Tag Archives: smartphone

Samsung Galaxy Note Got Benchmarked at IFA 2011

A lot of people has been wondering about the Samsung Galaxy Note, which was announced at IFA last week. Some bloggers from the Greek site Techblog were lucky to run a Quadrant benchmark test on the said device. The Samsung Galaxy Note ended up with a score of 3,624 compared to 3,152 on the Samsung Galaxy [...]

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$3M USD BlackBerry Developer Challenge launched by BlackBerry Partners Fund

The BlackBerry Partners Fund has already launched this year’s BlackBerry Developer Challenge, and there is a cool $3 million USD worth of prizes up for grabs. There are three competitions in total this year, and developers of both BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet applications are invited to join. If you’re not a developer for [...]

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Sharp IS01, a worthy upgrade to your electronic dictionary

This is probably not as popular now (or ever, in some parts of the world), but people used to buy pocket electronic dictionaries. I haven’t spotted one being used myself but bookstores still carry a few of these things around, just in case. With the roll out of UMPCs, gadgets of that size were quickly [...]

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Netbook Predictions For 2010

Sascha Pallenberg over at the Netbook World Summit discusses some of his predictions on the state of netbooks for the next year. Here are some of the highlights for netbooks: Netbooks at 250 euros or $300 with the new Intel Pine Trail processor. Linux start to get into more netbooks with the entry of Moblin and Jolicloud, as well [...]

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