Daily tech digest – Intel announces Medfield, Google and Apple are working on wearable devices
There’s a lot of stuff going on every single day in the tech industry, and below you’ll find today’s tech digest – the most interesting news for today.
Apple is reportedly working on a wearable iPod with Siri
Besides the iPhone 5 and iPad 3, Apple is also reportedly experimenting with a wearable iPod that can be controlled using Siri or some lite version of it that doesn’t need an Internet connection. It’s an interesting concept, which has actually been around before, but wasn’t too successful (mainly because of the difficulty with headphone cables. Apple is known for turning things around, though, and maybe with the new wireless design (Airplay headphones, no doubt) they can create the next generation of music players and who knows, maybe even wristwatch smartphones.
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Intel announces the Medfield phone and tablet chipset
You may remember Intel’s first foray into… Read More
Canon EOS C300 – a new modular design for professionals and studios, set to compete even with the likes of RED One
While Canon is well known in the word of digital cameras, you don’t hear much about their other products in the audiovisual niche, specifically high end cameras. Canon has had a line ever since they started making their (pretty good) consumer cameras, yet most of the times, they’ve been overshadowed by the competition, which has more experience and sometimes better prices.
But Canon is doing pretty well regardless, and just recently, they’ve updated their professional camerasline with the EOS C300 – a modular digital camera for cinematographers, videographers and anyone who intends to use it for filming some serious production (movies, TV shows, feature films, etc.).
The C300 is not your usual pro camcorder, either – unlike the older Canon cameras, it features a new modular design, much like the famous RED One and the new Scarlet, while the cost is even lower (although the specs are a… Read More
HP Elitebook 8560w – probably the most powerful 15.6” mobile workstation on the market
Among the many different business laptops on the market, the Elitebook line is probably the most well-known. It’s HP premier brand for corporate and business users and when you hear Elitebook, you know it’s a quality product that is powerful, fits well in a business environment and will go on strong for more than half a decade if it must.
The last two generations of the Elitebook were very popular, mostly thanks to the powerful hardwareinside them and the high build quality – these things are like tanks, made fully out of metal and being able to withstand some pretty harsh conditions. And just recently, the new generation of Elitebooks went on sale – the xx60w features a new design and the most powerful hardware you can find on the market for any laptop.
The Elitebook 8560w particularly stands out, as it is a 15.6 inch model that… Read More
Toshiba Portege Z830 vs Apple MacBook Air – can the cheapest Ultrabook compare to the prodigy?
The Apple MacBook Air was one of the first truly powerful ultra slim laptops, and even though the first model was expensive, slow (because of the hard drive) and overheated often, it was pretty much a success for those who wanted an ultraportable laptop that would still be powerful enough to run most of the normal software that most people needed. The MacBook Air with a Core 2 Duo could easily run VirtualBox, Photoshop, Sound Forge and other demanding apps, making it the number one choice for traveling developers, designers and audio makers.
Obviously, the latest version of the MacBook Air has seen quite a lot of improvements and it’s now better than ever, but the laptop has now gotten some serious competition in the form of Ultrabooks, which follow the same ultraportable philosophy as the Air, but are more powerful and cost less.
One of the most… Read More
Today’s products digest – Panasonic phones are coming back, the Xyboard is on sale and Leica rebadges the Lumix FZ150
The past few months have been pretty crazy when it comes to new product releases on the tech and mobile markets, but that should come as no surprise, actually, since we’re close to one of the biggest holiday and shopping season in the world, and every company and manufacturer wants a piece of the pie.
There are so many things happening that it’s hard to focus on all of them, so let’s take it easy by looking at just three products that we found out will be on the market soon.
First up is Panasonic’s as-of-yet unnamed smartphone, which will have a slim profile, nice design and some pretty good specs, too. Panasonic was pretty successful on the phones market, and they still release the occasional handset in Japan and rest of Asia, but they’ve sort of faded away from the scene ever since smartphones took over. It seems… Read More
Prada Phone by LG 3.0 is here – the first luxury smartphone from the fashion company
LG and Prada have a long history together (well in the tech world it’s long) – they’ve released the first phone with a capacitive touch screen, which competed directly with the Apple iPhone, at least on the hardware level. On the software level, it was just another feature phone and it turned out that Apple had nothing to worry about. The LG Prada was a fashion accessory first, phone later, and it accomplished that functionality perfectly.
Then came the second LG Prada phone, this time sporting a QWERTY keyboard that was pretty good, actually, at the time. Unfortunately, neither LG nor Prada learned from the first mistake (or maybe they considered it a success?) and used some proprietary OS again, giving the users no room for freedom or expansion software wise.
But now, with the smartphone being the new cellphone, it’s time that the fashion accessory phone takes another… Read More
Motorola Droid RAZR vs Nokia Lumia 800 – the Android and Windows Phone 7 flagships go head to head
In the Android smartphones world, the Nexus series is widely recognized as the flagship, mainly because it’s Google’s own official handset and they’re basically the ones who develop the OS, so it stands to reason that the hardware will also be good and work perfectly with the software. But there are actually a lot of great phones on the market that would deserve the flagship moniker, and the Droid RAZR is definitely the winner for me. The thing has style, power and quite a few features that are missing on the latest Galaxy Nexus.
In the meantime, the Windows Phone 7 world is rocked by Nokia’s new handsets, and the Lumia 800, previously known as the Sea Ray, is the most advanced of the bunch (the HTC Titan is not better, by the way – it’s just bigger, the performance and other features are practically the same). Let’s see… Read More
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