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Toshiba introduces the thinnest tablet – Excite X10

Posted on 09 January 2012 by Elizabeth

"Toshiba Excite X10"Toshiba has unveiled the thinnest tablet yet, and it is named as ‘Excite X10’. However, the firm held the thinnest tablet with the Excite X10 is a full 0.6mm thinner, measuring 7.7mm, compared with the Prime’s 8.3mm profile.

The company has announced its thinnest tablet yet Excite X10 on Sunday. The tablet is not only the thinnest one and also the lightest tablet to date, coming with much light weight than Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, in exact to be 0.4 pounds. The Excite X10 is designed in such way that that of tablet design philosophy. But, yet it still makes room for some micro connections like Micro-HDMI, Micro-USB 2.0, and a microSD card slot, and also finds built-in speakers.

Excite also supports Toshiba’s SRS sound enhancement technology, with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, and an LED backlight 5-megapixel back camera. The thinnest tablet, Excite X10 has an excellent feature for gaming, a silky magnesium alloy backside and a glossy 10.1-inch screen, covered in Gorilla Glass. Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR and Wi-Fi of 802.11b/g/n. Toshiba opted with Texas Instruments CPU instead of NVIDIA; the X10 has as well featuring with a dual-core OMAP 4430-1.2GHz processor.

However, Toshiba Excite X10 will be available in the market from mid first quarter, with price tag of $530 for the 16GB which is the starting price while the higher and upgraded version of 32GB costs $600.

Stay connected with us to know more on Toshiba’s Excite X10 Tablet updates!

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Mac Pro Shipping Times Slipped to 1-3 Weeks, Refresh Imminent

Posted on 03 January 2012 by Ronald

"Apple’s Mac Pro"Quite fascinatingly, on Apple’s online store a fresh sign that a Mac Pro refresh is imminent has appeared, where in the Shipping times for almost the entire configurations of the built-to-order Mac Pros have slipped to 1-3 weeks, noting that Apple possibly paring down its inventory before launching updated models with Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge E Xeon processors.

Apple’s online store, increase in shipping estimations can sometimes be problem-solving of an upcoming product refresh, since Apple draws down supplies before launching the updated models. The Mac Pro is indeed due for an update, and there are several suggestions that components possibly flowing together for an important upgrade to the line.

Since July 2010, the Mac Pro refresh has long been delayed as the machine has not been updated. The update has been waiting on Intel’s new Sandy Bridge-based Xeon E5 processor that was initially planned to release in late 2011, although it has been delayed to early 2012. Nevertheless, rumors hint that the issues with the chipset portion of the Romley platform using the Sandy Bridge E Xeon processors may perhaps see a release held back until the starting of March.

Other upgrades to the Mac Pro consist of the graphics card that has been indication at in the developer builds of OS X 10.7.3. Suggestions can be found in the upcoming platform to support for AMD’s Tahiti line of graphics cards, recommending that the high-end Radeon HD 7970 or the 7950 might be an choice in future configurations.

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Sony Sells 3, 21,400 PlayStation Vita in Japan in 2 days

Posted on 21 December 2011 by Brian

"Sony Sells 3, 21,400 PlayStation Vita"Well, Sony has recently released its PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console in Japan on this Saturday. And here we go with the interesting news, which states that Sony had sold 3, 21,400 PlayStation Vita in the first 2 days.

Quite fascinatingly, the figure (3, 21,400) confirms that the Company is sitting pretty on their terrain in the country. On the other hand, in February Nintendo 3DS has sold 50000 units more than the PlayStation Vita in the first 2 days.

According to the statistics reports from research firm Enterbrain, although the figures in early days are promising, Sony thinks that they should live up to the anticipation of clientele to maintain the rivalry posed by the competitors.

In the initial days, Nintendo has grabbed a huge success, but in later stages has faced problems starting to show up. There were not many compelling games on that device, and sadly the company was forced to reduce the price tag for the 3DS soon after.

Of course, the Nintendo 3DS is a perfect opponent for the Sony PlayStation Vita. However, both the Companies have common opponents in the electronics market of smartphones and tablets. On the other hand, a lot of cheaper or even free apps and games are available on such devices. These factors might discourage people from buying a gaming device like Play Station Vita.

According to the recent reports from Flurry Analytics, both Sony and Nintendo are predicated to grab only 42 percent of the revenue in gaming market as against 82 percent 2 years back.

Sony is likely to release the device in Europe and US in February 2012, selling the Wi-Fi version Vita at a price tag of $250 and 3G enabled Vita models for $300 price.

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Apple Television to Land in 3 Sizes – Including 32-inch, 55-inch?

Posted on 06 December 2011 by Brian

"Apple TV Release Date"Apple television is the hot cake in the web from couple of months, now here strikes interesting news regarding the Television, where in the Sources familiar with the matter claims that Apple’s full-fledged television set will land at the end of 2012 in three screen sizes, maxing out at 55 inches.

According to the reports from the Sources, the new Apple television will strike the market in an entry-level size of 32 inches. However, the Sources did not pointed out precisely what screen size the 3rd model would feature, falling somewhere between the low end with 32 inches and 55 inches (maximum size).

Furthermore, the report noted a Major Japanese Company is involved in the production of Apple’s rumored television set. If we have a look at the previous rumors, where in the earlier reports noted that Apple television will feature Siri integration, which let users to control the TV set with their voice.

As the rumors are flying high with regard to Apple’s television there will be a new processor likely to debut in Apple’s third-generation iPad, which the Sources stated that it will land in midway through 2012.  Most probably that processor might be an A6 custom-built ARM-based CPU.

On the other hand, Apple’s highly anticipated high-end 55-inch TV model is predictable to compete with smart TVs from established television makers like LG and Samsung. The report even noted that LG and Samsung‘s next-generation TV sets are anticipated to have new features like faster processors, a combination of OLED display, and Super HD from LG.

As you are aware, the rumors of Apple television set have started from the release of the authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Now the latest reports have recommended that Apple’s anticipated television set might arrive as early as mid 2012, and at the same time others have indicated that Apple will announce its TV set in late 2012 for an early 2013 sale date.

Stay tuned to know more updates on technology!

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Kindle Fire the Best Selling Product on Black Friday in Amazon Family

Posted on 29 November 2011 by Barbara

Amazon Kindle Fire is rocking the market with its sales; the newly launched Kindle Fire touted the success of its sales by announcing that it is the retailer’s best-selling product, despite the fact that Amazon it did not reveal any actual sales figures of the Fire.

Amazon has announced that 2011’s Black Friday, has grabbed the Company the largest sales day of the year, was the best ever for Amazon’s Kindle family of products. Especially, the Amazon Kindle Fire, the color touchscreen tablet has been the bestselling product across all of Amazon from the time when it was initially introduced 8 weeks ago.

Amazon Kindle’s vice president, Dave Limp says that even before the busy holiday shopping weekend, we have already sold millions of the new Kindle family and Kindle Fire was the bestselling product across all of Amazon.com. Black Friday was the best ever for the Kindle family, where in customers purchased 4X as many Kindle devices as they did last Black Friday and last year was a great year.

Moreover he states that, we are seeing a lot of clientele buying multiple Kindles, one for them and others as gifts and we guess this trend to carry on on Cyber Monday and during the holiday shopping season.

On the other hand, Amazon’s press release as well features comments from executives at Best Buy and Target, who are appreciating the success of the Kindle Fire. Target had claimed that the Kindle Fire was its best-selling tablet on Black Friday.

However, Amazon has declined to announce the exact sales figures for the device, and this is the same strategy which Amazon has employed with earlier devices in the Kindle family.

Earlier this month, the Kindle Fire has strike the market and has been viewed as a low-cost tablet, which will compete with and potentially drive sales away from Android-powered tablets, rather than Apple’s iPad.

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Archos Arnova 7b and 10b G2 tablets Official Specs Released

Posted on 28 November 2011 by Barbara

Here we go with the official specifications of the Archos Arnova 7b and 10b G2 tablets, which have been released. Well, the tablets seem to be equipped with pretty decent features and these new tablets are considered excellent for watching movies in HD.

Arnova 7b and 10b G2, both the tablets run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread on-board and are available in 8GB and 4GB storage versions, powered by powered by 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 single core processor, this will help them in running apps as smooth as possible. As a result you can access a wide range of applications, news, social networking, games, and productivity tools. You can as well access thousands of free and paid applications that could be downloaded straight to your tablet via AppsLib application.

Well, during video playback the Archos Arnova 7B G2 will last up to 8 hours and 40 minutes, which is 40 minutes more than the 10 inch model in a single charge. The 10B G2 will feature a TFT LCD supporting 16 million colors and a 1024×600 pixel resolution in 16:9 aspect ratio, whereas the 7-incher supports an 800×480 pixel resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio.

The Arnova 7b G2 is just 12 mm and weighs only 350 gram, while the Arnova 10b G2 is 12 mm and weighs only 680 grams. Moreover, both the tablets are equipped with Front facing camera, MicroSD slots for expanding storage by up to 32GB. In fact, a good configuration for a low price tagged tablet, in simple a clever combination of high-performance hardware and intuitive software.

Stay tuned to know more updates on Archos Arnova 7b and 10b G2 tablets!

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Apple’s Seventh Generation iPod Nano Hits with Camera Feature?

Posted on 05 April 2011 by Barbara

Apple’s next generation iPod Nano, popularly known as the seventh-generation model now strike the web with interesting news regarding its Camera Feature.

As you are aware, earlier we have the rumors stating that the 7th generation Model will not carry the Camera Feature, which had disappointed many people and stood as the main lack or disadvantage for the iPod Nano. However, the latest images from the sources, which have revealed that the seventh generation model, Apple iPod Nano would carry the Camera Feature.

The leak images revealed by the sources can be relatively accurate, as earlier leak images of Verizon iPhone 4 schematics from Foxconn, current iPod nano mini touch-screen, accurate details of iPad 2 and many more have been revealed by the sources.

According to the reports, Apple the giant may be putting the camera back into their popular music player, while still keeping the current model’s size and display. The report even adds that Apple supposed a plan for the next generation iPod nano is the location of the belt clip and with the supposed camera hole; Apple will probably need to re-position it or maybe even make it shorter.

On the other hand, it is better not to get into the confirmation about the Camera, as the image can also be a handy work of rumor enthusiasts, nothing is still confirm as the Company did not reveal any information about its seventh generation iPod Model ( Nano).

While, the image appears alike to the rip down pictures of the sixth generation iPod nano, as the camera slot in the leaked image comes precisely above the battery in the sixth generation iPod nano.

Nothing can be confirmed about the leak image. However, according to the sources report, Apple will unveil its seventh generation iPod Nano in the month of September.

Finally, it would be really amazing to shoot the pictures in such a small Camera. What do you say? Share your views and comments about Apple’s Seventh Generation iPod nano, Camera Feature.

In the meantime, stay connected with us to know more interesting and latest updates on Apple’s Seventh Generation iPod Nano!

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OverDrive Pro 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot Connects 8 WiFi-enabled Devices

Posted on 18 March 2011 by Barbara

Sprint and Sierra Wireless has today announced interesting news about the upcoming availability of Overdrive Pro Mobile Hotspot by Sierra Wireless. The old Overdrive can share connection to five WiFi-enabled devices and where as the latest Overdrive Pro version connects to eight WiFi-enabled devices at the same time.

The new second generation Overdrive device let customers to connect up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled devices at the same time. With cameras, smartphones tablets, laptops, eReaders and gaming devices, from other carriers at the same time via a single Wi-Fi connection to a 4G network.

Starting from March 20, customers will be able to purchase Overdrive Pro 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot exclusively from Sprint at a price tag of $49.99 excluding taxes following a $50 mail-in-rebate with a 2 year service agreement. Customers can purchase the device and sign up for 3G/4G plans at select Sprint retail market stores via business sales, Web and Telesales.

According to the Fared Adib the vice president of Sprint Product Development states that there are many advantages of the wireless connection to Sprint 4G through Overdrive and he even states that for customers who use Overdrive device there is no need of mobile hotspots as it is equipped in the device itself.

With the help of the new Overdrive Pro 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot, you can Stream a favorite TV show or movie in your Netbook or tablet while concurrently surfing the web in another room, wireless connect an Xbox 360, Move pictures wirelessly from a camera to a digital picture frame and surf the web on a laptop while streaming Pandora, work remotely anywhere in a 4G coverage area or almost anywhere with 3G, teams that are traveling can share internet access with each other at airports, hotels and conference centers, provides route to their destination, ERT Go Kits can be used easily, fast uploading of pictures.

The new Overdrive Pro 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot provides foot range of nearly 150 for Wi-Fi connection and also consist of GPS hold and location-based services. Finally, the new OverDrive Pro 3G/4G mobile hotspot will be hitting the market on March 20th at a price tag $49.99.

Stay tuned to know more latest updates on technology!

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T-Mobile LG G-Slate & G2x Hits Market on April 20th?

Posted on 17 March 2011 by Elizabeth

LG G-Slate Tablet looks quite familiar? Yes, couple of days back T-mobile and LG Electronics has revealed its new tablet and now the LG G-Slate the first tablet to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb smacks with a new leak stating that the LG G-Slate is going to hit the market on April 20th.

According to the new leak report, LG Electronics is going to release G-Slate along with its new device T-Mobile G2x on the same day (April 20th). T-Mobile G2x is the version of  LG Optimus 2X. LG has readied the device for the international market with Android 2.2 operating system. Here comes the doubt whether the T-Mobile version will have Android 2.2 operating system or it would be stock Android.

Do you remember LG’s new tablet release date which leaked to be 23rd March 2010? Yet till now there is no update on this and here comes the latest news about the new release date which is 20th April? However, one thing is confirm about the LG- Slate Tablet which is going to hit the CTIA on Monday at Orlando.

G-Slate is a 10-inch tablet from LG which will run on Android 3.0 Honeycomb and is equipped with 3D capabilities built-in support for 3D graphics which enables users to share and capture their separate 3D videos and experience 3D HD content, this can be grab only with the help of 3D glasses.

LG G-Slate is armed with  5-megapixel camera for photos and a 2-megapixel, front-facing camera for video chat , 8.9-inch WXGA (1280 × 720 pixels) 3D-capable multi-touch display, T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network or WiF connectivity and also 1080p HD video capture capabilities,
The new LG G-Slate features 32GB of internal memory, Adobe Flash support, Dual core 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, with Accelerometer and Adaptive Lighting sensors for the final gaming experience.

The new Honeycomb operating system in the LG G-Slate helps users to access Google Maps 5.0 with 3D communication and also helps in accessing more than 3 million eBooks, Google Talk with voice chat and video and also includes many more latest features.

Finally, if the rumors are true we will be having the long awaited T-Mobile G-Slate and G2x on April 20th.

Stay tuned to know more updates on T-Mobile G-Slate and G2x!

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Apple iPad 2 Start Shipping for Online Orders

Posted on 14 March 2011 by Ronald

The first arrival for the primary orders appears like happening on 17th March 2011, the Apple iPad 2 look like to be right on schedule. Folks at Mac rumor have drained awareness on their discussion forums, where users have posted about first orders starting to ship.

Shipment announcement, that talk of Verizon and Wi-Fi models delivering first make us think about the iPad 2 units. They are fast on their way to customer hands. As you all know, the device had rolled out last Friday amidst much big deal.

Even as users in the United States were in two intellect and dilemma whether to grab new iPad 2 or wait for Apple iPad 3 to come in the market, we gave already given you eight tremendous reasons as to why the iPad 2 is a buyable tablet in the current scenario.

Fans who have already taken the suggestion appear to have gone for the Apple iPad 2 devices, and they will receive the package any time soon.

One of the users posted in the forum that the Ordered my iPad 2 3G 16GB for VZ at 4 am EST, and he just got his FedEx tracking number, now that’s been encouraging. However, those who unsuccessful to order their new iPad 2 device early will have to wait 3-4 weeks before shipments begin.

Finally, it is great news for all online order users to grab their new Apple iPad 2.

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