Current Video Game Consoles Turning into Laptops
This discovery is very interesting indeed. Transforming a Console into a laptop brings up many questions: Where do you begin? What does it take to accomplish this experiment? And so forth. These images in particular are of the PS3 and the Xbox 360. This PS3 laptop was created by Ben Heck while the Xbox was done by Collin (CollinE as known on Ben Heck’s forum). You may be able to find these products on Ebay if you look hard enough. Look them up, definitely worth seeing what it’s capable of.
Video Games going beyond their “limits”
See this image on the left? A video game called “Unreal Engine 3″. Nice graphics right? Looks like something you would see on your PC, or Xbox, maybe even your Playstation 3. Which one do you think its for?? Well if you chose one of those, you were WRONG.. this is astonishingly for none other than your ‘friendly mobile-phone’ – The iPhone 3G or their MP3 player – The 3rd Generation iPod Touch. It’s pretty amazing we must say and really opens up eyes. It really makes you wonder where this will be in another few years to a decade. Apparently this is only a demo of the actual thing but there goes your first look. Click Below for some actual gameplay on the iPod Touch. On that note, enjoy!
Unreal Engine 3 on the 3rd Gen iPod Touch
Where does the Palm Pre Stand?
We’ve been talking about many quite popular phones lately, but we shouldn’t leave some of the phone’s still holding their own. Like this one for example: The Palm Pre. The Palm Pre is a Smartphone created by Sprint and has been doing an okay job satisfying customers. It has all of the desires like 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and even has free applications that can be downloaded, and of course the basics like SMS, Email, Camera, etc. However this phone’s been bypassed due to many other competitive phones with greater expectations such as previously-named phones (HTC Hero, Motorola Droid) and others like the iPhone, and Blackberry’s. Ultimately it holds good ratings and good for gadget-lovers but as far as on-the-go professionals there are plenty of other truth-be-told better choices they can make. So where does the Palm Pre stand? Perhaps more-or-less on an even scale.
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Current BlackBerry problematic email service in US and Canada
Unfortunately for current BlackBerry’ers there have been issues with their email service across the states and Canada as well. Thankfully it was just the email service and not the rest of its features (Web browsing, SMS, Blackberry Messenger and phone calling). The good news is it’s back in full-effect, even though the workers of this carrier gave little-to-no information based on it’s problem and why it suddenly happened. This is for your safety, just a lesson that can be looked back upon when this sort of issue happens again. Things happen and can’t be controlled but think of it this way, it gives you a reason to question what you own and if you’ve made the right choice. There have been other carriers with this problem in the past, but that’s another story and I won’t have time to speak on them since it’s happened more than once (hint hint).
“The timing couldn’t be worse. In the run-up to the holiday season you never want to receive this kind of black eye,” Levy said in an interview.
“The smartphone market has never been more competitive. No company can afford to have this kind of large-scale outage, because certainly that plays in customers’ minds when they make their platform choices.”
FUSE UI Looks Great
Created by TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) the creators of the original Android UI. In this clip TAT shows of a bit more of their New UI concept, developed for the FUSE TM Device which was debuted earlier this month. The 3D rendering engine, motion, squeezing, tilt and touch interaction of the UI looks quite smooth. If the concept reaches its final steps it would be a great device to play around with.
TAT technology powers the Fuse UI, which pushes the limits for 3D and Open GLES 2.0 beyond what has previously been experienced in mobile. Fuse features a combination of multiple new sensor inputs, creating a very responsive UI. A collaborative concept of the next mobile device by Synaptics, The Alloy, Immersion, Texas Instruments and TAT.
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Twitter App on the Zune HD
Loved using your Zune HD?? Did you hate tweeting through its web browser? Have no fear, as Microsoft recently have experimented with Zune HD’s very first attempt at a Twitter application and is now released for everyone currently with a Zune HD. Now we know, when there’s twitter.. there’s facebook. Facebook has promised to have an app done for the Zune HD as well so be on the look for it. There’s no release date made for it at this time but its assumed to be around really soon, don’t quote us though. Let the fun begin! Warning, as some of you may become twitter-happy (of course if you want to have enough battery-life for most of your day you’d be sufficient).
Yet another Google Phone stepping to the plate.. Good or Bad?
Looks like we’ve got yet another Google phone joining the competition of Google Mobile Devices. The Google Nexus One. Although not a lot of inside details have been released yet, they did mention one feature it will have (that others currently do not). That’s the Android 2.1 feature – a different version of android. Are you surprised? Since it’s just been spoken about recently, it has become quite popular. However, everything said about this wasn’t exactly on a positive note, just logical. One thing that was noticed through the latest screen shots, there isn’t any sign of the label “HTC” anywhere on this phone. Could this be a hit, a waste of time or something in-between? Stay tuned.
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BlackBerry Curve 8530 Coming to Sprint
Some of the co-workers have been talking about the Blackberry Curve 8530 coming to sprint. Since Verizon has had the 8530 for sometime now and T-Mobile the 8520 and Sprint trailing with the 8330, Sprint has been slacking with its product launches. Intomobile reports that the 8530 is coming to Sprint with a date of January 10th 2010. The Sprint version will feature the same specs as the 8520 with the added Wifi support and Blackberry 5.0 OS. Though some may say Sprint is late to the party, we can only hope that being late is good.
The Future Future Mobile Phones
Lets get straight to the point. The RAmos W7 (Image on your left) An Android
running device, 4.8-inch screen and as thin as the iPhone and the Archos 5 (Image to your right) with the similar Android-like feature and a bit thicker than the other?? Wow, very fancy indeed. Looks promising to say the least. I’ll be honest, I smell beef. But on that note I definitely look forward to it!! Don’t you? Want more info on these 2
devices such as its specs and price ranges and even video footage
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HTC Hero looking at future success?
Now for those who haven’t already noticed, this isn’t the first time we blogged about the HTC Hero. You can thank its high anticipation for the majority of the reason. Ever since its release (specifically Android collaborating with Sprint to release their HTC Hero on 10/11/09) It has really been talked about in various occasions. Being rated as overall above average, one of the most feature-packed Google phones to date and even with it’s flaws it’s still a very-much suggested smartphone to have. And to make things even more sweet, it’s been one of the CONFIRMED Android 2.0 packages to occur, along with the formally-spoke-about Motorola Droid from none other than Verizon. The following is fully quoted by HTC themselves:
“Yes, we are working on an Eclair update for the HTC Hero. Because Eclair is a significantly enhanced release, it will require some time to update Sense for this new version of the Android OS. Please be patient while we work to provide you with a tightly integrated experience like the one you are already enjoying on your Hero.”
Surprised? To be honest, it would’ve been more of a shock had Sprint’s HTC Hero did not have this. For those who already possess this smartphone and were questioning this phone, the one thing we don’t like is regret so on that note hold on to it a little longer before making any final decisions. Personally, my hopes for this phone were pretty much accomplished. Bottom line, things are looking good for this forseen invention.