Apple is holding a media event today, March 2nd, at 1PM EST. The event, entitled “Come see what 2011 will be the year of,” features the corner of the new iPad. What else will be announced? iPhone 5? A Final Cut Pro update? Stay tuned as we bring you the latest.
Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s President and COO, is holding a special event on January 11th in NYC, and we’re almost positive that a Verizon iPhone is being announced.
Why? First off, CES is coming to a close and Verizon had a pretty big presence there, yet they did not announce anything big, so this event must be some big news. Finally, Gizmodo, the ones who leaked the iPhone 4 in the first place, were not invited to the event.
We’ll keep you updated once the date comes, so stay tuned for more. [via Gizmodo]
Less than three months before the launch of the 3DS in Japan, Nintendo’s handheld has been stolen by an employee from a Chinese manufacturing factory. Of course, he took it home and decided to post pictures and videos from for the world to see.
The “Cosmo Black” 3DS is a little different from the ones we saw at E3 and the September 29th announcement, with the Select, Home, and Start buttons lying flush against the screen bezel. A 1300mAh batter and 96MB of RAM have also been confirmed.
Hit the break for a couple of shots of the system compared to everything from the Game Boy Micro to the DSi XL. [via TGBUS]
Android Gingerbread still hasn’t rolled out universally, but already, Google’s got plans for their next update, Android Honeycomb. The new version of Android will greatly improve tablet support, with a more desktop-like UI and a bottom dock of icons.
Andy Rubin also revealed a mysterious Motorola tablet. The device was completely button-less and was powered by a dual-core NVIDIA processor.
Google Maps Mobile is also getting an update, with dynamically-rendered vector drawings of cityscapes, two-finger tilting and rotating, gyroscope support, and the ability to cache for offline view of your most-visited places.
While the Google Maps update is available now, Honeycomb isn’t due out until next year.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, LG’s VP of Marketing made a bold statement, stating that their upcoming tablet “will be better than the iPad” and will also be “surprisingly productive.”
Hopefully, LG will live up to these claims, finally having a worthy iPad competitor in the market. But, the tablet is expected to be running Android, so LG’s going to have to really step up their game to distinguish this tablet from the array of other Android tablets in the market. [via WSJ]
The enV Touch has been pretty common on Verizon for those looking for a featurephone for texting. Now, LG is making the interesting switch to Android for the second itineration of the device, dubbed the enV Touch 2. The new phone will have two touchscreens: one on the outside and one on the inside when you flip it open, revealing the QWERTY keyboard. The phone is currently running Android 2.1 and there’s no word yet whether the device will make the upgrade to Froyo by the time of its release near the holidays. It is said to be a global phone and is also apparently relatively heavy and bulky.
This seems like a pretty interesting device and it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. [via Engadget]
The ever so popular G1 Android smartphone is getting a sequel, the T-Mobile G2. So far, we know that it runs Android and uses T-Mobile’s HSPA+ airwaves. Rumors say that the new phone is an HTC handset and will see a September release.
More information is expected “in the coming weeks” as the site says so we’ll just have to wait and see. [via T-Mobile]
According to a development source (who chose to remain anonymous), a R&D project was run by Nintendo and Nokia in the early 2000s on the concept of a Nintendo phone. The efforts were successful enough that the concept was taken to the company’s board of directors at Nintendo’s Japanese HQ, but the idea was rejected.
At the time, Nintendo was working on which later became the DS and decided a dedicated portable console was the better choice. Nokia, on the other hand, was working on the N-Gage phone. It turns out Nintendo made the right choice, with four hardware designs, the DS has had more than 120 million sales, while the N-Gage was a failure.
So while the possibilities of a Nintendo phone turn bleak, the technology of mobile phones still lives on, even in current Nintendo portables. Take the 3DS, the always-on connectivity and ability to pass data between 3DS devices has been compared to a cellular connection, even though the technology most likely uses Wi-Fi networks.
Now, lets just hope that Nintendo can improve their online gaming experience. [via Pocket Gamer]
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