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Samsung Galaxy Tab: 7-inch tablet

August 30, 2010 | Hardware | 0 Comments

Okay. Hands up. Does anyone think, that at a screen size of 9.7 inches, the Apple iPad is TOO big? Aparently, a lot of people do. Supporting that assertion, there have been nagging, persistent rumors of a second-generation iPad, with a 7-inch screen. The Taiwan-based, Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News reported last Tuesday that the new model will be 28% lighter, down to 500 grams, from 700, and will ...

Apple TV becoming iTV?

August 12, 2010 | Apple | 2 Comments

Disclaimer: This is SO a rumor, but the rumors have been circulating for-e-vah, so, lets dip our toes in the speculation pond! The current dimensions of the rumor are: An iPhone 4 hardware-based (A4 CPU, 16GB of flash storage) device, running an incarnation of Apple's iOS software, with applications in the iPhone/iPad metaphor, and (in the time-honoured Apple tradition) tied into an iTunes-type service, so that users can stream/rent/buy movies ...

Hurricane warning: Due Q1-2011

August 11, 2010 | Hardware | 0 Comments

Back in April, when HP bought Palm, we opined that the main reason was probably the wicked good WebOS, that Palm had been wasting on ag-shame hardware. Since then, the rumors of a WebOS-fueled tablet computer from HP have been going round, and round, and round... The latest version comes apparently from no less than HP themselves. Seems that yesterday, in an internal all-hands meeting, Personal Systems Group VP, ...

New Kindle: Smaller, Lighter, Cheaper

August 3, 2010 | Hardware | 1 Comments

Amazon, that pioneering ecommerce giant, has taken it's third step along the path of changing the way in which the world consumes the written word. Speaking at the company's new South Lake Union headquarters, Ian Freed, vice president of Kindle for Amazon, demonstrated (video link) the new, smaller, lighter version. So, what's the new stuff? Is there a hint of the ...

Is this the death of the desktop mouse?

July 29, 2010 | Apple | 0 Comments

I've said it before, but it bears saying again: Apple's trackpads are simply full of awesome. They are the stuff that other PC-makers dream of, and aspire to. Matched by innovative software and cleverly cross-pollinated from bred-in Touch devices like the iPhone, Apple’s trackpads are the gold-standard to be measured against. Now that awesome is not only for laptop owners. Announced yesterday, together with a complete iMac line rev, ...