Firefox Heading To Android
Posted at 4:41 am | Filed Under GPS devices
With little or no chance of ever being able to make it through the draconian approval process of Apple’s iTunes App Store, Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the Firefox browser, is betting on two major, if emerging, mobile operating platforms: Maemo, Nokia’s new Linux-based operating system, and Google’s Android OS. But don’t count on [...]
The Red Light Camera Detector Skips Gps Navigation, Charges $200 Anyway
Posted at 4:36 am | Filed Under GPS devices
The Engadget Mobile folks made it really tough to justify the price tag of the Garmin-Asus nuviphone G60 in a comprehensive review of the GPS-oriented GPS handset yesterday. But Hammacher Schlemmer makes it even more difficult to justify the price of the Red Light Camera Detector by passing it off as a GPS navigator without [...]
Asus’ Eee Keyboard Brings A New Form Factor To Netbooks
Posted at 4:01 am | Filed Under GPS devices
One of the more enthralling netbook concepts to emerge from CES this year is ASUS’ Eee keyboard. With a built-in computer and keyboard-embedded 5-inch touchscreen, the Eee keyboard is made to connect with any type of display, whether PC or HDTV. The 2 pound Eee keyboard has typical netbook specs including a 1.6 GHz Intel [...]
B-cycle Bike Sharing Startup Mashes Up Bikes, Gps, Solar Power And Fancy Branding To Save Our Health And The Environment
Posted at 3:56 am | Filed Under GPS devices
Would you opt for a GPS-packin’, retro-lookin’ bike to make short trips in your city instead of a car? That’s the premise behind B-cycle, a bike-sharing startup put together by Humana, Trek and Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
It may seem strange that a bike manufacturer, health insurance provider and big-name advertising agency decided to team [...]
One Laptop Per Child’s Xo-2 Dual-screen Laptop Caught On Camera In Davos
Posted at 2:36 am | Filed Under GPS devices
When the One Laptop Per Child project, which aims to distribute low-cost netbooks among the world’s children, launched a couple year’s back, it was a revolutionary idea. And while it’s had its successes, the first OLPC XO-1 netbook never achieved the manufacturing scale it needed to drive down the cost.
At the beginning of the project, [...]
Nokia Ivalo, Madeleine Gps Phones Coming To Mobile World Congress?
Posted at 8:15 pm | Filed Under GPS devices
By the looks of this video interview with the Nokia 97’s designer, we may see a pair of new Nokia touchscreen phones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.
The first handset, rumored to be codenamed Nokia Madeleine, has a side-sliding form factor, tilting touch display, full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, FM [...]
Kohjinsha Gps-packin’ Sc3kp06gs Netbook Hits Singapore
Posted at 5:40 pm | Filed Under GPS devices
Kohjinsha has released its 7-inch touchscreen SC3KP06GS in Singapore. The GPS-packin’ mini-badboy sports a 1.33 GHz Z520 Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 60 GB hard drive, preloaded navigation software, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, ethernet, MicroSD/MS/MMC slot, PCMCIA ExpressCard slot and dictionaries in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Unfortunately [...]
Enigmatic Mio Netbook Sports Arm Processor, Gps, Wi-fi
Posted at 5:40 pm | Filed Under GPS devices
We’ve been hearing rumors of a Mio-branded mobile internet device or netbook for a bit now, so it’s no surprise the company has one under glass at CES. But tell me this: how the heck has no one come across this two days into the conference? Kevin C. Tofel’s astute eye did this evening, thank [...]
Intel Throws Atom Z280 Out The Door And Into The Wild
Posted at 5:40 pm | Filed Under GPS devices
Intel has confirmed that its Intel Atom Z280 chip is shipping; not a big surprise considering the new processor powers the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE which is up for preorder already. At a clock cycle of 1.66 GHz, the Atom Z280 is a touch faster than its 1.6 GHz Z270 predecessor and has a faster [...]