Archive for the ‘Gadget News’ Category

Confirmed: Nintendo Wii U out for Christmas

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Nintendo has announced a rough release date for the Nintendo Wii U, reigning in the launch to this side of 2013. But can a holiday launch tip the balance in Ninty’s accountants’ favour? The Nintendo Wii U has been floating around looking for something resembling a release date ever since it debuted last year at ...

IconBit Android 3D TV box outed: Google TV with an extra dimension

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

If you thought Google TV was nifty, how about having full-blown Android running on your living room telly? In 3D? Well, that’s just what a Russian company called IconBit is aiming to deliver. IconBit launched four set-top boxes at CES last week, each of which runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread (with the potential to ...

All Archos G9 tablets to get Ice Cream Sandwich by first week of February

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Archos had good news to share at this year’s CES. All of their G9 tablets will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update by the first week of February. As a matter of fact, they’ve demonstrated a G9 unit running ICS 4.0.1 at the big event in Vegas, but the firmware ...

A Gaming tablet for the extremists

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Razer have shown off a concept at CES that will easily excite a few PC gaming fanatics out there. Call Project Fiona, this is the first gaming tablet. Despite the fact that Project Fiona is a concept, Razer does plan to release the product. Reports suggest that it is targeting a ...

Moneto NFC microSD to bring contactless features to any Android phone

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

DeviceFidelity and Spring Card Systems have teamed up on a NFC-capable microSD card that will hopefully forgo the need of buying specific mobile handsets for the privilege of contactless payments. The card, which has been in development for a few years, houses an NFC radio and antenna that deals with payments through ...

Glasses-free 3D Android tablet takes on the 3DS

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

  This is the WikiPad: a 3D, glasses-free tablet that’s serious about gaming and is gunning for some of the market share that Nintendo’s 3DS has. Its spec sheet ticks all the right boxes, packing in technology two years in the making. The WikiPad is 8-inches of tablety goodness that will come with a ...

ASUS Eee Pad MeMO announced for $249, ICS and quad-core in tow

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

NVIDIA and ASUS have announced not only the first official (according to Google) Ice Cream Sandwich tablet this week with the Transformer Prime (its release from today,) they’ve come out with the real release of the ASUS Eee Pad MeMO, a 7-inch tablet with a quad-core processor and Android 4.0 ...

Phone maker punts AA-powered blower

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

15 years battery life, apparently Mobile outfit SpareOne has unveiled a new dinky dialler powered by a single AA battery that, it claims, lasts 15 years before requiring replacement. The SpareOne is a basic GSM blower with little on offer except the breath-taking battery claims. Okay, so 15 years is quite a bold ...

Sony Xperia S official

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

CES 2012: See-thru There have been plenty of rumours as to what Sony Ericsson, or, more accurately, Sony Mobile Communications, would or would not launch at CES in Las Vegas at the start of 2012, and now it is official. The much rumoured Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc HD is actually to be called the Sony ...

OnLive Desktop: Windows virtualization made easy and cool

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

OnLive, the company that made the Cloud Gaming idea work, has announced OnLive Desktop, a remote desktop application that brings Windows 7 into the iPad, but this app does not control your PC. Instead, it gives you access to a Windows instance running inside OnLive. The company claims that this ...

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