Archive for January, 2010
CES Roundup January 6, 2010
A roundup of all the interesting news from CES on Wednesday January 6th, 2010. Updated Hourly.
- AT&T announces Android headset for 2010
- AT&T announces two web-OS devices for 2010
- Toshiba announces Cell TV’s
- FLO TV and Mophie team up to bring mobile TV to your iPhone
- Samsung announces E6 and E10 e-book readers at CES
- Sony Dash Internet Viewer is like a Giant, Beautiful 7-inch Chumby
- DirecTV 3D broadcasts officially announced, coming in June
- PS3 will play 3D Blu-ray Movies
- MSI announces dual screen e-reader
- The HP Slate
Quick Look: Google Nexus One
Today Google announced the long rumored “Google Phone” which will actually be known as the Google Nexus One. The Nexus One will be available in two varieties, an unlocked unsubsidized model that will be sold directly by Google for $529.00 and a subsidized model available on the T-Mobile network for $179.00 (with a 2 year contract). The Nexus One will also be available on Verizon and Vodafone later this spring. Lets look at a run down of the Nexus One’s features:
- 3.7-inch AMOLED display
- 1GHz Snapdragon processor
- Compass, GPS, accelerometer plus light and proximity sensor
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- Multicolored LED under the trackball
- Two mics onboard, one on the bottom and one on the back, for the purpose of noise cancellation
- Android 2.1 OS
You can preview and order the Google Nexus One at google.com/phone and it ships TODAY.
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Three Billion
3 Billion downloads in 18 months. 350 apps downloaded per second. Impressive.
CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone® and iPod touch® users worldwide.
“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months-this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
Source: Gizmodo
Google Chrome Overtakes Safari in Web Browser Usage
According to Rick Whiting of ChannelWeb, Google Chrome has eclipsed Apple’s Safari browser to become the world’s third most popular Web browser. Chrome, which has been around just a little more than one year, accounted for 4.63 percent of browser usage in December, compared to Apple Safari usage of only 4.46 percent last month. Recently Google launched extensions for Chrome adding to the popular of the speedy browser.