Archives for March 2009

Sony Cyber-shot HX1 camera announced at PMA

March 3, 2009 By Kunal Gangar Leave a Comment

Sony is proud to announce its first digital camera, HX1 to feature sweep panorama technology. With HX1, a user can shoot panoramic photos up to 224-degree horizontally and 154-degree vertically. It continuously shoots pictures at full 9.1MP resolution and then the imaging processor stitches the photos automatically to give the best output. It also […]

Asus to pull a decent show at CeBIT

March 3, 2009 By Apurva 2 Comments

Asus revealed its fleet of products that will be showcased at the CeBIT today. First is the Asus-Lamborghini offspring VX5. Apart from the classy Lamborghini styling, the VX5 has a 16-inch screen and features an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB RAM, GeForce GT 130M GPU, Blu-ray drive and 1TB SSD making it the […]

Nvidia announces GTX 200M and GTS 100M fastest notebook GPU series

March 3, 2009 By Kunal Gangar 1 Comment

Nvidia just announced four new GPUs for notebooks hailing from the GTX 200M and GTS 100M series. The GTX 280M and 260M are apt for enthusiast notebooks while GTS 160M and 150M aim for high performance sleek laptops. All the cards boast to be 50 percent faster from the previous generation cards without increasing […]

Meizu working on M8’s CDMA siblings

March 3, 2009 By Apurva Leave a Comment

Meizu seems to delve in future projects already. After releasing the GSM variant of M8, Meizu’s head confirmed that they are working on M9 – M9c and M9t. The M9 does not look to be totally different from M8 apart from the cellular radios. M9c will support CDMA2000 and M9t will run on China’s […]

Apple Mac Mini and new iMacs coming on March 24?

March 2, 2009 By Kinjal Sangoi 3 Comments

UPDATE: Apple launched new consumer line of Macs. The iMac and the Mini refresh wait might be over on March 24. According to couple of websites, an Apple event is planned on the destined date. While one refrains to tell what exactly is planned for the event, the other one gives more precise details […]

Asus supposedly pulling back P565 because of Garmin partnership

March 2, 2009 By Kunal Gangar Leave a Comment

It looks like Asus is trying to slow down the pace of Asus branded phones in the market with the new alliance with Garmin. It is being reported that France was destined to get the P565 handset last month but now, the phone will not be released. However, it is unclear if P565 will […]

NAM Nokia 5800XM withdrawn from flagship store

March 2, 2009 By Kinjal Sangoi 1 Comment

This is not Nokia would have expected but after a mild launch of 5800 XpressMusic, the phone has been pulled off from Nokia flagship store because of the issues reported earlier, specifically the US pertinent problem of 3G. Currently, Nokia is taking the contact details of all the interested 5800 customers. [Via Gizmodo]

Gel-filled Helmet will protect British army from headshots

March 2, 2009 By Kinjal Sangoi 1 Comment

It’s not the first time we have seen UK’s Ministry of Defense looking for new offense and defensive tools to fight on the warfront. This time, they have contracted a UK based company to produce gel-filled helmets that can increases the chances to save a soldier’s life when a bullet is aimed at the […]

Asus unveils P835 phone with a huge screen, acts as a Wi-Fi AP

March 2, 2009 By Kunal Gangar 1 Comment

Glaxy7 (or Galaxy) has been officially announced by Asus as P835. It has a lovely 3.5-inch touchscreen display supporting WVGA resolution, Asus’ Glide UI, HSPA, 5MP camera, GPS and Wi-Fi which can be configured to function as an access point by sharing its HSPA connection. The phone comes with Windows Mobile 6.1 and it […]