Motorola Motoroi is the latest Android 2.0 smart phone of Motorola, which has been launched in Korea as the first Android phone of Moto in the country. During the launch in Korea, Moto Korea head honcho Rick Wolochatiuk also confirmed the handset would be launched in other markets around the world. And now, it’s been confirmed that the Motoroi will hit the US shelves in March.

Motorola Motoroi is a smart phone that features a 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen, an 8-megapixel camera, with GSM connectivity and 720p HD video recording capability and HDMI output. And it allows you to tune into the T-DMB television, which is a common feature seen on most phones in Korea. But for the US version, the T-DMB tuning will mostly be stripped out. Watch the promo clip below.

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We told you that Motorola was prepping a new Android smart phone, called Shadow, but now many rumors claim the Motorola Shadow as the next generation of the Google Nexus phone, which could be called Google Nexus Two.

The Google Nexus One phone was built by HTC, but rumors say that Google could be partnering with another manufacturer for making the Nexus Two phone. The speculation was raised due to both Google and Motorola were at the same talk a week ago, where Google Executive, Andy Rubin, talked about the Nexus phone and Motorola talked about the importance of Android and the flagship devices.

So, if the rumors are true, the Google Nexus Two will be a QWERTY slider smart phone with large screen. Rumors also suggest that it’ll aim at the corporates or possibly compete with the Blackberry and its Enterprise Server. Anyway, all these are just rumors, nothing is official yet.

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4th-gen iPhone may see you in April

Thursday, January 14, 2010 0 Comments



Rumors come all the way from South Korea, claiming that the 4th generation iPhone may be coming in April 2010. And the new iPhone will likely be equipped with an OLED display, video-chat capability, along with much faster performance and flexible battery.

The information was published by the Korean newspaper, Korea Times, which claims they’ve got it from the current iPhone’s career in Korea, KT Telecom. The source says the iPhone 4G will come with dual-core CPU, which is the first time in smart phone industry and it’s likely be a new ARM Cortex A9 CPU under development.

The iPhone 4G also allows its battery to be removable, which has been the major complaint for the pass three generations of iPhone. With the flexible and removable battery, users will be able to use after-market batteries to extend usage time.

There will also be a front-facing camera dedicated for video calling, along with a high-performance main camera. KT expects the launch of the iPhone 4G to be in June 2010 and may plan to get their corporate clients to try out as early as in April.

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Audiovox has come up with a remote control hub, called Zentral, which allows Bluetooth-enabled phones to work as a remote control for various gadgets in your home. The Zentral receives signals from the smart phone via Bluetooth and translate the signals into IR commands to beam to your home entertainment (TV, stereo, home theater etc) and automation systems.

The Zentral is basically a little box equipped with Bluetooth receiver and IR transmitter that is powerful enough to bounce the IR signals off walls and ceilings. So, there is no problem at all how the Zentral is placed, it can just sit on top of any of your home entertainment equipment (As shown in the picture).

Currently, the Zentral comes with a universal remote control app for the iPhone, so you can use the iPhone to control various of your home entertainment and automation gadgets via the Zentral. There is also an application for the BlackBerry which allows the control of garage door opener.

The system plus the accessories all come in affordable prices such as the AV controller costs $80 and garage door opener costs only $50. More home automation gadgets will be included later such as lighting and thermostat. They will hit the stores in spring.

Mophie iPhone credit card scanner

Saturday, January 9, 2010 0 Comments


Mophie, primarily known for their juice/battery packs or cases, has now taken a leap, planning to produce a credit card scanner for the iPhone. The picture above shows that the Mophie iPhone credit card reader will likely come in the form of a case which its bottom has a reader for you to swipe your customer’s credit card for accepting payment on the go.

The Mophie’s credit card scanner is a combo of hardware and their own software solution. The Mophie Credit card scanner is simply handy for small business owners, which you can use it on your iPhone to swipe the credit cards of your customers for collecting payments.

It’s unclear whether Mophie is getting into transaction business or they simply act as a middle man. But I guess the latter shall be the better choice for them as transaction business is not their cup of tea. More details shall emerge at CES.




AirStash
is a smart wireless device comes in the form of an oversized flash drive which can be kept in your pocket to increase the storage capacity of your iPhone or iPod Touch wirelessly. If you’ve got an older version of iPhone or iPod Touch that restricts you with the mere 8GB storage, you can simply make use of AirStash to boost the storage.

The AirStash has a USB connector on one side and a SD card slot on the other. So, you should be able to hook up a USB flash drive or an SD memory card to increase the storage of your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can have your iPhone to wirelessly grab the data stored on the AirStash’s memory.

There is still little information about the AirStash such as the security protocols, battery life, compatibility etc. But it’s definitely a handy one if you have an old version of the iPhone or iPod Touch. Simply keep AirStash in your pocket with a memory card or USB drive connected, you can have more storage for your clips and files. More info of AirStash will be revealed at CES.

AirStash via gadgetvenue



As expected, Google Nexus One phone was officially announced on Jan 5 2010 in California. The Nexus One runs Android 2.1, comes with features including 3.7-inch 480 x 800 touchscreen, GPS, accelerometer, light, proximity sensor, microSD card slot (up to 32GB), 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, and powered by the 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

The Nexus One phone is product of the close partnership between Google and HTC and Google has categorized it in the Superphones category. Android 2.1 on the Nexus one allows 5 home screens to be defined. The GPS capability also allows your to track location-aware weather information, which you can also create a widget of weather to place on the home screen.

Although it packs lots of goodies but unfortunately it lacks of multi-touch! Applications such as browser, maps, and other programs do not make use of multi touch on the Nexus One’s touchscreen. The answer from Google is “they’ll consider it in the future”.

Prices are as expected before, unlocked for $529.00, on T-Mobile for $179.00, and will be coming to Verizon this spring. Find out more on Google. Engadget has the full coverage of the superphone event.

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RIM (Research In Motion) has launched their BlackBerry Presenter at CES, an accessory that is meant for your BlackBerry Smartphone to pair with,to have better and easier controls of your presentations.

The BlackBerry Presenter is to be connected to a display or a projector and pair with your BlackBerry smart phone via Bluetooth, to allow the BlackBerry in your hand to control the presentation in within the 30-feet effective range.


The BlackBerry Presenter is slim and portable, measures 3.4 x 2.4 x 0.9-inches and weighs only slightly more than a tenth of a kg (0.14 kg). As shown in the picture above, the device has a video port that needs either a VGA cable or S-Video cable to connect it to an external display or a projector. It’s now available online for a price of $199.

Buy online, $199, ShopBlackBerry

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