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Automotive Dashboards: Tegra 2, Moblin, Atom

January 14, 2010

Next-generation automotive dashboards will be as technologically advanced as a netbook. Just look at the Lexus LFA’s high-tech display and you’ll get a very good idea of where dashboards of future cars are headed. During CES 2010 there were demonstrations of next-gen dashboards incorporating some advanced computing technologies such as NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 GPU, Moblin, [...]

CES 2010: Toshiba CELL TV

January 13, 2010

POWER: Toshiba’s CELL TV blurs the line between TV and computer with unheard amounts of computing power integrated into an LCD TV. The top end XZ900 Series makes use of the company’s KIRA2 Super Local Dimming LED Display sporting a brightness of 1000 cd/m2, 512 controllable zones (5x that of previous local dimming models), and [...]

CES 2010: LG 15-inch OLED TV

January 11, 2010

LARGEST OLED TV: A TV that’s just 15 inches isn’t much of a TV. Many notebooks are bigger. But the 15-inch TV from LG is not made of a typical LCD. LG showcased its commercially-available and the world’s largest 15-inch OLED TV at CES 2010.
THIN: The major benefit of OLED is thinness. Yes, despite LCD’s [...]

Unbreakable Sonim Breaks

January 11, 2010

Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC’s technology show Click managed to break a Sonim phone, which was touted by the company’s CEO moments ago as “basically unbreakable” and if you do manage to break it you get a free phone. Dan, from what I can tell, was certainly not expecting it to break. Watch the [...]

CES 2010: Sony Cybershot TX7, HX5V

January 9, 2010

The TX7 from Sony sports a 10MP Exmor R CMOS image sensor that takes great low-light pictures (but not-so-great ones when there’s a lot of light). Solid low-light shooting capability is a given for most prosumer digital cameras now, so that’s not big news. This might be: Sony is touting the TX7 to be the [...]

CES 2010 Palm Pre Plus: One More Thing

January 9, 2010

And this is important. The Palm Pre Plus as well as the Pixie Plus will come with a brilliant app called Mobile Hotspot. Think MiFi but built into these two smartphones. Mobile Hotspot supports up to five connected devices at a time. Dang cool. Source: pre|central.net via Daring Fireball

CES 2010 Palm Pre Plus

January 9, 2010

The Plus in the new Palm Pre means 5 things:

Verizon, instead of Sprint.
Snappier slider mechanism.
Clickier keyboard, similar to Pixi.
16GB of storage (8GB more than the original Palm Pre).
No front button.

PALM IS BACK: I was mentally counting out Palm with the recent push from the Android crowd (Nexus One and a whole bunch of other phones), [...]

CES 2010: Samsung 14-inch Transparent OLED Notebook PC

January 9, 2010

THE FUTURE IS HERE: There are two very cool things going on here. First, the transparency of the display: reminds me of the transparent displays used in the movie Avatar, The Matrix and The Minority Report. The second is the fact that this isn’t an ordinary transparent display; it is an OLED display that is [...]

CES 2010: Sony VAIO Z

January 9, 2010

Highlights of the video:

Back-lit Keyboard
SSD
Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System
13.1-inch 16:9 Wide HD Display
Carbon Fiber / Aluminum Chasis
3G Mobile Broadband

The back-lit keyboard and SSD are probably standard features found in higher-end notebook PCs. 3G mobile broadband is thankfully via Verizon Wireless, which means you will not have to worry about whether you will be able to connect [...]

CES 2010: AT&T Network Congestion Hits iPhone Users

January 8, 2010

As reported by The Washington Post:

Kelly Vaughn (Wireless Dealer Magazine, Houston): Spent 15 minutes attempting to refresh email on her iPhone.
Jason Oxman (Senior VP, Consumer Electronics Association): Failed to tweet a question he raised to CTO Aneesh Chopra about spectrum shortages.

SYSTEMATIC: Just two examples of iPhone users getting nowhere, but the problem is systematic throughout [...]


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