HTC is brining the new model HTC Touch 2 to Indian market. After the much popular HTC Magic and HTC Hero, the Touch2 would be almost like Touch 3G. However the Touch 2 is loaded with Windows Mobile 6.5 and would be available with Reliance GSM connection. The offer says you can have free data usage upto 200 MB every month for next 6 months.
Pricced at Rs. 24,490, HTC Touch 2 has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 CPU. It is equipped with 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM. It has a 2.8 inch touchscreen and a 3.2 MP camera. It also has Microsoft Exchange along with My Phone backup support.
On Thursday, Microsoft confirmed the prices for its new line of Zune HD media players making it crystal clear that it is in competition with its rival Apple iPod by costing it lower than them. The price of the Zune HD is $219.99 for a 16GB unit and $289.99 for the 32GB version.
From Thursday onwards even pre orders for the media players also have started by the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant and consumers can order at Amazon.com, Best Buy, Walmart and Microsoft. Microsoft said in a statement, that deliveries of the new Zune will begin Sept. 15, the same day the players become available for sale in stores. The new devices compete drastically in price as well as design with the iPod Touch.
Microsoft stated in May that the new units will feature a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD) video output capabilities, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch screen, Wi-Fi and an Internet browser.
One analyst says that neither features nor price will attract the iPod faithful, but still some have doubted that Zune’s pricing will be enough to encourage the iPod faithful to abandon their Apple units. Earlier week, the details of the Zune HD’s pricing appeared in a leak reported by tech blog Gizmodo. However, Gizmodo’s information about the actual “General Availability” (GA) date for the units was off by a week.
Amazon had put up briefly and prematurely Zune HD pre-order page that displayed the pricing, earlier this week. But was quickly removed before Gizmodo grabbed a screen capture. Later, Gizmodo also acquired screen shots purportedly from within Best Buy that showed what turned out to be the incorrect GA date. Moreover, there were no comments by the Micrsoft spokesperson.
HTC will be shifting their focus to mid-range smart phones, as announced by chief executive officer Peter Chou today. The company will be focusing on smart phones that come at a $300 price tag. Shipments of HTC’s mid-range smart phones will account for 50-60% of total handset shipments in the second half of this year. It was also announced that the HTC Magic have surpassed one million units in sales since the phone’s launch late April.
This year, Sony unveiled its Vaio P series known as netbook, but Sony disagreed to it and called it a ‘lifestyle PC’. But Vaio P was a big BOO BOO! As the price of it was $1000 too high for a low powered atom processor with a sleek pocket-size design. Leaving it neither a full featured laptop because of the low powered processor and nor a netbook because netbooks due to its price as currently due to recession it does not sell in that price.
Now, it feels as if Sony is on the perfect path with the new release of its Vaio W series, which looks and works like a netbook from all sides.
The new Sony Vaio W netbooks wil be released in mid-August and will have a 10.1″ display. It wil be priced for just $500. The Vaio W series, just like other netbooks will be powered by an Atom processor, 1GB Ram and Windows XP. 160GB although Engadget notes that one should not expect a SSD option.
The W series netbooks will also sport a 1366 x 768 high resolution LED backlit screen that will make browsing web pages easy with no side-to-side scrolling. The series includes SD card slot, webcam built in and for connectivity there is Bluetooth and wifi too although there is no mention about GPS and 3G.
The netbook race is certain to have a tough competition with the new release of Sony. Although price is relatively high than other netbooks in the market, but its SONY brand matters a lot!
Sony Ericsson’s very old news seems to be on June 17, there was this talk about Sony Ericsson announcing its next generation Xperia - the X2. However, the news was a waste as Sony Ericsson hastily cancelled the event of the launch because Samsung (as usual) dropped a bombshell in the form of the Omnia 2 that made Xperia X2’s look low.
Sony Ericsson seems determined to expand its XPERIA mobile phone series and is now reported to have plans of launching no more than three new devices that will fit into the family. The three new upcoming devices are named XPERIA X2, X3 and X5 have been announced to be launched in near future. There were rumors of it to be launched officially on July 17.
XPERIA family is not only adding member to it, but it feels as if it will be expanding to more operating systems than Microsoft’s Windows Mobile that came along with the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. The new X2 is preferably on the same platform as X1, yet the X5 is suppose to be newly unveiled Rachael, should come to the market with Android.
The upcoming X3 is reported to be an interesting device as it is reported to be none other than the also recently spotted Sony Ericsson Kiki, which will come to the shelves with a transparent display. There is no X4 in the series yet. The information about the device is unfortunately limited to this. Yet, in case the company is indeed set to announce the handsets as soon as rumored, it won’t be long before more info will be obtained.
The news of the near launch was reveled through Twitter, UnwiredView reports, and no exact details on what the company has in store for us have been unveiled, yet we’re pretty sure that the hopes of a lot of enthusiasts out there are high already. Rachael is not the only one most interesting Android handsets in the market, considering the interface it is expected to come with, but Kiki might also become a popular phone, for its design seems rather mysterious, with no visible buttons on the face cover.
As per the recent report, hoping ride a recent surge in movies and TV shows filmed in 3-D, Acer Inc. plans to release a notebook PC this fall equipped with a 15.6-inch 3-D screen.
Campbell Kan, vice president of Acer’s mobile computing unit, told the Taiwanese magazine, Digitimes on Monday that the notebook will have built-in software that can correctly display 3-D movies but also convert regular 2-D movies into 3-D.
A request for confirmation with Acer officials in the U.S. was not returned immediately. Acer is not the first company to offer 3-D-enabled notebooks. Sharp Corp. released its Actius RD3D notebook with nearly identical 3-D rendering capabilities in 2003.
Biotech researchers, car designers and architects are the targets for the Actius RD3D. But unfortunately, it was discontinued within few years of time span even within that specialized business audience it did not work out.
In the year 2006, 3-D laptop was panned by sister magazine PC World as being hard on the eyes and for being one of the 25 worst tech products of all time for its poor 3-D effects. Acer notebook is expected to have a better chance to work apparently aimed at a consumer audience.
Lots of Hollywood movies were filmed in 3-D released in last three years, which includes, animated movies such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Bolt, Chicken Little and Up, action-heavy or gory movies such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, My Bloody Valentine and Scar, and concert films such as U2 3D and Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert.
Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, directors and many more directors of Hollywood have given their support in 3-D films. Recently, number of network TV shows and commercials broadcast has also been in 3-D. TVs with 3-D screen are also built by the consumer electronics companies like Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Technnologies Inc.
Kan said, “Users of Acer’s first-generation notebook will still need to wear stereoscopic glasses for the 3-D to be effective, though future models should be able to show the content in 3-D without special glasses”. Kan said that the notebook will ship with Windows 7 and be available at the end of October. Prices and names still remains mystery.
Google’s debut web browser, Chrome, exited its beta form back in December of last year and now the company is ready to release version 2.0 of the software.
Included above is an informational video released by Google detailing the changes featured in version 2.0. As you can see, the feature list isn’t exactly extensive with the video showcasing the ability to remove thumbnails, go into a new full screen mode and use the new auto correct feature.
Thin is certainly in and this has been articulately imbibed by HP India. It recently launched the ultra-thin HP Pavilion dv2 notebook PC in the Indian market. The size zero notebook is merely 1-inch thin and weighs a mere 1.64 kgs.
It is equipped with 12.1-inch LED backlit widescreen display; the notebook sports a glossy finish in Espresso Black and Moonlight White. It houses a 12.1-inch diagonal HP Bright View display in a sturdy magnesium-alloy case.
Diptesh Ghosh, category head, consumer notebook, HP Personal Systems Group (PSG) India said, “This is a perfect notebook meant for consumers who value a mix of mobility, entertainment, and productivity at a competitive price.”
The other features include AMD Athlon Neo processor, ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics and optional ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 discrete graphics. HD playback is packed in through external Blu-Ray optical drive.
In addition to this, the notebook also supports optional built-in WWAN for wireless connectivity and includes an HP Webcam and integrated microphone. The notebook packs Windows Vista Home Premium and has 320GB HDD 5400 rpm SATA and 4GB DDR2 SDRAM. It is priced at Rs 37,490 plus taxes and HP claims that the notebook offers 6-8 hours of battery life.
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1 might be already common place in many countries globally, but it’s not in Korea - yet. Sony Ericsson will be launching the Xperia X1 smartphone in Korea with SK Telecom, which will no doubt bring smiles of joy to the Sony Ericsson fans who reside in Korea.
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