The German magazine that leaked the D3100 info also spilled on two of the new Coolpix models . The Coolpix S1100pj apparently will have a projector, touchscreen, remote control, and “several other improvements”. The European market will pay about €350
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Nikon Coolpix Projector-Camera Also Leaked
The iPhone has been an AT&T exclusive in the US for time immemorial (which, in the mobile world, translates into a little over three years), but that exclusivity will soon come to an end, with Verizon rumored to be launching an iPhone of their own in the near future. Big Red, with their self-proclaimed superior wireless network, might be able to put some real hurt on AT&T if/when the Verizon iPhone becomes a reality
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1 out of 3 AT&T iPhone customers will switch to Verizon
There was a bunch of news this week that could have long-reaching consequences and no story was bigger than the Google and Verizon putting forth a joint policy statement regarding net neutrality. This was also a big week for Android with the release of some high-profile devices but Google also faces a huge lawsuit over that little green robot. Finally, we took a look at some cool apps and our resident BlackBerry expert took a look at the much-vaunted BlackBerry Torch
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The Mobile Roundup – The ‘Big Things’ edition
Car seat technology has progressed quickly over the years. It’s a product that children need (the hospital won’t even let you take that new baby home without a car seat), and Britax just launched their latest product line of high tech seats.
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New Britax Car Seats Use Technology To Protect Junior
It looks like Verizon will be pulling a Sprint and will charge customers an extra $10 to $15 for the privilege of using the carrier’s 4G LTE data service -the charge will be added on top of the existing data plan for compatible devices. We can’t we say we’re surprised, but it’s going to be interesting how customer react to drastically highers fees to access the faster 4G LTE data network. Verizon is expected to start bringing the mobile broadband data speed of its nascent 4G network to laptops (via USB data cards), and then work their way to LTE-enabled smartphones, which should become available sometime in the first half of 2011, possibly May .
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Verizon to charge an extra $10 to $15 for 4G LTE data plans?
Are you a Twitter (or Facebook or Foursquare or Buzz) user with an Android phone, looking to get in on the official TweetDeck beta app for your smartphone? Well, word to the wise, we’ve gotten word that there was a counterfeit app in the Android Market that was masquerading as the official TweetDeck version.
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PSA: Twitter users, beware the counterfeit TweetDeck app in Android Market
We’ve seen one AT&T ad for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 that was high on gloss, but they’ve just released another TV spot that’s a little more fun. Appropriately enough, they’re pitching the device as a “business meets pleasure” kind of smartphone, which would be a fair enough assessment if there was a catalog of decent games in App World (which there isn’t). Besides that, I’m more of a fan of Verizon’s Droid ads , but AT&T’s is still a fun little commercial worth a gander.
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New BlackBerry Torch 9800 Ad Shows How Business Meets Pleasure
Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 4.0.2 which fixed a security vulnerability that enabled the famed JailbreakMe.com website to work its magic on your iPhone or iPad. While fixing a major security hole is normally considered a good thing, Apple dropped the ball by not including the original iPhone or the first generation iPod Touch in this update
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iOS 4 PDF security flaw fixed jailbreak-style for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Good news if you’re one of the few, lucky Verizon users who were able to buy the HTC Droid Incredible, as we’re hearing that Android 2.2, or Froyo, will be hitting the device next week. The news comes from our friends at Mashable , who say the over-the-air upgrade will start rolling out August 18. As we’ve seen with the Motorola Droid Android 2.2
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Verizon HTC Droid Incredible to get Android 2.2 (Froyo) next week
I’m sure that most of you have found some fun activity for the weekend, but if you haven’t you should check out this App. This is A Day’s Outing, and it is programmed to help you find nearby events and activities for, well, a day’s outing
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A Day’s Outing finds something fun to do for the weekend
Not one to be left out of a market, Asus has been working on its latest entry to the tablet market for some time now, teasing both the Eee Tablet and Eee Pad over the last few months but never really setting a date or price. No longer! The Eee Pad will cost $400 and run Android, but that’s about as much information as we get… except that it’s launching in March .
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Eee Tablet Becomes Eee Note, Gets Priced And Dated Along With Eee Pad
Google’s Android open source operating system is a great one but due to its frequency of updates and the infrequent rate at which hardware manufacturers push these updates out, some users have been left in the dust. The Dell Streak is a prime example of this segmentation as although it is a brand new device, Dell is still putting the finishing touches on the updated versions which means it will ship with Android 1.6 in tow. Fortunately, some hackers over in the UK found this delay in updates to be inappropriate and have taken the liberty to themselves update the device to Android 2.1 also known as Eclair.
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Android 2.1 Update Gets Leaked For Dell Steak in UK
The iPhone , iPad and iPod touch are amazing devices that do what they were made to do rather well. However, thanks to Apple ’s App Store a whole range of additional uses have been made for the devices that even Steve Jobs never could have thought of. One such application is the Square Mobile Payment System
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Square Mobile Payment System Now Shipping, Once Again
The iPad has really made the market shift focus towards the slate form factor touting tablet computers everyone has been hearing about, and with good reason.
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ASUS Releases Pricing For 10-inch Android Powered Eee Pad, 8-inch Eee Tablet and More
If you’ve been paying attention over the past couple of weeks you’ll know that Motorola and Verizon have been cooking up a special edition DROID 2 that is sure to please Star wars fans everywhere. This special edition phone, as we’ve told you in the past, is actually a Motorola DROID R2-D2 Edition , pictured above.
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Motorola Droid R2-D2 Edition Dropping On September 30th
There is a small, but vocal, contingent of readers who pop up in the comments on e-reader stories and say they love their Sony Reader or such and such model. And while a lot of our attention is on the higher-profile items like the Kindle and iPad, we mustn’t rule out Sony… although they aren’t exactly a hotbed of innovation these days. In any case, the rumor is that we’ll be seeing a couple new Reader devices soon : a 5″ and 6″ version, 10mm thin, with touchscreens, 3G, and the new, improved Pearl e-ink displays
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New Sony Readers Incoming: Thin And Full Of 3G
For a quick download on the top tech stories of the week, check out the latest Gadget Lab podcast — just 12 minutes long this week, yet packed with everything you need to know. In this week’s podcast, we give you a hands-on look at the BlackBerry Torch that was introduced last week. We finally got our hands on one, posted our review of the Torch , and show you how it looks in the podcast video
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Droid 2, Voice Search and Carrier-Humping Surrender Monkeys
This set of comparison pics showing the Kindle and iPad displays at high magnification is really more the result of curiosity than an attempt at making a point. It really is interesting to see the differences between the Kindle’s e-ink display, the traditional (but high-quality) LCD of the iPad, and a printed page.
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Kindle And iPad Displays Go Under The Microscope
The Myth of Scientific Literacy — I’d love it if there was a simple course we could send our elected officials on which would guarantee future science policy would be reliably high quality. Being educated in science (or even “about science”) isn’t going to do it.
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Four short links: 13 August 2010 – Scientific Literacy, Load Balancing, Indoors Geolocation, and iPhone Security
If you remember, Apple bought LiquidMetal’s patents last week , allowing the company to create “fluid” metal surfaces in its devices. While there has been plenty of talk about Terminator-like iPhones that flow under and around doors and windows to kill John Connor, but if you’ve seen an Omega watch recently, you’ve already seen liquid metal. Hodinkee has a video of the Omega Liquidmetal bezel and they note that Omega will not be forced to stop using the technology after Apple’s patent buy
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What Did Apple Buy When It Bought LiquidMetal? If You Like Watches, You’ve Already Seen It
The Motorola Droid 2 looks a lot like the original Droid, and a teardown reveals that the similarities go more than skin-deep. In fact, the internal layout and most of the Droid 2’s components are nearly identical to those of the original Droid, gadget repair site iFixit found . The most significant upgrade is to the processor, which is probably a Texas Instruments OMAP 3630, iFixit says
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Droid 2 Teardown Reveals Beefed-Up Processor, Few Other Changes
As soon as the rumor broke that Apple would be renaming its struggling Apple TV to iTV, to better fit with the company’s i[Device] naming system, I thought to myself, “Isn’t ITV the name of a television network in England that always misses key goals in soccer games?” Yes, yes it is. In fact, the network isn’t too keen on Apple using the name iTV, and has promised to “vigorously defend” its IP. In an interview with Pocket-link, Mike Large, ITV’s acting group director of Communications, said that it has a “very strong brand, and a highly valued IP.” As such, any move on Apple’s part to re-name the Apple TV could expect to meet a legal challenge
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UK’s ITV Not Pleased With Apple iTV Rumors, Says It Will Defend Its IP