Archive for September, 2010

HTC Aria debuts in Australia today

Phone maker of the moment HTC today unleashed its latest Android smartphone onto the Australian market. The new Aria is a slightly more compact version of the HTC Legend with similar 3.2-inch 320×480-pixel resolution LCD panel and the same 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor. The only disappoint aspect of the Aria is that it comes with [...]

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Paperless office? Dell launches eight new colour laser printers

US computing giant Dell has decided business-class printing is an under-resourced market with news the company has today launched eight new colour laser-grade printers aimed at the small to medium business (SMB) market. Dell has announced four new LED colour printers – the entry-level 1250c, what it claims is the world’s smallest business-grade colour A4 [...]

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Will RIM get developer love for its PlayBook?

And with that comes yet another platform to entice developers. The announcement of the PlayBook tablet device provides a new platform for developers to create multimedia-rich web apps to entice users. The question is will developers jump at the idea of yet another option? With Apple and Google leading the way in gaining interest from [...]

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RIM launches Blackberry tablet

Smartphone maker Research in Motion overnight became the latest brand to launch a tablet device into what will shortly become a very crowded market. Called the PlayBook, the new “enterprise-ready” tablet features a 7-inch LCD panel with 1024×600-pixel resolution, an as-yet-unspecified 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and a brand-new Blackberry Tablet OS, that supports [...]

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Sharp to enter e-book reader market with Galapagos

The already-crowded ebook reader market is going to get tighter still with news than Japanese consumer electronics brand Sharp is about to jump into the market with two new e-readers. Branded “Galapagos”, Sharp will release a smaller 5.5-inch model plus a 10.8-inch unit and power the two with its own e-book store, beginning in Japan [...]

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