Its been another amazing year here for us at GadgetLite, while some of you will already be in 2010, we in the UK are still a few hours away from fireworks, celebration and lots of booooze! The team and I would like to wish everyone a very happy new year and we hope to bring you all more of the latest in technology and gadgets as we approach 2010!
Unlike the Volkswagen Up Lite concept which is equally very eco-friendly, Audi’s new diesel A3 is in fact a production car and realistic! Audi first announced the addition of the new 1.6 TDI model to the A3 lineup over in Europe during September and now it’s available to order in the UK. The newest A3 features the VW group’s latest 1.6 liter common rail injected four cylinder diesel powerplant. In the A3, this engine combines with several other tweaks – including brake energy regeneration and automatic start-stop. As a result, this new technology gives the new A3 TDI a CO2 rating of just 99 g/km and mileage of 61.9 mpg combined.
Due to arrive in the New Year here in the UK via Vodafone, Nokia’s relatively new N900 Maemo mobile phone tablet gets turned into a controller for the PlayStation 3 game console. The hack in question is in fact a new application currently still being improved and is in its early stages. Its known as BlueMaemo Bluetooth emulator and allows the N900 to mimic bluetooth devices.
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The first attempt at USB 3.0 from the Taiwanese flash memory maker PQI and not bad at all. The Cool Drive U366 has a nice, elegant aluminum exterior design with a clear plastic lid. Of course, what matters the most is the new PQI Cool Drive U366′s functionality, boasting USB 3.0 means it will boast 5Gbps/sec bandwidth max. This makes it ten times the bandwidth of USB 2.0 which many of us have been using for years. It will also be capable of transfer speeds of up to 97MB/s.
The Sony Ericsson X10, SE’s first Android phone shows in the video below that its not just the Motorola Droid / Milestone which will be able to take advantage of Google’s free turn by turn maps navigation application. The GPS / sat nav application by Google which first debuted earlier in October this year is increasingly becoming a threat to the likes of TomTom and CoPilot who have thrown themselves into the mobile app market.
Looks like rumors weren’t too far off from the true reality. As Google’s first Android phone preps for launch in less than a week (January 5th), some specs which look pretty definite have been leaked. The Nexus One will boast a 3.7″ WVGA AMOLED screen and stands tall at 119 mm and is 59.8 mm wide. At 11.5 mm thick, it is thinner than the iPhone.
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How many of you here are Top Gear fans? If you are (even if you’re not), you’re going to find this Top Gear Christmas special fascinating. Just featured on BBC last night was the 6th episode of the current season 14 of the popular petrol head tv series. The three presenters take on a ridiculous four by four challenge in Bolivia, probably one of the toughest they have ever faced. Of course like all challenges in the past, they were given a small budget to limit their choice of vehicle.
