Nokia N900 is now Official

The Nokia N900 (a.k.a. “Rover”) internet tablet goes official. The new smart phone of the NSeries was announced as an official product of Nokia this month. It is one of the first Nokia mobile phones packed with a Linux-based OS, the Maemo.

Here are some of the details of the new Nokia N900:

• 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display
• 800 × 480 pixel resolution
• Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology
• 5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels)
• Dual LED flash
• Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key
• Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)
• Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263
• Maemo media player
• Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a

The new Nokia N900 will be available soon this year. You can visit the Nokia N900 official page here: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

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Nokia Launches Nokia Booklet 3G

For so many years, Nokia has been the leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world. It brought the whole world to new paradise of greater mobile phones. And now, after the news of partnership of Nokia with Intel and Microsoft, Nokia finally reveals their entry to the Notebook competition, the Nokia Booklet 3G.

Yes, Nokia now has a notebook, not a huge mobile phone, but a wonderful and sleek notebook. As of now, Nokia gave a handful information about the Nokia Booklet 3G. It was powered by Intel Atom processor,  sleek at a 10-inch display, built-in HSDPA wireless connectivity, Bluetooth, and only weighs 1.25kg. This 2cm thin Nokia Booklet 3G will be officially announced at Nokia World 2009 this coming September 2-3, 2009 which will be held at Stuttgart, Germany.

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Sony Announced It’s New PS3 Slim

After so many rumors and speculations popped out, the slim version of PS3 was finally revealed. Sony just announced the much awaited PS3 Slim at a German gaming convention last Tuesday, and made it official by releasing more details, and some nice price cuts, too. The features of the old PS3 was inherited by the Slim, but the new PS3 Slim is 33% smaller, 36% lighter and using 34% less power and also has a 120GB hard drive.

The new PS3 Slim will be out soon in North America and Europe with a price tag of $299 and €299, respectively, this coming September. But the old PS3 price drops too, with a $299 price tag.

Here are some photos of the new PS3 Slim:

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Sleek New Verbatim InSight USB HDD

Verbatim is a US company that manufactures different PC hardwares or peripherals over the past 40 years. But then, it doesn’t get the top 1 of hardware vendors because of huge names of Imation and Seagate companies blocking its way. But now, the spotlight changes and turns itself to Verbatim.

Verbatim’s InSight is a sleek, stylish and sexy back USB HDD and a total head-turner. It is a perfect companion for your fashionista laptop, too. The InSight contains a 2.5-inch magnetic platter spinning at 5,400rpm with 8MB cache and weighs under 160g. It connects via USB 2.0 and comes with Nero BackItUp Essentials for easy backups of your precious files. And the great thing here is its nicely placed 32 x128-pixel display. It constantly shows the free space of your lovely HDD even it is disconnected in your PC.

Verbatims InSight USB HDD comes with 320GB and 500GB sizes, and will be available in U.S. for US$119.99 and US$149.99, respectively, with a 5-year warranty btw.

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Another Dolce&Gabanna Phone from Sony Ericsson

Dolce&Gabanna phone first released by Motorola, the Motorola Razr V3i DG. It is a gold Motorola Razr V3i with exquisite accessories. And now, Sony Erricson stole the runway, here comes Sony Erricsson Jalou.

Sony Ericsson Jalou (also known as Bao) was announced recently by Sony Ericsson. With Jalou’s delicate facet-cut diamond shape design, this will be a sure hit for fashionable people. The outer face is not the only feature of this phone, it is loaded with oh-so-good features. Here are the complete specs from Sony Ericsson:

Camera

• 3.2 megapixel camera
• 3.2x digital zoom (up to)
• Geo tagging
• Photo feeds
• Photo fix
• Send to web
• Video light
• Video recording

Music

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

Web

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

Communication

• Call list
• Conference calls
• Speakerphone
• Vibrating alert
• Video calling (main camera)

Messaging

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

Design

• Auto rotate
• Media
• Picture wallpaper
• Wallpaper animation

Entertainment

• 3D games
• FM radio with RDS
• Java™
• Motion gaming
• Video streaming
• Video viewing
• Walk Mate step counter
• YouTube™ application

Organiser

• Alarm clock
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Flight mode
• Notes
• Phone book
• Stopwatch
• Tasks
• Timer

Connectivity

• A-GPS (US only)
• Bluetooth™ technology
• Google Maps™
• Modem
• Synchronization
• USB mass storage
• USB support

Accessories

In box:

• Sony Ericsson Jalou
• Battery
• Charger
• Stereo
• Portable handsfree
• User documentation

Facts

• Size: 73 x 45 x 18.2 mm
• Weight: 84 grams
• Jalou by Dolce&Gabanna Colours:
  Sparkling Rose
• Jalou Colours:
  Onyx Black, Aquamarine Blue, Deep Amethyst
• Main Screen:
• Type: 262,144 colour TFT
• Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA)
• Size: 2.0 inches
• External screen:
• Type: Monochrome LCD
• Resolution: 128 x 36 pixels
• Size: 1.3 inches
• Phone memory: Up to 100 MB
• Memory card support: SanDisk microSD™
• Talk time GSM: Up to 7 hrs
• Standby time GSM: Up to 350 hrs
• Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs 30 min
• Standby time UMTS: Up to 250 hrs
• Video call time: Up to 2 hrs

Jalou and Jalou by Dolce&Gabanna is a great phone indeed. This phone by D&G will be available soon worldwide but not in Asia.

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NBA2K10 – The Next #1 NBA Game

The 2K Sports’ NBA2K9 video game was claimed as the no. 1 NBA video game in the world (based on the Gamerankings.com and NPD data). NBA2K9 was a huge success in the gaming industry. And now, 2K Sports finally revealed 2K9’s big brother, NBA 2K10.

In 2K Sports’ website, they already claimed that the upcoming NBA 2K10 game is the #1-rated and #1-selling NBA video game. And the NBA 2K10 cover-candidate was revealed, too, featuring Kobe Bryant.

Here are some screenshots of NBA 2K10 from the website of 2K Sports:

(Photo credit: 2K Sports)

As of now, 2K Sports announced that NBA 2K10: Draft Combine video game, for NBA 2K fans. This game will be launched in September but in a download-only scheme.

NBA 2K10 is a great game to wait. Watch out for the release of the full NBA 2K10 video game.

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Friendster’s Tribute for Philippine’s Pres. Corazon Aquino

Friendster, one of the leading social networking sites in the world wide web, gave a tribute for Philippine’s former president, Pres. Corazon Aquino, who died this month. The death of Philippine’s former president made huge volume of buzzes from Yahoo! homepage, to various blogs around the world. It was a big news indeed.

Friendster has been very close to the Filipino people, because huge number of its users came from the Philippines. And every struggles, crisis, and other occurrences in this country really affects this social networking site.

And as a tribute to the Philippine’s former president, Pres. Corazon “Cory” Aquino, they made portrait images of Cory and posted it on user’s homepage. They also made a fan page for Pres. Cory, which, as of now, has 166,000 fans. 

It is very touching, that a foreign web company made a tribute on our “kababayan” (fellow citizen).

And as a Filipino, I would like to thank Friendster, for being such a nice company for us, and for our “Icon of Democracy”, our beloved President Corazon Aquino.

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CTA’s Steering Wheel for iPhone Racing Games

 

(Photo credit: CTA Digital)

iPhone is a celebrity. It made the world amazed by its features. And one of its amazing features is its gaming possibilities. iPhone generally uses Acceleromoter for controls in most of the games. In racing games, you’ll use Accelerometer to control your car, too. So if you’re very eager to raise your very low ranking in racing games, use CTA’s steering wheel for racing games in iPhone/iPhone 3GS or iPod touch.

CTA’s steering wheel for iPhone design is great because it doesn’t block the whole iPhone so you can still touch the buttons displayed on the touchscreen (as seen on the image at the left).  It is made up of plastic and sanps onto your iPhone or iPod touch.

CTA’s steering wheel for iPhone has no exact price yet, but the price can be US$19.99 which is similar to CTA’s steering wheel for Wii.

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World’s First Robot fashion show in osaka, japan

Japan is obsessed in developing robots. And now, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) created HRP-4C-san for a fashion show, marking another story in the history.

Designer Yumi Katsura's wedding dress was worn by this humanoid robot and walked on the 10-meter runway with the beat of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean in Osaka, Japan. And there’s more, this robot said "I've put on a wedding dress for the first time. I'm very happy today to wear this dress by Yumi Katsura."

Here’s a video from Youtube featuring HRP-4C known as, the supermodel robot:

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The New Samsung M1 and R1 Media Players

(Photo Credit: Samsung)

Samsung officially released its new media players, M1 (in black) and R1 (in pink). But R1 is a total attention-grabber. It's a Nvidia Tegra chip powered media player (that's hot).

The key features of this hot M1 media player are Divx playback, Bluetooth, 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, built-in accelerometer and 1.6W stereo speakers. But Samsung's M1 is too similar to P3 which should be replaced by this new gadget. Anyway, even this cool media player has hot features, it's still incomplete. Why? M1 doesn't sport a Wi-Fi connectivity. Almost everyone demands for a wi-fi connectivity and why Samsung didn't include it in their new media players? Well, we can't answer that as of now. But, hey, these media players rocks.

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Rumored Apple Tablet Expected to be Announced in September

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Apple has been one of the greatest gadget makers in the whole world. They created gadgets which can be seen everywhere. Ipods, Iphones, Macbooks, cool gadgets indeed. And now, to add another "cool" gadget in Apple's line up, the rumor says, here comes the Apple tablet.

There was a rumor that Apple will enter the battle of netbooks. And as their entry for this battle, they'll create their own netbook. But some says, netbook is not a plan for Apple, but a "tablet PC" is on their minds.

An unknown analyst claims that he saw and touched the Apple's new pride. With great movie experience and a potential game console, it will be a sure hit. Its looks is very stunning, and looks like a jumbo iPod touch.

Rumor says, that this Apple tablet will be announced in September and be released in November with a price tag between US$699 and US$799.

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