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iPed The Chinese Version of The Apple iPad

Vince Delfin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:32:03 +0000

Five days after the launch of the iPad, a first copy of Apple’s touch pad, dubbed as “IPED” is already available in China at deflated prices, while the U.S. group has already passed 2 million copies of this device. IPED, a tablet Android sold € 85.

It has always been strange to some, how easily America chose to outsource its manufacturing, including much intellectual property (IP) to China, where illegal cloning of software and devices is common. Thus, we now have the iPed, selling in China.

It is a 7 “screen 800×480 and 1 to 4 GB of storage, but you gain a USB port classic. Multitasking and Android is certainly compatible Flash, but on a processor with VIA 8505 128 MB of RAM.

How much does the iPed set back a Chinese buyer? Typical of cloned and ripped-off DVDs and products, it’s cheap. The iPed runs just 9,600 Yen, or $105.

Dell Alienware M11x might be getting i3/i5/i7 upgrade

Jerome Ancheta — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:29:05 +0000

Dell’s Head of Consumer operations for middle east, Turkey and Africa talks about the most powerful 11″ notebook in the universe, Dell alienware m11x. And most of the people are complaining because it is only equipped with a Core 2 Duo processor instead of the newest processor by Intel which are i3, i5 and i7. But if you listen to this video especially at 2:20 and beyond you can hear him saying the upgrade for i3, i5 and i7 next month.

I wish I have a Alienware M11x here. Damn!, I want this notebook!

Macbook White refreshed

Jerome Ancheta — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:47:38 +0000

The Unibody Macbook white has been refreshed with a faster processor and GPU. Too bad the processor is still equipped with a Intel Core 2 Duo and not the new Intel Core 2010 processors like Core i3. Anyway, here’s the specifications:

The 9400m was also replaced by GeForce 320m which is faster and better but 320m does not have a dedicated memory too like 9400m. 320m performance is 1.8x faster than its predecessor. The new macbook white also has extended battery life which can last up to 10 hours and has 1000 charge cycles.

Nokia C3 Price, Specification, Details and more

Jerome Ancheta — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:07:13 +0000

The last phone that was introduced by Nokia today was Nokia C3. Nokia C3 is the First S40 cellphone with a QWERTY keyboard. This one looks like the Nokia E5 but this one is a cheaper version and it is equipped with a S40 OS. Anyway, here’s the specifications of Nokia C3:

Dimensions: 115.5 x 58.1 x 13.6 mm
Weight: 114 g
Display: TFT, 256K colors, 320 x 240 pixels, 2.4 inches
QWERTY keyboard
MicroSD card slot up to 8GB
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: v2.1 with A2DP
USB: v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA: 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
OS: S40

Nokia C3 will be available on Q2 with a cheap price of €90. Nokia C3 doesn’t have 3G or HSDPA but it still has Wi-Fi.

Nokia C6 Smartphone Specification and details

Jerome Ancheta — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:19:04 +0000

The QWERTY Slider Nokia C6 has been unveiled today. Unfortunately, this thing doesn’t run Symbian^3 which means that this one is still running Symbian^1 or S60v5. Anyway here’s the specs of the QWERTY side-slider Nokia C6

Dimensions: 113 x 53 x 16.8 mm
Weight: 150 g
Display: TFT touchscreen, 16M colors, 360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches at nHD resolution
QWERTY keyboard
Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
MicroSD card slot up to 16GB
Network: HSDPA
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: v2.0 with A2DP
USB: v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
OS: Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5

This phone is expected to be release this Q2 for only €220. The only thing that I don’t like here is that they did not make it as a Symbian^3 device. I still don’t know what processor is inside.

Microsoft Kin One announced | Specifications

Jerome Ancheta — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:46:29 +0000

At last the the Project Pink of Microsoft has been announced by Microsoft and this one is named as Microsoft Kin One and here’s the specifications of Kin One:

Network: 2G/3G Network HSDPA
Display: TFT touchscreen, 16M colors at QVGA
Memory: 4 GB Storage, No SD card Slot
WLAN: Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth: Yes, v. 2.1
Camera: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
OS: Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Based
QWERTY Slider phone

I don’t have any idea if those applications in Windows Phone 7 will also be available for Kin One. But I assure you that those people who love social networking would love this phone.

HP Slate video shows UI, Apps & more

Jerome Ancheta — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:33:34 +0000

After the release of iPad HP slate was shown in a video again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDalRBjyJo&feature=player_embedded

As you can see in the video, there is a USB port and the USB that was use was from Apple. That means we can sync iPhone or even iPad in iTunes and we all know that HP slate is using Windows 7 Home Premium so we can use Windows applications such as skype (skype was also shown in the video. A SD card slot was also use in here and it can be hook up to your HDTV. I think HP slate is much better than Apple iPad but I think battery life would be short.

iPad jailbreak | iPad spirit jailbreak

Jerome Ancheta — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:13:34 +0000

After the release of the iPad yesterday the Apple iPad has already been jailbreak. The one who is responsible for the jailbreak is MuscleNerd an iPhone jailbreaker. According to him this hack is a port of Comex’s “Spirit” jailbreak which can exploit bugs found on iPad 3.2 and iPhone 3.1.3. As of now, there are now downloads available for the jailbreak.

Apple iPad won’t charge via USB for some people

Jerome Ancheta — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:39:05 +0000

A lot of people are reporting that their iPad won’t charge. The answer is that when you use your iPod or iPod touch chargers the iPad would definitely not charge. And some people have confirmed that their chargers won’t work with the iPad. An apple employee said that the iPad won’t charge using most USB ports because it requires 10W of power to charge it.

Internet Explorer 9 demoed on nVidia ION

Jerome Ancheta — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:33:48 +0000

Internet explorer 9, the next generation browser of microsoft has been demoed on an ION-based netbook. And the netbook that was used was Eee PC 1201PN which was based on ION 2. Internet explorer 9 or IE9 supports HTML5 and GPU acceleration in the browsing experience. But as we all know, when the GPU is always use the shorter battery life it can be. But it’s nice to see GPU acceleration on browsing .