GearLive shows us a video walkthrough of the latest iPhone firmware version 1.1.3. In the video, new features that demoed include:
- Drag home screen icons around, into and out of the dock, and onto other pages
- the Firmware crashes once during the demo
- SMS to multiple people
- Google maps Drop Pin, Locate Me (pseudo GPS), Hybrid Map
- Safari Add Bookmark to Homescreen.
Watch the video after the jump.
A few days ago, NEC has released a Hello Kitty laptop named LaVie G. It’s decorated with Swarovski crystals and kills us all with Hello Kitty’s cuteness. A friend I’ve sent the pic to said, “at least the base color isn’t pink.” Hah. I think NEC was just waiting for the right moment to reveal the pic of the pink-colored LaVie G. I bet Japanese Hello Kitty fangirls and gadget geeks have gushed “kawaii” (translation: cute) when they saw the pic. The laptop sells at USD$1840 and in my opinion, you’d have to be not just a casual Hello Kitty fanatic to shell out that much cash for a laptop with Hello Kitty’s face on it.
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The much awaited pink Palm Centro’s pic was spotted. It was posted in the Sprint Users‘ forum by a member called TheRobin. The release is said to be set sometime around January or February 2008 which dates January 6, January 13 and February 14 being touted as possible exact release dates. While Sprint hasn’t released the pink Palm Centro yet, feast your eyes upon the pic and hope that the real deal will be as…err…pink.
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Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable talked about the anonymous tip they received about a non-working Google Android Demo. We, here in Mobilewhack, have received the same thing, although this time, the tipper has a name (which, of course, we won’t reveal). We received the same email Mashable did, with a very few changes. According to the tip, a contextual search on the Google Android Phone revealed a page wherein which we could test out the Google Android Phone. The tipper said that it picks up phrases such as “I’m hungry” and it plays a Burger King commercial. To see it for yourselves, go to http://69.57.168.29/asr/.
I had played the video that’s embedded on the page and had to smack my head on the wall. The gag video by Nalts, the YouTube viral video guru, wasn’t very encouraging. Actually we had reported about the video a few weeks ago before people caught wind about it due to this incident. I also tested the demo itself and got stuck on the next page which displays the word “Calling…” Granted, I’m not in the US and according to the page, only US numbers would work. But still, according to Mashable, their “call” didn’t go through either.
We don’t know what’s going on. It might be an elaborate attempt to accomplish any of the following:
1. To collect phone numbers
2. To promote the video (it’s a “viral” video after all)
3. To have various tech blogs write about it (which is exactly what we’re doing).
4. To promote a particular fast food chain.
5. To play a joke on all of us.
OR it might actually be a working Google Android demo, it just didn’t work for us here in Mobilewhack (No, really. Err…right? After all, according to this site, it worked for them.). If you do decide to try the “demo” out for yourselves and it actually worked, do tell us.
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Mecha has always been a big part of the Japanese anime culture. If you have no idea what mecha is, think Transformers. Every kid who’s ever watched mecha wishes for a real life counterpart at least one time during their entire lives. Well, Honda America brings us the nearest thing to mecha they could. For the upcoming New Year’s Day Rose Parade, Honda has built a giant ASIMO replica which will “pilot” the Honda Ridgeline.
The Ridgeline according to Honda:
“the hood of the truck to fold forward to become an aircraft cockpit, the doors and sides of the truck to unfold outward to become wings, the wheels to tuck under the body, and the bed of the truck to open and take on the form of an aircraft tail section, complete with rocket engines - and even real fire.”
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Here is a useful product for those who after a tiresome day become lethargic to stand up from their couch to switch off and on various electronic gadgets. HAI’S Snap-Link Mobile bestows the power of control in your palm. Now you can monitor and control security, lights, audio, temperature and webcam on handheld mobile devices, such as Smartphones, PDAs, or other devices running Windows Mobile operating software. The company will debut the latest Snap-Link Mobile integrated with Snap Link Software at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada scheduled to be held from January 7 – 10, 2008.
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A strange multi-coloured bus waiting at the lights in downtown San Francisco last summer.
Yes, those are horns on the roof. Does anyone know anything about it? A search for “EFT 922″, it’s registration plate, turns up nothing useful.
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Earlier in the month Dell and Best Buy announced Inspiron and XPS laptops would be available for sale in Best Buy retail stores nationwide in the U.S. They missed the holiday sale season, but the Dell machines are now on the shelves.
Mazda released a few photos of the Furai Concept. The Mazda Furai has a three-rotor Mazda 20B rotary engine, which can produces around 450 horsepower. The engines runs on E100 ethanol and the word “Furai” can be translated as “sound of wind”.
The flowing shape of the Furai was co-designed by Mazda and Swift Engineering at Mazda’s design studio in Southern California.
Becker offers the Traffic Assist 7827 in the UK market. Becker Traffic Assist 7827 is powered by a 400MHz processor, 128MB RAM, SiRFstarIII GPS chipset, and integrated TMC receiver for traffic avoidance. It has also a 4.3-inch LCD touchsreen, a SD expansion slot and support USB.
The device will come with a 2GB SD memory card with maps of 37 European countries.
