Will DSi be phased out?

Filed Under (video games) by Hemon on 14-01-2011

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Nintendo 3DS will be released in Japn on Feb 26. There’s a rumor said that Nintendo is planning to phase out its DSi handheld console.

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The Differences between Verizon iPhone 4 and AT&T iPhone 4

Filed Under (APPLE iPhone, Review) by Lydia Yu on 13-01-2011

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Verizon iPhone 4 vs AT&T iPhone 4

Verizon has launched CDMA version of iPhone 4, compared with AT&T iPhone 4, what has been changed at Verizon iPhone 4? Now let’s dig in and find the difference between them. What features have been added or removed? If you are interested, let’s discuss it together. Read the rest of this entry »

Trypoxy Concept Phone Preview

Filed Under (Cell Phones, News, Preview) by Lydia Yu on 11-01-2011

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Trypoxy Concept Phone

We have seen large abound of concept designs showing off what the future of cell phones might look like. Designed by Miyazawa Tetsu and Ichimura Shigenori, Trypoxy concept phone is a creatively futuristic device, which combines the look of a pebble, an intuitive touchscreen, and a soft-gel-like hand-hold that actually extends from the rear of the handset. Read the rest of this entry »

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Preview

Filed Under (Cell Phones, Preview) by Redapple on 10-01-2011

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Preview
Sony Ericsson announced the Android flagship cell phone – Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc at CES 2011, which features slim body and beautiful design. Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc integrates the newest Android 2.3 OS and Sony advanced technology, plus the 8.7 mm slimmest body, making it the thinnest Smartphone in the world.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has great improvement compared with previous Xperia series cell phones.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Ultra Slim Body
Sony Ericsson Xperia dimension is 125×62.5×8.7-9.0mm, in other word, the thinnest part of Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is only 8.7mm, which is another thinnest record of Smartphone.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc side
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc also adopts the human ergonomics design, including the unique dynamic curve in the side and the concave curve in the back, which tremendously enhance the comfort of holding such a big cell phone.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Android 2.3 OS
Most of the cell phones at CES come with Android 2.2 OS, and only Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc adopts Android 2.3 OS, which once again make it deserve praise. Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc will be available in Q1 2011, and then Android 2.3 OS will be its great superiority.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Compared with previous version, Android 2.3 is improved in many aspects, such as the running speed, gaming and multi media performance. With the Android 2.3, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc runs fast without any lag.
What is More incredible with the leak picture form Netherlands, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc may come equipped with the Android 2.4 OS which is rumored to be new special effect when deleting Widget icon, and some optimization on video chat.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Powerful Hardware
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc uses Qualcomm newly second generation processor form Snapdragon MSM8255. Although the domain frequency of this chipset stays at 1 GHz, it adopts the more advanced 45nm processing craft with the Adreno 205 graphics processor. Hence, Snapdragon MSM8255 performs much more powerful than previous Snapdragon QSD8250.
Furthermore, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc also features a stunning screen- 4.2 inches Reality Display, which adopts Sony Ericsson Mobile BRAVIA Engine and No air-gap technology. Compared with Xperia X10i, the display effects of Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has been greatly improved.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc (middle), Apple iPhone 4 (left), Samsung Galaxy S (right)
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has excellent performance in the color and details which is enough to rival iPhone 4.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Multi-media Function
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc come with the same 8.1 megapixels camera as Xperia X10i, but the difference is that Sony f/2.4 Exmor R image sensor is integrated with Sony Ericsson Xpria Arc, which can greatly rise the photographing level in the low-light condition.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
Beside the support for touch focus, smile recognition, image stabilizer, Geographical indication, flash light, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is also available for the face recognition, stereo synchronous sound recording during recoding.
Certainly, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc also has the ability to record 720 HD video. The HDMI port in Sony Ericsson Xperia make the video on the cell phone can be shown in the HD TV.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Other Features
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc support the network of GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WDMA/HSDPA, with 512 MB of RAM, 8GB of ROM. Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc also comes with the memory card expansion, GPS navigation, electronic compass, 3.5mm headset jack, noise suppression, and WiFI 802.11b/g/n function.
For ideal battery life, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has a 1500 mAh battery.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Conclusion
Xperia Ericsson Xperia Arc means a promotion as well as a new star for Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson features nice look and powerful hardware configuration, which will definitely make popularity. Reportedly, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc will be launched with two version-blue and silver color-in Q1 2011.

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Sony Ericsson has announced only one cell phone – Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc at CES 2011, which comes with slim body and beautiful design. Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc features both the newest Android 2.3 OS and Sony advanced technology, plus the 8.7 mm slim size, making it the thinest Smartphone in the world.

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Most Anticipated Cell Phones of 2011

Filed Under (APPLE iPhone, Cell Phones, News) by Redapple on 06-01-2011

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Many flagship cell phones have debuted in 2010, which cause great excitement. In 2011, however, there are also a plenty of upcoming awesome cell phones.
Apple iPhone 5
The most remarkable cell phone is the Apple iPhone 5, which is still covered by a mysterious veil.
The imagining picture of Apple iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 is expected to arrive by July 2011. This is slimmer than Apple iPhone 5; 9.3mm thick, with a shinny glass back piece. It will be accessible on 3G as well as 4G. Other features are custom e-mails alerts, SMS tones, OLED scratchproof screen, built-in GPS, and HD audio.
Apple iPhone 5
Every generation iPhone will give us the different surprise. In the high speed developed era of cell phone core hardware, iPhone 5 must has a qualitative leap in the hardware configuration.
Motorola Olympus cell phone
Motorola Olympus cell phone
With the rapid development of Smartphones, the Smartphone equipped with 1GHz processor is not surprising anymore, while the one with 1.2GHz processor-Motorola Milestone 2 has been released. But nothing can compare with Motorola Olympus which comes with the most powerful strength in 2011.
The back of Motorola Olympus
Motorola Olympus adopts Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU-a powerfull chipset which performs exceptionally well at graphic-intensive tasks-with internal 8 independent processing units, including different processing unit, such as Cortex-A9 processing kernel, GeForce 2D/3D graphics kernel, HD video coding kernel etc. Motorola Olympus is rumored to come with standard micro USB connector, dual cameras. According to the data, this Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU platform has surpassed any current Smartphone’s CPU.
LG Star cell phone
LG Star cell phone
With the intensive usage of Android system by many manufacturers, LG also launches the Android Smartphones, but all of them come with normal performance. However, the situation will be changed in 2011, because LG plans to launch LG Star with the same Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU.
LG Star cell phone
LG Star will adopt the mainstream straight touch control design with a 4.0-inch screen and the Android standard virtual buttons. LG Star features Android 2.2 OS, 8 megapixel camera and HDMI port. Additionally, LG Star also comes equipped with Nvidia Tegra 2, which is said to be very awesome as a whole.
Nokia E7-00 Cell Phone
Nokia E7-00 cell phone
Nokia N8, which appears in the second half of 2010, indeed gives us many surprise with the brand-new Symbian^3 OS, especially the 12 megapixels camera. But as time pass by, Nokia N8 will become history, because the better Nokia E700 is about to debut.
Nokia E7-00 Cell Phone
Nokia E7-00 comes with the practical slid-out QWERTY keypad allowing convenient operation, and a 4.0-inch AMOLED touch screen further improving the operation experience. Nokia E7-00 also features integrated mobile office and messaging applications, 8 megapixel cameras with dual-LED flash and support 720p HD video. One more excited thing is that future Symbian^3 will be equipped with 1GHz processor.
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Many flagship cell phones have been released in 2010, causing great excitement.  However, there are also a plenty of upcoming awesome cell phones in 2011.  Today, we will talk about the most anticipated cell phones of 2011.
The most remarkable cell phone definitely is the Apple iPhone 5, which is still shrouded in a mysterious veil. Read the rest of this entry »

Yummy Apple iPhone Cookies

Filed Under (iPhone, News) by Redapple on 05-01-2011

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Apple iPhone sold around the world promotes the development of many peripheral industries, even the iPhone-shaped cookies are highly sought after, especially in Japan.
The Apple iPhone cookies are elaborated by the owner of Green Gables bakery, Kumiko Kudo. The Apple iPhone cookies are about 12 cm long, 6 cm wide, has a great resemblance to Apple iPhone, even the application icons are glazed with red, green and blue colors etc, including SMS messaging, a calendar, iTunes and YouTube..
Originally, Kumiko Kudo made a cake like an iPod Touch as a birthday gift for a customer’s husband in Oct 2008. After that, the backery has been making hundreds of the Apple iPhone cookies. saw that Apple iPhone is so popular, so she follows the set pattern again. But she couldn’t image that the iPhone Cookies become so hot.
Few people know about the Apple iPhone cookies at the beginning. Thanks to the social media, a few days ago, a woman stumbled on these special iPhone cookies on Kumiko Kudo’s blog. Then she ordered two for Japanese economist Kazuyo Katsuma and singer Komi Hirose, who are writing a book on twitter together.
After Kazuyo Katsuma tasted the iPhone cookies, he tweeted a photo of the iPhone cookie, saying it is “the amazing iPhone cookies”; while Komi Hirose spoke highly as the eatable iPhone on twitter. With the strong celebrity charm and fans, iPhone cookies become famous soon, and the buyers are in an endless stream.
Kudo has ever been invited to intend a conference of Japanese Softbank-the exclusive iPhone carrier in Japan. She gave a special iPhone cookies with the pattern of “SoftBank”for the CEO Masayoshi Son. But Masayoshi Son said on twitter that he was eager to get one, but he was reluctant to eat when he finally had one.
However, it’s surely not easy to taste the iPhone cookies. Kumiko Kudo insists pure hand-made iPhone cookies by herself. The iPhone cookies are a bit larger than an actual iPhone and sell for 2,730 yen (approximately $33). Kudo says she can only bake 20 iPhone cookies per day. Therefore, some customers have to wait for 2 months to get the iPhone cookies. Even such a high price still makes the iPhone cookies pursued and ordered by many crazy Apple fans. How huge charm the Apple iPhone has!
Kudo has received requests for Apple iPad cookies, but she says they are “too big, heavy and difficult to make.”
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Apple iPhone sells like hot cakes all over the world, and promotes the development of many peripheral industries as well, even the iPhone-shaped cookies are highly sought after, especially in Japan.

What an Apple iPad 2 Should Be

Filed Under (Apple iPad) by Lydia Yu on 30-12-2010

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There have been many a rumors about the next generation of Apple iPad, which has been called Apple iPad 2 currently. What the Apple iPad 2 should be? What can we desire from the Apple iPad 2? These two questions depend on how can Apple upgrade with the iPad 2. Built-in camera, Flash support and an SD slot is on our must-have list, as for the other features, we can discuss it at following if you are interested. Read the rest of this entry »

Dell XPS 15 Laptop Review

Filed Under (Laptop) by Joyce on 29-12-2010

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Dell XPS 15 Laptop Review

Dell has come up with XPS high end laptops with 14, 15 and 17 inch models. The XPS 15 has clunky and bulky design along with stellar speakers.

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Sony Ericsson Hallon Smartphone Leaked

Filed Under (Cell Phones, News) by Redapple on 28-12-2010

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Sony Ericsson plans to unveil the Xperia series Smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Feb.  The leaked PlayStation Phone (codenamed Zeus) and Xperia X12(codenamed Anzu) are expected to join the Xperia family. However, a new touchscreen Smartphone from Sony Ericsson has popped up online recently. Read the rest of this entry »

Hot Tablets at CES 2011

Filed Under (News, Tablet) by Redapple on 24-12-2010

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With the popularity of Apple iPad, tablets become hotter and hotter this year.  CES (Consumer Electronics Show) will open on Jan 6-9, 2011, which it is wildly believed that it’s the best platform for tablet show. Many manufacturers will catch this chance to show their brand-new tablet PCs.  How many brands of tablets will come out at CES?  Keep Reading.

Hottest Tablet PCs to Release on CES 2011

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) will open on Jan 6-9 2011, while it was wildly believed that it’s the best platform for tablet pc show. Many manufacturers will catch this chance to launch their brand-new tablet PC.

Samsung Gloria Tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab has been released this year and sales for over 1 million. At CES2011, Samsung is expected to announce the new tablet-Gloria.

Samsung Gloria Tablet

Samsung Gloria is rumored to come with the slide-out QWERTY keyboard like a cell phone. Samsung Gloria has a 10-inch touch screen and runs Windows 7 with a custom user interface.

Samsung Gloria Tablet is expected to launch in Mar or Apr, 2011.

Motorola Honeycomb Tablet

Andy Rubin shows Motorola Honeycomb Tablet PC Prototype

In the D: Dive Into Mobile in San Francisco, America, Google CEO Andy Rubin showed the Motorola Honeycomb Tablet PC Prototype, which was powered by the Android OS 3.0 coded Honeycomb. Motorola Honeycomb Tablet comes with NVIDIA 1GHz Tegra 2 T20 processor and supports 3D technology.

Motorola Honeycomb Tablet supports up to 32GB memory with a MicroSD card, the 512MB of RAM, while it is also available for the Mini HDMI, 3.5mm jack and Mini USB port. The screen size is optional for 7-inch and 10-inch.

Few days ago, Motorola finally published a advertisement to make sure that Motorola tablet will be on display at CES 2011.

HP PalmPad

HP Slate 500 has been released in Oct 2010, but without much influences as it is mainly for business users. Reportedly, HP plans on displaying its new PalmPad against Apple iPad at CES 2011. The PalmPad is a bit slimmer than iPad. It’s rumored that HP PalmPad weights around 1.25 LBS compared to Apple iPad at 1.5~1.6 LBS and adopts circular arc edge resembling the Amazon Kindle eBook’s.

HP PalmPad

Reportedly, HP PalmPad is available for three editions and all come powered by the Web OS 2.51. Other features include the USB 3.0 port, Mini HDMI, 1.3 megapixels front camera and 3 megapixels rear-facing camera both with flash light.

One of these PalmPad is the college edition with 8.9 inches screen and the college education software included. Another edition is the 9.7-inch without more information.

HP PalmPad is expected to release in Mar 2011.

Toshiba Three New Tablets

Toshiba is reportedly showcasing three tables at CES 2011 with three different OS- Chrome OS, Android OS and Windows 7. Two tablets are said to offer 10.1-inch screen while the third one will have a 11.6-inch screen.

Toshiba Folio 100 Tablet

Toshiba Chrome tablet, along with the Android and Widows tablets, is rumored to arrive in Q1 2011. Toshiba Windows 7 version seems primed and ready for that particular timeframe, followed by a golden Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb sometime thereafter.

Besides these three tablets, Toshiba also plan on the 7-inch tablets which is charged by the cell phone related department, meaning that 7-inch tablet features goes very close to the Smartphone’s.

ASUS Eee Pad EP121

Asus Eee Pad

ASUS has plenty of Eee tablets lined up at this CES 2011, Jonney Shih, chairman of ASUS claimed teasing to display the Windows 7 Eee Pad EP121 12-inch slate tablet in a promo video at CES. The Asus Eee Pad EP121 has a few features touted – a 12-inch display, HDMI, USB port, SD card reader, web camera, full HD playback and music, books and games.

ASUS will have a whole bunch of tablets to show off at CES 2011 in their Eee series – the Eee Reader, Eee Note and Eee Pad. There’ll be two 10-inch Eee Pads, one of them sporting Oak Trail and Windows 7, the other being an Android tablet. There’ll also be a couple of 7-inch Android Eee Pads with either a Tegra 2 or Qualcomm chip, one version having telephony.

ASUS Eee Pad EP121 is supposed to launch in the late 2010 or the early 2011.

MSI WindPad

Wsi confirms to launch two WindPad tablets, separately based on Intel and ARM processor with Widows and Android OS.

The Atom and ARM processor version WindPad has been displayed in Mar Computex show this year. However, the new WindPad will promote the performance further and lighter and thinner than before.

The new Msi WindPad will run Windows 7 Home Premium with the Atom new processor coded Oak Trail, the other with the Tegra 2 dual-core processor.

Msi WindPad Tablet

The Msi WindPad Windows version comes with a 10.1-inch multi-touch screen with the resolution of 1024×600 pixels. Msi WindPad supports mini-HDMI, mini-USB, SD slot, and G-sensor gravity detection, whereas the Android version consists of a 10.1 inch display, NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, and 1280×800 display within a slender frame.

The Msi WinPad will go retails in the early 2011.

Acer Tablets

Acer is ready for a bunch of tablets to announce. One of them features 10.1-inch capacitive touch screen, 13.3 mm thickness, Android OS and Wifi and 3G connection. The aluminum casing is cool with the texture feel, the surface graving image making the whole become more dedicated.

Acer Windows 7 Tablet

Acer 7-inch also powered by the Android 2.2 OS with tiny shape but complete configuration. The 7-inch screen comes with a 1280×800 resolution and the ratio of 16:10.

Acer Tablet

7-inch Acer Tablet supports Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Dolby mobile technology for the amazing music effect experience. It can access to the net by Wifi and 3G connection. This 7-inch Tablet will be released in Apr 2011.

Acer Tablet

Acer tablet windows 7 version adopts 10.1-inch touch screen with a keyboard included.  It is 15mm thick and weights less than 1 kg. This 10.1-inch Acer Tablet will be powered by AMD next-gen processor with a 1.3 megapixels front facing camera, and 8 megapixels rear camera which allows taking photos, recoding video, video chatting and conference.

This Acer Table is expected to launch in next Feb.

It’s no doubt that 2011 will be the year of the tablet, and that CES 2011 will be the primary launch platform. Everything will find the answer at CES 2011. Are you ready?CES (Consumer Electronics Show) will open on Jan 6-9 2011, while it was wildly believed that it’s the best platform for tablet pc show. Many manufacturers will catch this chance to launch their brand-new tablet PC.

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