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[Wireless Japan 2010] Kyocera Booth & Concept
Jul 14th
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This 2010 Wireless Japan was definitively a bit sad, and Kyocera’s booth was no exception, however, we had the chance to discover a few nice concept from Kyocera that comes in a wide range of shapes including the usual Slide-out keyboard, Rotative Screen with 16:9 Aspect ratio and a nice “Slate” Style 5” phone working on LTE network. Next to these concept, Kyocera was proudly displaying its Zio Android based Phone with its 3.5” WVGA screen, 3.2Mpix Camera, already available in the USA. |
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[Wireless Japan 2010] ZTE brings 5 New Smartphones and 4 Concept at WJ.
Jul 14th
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In an interesting twist of faith, ZTE the Chinese manufacturer, came to Wireless Japan with some pretty interesting phones and actually better than what other Japanese manufacturer were displaying today, with for example the : ZTE X950 Smooth, a Phone capable to runs Windows Mobile 6.X or Android Eclair, comes with GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as HSDPA/UMTS, has a QVGA 2.8” Screen, a 3.2Mpix Camera with AF, FM Tuner and A-GPS ZTE X880 Blade. Comes with Android Eclair only, support GSM/GPRS/EDGE as … |
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[Wireless Japan 2010] DoCoMo new 3D Glass-less LCD will put Sharp out of business.
Jul 14th
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Thought that Sharp’s 3D Glass-less LCD was cool? Well just wait to hear what’s DoCoMo has schedule for us for next year… Pretty much similar to what we have seen before, DoCoMo’s technology goes beyond what Sharp is offering today. Indeed, Sharp 3D monitor, the same one installed on the 3DS will work well only if you are perfectly in front of the monitor… If you move a few inches on the left or right your will immediately loose the 3D effect and will have to get back just in front … |
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[Wireless Japan 2010] DoCoMo will help you to be a better golfer.
Jul 14th
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Another interesting R&D Project from DoCoMo Today and this time with a AR Golf application. Made for Android and running on their X10, this software thanks to the phone GPS will give you extremely accurate information on different golf courses around Japan and on your location, as well as being capable to keep your friends score and yours in real time (Each players needs to run the same software at the same time). On top of having detailed map and landscape data this software will give … |
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Opera Mini For Android Drops The Beta Tags, Gets Bumped To Version 5.1
Jul 14th
These days, just about everything makes its public debut in Beta form. Google launched Gmail into an immediate state of notability with its Beta strategy, and chose to hang on to the tag for years for good measure. Online games have more players in their Beta period than the games of yesteryear ever had. There’s a joke to be made here about Apple managing to sell a few million iPhone 4s before it was out of Beta, but I’ll leave that flamewar fuel (mostly) untapped for tonight.
Sooner or later, all good Betas must come to an end. The latest product shedding its Beta skin? Opera Mini for Android.
If you’ve been using Opera Mini 5 for Android for a while, the sans-Beta 5.1 build won’t seem too much different. Same proxy-powered compression magic speeding up browsing and cutting down data usage, same tabbed interface, same PC bookmark syncing functionality — in fact, outside of a few minor tweaks and a laundry list of bug fixes, the only new feature warranting the bump from 5.0 to 5.1 is official support for devices with big ol’ screens, like the HTC Evo 4G and the Moto Droid X.
Alas, that means that at least one worthwhile feature is still missing from the application: multi-level multi-touch pinch/zoom support. Yeah, that’s a mouthful. In other words, it lacks the ability to zoom as much or as little as the user wants by way of the now familiar pinching/zooming gestures. Like its iPhone twin, this build does support multi-touch zoom in some sense; it’s just all or nothing, fully zoomed or not zoomed at all. It may seem trivial, but that little discrepancy is make or break for some.
With that aside, the little bit of time I’ve spent with 5.1 has been nothing but pleasurable. It’s lightning quick, and has been stable as a rock so far. Between Android’s already solid default browser and other alternatives like Dolphin and Skyfire, it’s getting waaay too hard for me to recommend just one — so I’ll let you do it. What browser are you using on Android? Let us know in the comments below.
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NEX-VG10: Sony’s latest ASP HD Wonder available in September
Jul 14th
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Do you remember the ASP HD based Camcorder prototype unveiled during the last Alpha NEX camera launch? Well, it seems that the NEX-VG10 is now reality. Indeed, Sony US announced the official price and release date in a press Release. Available in September for about 2000$, the NEXVG10 has been made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Handycam product… According to the Japanese manufacturer, it’s the world’s first consumer camcorder with interchangeable lenses and the first Handycam … |
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Solar Powered Wunda Weeder Could Race Circles Around Your Old Weed Wacker – Literally
Jul 14th
By Andrew Liszewski
Tending a bountiful garden takes a bit more than just a green thumb, there’s also a lot of back breaking work when it comes to planting, weeding and harvesting. But if Australian inventors Brendan Corry and Peter Sargent have their way, performing those tasks could be as comfortable as taking a nap. Their creation, the Wunda Weeder, has workers laying on their stomach on a sort of bed with an adjustable headrest suspended just above the crops they’re tending. It’s fully adjustable depending on what type of crop it will be used with, and the electric motors that propel the Wunda are powered by the sun thanks to a set of solar cells on the roof which doubles as a shade and rain guard.
At first glance it looks like a contraption you’d see wandering around Willy Wonka’s factory, but its creators believe it could triple farm productivity and even pay for itself after the first year, even with a price tag that’s expected to be around $8,000.
[ Wunda Weeder ] VIA [ Gizmag ]
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[Wireless Japan 2010] AU enhanced Sekai Camera with its own AR content.
Jul 13th
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I am sure that you have all heard about Sekai Camera, a software developed by a Japanese company that thanks to AR (Augmented Reality) will let you see comments, notes and remarks from other USERS once you are pointing your mobile phone camera on your surrounding area. Based on this, KDDI is working to enhanced and tweak this system with their own solution in order to offer more information, as well as being capable to download Data or listen to music directly from your Smarthpone screen. KDDI … |
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MamaRoo Bouncer Perfect For Settling Restless Infants / Saving Kal-El Before Krypton’s Destroyed
Jul 13th
By Andrew Liszewski
I don’t know if the design was inspired by an interstellar spacecraft or not, but I do know that a) the MamaRoo Bouncer is hands-down the most high tech baby chair I’ve ever seen and b) the makers can probably expect to get a visit from the hundred acre woods’ vicious copyright lawyers any day now. (Oh bother!) First of all the bouncer rivals most Air Force flight simulators with the ability to move up and down and side to side which allow it to recreate five unique soothing movements including car ride, tree swing, rock-a-bye, ocean and of course the most soothing movement to a human infant, a kangaroo ride. It’s also got built-in nature sounds to help calm your bundle of joy, or you can hook up your MP3 player of choice and simply drown them out instead.
Above the actual seat you’ll also find a distracting mobile with three plush balls decorated in the style of Van Gogh, Monet and Seurat in order to stimulate your kid’s brain. High-contrast black and white on one side for newly developing infant minds, and color on the other for when they’re older and need more stimulation. It’s also got a rather steep price tag of $199.99 from ThinkGeek but that’s what baby showers and excited grandparents-to-be are for.
[ ThinkGeek - MamaRoo Bouncer ]
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Samsung N220 Plus Premium unveiled.
Jul 13th
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Announced with more RAM and larger HDD, the N220 Plus Premium Netbook from Samsung may finally get what it takes to become more attractive. Our 10.1” Notebook comes with an Atom N450 CPU (1.66GHz), up to 11h of battery life, 2GB of RAM, 320GB of HDD, SDXC support, Bluetooth 3.0 and will be available either in Europe or US at around 399€ or $500 USD |
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