Tech and Amusing Stuff

Via eprice.com.tw

• 50% smaller than the original.
• “NoiseAssassin” technology, a followup on the noise canceling tech of the original.
• Faster processor on board to handle heavier signal processing duties for canceling out ambient noises better and faster.
• It can charge up 80% of its capacity in 30 minutes.
• 4 hours of talk time and 8 days of standby.
• Available now.
• $130 at AT&T retail stores and online at Jawbone’s site.

Via Engadget

We’ve seen lots and lots of pictures of the “rumored” BlackBerry 9000 but RIM has finally announced it, here’s the specs:

• HSDPA and EV-DO versions
• 480 x 320 display
• 624-MHz Marvell Tavor PXA930 processor.
• 1GB internal flash memory
• 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (with A2Dp), GPS, MicroSDHC
• 480 x 320 video recording, photo geotagging
• 4.5 x 2.6 x 0.55-inches, 4.7 ounces
• Taller and wider than the Curve.
• Interchangable color back plates.
• Pricing in the $300-$500 range with a carrier.
• Launching on AT&T “this summer.”

Via Engadget

• Windows Mobile 6.1
• VGA Screen
• Quad-band HSDPA 7.2
• One-touch navigation, including single-finger dialing
• An accelerometer that rotates pictures as you rotate the phone
• One-touch music playback with an animated music browser
• A heavily-animated weather forecast app
• Full-featured desktop-like web browser (Opera) with zoom-in tech that actually reformats to fit the screen upon zoom, although Microsoft promises IE 6 coming soon for it
• Youtube app and content playback
• Available in June in Europe via Orange and the “rest of the world” sometime later
• Orange music store, games, wallpapers, and ringtone downloads
• Orange mobile TV with up to 61 channels
• No normal headphone jack - gotta use HTC’s proprietary USB dongle
• “Better battery life” than their other devices, will offer a bigger battery at a later time for those who are experiencing battery life issues
• No pricing info just yet

Via Engadget

This is the BlackBerry Kickstart, the first ever clamshell phone coming out of RIM. The phone sports a Pearl-like keyboard, trackball navigation, and apparently utilizes both an internal and external LCD screen. No word on specs, carriers, or a release date, but Boy Genius Report says it will be coming out “within the year” so we don’t have long until we see this puppy out.

Via BGR

• Gold, Pink, or Silver.
• 1.3 megapixel camera.
• Media player.
• Full-screen video playback.
• 10MB onboard memory (LAME!!!).
• microSD card support.
• Probably not coming to the U.S.

Via AVING

Gizmodo got their hands on the Samsung Instinct, Sprint’s answer to the iPhone, and they weren’t really impressed, the phone does not have an accelerometer, it lacks multi-touch technology, it has 3G but on this particular handset the connection seemed very slow. Other features include: haptic feedback, visual voicemail, and a music store.

It’s hard to say how well (or bad) it’ll do once it comes out in June, but we’ll keep you informed on any updates.

Via Gizmodo

Despite what Steve Jobs said last week, Adobe is still planning to develop a Flash player for the iPhone. Whether it will be nicely integrated with Safari or it will be it’s own browser (which Apple will be rejecting i’m sure) is still up in the air.

Here’s a quote from the Chief Executive of Adobe:

“We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone. We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”

We’ll see what Steve-o has to say about that statement….

Via Engadget

• Small touchscreen PDA phone.
• 1.3 MP camera.
• EDGE (booo!!!).
• Bluetooth 1.2.
• microSd slot.
• AT&T’s push to talk
• 100 bucks!!

Via infoSync

“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times during this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…..”

Via AppleInsider <— story continues

• 3-inch VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display.
• 3.2 megapixel camera.
• A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and microSD.
• 400 MB of onboard memory.
• 4-way key and optical joystick.
• Windows Mobile 6.

Via technabob

• 2.8 inch QVGA display.
•  5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens.
• 3.5mm headphone jack.
• A2DP, WiFi, AGPS.
• N-Gage interface.
• Will not support American 3G networks (just EDGE).
• 3rd quarter at €550 (about $797).

Via Engadget