Archive for July, 2009

  • 22 Jul

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    Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone

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    Now Navigon delivers also an offline navigational solution for the iPhone. Several months ago TomTom was the first company that announced real turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone.

    The application can be downloaded via the AppStore and contains about 1.29GB of North America map material from NAVTEQ. I’m not sure about an European version of MobileNavigator, but if it’s not available yet it is only a matter of time. Functionality of the application includes Reality View Pro, Lane Assistant Pro, Speed Assistant and Day & Night Mode, users can specify their Home Address and setup favorite addresses or access nearby POIs for faster address search. The route is described via voice guided turn-by-turn directions and uses the iPhone accelerometer for an horizontal mode as it is known from the TomTom application. Navigon is offering it up for just $69.99 until August 15th.

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    First tests from Engadget classify the application as recommendable.

    [via Engadget]

  • 19 Jul

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    joesonic


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    Can you remember? – Vintage computer parts compared with current ones.

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    Following Hardware chart includes historic and current parts of computer hardware and arises nostalgia. Different types of notebook ram, hard drives, ports, processor card sockets and ports, peripheral cards, CPU sockets, desktop ram and power connectors.

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  • 04 Jul

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    First Sony Ericsson Android Phone – XPERIA Codename: Rachael

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    Currently rumors of the first Android based handset of Sony Ericsson can be found on several Internet news portals. The danish phone site Mobile invoke on internal documents of Sony Ericsson, which describe an upcoming XPERIA handset codenamed Rachael. Fist details of the specifications include:

    • 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
    • HSPA
    • 8 megapixel camera
    • 3.5mm headphone jack
    • big touchscreen (somewhere between 3.75″ and 4″)

    Until now there are no official facts of the smart-phone available. It is unclear if the phone will have a capacitive touch screen or if Sony will have its own special UI on top of Android like HTC is doing. There are no information about the measurements and size of the phone. Furthermore it doesn’t seem to include a slide-out keyboard (because of the thin chassis).

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    The phone also includes few buttons on the front which is unusual for Android phones. Current HTC Android phones have at least a home button, back button, pick up, end call, and some sort of navigation input like a dpad or trackball.

    It can be assumed that the phone will not available very soon (maybe during 2010). Previously SonyEricsson stated that they would skip Android 1.5 and wait for version 2.0 before releasing their first handset. One of the features that are supposedly added to Android 2.0 is WVGA (800×480 or 854×480) support. So this phone could be the first with WVGA resolution.

    [via Engadget]