micah1 says "get moving" about TomTom – XL 340.S
The TomTom XL340S GPS device boasts a 4.3″ screen. That wide screen makes it a pleasure to view the map and text. Yet, it is small enough to fit into a purse. The map images on the screen are bright and clear, both in daylight and at night. At any given moment, [...]
Verizon rumored to be pushing up LTE plans to Q1 2010, new Apple device the catalyst?
So we already knew Verizon was looking to push LTE out the door and to about 20 to 30 markets in the second half of 2010, but Tech Crunch’s got it on good word that the company’s doing everything in its power to get the service ready to go in a number of areas in [...]
Source: Verizon Hurrying To Launch LTE By Early 2010, Perhaps For Apple
So, it’s looking more and more likely that a large form iPod touch, which we first reported on last December, is coming sometime in the next 6 months. But there are still a lot of unknown variables and question marks. One is the rumored deal Apple is working on with Verizon for such a device. [...]
Microsoft’s Windows 7 gets released to manufacturing
Aw snap, one of the final hurdles on the way to October 22nd has been passed: Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2, too) has been released to manufacturing. A post over on The Windows Blog explains that this build (7600) underwent tons of scruntiny and tweaking before being deemed sufficient for release, and considering [...]
Acer to release one Android, three Winmo handsets this year
By a show of hands, who forgot about that unannounced Acer handset that Mr. BlurryCam spied a few months ago? It’s cool. That phone *might* turn out to be one of the four smartphones Acer still has on tap for this year.
Three of them are Winmo phones – C1/E1, F1 and L1 – but it’s [...]
Rockchip plans on slashing Android phone prices with new RK2808 chipset
Rockchip, already a favorite among dirt cheap, feature-laden PMPs, has its sights set on Android and we couldn’t be happier. The company sees Android’s free nature being the perfect match for the Chinese market, and plans to release its low-cost RK2808 chipset in October to take advantage of that. In addition to Android, Rockchip claims [...]
Microsoft mystery announcement next week prompted Chrome announcement
Omnipresent Net personality Robert Scoble made his name working for Microsoft as a blogger. So it’s credible when Scoble claims that “Microsoft has a big announcement coming on Monday (I’m embargoed).” Google’s Chrome OS announcement did seem a bit odd, in a why-are-they-announcing-this-now sort of way. Let’s see if Microsoft can keep its secret until [...]
Nine Must-Have Features We Want to See in a Google OS [Google Chrome OS]
What’s inside Google’s just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that’s what we’re doing with some help from the hive mind.
We asked on Twitter what features users wanted to see in Google’s Linux-based, web-focused operating system, [...]
