Filed under: Laptops
We’ve been fans of Samsung laptops ever since we laid hands (and personal cash) on the ultra-portable Q30 resold by Dell as the X1. As such, Sammy has our full attention after announcing proper plans to enter the US market with five different Samsung-branded laptop models. Slated for sale at US big box and the usual brick-and-mortarless on-line shops are the 10-inch NC10, the 13.3-inch Q310 and X360, 14-inch X460 and P460, 15.4-inch P560, and 16-inch R610 slab with 16:9 aspect — a silicon feast spread across thin and light, all purpose, business, desktop replacement, and netbook tastes. We’re talking premium rigs here folks, a bold move with very questionable timing given the sudden shortage of discretionary capital held by the average Dusty McSixpack. Hit the read link for full specs and prices.
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The N96 is only just cooling on the shelves and the Nokia Tube barely exists beyond some official press pics and hands-on impressions, but it looks there’s something else on the horizon to get even more excited about. A Nokia exec has let slip that a touchscreen Nseries handset is already in the pipeline.
Devinder Kishore, Nokia India’s Director of Marketing, revealed during a press event that “[Nokia] will have lots of touchscreen phones coming up, including an Nseries device very soon.”
That new Nseries handset might be the N97, seeing as the N96, successor to the N95, has just been launched. Unfortunately, that same logic can also be used to calculate that we’ll be waiting until late 2009 / early 2010 to get our mitts on it.
Fortunately Cellpassion.mobi, the website which broke the story, reckons that it might be out considerably sooner than that though. It puts a loose date of early 2009 on the phone handset.
We have yet to get our hands on Nokia’s debut S60 touchscreen handset for a proper road test. But given how many phone manufacturers have struggled to nail their touchscreen interfaces down to Apple-like precision, we’re keeping sceptical hats firmly on. But even if it does fail to live up to expectations, a follow-on touchscreen Nseries would benefit from a few extra months polishing the kinks out of the system.
(via UnwiredView)
The N96 is only just cooling on the shelves and the Nokia Tube barely exists beyond some official press pics and hands-on impressions, but it looks there’s something else on the horizon to get even more excited about. A Nokia exec has let slip that a touchscreen Nseries handset is already in the pipeline.
Devinder Kishore, Nokia India’s Director of Marketing, revealed during a press event that “[Nokia] will have lots of touchscreen phones coming up, including an Nseries device very soon.”
That new Nseries handset might be the N97, seeing as the N96, successor to the N95, has just been launched. Unfortunately, that same logic can also be used to calculate that we’ll be waiting until late 2009 / early 2010 to get our mitts on it.
Fortunately Cellpassion.mobi, the website which broke the story, reckons that it might be out considerably sooner than that though. It puts a loose date of early 2009 on the phone handset.
We have yet to get our hands on Nokia’s debut S60 touchscreen handset for a proper road test. But given how many phone manufacturers have struggled to nail their touchscreen interfaces down to Apple-like precision, we’re keeping sceptical hats firmly on. But even if it does fail to live up to expectations, a follow-on touchscreen Nseries would benefit from a few extra months polishing the kinks out of the system.
(via UnwiredView)
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Olympus is betting that you’re the type of person that equates quality and style with
crystal-encrusted consumer electronics. If so, it’s high time you gave that old
Mju 1040 a second look — the limited-edition Mju 1040 Crystal’s pretty much the same 10-megapixel shooter as before, except now it’s adorned with ninety-eight Swarovski elements, rendering the camera suitable for black tie events like cotillions and charity balls. Look for it in the UK market for £175 ($303) at the end of October.
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Filed under: Laptops
Look, we hate to be crude — after all, you won’t find any bigger proponents for bulking up the breast cancer research fund than the team here at Engadget — but Toshiba might have a tough time selling its latest Portégé M800. We mean, just look at it. We’re not exactly sure how it gets off calling this thing “pink,” but the 13.3-inch machine will be sold (or just stocked) exclusively at Best Buy Canada for $799.99. As for specs, you’re looking at a 4.6-pound chassis, 2GHz T3200 CPU, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250GB hard drive, Intel’s GMA4500M integrated graphics, a dual-layer DVD writer, Bluetooth / WiFi and a built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam. $40 of each sale will be contributed to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, though we’d probably recommend picking up something a touch less ugly and just mailing in a donation yourself.
[Via ChipChick]
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Filed under: Laptops
Toshiba’s never been one to really pump out laptops with oodles of sex appeal (a few Portégé machines notwithstanding), and its latest two are decidedly drab. Aimed squarely at business users, the 15.4-inch Satellite Pro S300 and the 14-inch Satellite Pro S300M (shown after the break) both include a 2-year warranty, support for docking, a business card reader, a USB Sleep-and-Charge / eSATA combo port and face recognition software. As for the S300, you can snag it with your choice of a Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 3GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB 5,400 RPM hard drive, dual-layer DVD burner, WiFi / Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Intel’s GMA4500MHD graphics, a built-in webcam / microphone and a 9-cell battery pack; the S300M gives you pretty much the same options but with a smaller screen and chassis. Take your pick, as they’re both available to order right now starting at $899 / $829 in order of mention.
[Via Notebooks]
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Filed under: Laptops
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Latest_Breaking_Macbook_Pro_Pic_for_October_Release’; Well, maybe — we’re not calling it official until Steve pulls the cloth off himself tomorrow morning . Still, there’s no denying the similarities between this image and all those other case leaks we’ve seen, and the list of specs we’ve been given matches up as well — that “metal and glass” enclosure now houses an NVIDIA GPU, but no FireWire 400, and video-out is apparently through a connector “more compact” than MicroDVI. We’ll find out soon enough — oh, and just to amp up expectations, Boy Genius says he’s confirmed the existence of an $899 part number in Apple’s retail systems. Counting down…
Update: Our source just hit us with another pic, this time from the side — it’s after the break. We’re also told that there’s not one, but two NVIDIA GPUs inside — we’re guessing an integrated / discrete setup like in the VAIO Z, but we’ll find out for sure tomorrow.
Update 2: Our source just hit us again to say that it’s two full-on NVIDIA GPUs — wild. Wilder still, they say the MacBook and 17-inch MacBook Pro aren’t getting refreshed tomorrow, which we find hard to believe, but we’ll see when we see.
Continue reading Mr. Blurrycam reveals the updated MacBook Pro, $899 laptop model shows up in Apple inventory systems
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Filed under: Handhelds
Alright kids, it’s time for honesty. Here’s a tidbit your 3rd-grade teacher isn’t about to admit, but he / she and everyone else in the world crams for tests. Sorry, we know you totally believed that each and every noble student dutifully set aside hours per day to prepare for that big final, but in reality, every kid in your classroom just got on the study train a few hours ago. To that end, LeapFrog has concocted a perfectly named study aid dubbed the Crammer ($59.99; available now), which enables kids to “quickly navigate more than 16,000 mathematics, social studies and science quiz questions based on leading school textbooks.” Additionally, students can create customized digital flash cards for on-the-go cramming, and the built-in Spanish translator even gives you an edge in the foreign language department. Seriously, where was this at when we were using abacuses and carving English reports into stone tablets?
[Via PopGadget]
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Filed under: Gaming
Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience has been pored over and dated, but now that Major Nelson has revealed it requires “at least” 128MB storage available to work, where does that leave suckers Core and Arcade SKU Xbox 360 owners? Enter the Xbox 360 Memory Upgrade Program, doling out free 512MB MU’s or $20 20GB HDDs to Core owners, and a $30 20GB HDD + 3 months of Xbox Live package to Arcade owners looking to upgrade. November 19, Xbox Live becomes a storage-only affair (that goes for Netflix streams too, requiring 8MB of free space), so grab your serial number and console ID from the current Xbox 360 Dashboard and hit the registration website. Impressive customer service gesture to extend functionality for all, or more evidence of a short sighted and flawed dual-SKU launch plan that’s cost gamers and developers alike? All we know for sure is we’ve probably figured out where the profits from those $149 120GB HDDs are going.
[Via NeoGAF]
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Filed under: Robots
We caught sight of the very first DARwIn soccer-playing robot
way back when, but the folks at Virginia Tech’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory unsurprisingly haven’t been resting on their laurels all this time, and they’re now out there showing off the bot’s latest incarnation, which they hope will lead ‘em to victory in the next
RoboCup competition. Dubbed the DARwIn IIIx, this one apparently uses some of the same technology developed for Virgina Tech’s DARPA Urban Challenge entry, known as “Odin,” and is a complete redesign over the previous DARwIn IIx model, boasting an improved range of motion and a whole host of software upgrades that promise to improve its perception and let it better adapt to different lighting conditions, among other things. Head on past the break to check out the (unfortunately auto-playing) video.
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