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Palm Pre at CES

Sucharith Menon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:35:15 +0000

Palm has showcased its latest SmartPhone at the CES 2009 and this smartphone showcasesPalm’s new interface – WebOS and is really COmpetition for the iPhone. The phone features a 8 Gig drive with amazing user interface, great gestures and ease of use. Here are the Technical specs:-

High-speed connectivity
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Integrated GPS
Large 3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color 320×480 resolution HVGA display
First of its kind – Gesture Area
Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
Email, including Outlook and email support (POP3, IMAP)
Amazing messaging support (IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
High-performance, desktop-class web browser
Great multimedia experience and performance (pictures, video playback, music), featuring a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
8GB of internal user storage (~7.4GB user available)
USB mass storage mode
MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Proximity sensor, which automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display whenever you put the phone up to your ear
Light sensor, which dims the display if the ambient light is dark, such as at night or in a movie theater, to reduce power usage
Accelerometer, which automatically orients web pages and photos to your perspective
Ringer switch, which easily silences the device with one touch
Removable, rechargeable battery
Dimensions: 59.57mm (W) x 100.53mm (L, closed) x 16.95mm (D) [2.35 inches (W) x 3.96 inches (L, closed) x 0.67 inches (D)]
Weight: ~135 grams [4.76 ounces]

Palm Pre Video Tour

THis phone does features lot of improvements in the User Interface and does surely match up with the iPhone hands down! I am surely the Apple engineers should work on the interface and introduce the following features like Copy & Paste, Bluetooth and SMS Forwarding capabilities for a start!

I am sure we have an exciting year and the Palm Pre is a great start.

uTorrent finally released for the Mac

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:50:34 +0000

uTorrent has finally launched a Beta Bit torrent Client for the Mac. This version is similar to the the Windows version and is lightweight and will ensure similar features to the windows version.

Download the Beta Release here : uTorrent for Mac beta.dmg

Asus releases “Fastest Business PDA Phone”

Sucharith Menon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:14:09 +0000

Asus “claims” to have developed the World’s fastest PDA Phone. This PDA is officially taken of wrap and this model features a Marvell TavorP 800 MHz Processor and claims to have amazing 3G Transfer Speeds.

Specifications after the jump

Here are the P565 Specification (as per press release)

Networks: HSDPA 3.6Mbps, UMTS 2100, EDGE/GPRS/GSM 900/1800/1900, Class 10
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Display: 2.8? TFT, 65K-color Touchscreen, VGA (480 x 640 pixels)
Processor: Marvell TavorP 800 MHz
Memory: 256 MB Flash + 128 MB DDR SDRAM
Memory Expandability: microSDHC card slot
Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b+g , USB v1.1(FS), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Cameras: 3MP with Auto Focus (Main)/300 K Pixel for Video Telephony (sub)
Video Recording/Playback: MPEG4 (QVGA) 24fps recording/MPEG4 video at QVGA 30fps (or H.263 at QCIF 30fps) playback
Key Business Applications: Word (editor), Excel (editor), PowerPoint (viewer), Windows® Live, MSN, Voice Commander* and Push Email (Exchange Server)
Additional Applications: Anytime Launcher, ASUS Today, EziMusic, EziPhoto, Business Card Recognition and PDF viewer
WAP Browser: HTTP / WAP 1.2.1/2.0
Audio: MP3, WMA, 3GP, AAC, and AAC+
Standby Time: 250-300 hrs with 3G (around 200-250 hrs with 2G)
Talk Time: 3 hrs with 3G (around 4 hrs with 2G)
Dimensions: 102 mm x 60.5 mm x 16 mm
Weighs about 120 g (with battery)

Looks pretty impressive. Lets wait till the review are done and hopefully the claim could be true!

Official Announcement : Here

MS Office coming to iPhone

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:14:49 +0000

Yup, you heard it right. MS Office is soon expected on the iPhone. This release will help you edit documents on the go.

This release will feature :-

View, edit and create native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments
Supports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Includes support for Microsoft Office Word 2007 & PowerPoint 2007
Full featured solution with viewing AND editing functionality
Supports file and attachments received via e-mail, Bluetooth® or media card
Integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service for reliable and instant access to e-mail attachments

Full List & Source : Gizmodo

G1 gets unlocked

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:01:33 +0000

The most anticipated G1 from T-Mobile get unlocked. Unlocking the G1 will enable to use the G1 with any sim card in the world! The unlocking is being done at Unlock-TMobileG1.com and here’s a video proof by one of the users.

Actually works! Sweet

Super Talent releases 18K Gold USB Drive

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:47:29 +0000

Super Talent has released a limited edition 8GB 18-carat solid gold Pico-C USB for $599 with a Name engraving option and is been marketed as a corporate gift (during recession:) )

The drive includes:

Serialized Certificate of Authenticity
18-carat gold keychain
FIPS certified AES-256 Encryption software
Your text or logo laser etch onto the drive at no charge
Black velvet jewelry box
Pico-C is also water resistant and fast, supporting up to 200X (30MB/sec) data transfer speeds.
It’s Limited Edition

How to copy music between two iPods with a Comp?

Sucharith Menon — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:47:04 +0000

miShare is something you need if you would like to share files and playlists between 2 iPods without using a computer. This gadget does not need any cables or docks or anything of that kind to sync music. All you got to do is to connect both iPods to mishare and with a click of a button, you have the files transferred.

Here’s miShare’s website for you just in case you consider buying one for yourself.

Check the working demo after the jump

iTunes is now 8.0.1

Sucharith Menon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:27:17 +0000

Apple has released an update to iTunes and now takes the iTunes to 8.0.1 for both Mac & PC. This update should improve stability, performance and fix few bugs. This update will have the following features:-

Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano.

Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading.

Improves checking for updates from the App Store

Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist.

Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod.

Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.

And Steve, if you are hearing, we in India would love to use your Genius feature as well… I hope you consider this request

Do update your PC / Mac and Njoy!

The Android is finally here!

Sucharith Menon — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:42:47 +0000

The long-awaited HTC Dream, the first commercial handset running Google’s Android operating system, is officially launched to T-Mobile as the G1 for $179 on October 22nd. which features a 3” LCD touchscreen, specialized internet navigation buttons with a full QWERTY keypad. This smartphone surely has the potential to break the dominance of Symbian, Windows Mobile and Apple OSX :) .

Here are the features:

3.17 ” 65K color touchscreen that runs in HVGA (480×320) resolution.
5 Hours of Battery life
Astonishing 3.1MP Camera
GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi and UMTS/HSDPA 850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100MhzYou can talk for 5 hours, or keep the phone in standby for 130 hours.
Weighs 5.6 ounces
Colors: White, Black & Brown
1 GB MicroSD Card preistalled expandble upto 8GB
GPS Inbuilt with Google Maps integration
Single Sign on
Android Market, similar to the Apple Appstore but everything here is FREE
Builtin Amazon MP3 Store
Youtube & Google Apps Introduction
and loads more…

Check out few Android Applications that are introduced here

Here’s a video of the G1

I personally think, the Google OS Android has a lot of potential and time will tell who the winner is… As long as Google does no evil, they surely can win!

The 2.1 Firmware Pwned

Sucharith Menon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:18:36 +0000

Apple released the 2.1 Firmware for the iPodTouch and the iPhone and within days.. it has been pwned again. They iphone-dev Blog quotes

Though even if the world deems us irrelevant, the iPhone family of devices is still fun to hack!

Better luck next time Apple… I really appreciate the time and effort put in, but still support the iPhone Dev Team. If you are new to this, I suggest you read this

Downloads

Windows QuickPwn 2.1 – Torrent here
PwnageTool 2.1 – Download here