhone and Nexus, so it will come to user preference to make the final decision.
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Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Pine Trail netbook review
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