After having the exclusive opportunity of seeing first hand the brand new Black Label Series LG Chocolate BL40 last week, here’s my first impressions of the new phone from LG and also some photos and videos from that night. It was one of the best LG events I’ve ever attended, LG wanted the launch night to be extraordinary and to do that they invited UK designer Wayne Hemmingway to celebrate the launch of the BL40.
What every phonemaker wants to accomplish when they launch a new handset is for people to think that it is like no other. For the LG BL40, LG wanted its first impression to be the phone of the future, to have an iconic design which makes it standout and distinct from any other.
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Some of you may already know it, Samsung SDI is the world’s largest OLED display manufacturer so does this news come as a surprise to many? Samsung has confirmed that it aims to roll out the pictured laptop with a 12.1-inch, 1280×768 AMOLED screen by the end of year 2010. Though no further specs on this beauty has yet been unveiled, when we hear those four letters put together, we simply just drool.
On the downside though, with a lappie of this class, we don’t expect it to be within the price range of “back to school deals”. In fact, it may be at such a luxurious price that many will have to wait abit before you’d be able to set your hands on one, unless you don’t mind burning a huge hole through your wallet!
Panasonic last week officially launched their new Lumix DMC-GF1, its third Micro Four Thirds camera at the IFA in Berlin. Claimed to be thw world’s smallest and lightest possible DSLR camera with built in flash, the GF1 comes in three colours – red, white and black and has a retro-like thin body design that challenges that of the Olympus E-P1 “PEN”.
Here’s a quick tip this morning for those of you who are Mac users and are considering an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. This Wikidot webpage which is updated regularly by Mac users who have updated their systems to Snow Leopard shows you a good long list of compatibility status of many popular apps. Though incompatibility isn’t expected to be a major problem with the new update, it is inevitable therefore Apple have released their own list, but it is much less comprehensive and not as frequently updated.
So if you’re interested in upgrading to Snow Leopard or have already ordered a copy, you might like to check out the list and be more prepared, click here to be directed to the Wikidot page…
With the media, politicians and businesses focusing on being more green and eco-friendly, there’s been a big boom in green gadgets. I review eco-gadgets daily, so I’ve collected together the most popular green gizmos that I’ve reviewed on EnviroGadget in recent months.
So let’s start with a piece of jewelery. The Pulsar Solar Watch is a pretty new development in the world of watches that are solar powered. Rather than worry about expensive and potentially mercury-based watch batteries, the solar watches contain a rechargeable battery. The internal battery is charged using the solar cell on the face of the watch. Impressively, a fully charged watch will last up to 6 months without needing another charge! The watches are not too expensive either, which means you won’t be raiding your piggy bank to buy one.
- Mobile broadband mainly used for watching videos on the go?
- IFA: Sony unveils VAIO X, a carbon fiber laptop
- Official Nokia Booklet 3G specifications revealed
- IFA: New Acer Aspire Revo 3600 with Atom 330 Dual Core
- Gallery: Unboxing Sony Walkman S (S540) Series NWZ-S544
- Three rough and tumble cameras
- Video: Is the Sonim XP3 Quest indestructable?
- Hands on Sony DSLR Alpha 500 (A500)
- Latest technology: Kodak’s flexible OLED works underwater
- Winner of our latest free gadget giveaway
- Leaked: Canon EOS 7D with 18.0 megapixel sensor!
- Nokia N900 Maemo tablet phone – photos and hands on video
- Samsung Omnia HD i8910, the verdict
Hope everyone has had a good weekend so far, the above were some of the gadgets and tech we featured this week. Its not always possible to talk about them all here at GadgetLite so the list of links from our neighbouring friends’ blogs below hopefully gives you a bit more for your craving needs! If you own a tech, gadget blog yourself you can always Twitter us some links to be shared and featured in this list, for now have a good weekend everyone!
- Air Commander Fujitsu – Fujitsu Air Commander, a Wiimote for PC
- Samsung M1 Portable Media Player
- CamCaddy Universal Camera Charger » Coolest Gadgets
- Toshiba HD Camcorder – Camileo S20
- Toshiba to Offers 640GB External USB Hard Drive [MK6465GSX] | Hard Drives at Hardware Sphere
- Philips wireless HDTV link
- LG Announce the SL9000, SL8000 and LH9000 LED TV’s at IFA
- 2dayBlog – Technology Journal, New Gadget everyday! » Nokia Mural
- Garmin Nuvi 1690 Sat Nav Announced
- Google Android Market 1.6 Announced | Geeky Gadgets
I don’t think we have ever come across something as tough and rugged as this. The new ioSafe Solo external hard drives are not only just waterproof (something that many external HDDs are now claiming to be able to do) but also fire proof! If you’ve ever lost photos or videos from a defective memory card, you will know what that aching feeling is like.
Say you had some confidential data or valuble photos / videos that you want to keep safe but you’re worried about when your old PC hard drive might suddenly just not boot up again – in this case you might just consider any branded external HDD, however the problem with these are that they’re not safe from physical abuse, in other words disaster protection. This is where the Solo excels above others we’ve seen in the past.
