Filed under: Cellphones
Not that Motorola’s Q11 comes as any big surprise, but it’s nice to see the Windows Mobile 6.1-packin’ smartphone get all official on us. Now boasting its very own dedicated page on Moto’s website, the Q11 comes to us with quad-band GPRS / EDGE (no 3G, for whatever reason), a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash, 64MB of RAM, microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.1, a 320 x 240 resolution display, integrated GPS and a multimedia player with support for all sorts of file formats. You can also expect up to 450 minutes of talk time and up to 195 hours in standby, but you won’t be able to wrap your paws around it until December. As for carriers and pricing? Patience, friends, patience.
[Via UnwiredView]
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Filed under: Wireless
Hot on the heels of Lenovo comes Acer, which is somehow claiming “first!11one!” in the US market with WiMAX-enabled laptops. Introduced today in Baltimore in conjunction with the formal unveiling of Sprint’s XOHM network, the Aspire 4930-6862 and Aspire 6930-6771 both include the innate ability to hop on a WiMAX network and surf at 4G speeds. As for specs, the former packs a 14.1-inch WXGA panel, 2GHz Core 2 Duo T7350 CPU, 3GB of RAM, WiFi / WiMAX capability, integrated graphics, a dual-layer DVD writer, 320GB SATA HDD, 5-in-1 card reader, built-in webcam, Windows Vista Premium and an $899.99 sticker. The larger 6930 differs only in the 16-inch 1,366 x 768 resolution panel, as everything else (price included) remains the same. Charm City residents can snatch ‘em up right now at NewEgg and TigerDirect.
[Via DigitalTrends]
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Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
We’ve wondered why Matsushita Electric took such a long time to make the name switch to Panasonic, but this little factoid might explain some of the timing — Panasonic just capped off its 300 millionth TV. Even though the company has always badged TVs with the “Panasonic” name plate in the US, 105 million units were cranked out under the “National” brand before “Panasonic” was used across all markets for the subsequent 195 million units. According to the press release, the company isn’t slowing down, either — it may have taken its sweet time (since 1961) to hit the 300 million mark, but the 400 million figure might come up in the next “few years.” We figure that after the first 300 million, the company can pretty much produce TVs in its sleep.
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It’s not quite a Batman-type science-bending project, but DARPA’s apparently hush hush “Gandalf” initiative looks to be fairly ambitious nonetheless — at least as far as we can tell from the rather vague statements that have been made about it. In an announcement of sorts yesterday, DARPA reportedly said that the project’s goal is to use “set of handheld devices” to track down a specific “signal emitter of interest” using radio frequency geolocation, and presumably some other measures they’re not about to dish the details on. The Register’s Lew Page further extrapolates that could mean that a group of undercover operatives or special-forces troops would be able to be dispersed near a target and hone in on a particular cellphone, or other electronic device for that matter, and then proceed to track it with no one the wiser. Whatever it is, it’s going to be discussed at an event in Virginia later this month, though we’re not exactly expecting any first-hand reports to come out of that.
[Via Danger Room]
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Filed under: Laptops, Wireless
Well, it looks like the flood of products piggybacking on the launch of Sprint’s
XOHM WiMAX network isn’t showing any signs of letting up just yet, with Toshiba only the latest to hop on board with its new WiMAX-ready Satellite U405-ST550W laptop. That welcome connectivity addition comes in the form of what Toshiba describes as the “first ever” combined WiFi /WiMAX module, formerly codenamed “Echo Peak,” which is about the only stand-out feature among the laptop’s high-end but otherwise unremarkable specs, including 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and a 13.3-inch screen with Toshiba’s trademark TruBrite technology. No word on a price just yet, but it’ll apparently be available “soon.”
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