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Sony Ericsson announces XPERIA X10 Android phone

November 5th, 2009

se-xperia-x10Sony Ericsson is the latest phonemaker to officially enter the Android arena. The manufacturer has unveiled the XPERIA X10 Android smartphone. Though it won’t come with Android 2.0, and just the version 1.6 Donut. It is powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, the X10 boasts a 4″ WVGA capacitive touchscreen display, an 8.1 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS with GSM/GPRS/EDGE in addition to either UMTS/HSPA. This will be dependent on where in the world you are and what networks will be releasing it.

The X10 will boast 1GB of onboard memory and Sony Ericsson will be kindly throwing in a 8GB microSD. Like the Motorola Cliq (or Dext) which launched with its own bit of customised Android facelift known as the MOTOBLUR, the X10 too has its own overlaying customised UI known as the Rachel. The Rachel UI will boast two Sony Ericsson apps known as Timescape and Mediascape, more info in the press release below and as you will have imagined, alot of Google pre-loaded apps. The XPERIA X10 will be available from Q1 2010 in Sensuous Black and Lustre White.

Camera

  • 8.1 megapixel camera
  • Up to 16x digital zoom
  • Auto focus
  • Intelligent face recognition features
  • Geo tagging
  • Image and video stabilizer
  • Photo and video light
  • Send to web (photo and video upload)
  • Smile detection
  • Touch focus
  • Video recording
  • Recent shot tray

Music

  • Album art
  • Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
  • Media player
  • Music tones (MP3/AAC)
  • PlayNow™
  • TrackID™

Web

  • Bookmarks
  • Google™ search (from standby)
  • Web feeds
  • WebKit web browser

Communication

  • Sony Ericsson Timescape™
  • Speakerphone
  • Vibrating alert

Messaging

  • Conversations
  • Email
  • Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®
  • Picture messaging (MMS)
  • Predictive text input
  • Text messaging (SMS)

Design

  • Auto rotate
  • Gesture control
  • Picture wallpaper
  • Touchscreen

Entertainment

  • 3D games
  • Media browser
  • Infinite button
  • Video streaming
  • Video viewing
  • YouTube™

Organiser

  • Alarm clock
  • Calculator
  • Calendar
  • Flight mode
  • Infinite button
  • Office suite
  • Phone book with dialer
  • World clock…….and other function we can not define here.

Latest RollTop Foldable Notebook concept with Full Fledged Keyboard

November 1st, 2009

RollTop-Foldable-Notebook-concept-1As we are start usage of new concepts in gadgets with latest technology, we regularly watch new concept news about electronic gadgets. Today lots of amazing concepts of upcoming gadgets are on work but here we talk about RollTop Foldable Notebook. This futuristic foldable notebook comes with 17 inch OLED display screen and full fledged keyboard.

The RollTop foldable notebook is completely different from any other notebook concept; you can easily fold it like paper which offers a great facility to its users to storing it in congested place and ultimate convenience in carrying. It has some excellent features like 17 inch OLED display with flat screen when it fully rolled out with its multi-touch facility which offers you ease functionality like iPhone. Also, when folded in 13 inch like smart tablet pc. It offers convenient typing performance with its full fledged keyboard feature.

When you fold this notebook then it becomes like a water bottle with hanging belt so you can easily hang on your shoulder. If you need excellent look then don’t worry it comes with nice sleek and stylish look.

Blackberry Storm 9500

October 7th, 2009

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The Blackberry Bold 9000 made it to my top gadgets for Christmas and 2008 and the Storm 9500 sees RIM taking it further by adding a full touch screen

(the first Blackberry without keys and their attempt at an iPhone killer). It also has more multimedia emphasis than usual for a Blackberry – with a fantastic 480 x 360 pixel display, 3.2 Mega pixel camera, 1GB on board storage and video support for MPEG4 H.263, MPEG4 Part 2 Simple Profile,

H.264, WMV. The Blackberry Storm should make a release at the end of 2008 and after a firmware upgrade it should be a top gadget phone in 2009

New cellular phones: AT&T presents new phones targeted to messaging lovers and with a new browser

October 7th, 2009

AT&T has launched 4 new phones (or messaging phones to be exact) that include a new browser to allow users to have a good Web experience if they need to visit some pages on Internet.

These new phones are called: Pantech Impact, Pantech

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Reveal,Samsung Flight, and Samsung Mythic. All of them have a web browser based on Opera that is able to display HTML pages with  more precision (which is a rare feature in phones that are not classified as smarthphones) and, besides that, it uses data compression to reduce the bandwidth overhead on the 3G network. Also, it provides shortcuts to location-sensitive news, maps and useful links.

In this group of new devices, Pantech’s phones will be maybe the most remarkable ones, especially the Pantech Impact. Although we don’t have many details yet, we know the Pantech Impact is a unique flip phone that comes with an OLED touchscreen for common tasks. Also, it has a keyboard and a secondary display that is intended to be used as a messaging display.

On the other hand, the Pantech Reveal is a semi-conventional slider  with a numeric keyboard on the closed design and a vertical QWERTY slider keyboard. Also, it supports 3G and GPS capabilities. AT&T has not revealed the price yet but the company has announced that the Pantech  Reveal will be available for sale on October 18.

Latest 3-D Printer Models and Brands in the Market 2009

October 1st, 2009

There are many different 3-d printer models available in the market these days. However, if you are thinking of buying any of these, you need to exercise caution especially since not all them have the standard of quality you are expecting.
6335-1213825163_0_2A team of engineers and artists working at the University of Washington has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3D printer for the first time.

Features

With high-resolution image quality at around 600 x 600 dots per inch, the building materials are made of polymers. Thus, the finishing of the resultant

objects is smooth and gorgeous to look and feel. The support material is of a gel-like consistency and you can easily remove it with your hand or using water jet mechanisms. In this manner, you get to build very complex geometries even with the presence of very thin walls.

The inbuilt parts are strong sufficiently to facilitate rapid tooling especially for materials such as silicone. You can also use the 3-d printer model for function testing, form, fit, as well as vacuum forming mechanisms. You could even pass wires through these parts, drill some holes inside these, paint the exteriors and many other similar functions.
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This is a 3-d printer from Objet Geometries. Even though the brand appears to be quite nascent in the 3-d printer segment, it already captured a significant share across the North American niche. Using two different printheads moving along one rail building with thin material layers, this 3-d printer is not just super fast but also extremely accurate.