Future Products
Creative Zen X-Fi
Topic: Future Products
Information about a new Creative Zen Wi-fi music player surfaced. The Create Zen X-Fi features X-Fi technology with two effects: Crystallizer and Expand.
The leaked details are still sketchy. Apparently the Zen X-Fi features MP3, WMA, AAC, Wav and audible audio format support, WMA, MPEG4-SP, Divx 4/5, Xvid, and MJPEG video, FM tuner, Voice recorder, speaker, and possibly 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities.
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Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Asus Eee PC 904 and 905 in the works
Topic: Future Products
According to sources at Digitimes, Asus plans new Asus Eee PC 904 and 905 netbooks.
The Asus Eee PC 904 and Eee 905 would have the same form factor as the new 10 inch Asus Eee PC 1000, but feature the smaller 8.9 inch screen known from the Eee PC 901.
The keyboard in the 904 and 905 are also bigger compared to the current 901 model.
Apparently Asus identified the smallish keyboard of the current 900 Eee series netbooks as an usability problem.
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Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:30:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple iSight HD coming?
Topic: Future Products
Apple had one of the coolest looking webcams on the market with the iSight which was introduced in 2003 and discontinued in 2006.
Now a reference to a new iSight HD was found in an Apple Quicktime system files.
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Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:59:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple Tablet PC Rumor once again
Topic: Future Products
The rumor of an Apple Tablet PC appeared again yesterday on a ZDNet Blog.
The first time we reported about an Apple Tablet or Apple touch screen PDA was back in 2002. Back than something called the iWalk was rumored. Six years later we at least got a touchscreen and it is a phone not a PDA.
The new Apple Tablet PC rumor says that Apple will launch a 12 or 13 inch Tablet computer this Fall.
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Posted on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
OLPC XO-2
Topic: Future Products
OLPC is working on the next generation kids notebook dubbed XO-2 and gave a first glimps on what the XO-2 is supposed to look like.
The new future XO will have two touch screens and will be much smaller than the current XO notebook. The XO-2 will employ the dual indoor-and-sunlight displays. The keyboards and user interface elements will be adjustable to the age and skills of the kids using them.
It looks like a bit of what a future Nintendo DS could look like.
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Posted on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Spray-On Solar-powered OLED Displays
Topic: Future Products
This is one of the coolest future products I have heard about in a while: A spray-on OLED display that is self-powered through solar energy.
Japanese Mitsubishi Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical work on spreadable electronics. The molecular soup would have OLED and Solar cell building blocks that could be spread or even sprayed ultra-thin onto walls or gadgets.
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Posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:51:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Round LCD Displays unveiled by LG Display
Topic: Future Products
LG Display unveils the world’s largest 6-inch elliptical and 1.4-inch circular-shaped LCD displays.
The 6-inch elliptical LCD measures 78.8 mm in height and is 131.4 mm wide, while the 1.4-inch circular LCD measures 35.5 mm in diameter. Both LCD displays are capable of displaying up to 262,000 colors and have a near 160 degree viewing angle.
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Posted on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
3G iPhone already coming this Month?
Topic: Future Products
The fact that the current iPhone is still marked as unavailable on the online Apple Store spurs rumors that the 3G iPhone is coming sooner than expected.
MacRumors picked up a rumor again from April that Apple might be actually announcing a completely new portable device at the WWDC 08 in June and therefore go ahead and release the 3G iPhone in May.
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Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:27:30 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Rumor: .Mac Update with iPhone 2.0 Release
Topic: Future Products
TUAW reports that a 'little birdy' told them that .Mac is to be completely revamped and the new service is supposed to be released together with the iPhone 2.0 firmware.
The updated .Mac email service would offer full over-the-air syncing including calendars, contacts, and email and .Mac syncing on Windows.
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Posted on Fri, 9 May 2008 10:37:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Rumor: Apple Mac Pro to get ATI Radeon HD 3870
Topic: Future Products
Rumors that Apple Mac Pro would get the ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics card as option sprung up.
The card would also work on older Mac Pro computers.
Your needs and the price of the card will determine if the Mac Pro really is the ideal option for you.
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Posted on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
New 45nm AMD Phenom X4 CPUs rumored in 2008
Topic: Future Products
AMD announced new Phenom X4 CPUs of the end of March. Digitimes cites Motherboard sources that there are two new 45nm Phenom X4 CPUs (codename: Deneb) coming in 2008.
The new rumored AMD CPUs include the 125W Phenom X4 9750 and the 95W Phenom X4 9850 will appear before January of 2009. There is supposedly also an updated version of the upcoming Phenom X4 9950 (June) at the end of the fourth quarter.
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Posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:28:36 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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