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Samsung officially announces Galaxy Tab
Sep 3rd
Samsung has just officially announced their long-awaited Android Tablet – Galaxy Tab.
The specs of the Galaxy Tab is nearly the same as a normal smartphone, it is just bigger. It comes with a 7″ TFT-LCD display with WSVGA resolution (1024 x 600), 3 MP rear-facing camera paired with a 1.3 MP front-facing camera, and a massive 4,000 mAh battery. All of these give you a 380g of weight.
The Galaxy Tab will be equipped with Android 2.2 – Froyo. During the the launch event, the Samsung team has stated they have been working closely with Google and there will be new tablet in 2011 based the the next generation Android – Honeycomb (3.5?).
You can get more information of Galaxy Tab at its official site here. There are some interesting accessories like car dock, desktop dock, keyboard dock, etc. And you can find the video for the add-on apps that come with Galaxy Tab like reader hub, video call, etc.
[via samsungmobile]
Windows phone 7 has been released to manufacturing, ready to roll
Sep 2nd
About half a year after it was first revealed by Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 is finally ready to roll now. It has just been announced by Microsoft that it has reached Gold status and has been released to manufacturing (RTM) for final testing before releasing their Windows Phone 7 devices. So we should be able to see the Windows Phone 7 devices in the market soon.
Terry Myerson from Microsoft has some stories to tell for the development of Windows Phone 7:
“Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7! While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete.
Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes. We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready.
I last posted on this blog when we reached the Technical Preview milestone, and we’ve received some great feedback since then which we’ve been able to respond to and improve the smart design throughout the OS. For example, folks loved the Facebook integration in the People Hub, but they also wanted ways to filter their contacts so only the Facebook friends they really know will show up in their contact list – we’ve added support for that. We’ve also made it easy to “like” a post right from the People Hub, or quickly post a message to someone’s Facebook wall directly.
This has been one of the most incredible product development efforts I’ve ever been a part of. Today’s milestone is exciting not just because of what we’ll deliver to customers later this year, but how it sets us up for success over the long term in the mobile space… we’re really just getting started.”
[via windowsteamblog]
Motorola officially announces MILESTONE (DROID) 2
Sep 2nd
The new brother of Motorola MILESTONE (DROID) 2 has been officially announced. This new Android device comes with 1Ghz CPU, revamped keyboard720 HD video recording and a new look of the Motoblur. Enjoy the video below:
Apple publishes details of iOS 4.1, to be released next week
Sep 2nd
Apple has just published the details of the iOS 4.1 updates, but it will only be available next week.
This release focuses on bug fixes with some new features:
- Games Center: the social gaming platform
- iTunes TV show rentals: for 99 cents per episode
- iTunes Ping: social capability of iTunes let let you share what you are listening and follow other people’s activities
- HDR photography: which automatically combines multiple exposures into a single HDR image
- HD video uploads: let you upload your HD recordings to YouTube and MobileMe
For more information, you can find it on Apple’s web site here.
Palm releases WebOS 2.0 SDK beta to limited developers
Sep 1st
While we are still wondering how WebOS’s development will be moving forward after HP put in their money, Palm has just released the beta version of the WebOS SDK 2.0 to limited developers.
From the features made available to the developers, we can see some new features of the upcoming WebOS 2.0. There are things like Stack, an improved Card feature for the multitasking capability of WebOS, which stacks similar card together. Palm also opens the Synergy so that third party developers can add services to other IM and messaging services to the famous Synergy Unified Communication feature . The HTML5 and Java script functions have been improved as well.
Well, I am actually quite excited to see whether Palm will release new improved devices based on the new OS and sell them to the rest of the world.
[via Palm developers Center]
Samsung announced Wave 723, the second Bada phone
Sep 1st
Samsung is not going to stop at Wave for its Bada push, it has just announced the second Bada phone – the Wave 723.
Sure, it looks like the Android 2.2 with the TouchWiz 3.0, but the underlying OS is Bada – the mobile OS created by Samsung.
Specs wise, the phone will come with a 3.2 Super AMOLED screen, 802.11n and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. The Bada OS is upgraded to 1.1. There is no price information at the moment.
Samsung Galaxy Tab video
Aug 27th
Here is a video from Digital time Korea for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab – the 7″ Android tablet. I won’t say much, enjoy the video!
