Nokia ships N8 smartphone
Nokia announced that it has begun shipping the first Symbian^3 smartphone, the N8 announced back in April. People who pre-ordered the device will obviously be the first to get it, but the Finnish company is promising 'broad availability' for the coming weeks so hopefully you saved up for one.
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Acer says netbooks won't die
Acer's Scott Lin said that netbooks would survive in the face of tablets like the iPad despite signs to the contrary. He believed the dual-core Atom N550 would keep the category going as it gave about 50 percent more performance without hiking the cost, giving users a reason to pick one over a tablet. About 40 million netbooks would ship in 2010, or about 20 percent of the entire notebook arena, Lim told Digitimes and others at the event. The executive was still cautious about the future and didn't see netbooks gaining any share in 2011, although Acer might still reap benefits as Dell and HP weren't pushing as hard for sales as before. Only ASUS would be poised to claim the most of what would be left.
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Samsung to release several Windows Phone 7 devices this year
Samsung revealed that it plans to launch several Windows Phone 7 devices this year in Europe, US and Asia. Samsung is already known to have at least two Windows 7 phones in the pipeline, the Cetus (left) and the i8700 a.k.a. Omnia 7 (right), but the news hints at significantly more.
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Dell to launch 7-inch tablet soon
Dell's Amit Midha has said that the company is launching a 7-inch tablet within weeks, and a larger 10-inch device within a year. The computer giant currently sells the Streak, a 5-inch hybrid phone/tablet that runs Android, and Dell's CEO Michael Dell briefly showed off the device at an Oracle conference last month, but gave no timeframe for its release.
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Sandy Bridge IGP not so good in 3Dmark 11
Some guys responsible for Intel’s graphics revealed that Sandy Bridge has DirectX 10.1 graphics core. This should not come as a surprise to most of you, but 3Dmark 11 won’t score that great with DirectX 10.1 cards. This is ATI’s and Nvidia’s key advantage in the struggle over the good performance of Intel’s monolithic core. It has quite decent graphic, but then again the 3Dmark 11 score won’t be great.
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OpenOffice gets alternative
A group of key contributors to the OpenOffice.org project have formed a new organization called the Document Foundation. The aim of the group is to liberate the project from Oracle's control and create a more inclusive and participatory ecosystem around the software. OOo was originally based on StarOffice, a product that Sun obtained in its acquisition of StarDivision in 1999. Sun opened the source code and invited the open source software community to participate in the project. It made money by flogging a closed, commercial version alongside.
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Sandy Bridge gets USB 3.0 support
The biggest thing that was reported missing from Sandy Bridge platform and Intel 6 series chipset was USB 3.0 support. All information gathered thus far implied that the chipset supports USB 2.0 but not USB 3.0. However, just like Intel didn’t talk about wireless display before the launch, it wanted to keep USB 3.0 support as a last minute surprise. Notebooks based on Intel 6 series chipset will have native support for USB 3.0.
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Motorola Droid R2-D2 goes on sale Wednesday
Verizon will release the limited edition Motorola Droid R2-D2 smartphone on September 30th, says the carrier, making it available online and in retail stores. The phone is a Droid 2 customized with a Star Wars theme, running on Android 2.1, and Verizon is selling the device for $350 with contract, but buyers receive a $100 debit-card rebate with the purchase.
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