Rumbling off Nokia’s great production mills are two additions to its E series range, the QWERTY E71 and E66 slider phones.
Both have emerged from lard free diets, sporting trim bodies just 10mm thick for the E71 (pictured above) and 13.6mm for the E66, with a novel ‘quick switch’ letting users change from business to personal use. This tie-loosening types switch home screens, email accounts and calendar to their personal choices as soon as they’ve got the hell out of the office.
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New quarterly notebook PC shipment figures by research bods DisplaySearch have revealed that 31 million units were shipped in the first quarter of 2008, with the notebook PC market shrinking 6% over the last quarter, but increasing 35% compared to the same period last year.
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Back in the day, kids used to customise their trainers courtesy of a marker pen and a bit of imagination, but Nike intends to go one better by offering a service that lets people create footware-based fun using colour schemes based on their camera phone snaps.
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Details of Sony Ericssons new range of phones have been leaking all over the Web, with the most interesting being the gaming- orientated F305.
Although it’s low on the usual hi-tech features we’ve grown to love – there’s no Wi-Fi or GPS for starters – the silvery thing packs a built-in accelerometer for Wii-style motion controlled games, and a set of PlayStation-like gaming keys next to the display, with a shortcut key to games.
After thumbing through their big book of hyperbolic press quotes, HP have declared that they’ve been busy “redefining home computing” with their new range of TouchSmart media PCs apparently, “Putting the Digital Lifestyle at People’s Fingertips.”
Stepping out in the the highly competitive glare of the entry-level dSLR market is Canon’s new 10 Megapixel snapper, the EOS 1000D.
The compact dSLR packs a 7-point wide area AF system, 2.5″ LCD and continuous JPEG shooting ratcheting up to 3fps until the memory card is full.
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Yesterday, Apple offered a preview of the next major version of its Mac OS X operating system, called “Snow Leopard.”
Expected to regale under the designation ‘Mac OS X 10.6’ when it sees the light of day in around 12 months time, the release is set to focus more on speed and stability than ramping up the new feature count. (more…)
If the dimensions of the super-slimline mobile sitting in your pocket are still causing you consternation, then the ridiculously small Neon7 may be what you’re looking for.
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Slipping out of the new product dock mere moments ahead of the expected 3G iPhone launch is Samsung’s new Omnia i900 smartphone.
Sharing a similar design as the iPhone (and the LG KE830, Prada and Clie TH55 before it), the Omnia sports a beefy-sized 3.2″ 240 x 400 pixels big screen flanked by call start/end buttons either side and a central optical mouse whotsit. (more…)
More details are emerging online of RIM’s new touchscreen phone, the Blackberry Thunder.