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NVIDIA's Tegra platform might soon get a worthy competitor, as ZiiLABS announced today the debut of its new ZMS-08 product, the company's 3rd-generation media-rich application processor, promising to enable 1,080p Blu-ray quality H.264 decode performance to low-power devices. The company claims that the new... |
9 November 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Nintendo has been moving really fast in relation to the rumored DSi LL handheld, set to have a 4.2-inch screen, bigger than any version of the device released until now and near the size currently offered by other platforms like the PlayStation Portable from Sony and the iPhone from Apple.Just a few days after Japane... |
30 October 2009
05:28 GMT |
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It seems that Nintendo is getting ready to launch a DSi Speak voice channel, allowing those who have picked up the newest version of the handheld to communicate directly with one another making good use of the built-in microphone. The company is saying that reports pointing to an upcoming DSi Speak are just rumors an... |
26 October 2009
04:32 GMT |
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As Research in Motion (RIM) is getting ready for the official release of BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac, the management tool has already been leaked to the web. “BlackBerry_Desktop_Manager_english language.dmg” is freely available for download via file-sharing sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare. Th... |
4 September 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Apparently, the DSi was not the only handheld on which Nintendo worked after launching the original DS. At some point in the last three years, the company completely discarded another hardware prototype, an event that might have left a greater imprint on any other firm but Nintendo.Satoru Iwata told CNBC that “... |
10 June 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Four of the largest companies in the semiconductor industry, Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image, have jointly announced today the formation of an industry consortium that is aimed at promoting a new Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT) as an industry standard. SPMT is the first... |
20 May 2009
10:30 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is expected to announce next week at CTIA a new Windows Mobile-powered device that should work with Clearwire's network, namely the Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi mobile WiMAX device. What the phone maker has to say about its new device is that i... |
27 March 2009
06:58 GMT |
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What's the first thing a middle school student is bound to ask an astronaut these days? Well, based on recent evidence, videogames are the main topic of discussion when having a video conference with astronauts from the International Space Station.Barack Obama, the President of the United States, found this out ... |
25 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Handheld gaming certainly accounts for one of the biggest markets out there, largely due to the fact that, nowadays, a lot of people prefer to play on the go, wherever possible, not only in the privacy of their own home. One of the biggest companies currently active in the market is Nintendo, which has been on a hig... |
10 March 2009
03:20 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS is currently one of the most popular handheld gaming consoles out there, largely due to the rich game library that it possesses and the fact that it is very user friendly and stylish. With the recent DSi iteration already launched in Japan and scheduled for a North American release soon, the team at N... |
24 February 2009
02:09 GMT |
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The handheld gaming market is currently dominated by two Japanese products, Nintendo's DS and Sony's PlayStation Portable. While both may seem pretty similar, meaning that they focus only on gaming, their target markets are very different. While the PSP tries to lure in hardcore gamers with popular titles, ... |
23 February 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm Incorporated have announced recently that Qualcomm has purchased graphics and multimedia technology assets from AMD, as well as intellectual property and resources that constituted the basis of AMD’s handheld business. Through this acquisition, Qualcomm leverages its multimed... |
21 January 2009
12:39 GMT |
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The handheld gaming market is a pretty huge one, as more and more dedicated consoles or devices that support games appear. We've recently seen the iPhone gaining a lot of popularity, with the PlayStation Portable hot on its heels, but nothing can beat the massive sales of the Nintendo DS and its recent iteration... |
8 January 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Good news for HP fans and not only. Hewlett-Packard has unveiled two new WinMo devices. Named iPAQ Voice Messenger and iPAQ Data Messenger, both will give users a thrill when it comes to spec sheets and CPU power. Of course, being WinMo devices, they use Windows Mobile, the only thing that is to be noted being the fa... |
21 October 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Rumors about the Nokia 7100s AKA Supernova have been around for some time, but finally some more information was leaked. The Supernova is going to be a new addition to Nokia's range of basic phones, and it is designed as a little slider that uses the S40 User interface. It will provide users with a QVGA act... |
14 October 2008
11:01 GMT |
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We’ve seen it happen before. There are times when one person comes up with an idea and, as it happens, luck has it that said idea proves to be a truly brilliant one. We just might see it happen once again, as this could also be the case of the concept Nokia phone designed by Rune Larsen.The phone has an overall... |
14 October 2008
06:35 GMT |
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On Saturday, October 11, HTC announced in Dubai the launch of its new HTC Touch Viva. The device uses TouchFlo, HTC's own finger-touch optimized navigation, which enables fast and one-touch access to all the phone functions users might want at a given moment.The smartphone is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Profes... |
13 October 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Clearly, Taiwanese mobile manufacturer HTC is having an excellent year. After bringing the HTC Diamond to users out there, it moved directly to making the first Google Android phone, the G1 for T-Mobile. Now, recently leaked information has it that HTC is working on a HTC T8290 phone that, apparently, supports not on... |
11 October 2008
04:01 GMT |
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HTC Diamond was released in May 2008, and was originally produced only in black. After some time, the Taiwanese phone manufacturer decided to launch a white version of the Diamond as well, which seemed to catch on very fast with the HTC Diamond fans out there.Now, it seems that more colors were added to the tradition... |
8 October 2008
08:04 GMT |
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HTC Touch Cruise was given the Windows Mobile 6 OS when it first hit the market. Like any other OS, this one too featured some bugs that could prove really annoying for users, so the Taiwanese company took care of the problem by releasing an update to Windows Mobile 6.1.The update features, besides the usual 6.1... |
7 October 2008
03:15 GMT |
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The GoNintendo site reveals that the latest issue of Nintendo Power magazine will contain the first features and details about Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The game is exclusively developed for the Nintendo DS and according to these new details, it will take full advantage of the unique tra... |
19 September 2008
06:01 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS handheld is already offering a huge array of products and one can only wonder if there still are classic titles that were not released on the gaming console. Apparently, there are, since Avanquest Software has decided to bring to the DS two of the most popular casual puzzle games in the world: Jewel Q... |
31 July 2008
03:23 GMT |
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Ever since mobile phones got popular on the worldwide markets, researchers have been trying to find a link between their emitted radiation and brain cancer conditions. However, given the fact that the achieved results are absolutely irrelevant, anti-mobile phone groups started to pinch other sensitive chords: gonad c... |
25 April 2008
11:11 GMT |
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With Apple finally releasing the long-craved iPhone SDK on March 6, also using video game demonstrations to show what can be accomplished with the kit, people started wondering if Apple indeed isn't focusing quite a bit on games lately. Still, neither Steve's speech, nor Phil Schiller's showed a tenden... |
10 March 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Following news of Apple prepping to release an SDK for programmers, enabling them to develop better apps for the iPhone, an interview with Roger Ehrenberg of Information Arbitrage sheds more light on the possibility of seeing an Apple gaming handhled released soon.Although Apple filed to protect their trademark in re... |
14 February 2008
04:07 GMT |
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David Sieger, of Eye On Apple, talked in a previous piece of his of a mysterious portable device "as perhaps Apple's rival product to the Intel Ultra Mobile PC ( UMPC ) initiative." The details were scarce and so the rumor expanded on that, but after "talking to several sources close to the secretive project," m... |
31 January 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Toshiba have announced the expansion of their small-form, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive line. The five new disk drives are aiming at the PC and at the consumer electronics applications market. The new models include a 120GB for notebook PCs and a single-platter, 80 GB version to be used with ultra-mobile PCs as well as wi... |
13 December 2007
06:21 GMT |
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The new M-Audio portable recording device last week, the new Marantz gear at the beginning of this week, it looks like somebody will do a lot of recording this Christmas, or is it just me? No matter what your X-Mas plans might be, here comes another great piece of audio technology, the PMD620 Professional Handheld Re... |
3 December 2007
03:56 GMT |
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The Handheld segment, made of PDA devices seems to have been shrinking for years, but now registered a huge drop of 40 percent. The reason for this fall seems to be the growth in smartphone sales, the direct competitor for such devices. Only little over 700,00 PDAs have been sold at a worldwide scale during the third... |
13 November 2007
09:47 GMT |
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The PlayStation Portable is still a popular console, entering its fourth year on the market as the sexiest handheld gaming system ever created. More than one skin-making company has rolled out "faces" for it, but the machine still looks better in one color. For those who haven't been keeping themselves updated, ... |
6 November 2007
04:54 GMT |
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Here's another copycat in the electronic industry; apparently, MP3 and portable media players are the main items to be copied. Another example is the Storex Ownzic IV20 portable media player, which sounds pretty wacky and is said to be identical with another PMP already on the market, HandHeld ZVUE 250, to be mo... |
26 October 2007
06:31 GMT |
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Google quietly rolled out the mobile version of Google Docs & Spreadsheets today, allowing the handheld owners to access the service straight from their devices. Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped wrote that it was first rumored one month ago but the Mountain View company didn't say a thing about the produc... |
17 October 2007
10:55 GMT |
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God, I know Google is one of the top companies on the web, but there are way too many rumors concerning the gPhone. This piece of speculation sustains the long-discussed gPhones are already shipping by the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. This is not the first time when HTC is brought into discussions, so there must be a ... |
17 October 2007
05:32 GMT |
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The famous Firefox developer Mozilla is now working on a mobile flavor of the web-browser which would be able to work on most of the handheld devices available on the market. If we analyze the decision a little bit, it is pretty obvious because the world is changing, the mobile industry evolving a lot in the recent p... |
11 October 2007
04:45 GMT |
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MySpace is one of the top players when it comes to social networking websites, its developers aiming to try anything they can to make their product the leader of the competition. The most recent plans concern a new pack of MySpace websites which are supposed to be compatible with the mobile devices and allow the regi... |
25 September 2007
14:36 GMT |
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An official report released as soon as this morning reveals that Nintendo is now an official sponsor of the Handheld Learning Conference and Exhibition, held 10-12th October this year, at Central Hall Westminster, in London. Handheld Learning themselves made the official announcement in an effort to gather opinion fo... |
21 September 2007
07:13 GMT |
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Lightspeed Research conducted a new study to find out the impact of the recently released iPhone and how interested the Americans are in this new handheld device powered by Apple. The survey included 39.000 persons with ages between 18 and 44 years old. According to the report, no less than 45 percent of the iPhone b... |
16 July 2007
09:07 GMT |
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FlexiSPY has been until now the ultimate solution for spying all mobile phone actions and messages. Vervata has just expanded this possibility to even more devices, including those that work on Windows Mobile or which are part of the Nokia Series 60.FlexiSPY seems to have gone past the controversy whether spying on a... |
31 May 2007
04:46 GMT |
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The wait for BlackBerry's next handheld release will soon come to an end. A new Wi-Fi mobile phone is on its way and will soon be out on the market.Jim Balsillie, co-CEO at RIM (Research In Motion) said at the JP Morgan Technology Conference on Wednesday that such a converged BlackBerry should come out "in the b... |
25 May 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Eidos' sub-brand "Secret Stash Games" has just announced it's publishing Glory Days 2, a new strategy action game perfectly tailored for the DS's capabilities. Glory Days 2 is an exclusive title to Nintendo's handheld gaming system, launching sometime this summer in North America.Glory Days 2 is m... |
9 May 2007
19:21 GMT |
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Imagine this scenario in an airport: a suspicious unidentified substance is discovered and freezes the activity for hours until a first-rescue team can come in order to make a safety assessment. Well, this is where the Ahura's Corp First Defender comes in to give rescuers a hand.The FirstDefender is a handheld ... |
8 May 2007
10:30 GMT |
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The Juno ST handheld is a non-rugged GPS receiver for field data collection and mobile GIS. Or, to put it in other words, it's a PDA with GPS (Global Positioning System) capability that is not quite designed for optimal GPS performance. The Juno ST is compact, lightweight, fully-integrated field computer, provi... |
27 April 2007
06:45 GMT |
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InfraScan US-based recently launched a medical gadget that can spot blood clots on the surface of the brain known as hematomas. This potentially fatal problem can be detected long before the doctors can figure out things. The device was tested on 15 patients that have been enrolled in its clinical trial for hematoma ... |
17 April 2007
09:04 GMT |
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NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, recently announced the availability of BGM220, the world's smallest, single-package 81-pin TFBGA, Wireless LAN (WLAN) solution, with ultra low power consumption optimized for handheld applications such as feature phones and smartphones, handheld game... |
23 March 2007
11:04 GMT |
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Apple's team of researchers is definitely not on stand-by. The US Patent & Trademark Office published yesterday Apple's patent application called 'Lanyard for handheld electronic device'. The patent relates to lanyards for handheld gadgets and would incorporate electronic circuitry. It would addre... |
9 March 2007
10:57 GMT |
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Socket Communications Inc. released today a smartphone that will target both the consumer oriented PDA market and the industrial environments. It is a device good looking enough to be appealing to the usual customer that goes for the looks and doesn't care as much about the resistance of the device because he wo... |
8 March 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Palm Inc. and Claro recently announced the availability of the Palm Treo 680 smartphone in Peru. Claro is America Movil's commercial trademark in Peru. Claro utilizes the GSM technology as well as its GPRS and EDGE evolutions. It is the mobile telecommunications carrier with the largest coverage throughout the c... |
7 March 2007
05:04 GMT |
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