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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


LG Miracle Windows Phone Smartphone Leaked

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 08:24 AM PST

It looks like LG has another Windows Phone smartphone in the works, the device will come with Windows Phone 7.5 and is codenamed the LG Miracle, and it features a 4 inch WVGA multi-touch display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

It looks like the 4 inch display on the LG Miracle will be one of LG’s NOVA display, and the handset will be powered by a single core 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

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Nokia Lumia 800 Launching In The US February 14th

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 07:31 AM PST

The Nokia Lumia 800 has been on sale in Europe for a while now, and according to the guys over at the Verge, the Nokia Lumia 800 will land in the US on the 14th of February.

According to the report, the Lumia 800 will be available SIM free from Microsoft stores, for $899 and it will come bundled with a number of different accessories.

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Instragram Headed To Android Soon?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:52 AM PST

Instagram is one of the most popular applications on Apple’s iOS devices, Instagram is used by more than 14 million people around the world, and the apps developers announced back in December that they were working on Instagram for Android.

Now it would appear that we could be getting close to the launch of Instagram for Android, and the app is reported to launch on Google’s Android market very soon.

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Apple’s Siri Makes Up 25 Percent Of Wolfram Alpha Searches

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 06:41 AM PST

Apple’s Siri was launched with the iPhone 4S last October, and it looks like Siri now makes up around 25 percent of all the searches performed on Wolfram Alpha.

When you ask Siri a question, depending on what type of question you ask it, many of the answers will come from Wolfram Alpha, if you ask Siri the time, you will get an answer direct from Siri, but if you ask it a more complex question then Wolfram Alpha will provide the answer.

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Google Augmented Reality Glasses Arriving Soon?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:58 AM PST

The 9to5 Google website has revealed this week that Google’s new augmented reality glasses could be arriving very soon. Providing users that wear the new “Google Goggles” as they have been dubbed. Information as they walk along provided by Google location services and Google’s stored information. A source has now revealed to the 9to5Google website that the new Google glasses look similar to Oakleys Thumps glasses and are equipped with a front a facing camera.

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Verizon To Offer Droid RAZR And Droid RAZR MAXX Two For One This Friday

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:50 AM PST

We heard earlier that Verizon will be launching the Motorola Droid 4 this Friday, the 10th of February, the handset will retail for $199.99 when you sign up to a new two year contract for the carrier.

It looks like Verizon will also be offering a two for one deal on the Motorola Droid RAZR and the new Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, which is basically the RAZR with a larger capacity battery.

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Lumia 710 Call Disconnect Bug Confirmed, Fix To Be Ready Soon

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:41 AM PST

Nokia disclosed that it is working on a fix for a certain bug reported by some Lumia 710 Windows Phone users wherein a call does not end even after hanging up.

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Apple Could End Up Paying $38 Million For Using iPad Name In China

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:39 AM PST

The trademark for the name ‘iPad’ in China isn’t owned by Apple, and the company is currently engaged in a lawsuit with Proview, who own the trademark in China.

Proview sold a number of ‘iPad’ trademarks to Apple in other countries, although they maintain that they never sold the iPad trademark to Apple in China, and it could end up costing Apple around $38 million.

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Wolfram Alpha Launches Premium Membership Packages

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:35 AM PST

Wolfram Alpha the online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages, and which was developed by Wolfram Research. Has this week launched a number of premium packages for users.

The new Wolfram Alpha packages have been created for pros and students, with the new pro deal costing $4.99 a month or $2.99 if you’re a student. The new packages will launch tomorrow and bring with them a number of new features.

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Apple Were Considering ARM Processors For Macs

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:20 AM PST

There have been rumors before that Apple may be switching their processors from Intel to ARM, and now we have some confirmation that Apple has at least considered the move.

The news comes from an intern who interned at Apple back in 2010 and is now an Apple employee, the intern worked for twelve weeks to get OS X working with ARM processors.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Detailed, 20GB, Muse, Edge, Lightroom 4, Photoshop Touch Apps And More

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:15 AM PST

Adobe has this week unveiled more details on its new $49.99 a month Creative Cloud. Which has been designed to enable you to enjoy creativity from any location, using online applications and cloud based storage for your files.

The new Adobe Creative Cloud service has also been created to provide a content creative service available for less than it costs to purchase the fully blown CS license which might be a little too pricey for some.

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Saunders Divulges BlackBerry App World Downloads

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 05:03 AM PST

The BlackBerry DevCon Europe has become the perfect place for RIM’s VP for developer relations, Alec Saunders, to rectify a misconception about BlackBerry smartphones and its App World.

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Toshiba AT200 Android Tablet Lands In The UK For £399

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:57 AM PST

The Toshiba AT200 Android tablet was announced a while back, and the device is now available in the UK for £399 for the 16GB model and £449 for the 32GB model.

Toshiba is calling the AT200 the worlds thinnest 10.1 inch tablet, the device measures just 0.3 inches thick and it weighs in at under 1.2 pounds and comes with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, although Toshiba have said that they will release an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the tablet in the future.

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Sandboxed Adobe Flash Player Option Coming To Firefox

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:52 AM PST

Adobe’s Flash player technology has been taking a battering over the last few years, after Apple started not installing it on their new iOS devices, together with a number of security issues related to Adobe’s Flash Player. Now a number of developers are working with Adobe to sandbox its Flash Player to add extra protection for users.

Now Mozilla and their Firefox browser are now looking to join those developers and Adobe is currently working on a sandboxed Firefox version for Vista and Windows 7. Sandboxing technology has proven very effective in protecting users by increasing the cost and complexity of authoring effective exploits.

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Sony PS Vita Portable Charging Accessories Detailed

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:35 AM PST

Sony Japan has resealed details of its new charging accessories which have been created to compliment its new Sony PS Vita gaming console. The new chargers include a new car adapter that will be available from march 22nd in Japan for around $20 or ¥1,500. That will enable you to use juice from your cars lighter socket. Together with a new portable charge enabling you to carry extra juice for your console with you.

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Lenovo ThinkPad Android 4.0 ICS Update Coming In May

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:21 AM PST

Lenovo recently announced that they would be releasing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for their ThinkPad tablet, and now we have some more information on the update.

It looks like Lenovo will be releasing Android 4.0 ICS for the ThinkPad in May, although they have not as yet given an exact release date in may on when the update will be available.

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Microsoft Flight 2012 Launching February 29th

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:19 AM PST

Gaming aviators looking forward to the launch of Microsoft Flight 2012 will be pleased to know that its launch date has now been revealed as February 29th 2012 by Microsoft on their Major Nelson Twitter account.

The new Microsoft Flight 2012 game will be launched as a free game to download and play, providing you with Hawaii as a map to fly around. If you then fancy a little more space to explore other areas are available at extra cost to purchase. Watch a demo of the new Microsoft Flight software in action after the break.

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Motorola Droid 4 Lands 10th February

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 04:03 AM PST

We recently heard that Verizon would be launching the Motorola Droid 4 this Thursday the 9th of February, it looks like the Droid 4 will now launch on Friday the 10th of February.

The Motorola Droid 4 will be available for $199 when you sign up to a new two year contract with Verizon Wireless, and the device comes with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread.

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Nokia Belle Update Released For N8, X7 And More

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:44 AM PST

Nokia has announced that they have started rolling out the Nokia Belle update to their latest Nokia Symbian smartphones, and the update is being released for a number of devices today.

Nokia devices which will receive the Nokia Belle update include the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia C6-01 and the Nokia C7, they have also said that the Nokia 500 will also get the Nokia Belle update within the next few weeks.

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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Character Trailer Released (video)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:26 AM PST

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is an upcoming 2012 third-person shooter video game co-developed by Slant Six Games and Capcom. Even though may not be as big as the recently announced Resident Evil 6 game in development will still bring with plenty for Resident Evil fans worldwide.

The new Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City game takes place during the events of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, within Raccoon City. There are six playable characters in the game: Vector, Beltway, Spectre, Four Eyes, Lupo and Bertha. Watch the new character video after the jump to see the roles in action.

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Raspberry PI To Go On Sale By End Of February

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:20 AM PST

We heard back in January that the Raspberry PI had gone into production, and now it looks like the $35 computer will go on sale some time at the end of February.

The guys over at Raspberry PI have announced that the first batch of computers will be finished by the 20th of February, and they will go on sale in the UK by the end of the month.

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Cyroscope Haptic Weathervane Provides You With The Feel of Tomorrows Weather (video)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:13 AM PST

There are plenty of devices on the market that will help you see what tomorrows weather will be, but not that many that allow you to feel what tomorrows weather will be like.Now a new concept is being developed called the Cryoscope that has been designed to enable you to feel tomorrows weather with your fingertips.

The new Cryoscope Haptic Weathervane has been created by Robb Godshaw, an industrial design student at Rochester Institute of Technology. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Motorola Wants 2.5 Percent Of Apple Sales For Patent License

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 03:05 AM PST

Motorola and Apple are currently involved in a court case in Germany which saw Apple remove its 3G enabled devices from sale on Friday for a short period, the device in question which included the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 3G went back on sale after Apple managed to appeal the injunction.

Now some details have been revealed by Foss Patents, on what Motorola wants from Apple in order to license the patents in question to them, 2.25 percent of Apple sales.

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Netbook Navigator NAV10T Dual Core Atom N570 Windows Tablet Launched

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:37 AM PST

This week Netbook Navigator has launched a new Windows tablet to their range which is equipped with a 10.1 inch 1366 x 768 Capacitive LCD display. The new Netbook Navigator NAV10T is powered by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 dual core processor, supported by 2GB of DDR3 800MHz memory. Internal memory is provided via a solid state disk that can be increased up to 128GB depending on your storage requirements.

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Canon ELPH Series 530 and 320, D20 And SX260 Compact Cameras Unveiled

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:14 AM PST

Canon has introduce a new series of compact cameras to their ELPH series range in the form of the ELPH 530 and 320. The new Canon compact cameras have been designed to use a complimentary iOS application developed by Canon called the CameraWindow.

Canon CameraWindow enables users to quickly view and transfer photography wirelessly. Canon says that support for Android devices will be arriving in May later this year. As far as specifications go the ELPH 530 HS which will be priced at around $349.99 when it arrives in April. Is equipped with a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor, 12x optical zoom lens, together with the same DIGIC 5 image processor.

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Nokia 801 Symbian Belle Smartphone Leaked?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:08 AM PST

It looks like we may have some information on a new Symbian Belle smartphone from Nokia, the Nokia 801, which you can see in the photo below, and the device is reported to come with a 4 inch AMOLED ClearBlack multi-touch display.

Other rumored specifications include a 640 x 360 resolution display, a 1.4GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and a 12 megapixel camera with a dual LED flash that can record full high definition video in 1080p.

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White Nokia Lumia 900 Leaked?

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:37 AM PST

Yesterday Nokia announced that they would be launching a white Nokia Lumia 800, with the announcement of the new Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia posted some photos of the device to their Facebook page.

It would appear that someone at Nokia made a mistake, and instead of posting photos of the white Nokia Lumia 800, the photos were actually of a white Nokia Lumia 900 which has yet to be announced.

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Nikon D800 Full Frame DSLR Gets Official

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:09 AM PST

We have been hearing rumors about the Nikon D800 DSLR for the last couple of months, we recently saw some leaked photos and now Nikon has made the D800 official.

The Nikon D800 features a 36.3 megapixel FX-format (35.9 x 24mm) sensor, plus a new EXPEED 3 image processing engine and a 91K-pixel RGB sensor and a 51 point auto-focus system.

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HTC Ville Poses For The Camera

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:23 AM PST

We have already seen some leaked renders of the new HTC Ville, and we recently saw a video of the device, now we have some more photos of the yet to be announced HTC Android device.

The photos show that the HTC Sense is running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, plus HTC’s new custom user interface, HTC Sense 4.0, something which we saw in the video previously.

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Apple’s HDTV Being Tested By Rogers And BCE?

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:15 PM PST

According to the Globe and Mail, two companies already have Apple’s new HDTV in their labs, and are testing out the devices, the companies in question are Canada’s Rogers Communications and BCE Inc.

The report says that the HDTV has some of the features we have previously heard rumored, Apple’s Siri and hands gestures are apparently used to control the device.

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