Xybotyx, a leading edge smartphone creative support technology manufacturer, announced at CES 2012 the much-awaited launch of the Xybot 1, a robot intelligence of the first order that will bring enjoyment of your iPhone to unheard of heights.
Xybot 1 goes on sale in February and full worldwide delivery is set for the following month.
Motorola, the company acquired by Google last year, launched the Droid Razr Maxx, an improved version of Droid Razr, which is set to hit the market on January 26th. The official launch took place at CES in Las Vegas.
The smartphone comes with a Li-Ion 3300 mAh, which ensures an autonomy of 380 hours in stand-by and up to 21 hours talk time – nearly double the Droid Razr. The phone has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, scratch resistant – created with the Corning Gorilla technology.
Canonical, the company that deals with the development of Ubuntu, has presented at CES 2012 the Ubuntu TV operating system for TV manufacturers as well as a smart TV for Linux enthusiasts. As an alternative to other smart TVs, the device powered by Canonical runs this new operating system, offering a lot of features.
The Ubuntu version especially designed for TVs is similar to Google TV and will be able to be updated later through WiFi. Offering support for DVR functionalities, including movies, music, TV broadcasting and YouTube player integrated, Ubuntu TV is the open-source platform optimized for TVs of Ubuntu OS. Canonical is now working on improving Ubuntu TV and wants it to reach all the TV manufacturers, this being the first major step in the company’s intentions to overcome the barriers of a PC or laptop case.
Rafflecopter whishes you all a happy new year and starts the 2012 with a giveaway where the participants can win an iPad2 or one of the two Kindle Fires in the “Rafflecopter Launch Party Giveaway”!
What Is Rafflecopter?
Rafflecopter is an application that helps publishers create, run and organize giveaways. It’s a service that allows users to place an embeddable widget that displays the specifications and entrants of the giveaway.
The Rafflecopter Launch Party Giveaway
With over 80,000 giveaways already created using this FREE service, Rafflecopter.com launches the “Rafllecopter Launch Party Giveaway” in order to celebrate the New Year by giving away a 16GB Apple iPad2 and several Kindle Fires. The giveaway contest started Monday, January 9 and will last for a month.
In order to make this giveaway contest more exciting, Rafflecopter decided that the one who refer the winner will be rewarded with a Kindle Fire!
How To Register
The process of getting in is quite simple – the only thing a user should do is to tell who referred him. Also, users can get additional entries by promoting this giveaway on social networks, blogs, etc. Moreover, for an additional entry, users have to suggest a name for the Rafflecopter mascot – that funny smiley face – and after the giveaway ends, a list of favorite names will be voted on Facebook. The winner will win a Kindle Fire as well as a place in Rafflecopter history.
Acer has launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas its new ultrabook Acer Aspire S5, the thinnest in the world, according to the Taiwanese company. The device with a 13.3-inch screen weighs less than 1.35 kg and comes with the Acer Green Instant On technology, which guarantees an instant starting time.
Acer Aspire S5 starts the avalanche of ultrabooks that will be launched this week in Las Vegas, during the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Acer Aspire A5 measures only 15 mm in its thickest point and weighs less than 1.35 kg. Moreover, Aspire S5, through the Acer Green Instant On technology, ensures a fast startup time of just 1.5 seconds.
Most real-life research needs require more than one or two keywords in Google: answering a question online often requires dozens of rephrased queries, pages of reading and hundreds of clicks. Today, the thirst for information is only hindered by the frustrations due to too much information.
In this context, Web users are ready to jump on the first intuitive applications that will allow them to easily identify and collect only the desired information, and organize it into personal or professional dashboards, mashups or knowledge bases, thanks to the technologies of the Semantic Web.
OutWit Technologies is one of the rare publishers already proposing this type of tools, and if they only represent the first steps, they already save considerable time and effort, automating tedious and repetitive tasks.
OutWit Hub breaks down Web pages into their different information elements. It knows how to navigate through sequences of pages and can extract large amounts of data and media and organize them into collections. It will automatically explore whole Web sites or search engine result pages for you and extract contacts, links, images, data, news, etc.
The light version is free and operational. It doesn?t include all the automation tools available in OutWit Hub Pro and the extraction is limited to a few hundred rows, but it gives a good overview of the basic features before purchasing the full version.
The company gives a 25% discount on the price of OutWit Hub Pro to educational and non-profit organizations.
The iPhone 4 has been finally announced at the WWDC 2010. Steve Jobs himself revealed the new smartphone by Apple: the next iPhone is a 9.3mm thick (a quarter thinner than the iPhone 3GS; ?the thinnest smartphone on the planet?, as Jobs said), has glass on front and back (?for better optical quality and scratch resistance?), and stainless steel around. It uses the stainless steel band as part of the antenna system.
?It’s the most precise thing we’ve ever made,? Apple CEO said.
iPhone 4 is powered by the A4 chip (designed ?in house?) and comes with two built-in cameras (one on the front and one on the back with an LED flash), two mics (one for a noise cancellation), micro-SIM (?we needed the space!”), 802.11n WiFi, GPS, compass, accelerometer, Quadband HSDPA/HSUPA, 7.2Mbps and up to 32GB of storage.
The display is a huge innovation: based on new IPS technology (“quite a bit better than OLED”), the 3.5 inch, 960 x 640 Retina Display displays 326 pixels per inch (four times as many pixels as in any standard display) giving us really sharp text and pictures. The contrast ratio is 800:1 (4x better than the 3GS).
Since the battery is now a bit bigger, its life has been improved. Apple says there is 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music and 300 hours of standby.
Another new piece of hardware is a gyroscope with pitch, roll, and yaw. It provides 6-axis motion sensing and features new CoreMotion APIs for extremely precise positioning. “We’re adding a 3 axis gyro, and we tied the gyro and accelerometer, compass, and gyro together for six axis. It’s perfect for gaming,” Jobs said.
Back camera has gone from 3 to 5 MP. Apple is using something that’s new to smarpthones — a back side illuminated sensor (giving more light to the camera). There’s a 5X digital zoom, tap to focus, and LED flash built in.
Camera also does HD 720p (at 30 frames per second) video recording. It supports tap to focus and allows us to edit videos right on the phone. It also has 1-click sharing and the LED flash will stay on for the HD video recording. There is also iMovie coming to the iPhone for $4.99 (?if we approve it,? Jobs joked).
iPhone 4 will also feature “FaceTime” video calling. It works between iPhone 4 devices, doesn?t require any setting-up and works anywhere there is WiFi. ?It’s WIFI only in 2010. We need to work a little bit with our providers,? Jobs said. He added that Apple is going to make FaceTime and open industry standard.
Apple has renamed the iPhone OS. Now it’s just iOS 4.” Becuase it’s on iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone,? Apple CEO said. He also said that 100 millionth iOS device will be sold this month. “There is definitely a market for your applications,” Jobs added.
As announced earlier this year, new iOS 4 features include Multitasking for third party apps; Folders to better organize and access apps; improved Mail with a unified inbox, fast inbox switching and threaded messages; enhanced Enterprise support with better data protection, mobile device management and wireless app distribution.
Apple has also added Bing to the iPhone for search (?Microsoft has done a great job on this,? Jobs said). Google will still be the default, but now we’ll have choice of Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Developers will get a Golden Master Candidate release of iOS4 today.
Apple is also bringing iBooks to the iPhone with the iPhone 4. It has the same bookshelf as on the iPad, the same ability to read a PDF and comes with the same controls, highlighting, notes, and bookmarking. We can download the same book to all our devices at no extra charge (?Buy it on your iPad, download to your iPhone?)! In addition, iBooks will automatically and wirelessly sync our current place, bookmarks, and notes across all our devices.
On July 1st Apple will also start providing iAds to all iOS 4 devices. ?Why are we doing this? To help our developers earn money to continue to create free and low-cost apps for users,? Jobs said. According to him, they are trying to combine ?the emotion of video with the interactivity of the Web.”
Apple sells and hosts the ads, so developers just have to tell them where to put the ads. And devs get paid 60 percent of the revenue. The company started selling ads eight weeks ago to: Nissan, Citi, Unilever, AT&T, Chanel, GE, Liberty Mutual, State Farm, Geico, Campbells, Sears, JCPenney, Target, Best Buy, DirecTV, TBS Network and Disney. “We’ve got advertisers committing to $60m,” Jobs said.
Price and availability
iPhone 4 comes in two colors: black and white. 16GB model is for $199, and 32GB model for $299. Old 3GS is now $99
Jobs said that AT&T is going to make an ?incredibly generous upgrade offer: if your contract expires at any time in 2010, you can upgrade to the iPhone 4. You can get it up to six months early.”
The new iPhone will be on sale June 24th. Pre orders begin June 15th. Apple will ship iPhone 4 in US and four other countries on the first day (U.K., Germany, France, Japan). In July they’re shipping in 18 countries more. By September it will ship in 88 countries. “Our fastest roll out ever,” Jobs said.
iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod touch users can upgrade to iOS 4 for free starting June 21.
Reed Hastings from Netflix, Mark Pincus from Zygna and Karthik Bala from Activision were also on stage announcing that Netflix, Farmville and new Guitar Hero will be coming to the iPhone.
Originally appeared on Smartphone.Biz-News.com
Designed by HTC, myTouch 3G Slide will be coming in June from T-Mobile. It is powered by the Android 2.1 and features 3.4-inch HVGA touch- screen display with virtual keyboard as well as a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera and a music player with a pre-installed 8GB microSD memory card. It also comes with three completely new features:
Toshiba has developed a 21-inch autostereoscopic high-definition display for use in next-generation 3D monitors that enables the user to enjoy three-dimensional images without the need for special glasses. It employs an integral imaging system (a ?light field? display) to reproduce a real object as a 3D image that can be viewed without glasses over a wide range of viewing angles. It also features a multi-parallax design that enables motion parallax, which cannot be achieved by systems using glasses. The multi-parallax approach results in images that change depending on the viewer?s position.
Consumer silicon solutions firm Marvell released Moby MED tablet designed to allow physicians to consult with patients remotely in real-time. It allows consumers to manage their own health histories, makes it possible to send and read high-resolution diagnostic imagery, and gives consumers access to online medical information.
The tablet platform features a built?in camera for live video conferencing and multiple simultaneous viewing screens allowing patients to have real-time consultation with a physician while examining an x-ray image, referencing an online medical encyclopedia and order a prescription from a nearby pharmacy.
It comes with Marvell ARMADA 600 series 1GHz processor, 1080p videos, HD webcam, power-efficient Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM/GPS connectivity, 3D graphics capability and support for multiple software standards including full Adobe Flash, Android and Windows Mobile.