Every now and then the world of technology takes an unexpected turn that revises our settled beliefs. The recent announcement of OLPC’s XO-2 laptop as well as an update that this device could get dual-touch sensitive displays was such a moment and we have to admit that, although it is in an early development stage, [...]
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Next OLPC laptop to get touch-sensitive displays
All–new Samsung L870 rocking Apple Safari
The Korean giant has decided stick Cupertino’s web service into the Symbian S60–based phone, which is due to find its way into gadget–hungry palms in Europe this August.Previously, the only phone you could find with Safari was the, yep you guessed it, iPhone. Obviously it’ll find its way onto the 3G version too, but this [...]
BenQ releases new T850 touch screen digital camera
BenQ announced the launch of the world’s slimmest 8-mega-pixel digital camera, the T850 with 1600 ISO, 3x optical zoom and smc PENTAX lens. Sleek and compact at 14.9mm thick, the T850’s chic stainless steel casing (available in black or red) reflects the minimalist operating ease of the camera. Exceptional efficiency and user-friendliness are made possible [...]
LaCie doubles external d2 Blu-ray burn times to 4x
LaCie announced today that is has doubled burn speeds to 4x for it d2 Blu-ray Drive and has updated the aluminum alloy case and software suite. The drive records, rewrites and reads 25 gigabytes (GB) or 50GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable), as well as DVD±RW DL and CD±RW. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive come [...]
Nokia’s N95 8GB for North America gets v20 firmware as well
Hot on the heels of the N95 NAM, the N95 8GB NAM has just received a firmware refresh courtesy of Nokia. The changes? You guessed it; just about the same as all the other v20 firmware out there, although N95-4 owners already had much of the functionality N95 NAM users had been waiting for. After [...]
