Here’s a video of Microsoft’s latest Surface PC, leaked by T3… It’s such a fantastic design and concept, I think it really sucks you into the PC, because it does exactly what you want it to do all by touch and it even does it with more imagination…
Earlier last week Sony Ericsson released its news of introducing the new K series K630i HSDPA mobile phone. If you missed this news, this post is here to give you an intro regarding this phone…
The pics above shows the “Havana Gold” version of the K630i, as you can see the K630i has a typical Sony Ericsson candybar design and indeed has the looks of the K610i. More pics of the “Quick Black” version and the specs after the break…
After the new Microsoft Zune players were unveiled by Microsoft a few days ago, I thought I might post a demo video of the new Zune players here. But first, if you don’t know much about them, here’s a quick intro…
The new Zune players now come with a ‘zune pad’ which is used as the navigation tool, altogether there will be three models, the 80GB model with a large 3.2-inch screen for $249.99, the smaller version, Zune 4GB for $149.99 and the Zune 8GB for $199.99.
Well there’s already been alot of speculation around this issue recently, like we said in our post on some potential ways Steve Jobs might tackle the iPhone hacking problem. It seems Apple will decide to prevent further iPhone hacks simply by disabling those hacked iPhones from being able to be updated in the future. This is actually quite similar to what we thought would happen… indeed we felt acting through future service packs and firmware updates would be the most efficient way to handle it, however it didn’t come to our minds that Apple would attempt to ‘abandon’ those unlocked iPhones by forcing them to opt out of future updates. Certainly this sounds quite harsh, but again this has been the exact same way that Microsoft has handled it against users with unvalid Windows keys…
I just stumbled across some very hilarious news from coolest-gadgets.com that users who bought their PCs which came bundled with either Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Ultimate edition are now being offered the option to downgrade back to Windows XP!
So what’s the difference between Vista Business and Ultimate? Well, briefly speaking, “Business includes features, such as simpler troubleshooting and support for domains, which can reduce your costs while increasing your long-term IT growth potential.” Business edition currently costs $299.95 dollars to buy in full and $199.95 to upgrade. While the Ultimate edition is really the most complete edition of Windows Vista available —”with the power, security, and mobility features that you need for work, and all of the entertainment features that you want for fun.” The Ultimate costs $399.95 for the full and $259.95 for the upgrade.
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Steve Jobs has commented that he will not tolerate emerging sites like iphoneSimFree and HamGo.com …etc… from continuing to breach the Apple iPhone’s sim lock. With increasing number of service providers, companies and carriers in different countries now offering the iPhone for sale, Apple obviously has the duty to protect the right of those companies involved while at the same time not let Apple’s fame drift further away and become overwhelmed by more emerging iPhone hackers across the globe…
With the UK and countries from the EU like France and Germany beginning to prepare for iPhone launch, is unlocking your iPhone really a smart choice? While this may be for those who have no intention of using iPhone’s bundled services and strictly just want the phone. For future users like those in the UK may not want to choose to unlock their iPhones because these hacks may possibly disable specific functions that only serve to work on that specific carrier. In other words, unlocked iPhones may loose access to many of the pre-existing services that have been built into existing tariffs in the first place.
Some have also commented that wasting money on unlocking your iPhone may not be very clever, as Steve Jobs has already realised his plans to crack unlocking hacks, Apple could easily package clever ‘cracks’ which would ‘reverse’ sim unlocking hacks and incorporate them into future iPhone updates and service packs. After all, purchasing a crack to unlock the sim lock on your iPhone is in a way like using an illegal version Microsoft Windows. Without a valid Windows CD-key, you won’t be able to run Windows Update successfully, so do you then not run it and just leave it? Or do you find further hacks for your system to hide the fact that your Windows is illegal?
At the end of the day, its just like the situation of unlocking your iPhone, everything just keeps on repeating itself, I don’t see anyone winning this battle. But maybe not getting your iPhone unlocked will save you all the hassle that was entirely unnecessary in the first place!
It’s been mentioned at Mashable, that it looks like Gmail’s storage will soon look to be evolving into a major competitor for sites that are currently offering free / cheap online file and multimedia storage. I mean, why shouldn’t it? With at least 2.8 GBs of free space in everyone’s mailbox just to store attachments and 1.0 GB for photos and pics, its no wonder why users like viksoe.dk have created tiny tweaks to make Gmail’s storage more accessible, as if it was a “real” online file storage system.
With Google’s new storage system being brought together, space from Gmail and Picasa can be further maximised, users who desire a more premium service can go for a checkout to purchase more space. Get addition 6 GB for $20.00 per year, 25 GB for $75.00 per year, etc…
With all this space available via Google’s services (even before a paid upgrade), might one of the first services to possibly increase their free storage space be Microsoft’s Skydrive (Beta)?
[via Mashable]
