Motorola unveiled the new Droid X today at their “Next Generation of Droid” event. The Android equipped phone will be a direct competitor with the HTC EVO 4G sharing many of the same specifications including a 4.3-inch display, 8 megapixel camera, and HD camcorder. The Droid X will be shipping on June 15th and will be priced at $199 after a $100 rebate and two year contract from Verizon
Don’t tell the hordes swarming into the Apple Store every weekend, but the days of needing to spend over $1,000 to get a quality laptop passed by while most of them were still in high school. Even before netbooks came along sending manufacturers into a frenzy while chewing their own margins down to pennies just to compete, prices on Windows laptops were in a freefall, leaving today’s prices at rock bottom. With Windows 7 now standard, you won’t have to deal with Microsoft’s last dud of an operating system this year either. Just about any notebook under $500 will serve your most basic needs, but some inevitably do it a whole lot better than others. Here are some of our favorites. If you have a favorite you would like to share, or want us to know about, please post it below! te: All prices reflect what you can find these notebooks for on the street or online, not necessarily MSRP.
If you thought this 0.65-inch-thick, aluminum-shelled beauty shared a bloodline with Dell’s ultra-premium Adamo XPS, you would be right. If you thought it shared the price, you would be dead wrong. An ultra-low-voltage processor and a handful of other minor sacrifices (like only two USB ports) keep the 13.3-inch notebook from pulling ahead as the workhorse of this pack, but it’s hard to beat the knife-like 3.5-pound body for traveling in style.
Not all netbooks are built alike. Asus sets its Eee PC 1201N apart with some of the brawniest silicon to be planted in such a tiny package: a dual-core Intel Atom processor and Nvidia’s Ion graphics processor. Together, they give the 12.1-inch netbook pep above and beyond even some full-size notebooks in this price range, including the ability to run many modern games on the 1366 x 768 display. The dynamo GPU also makes the 1201N adept at 1080p video playback, which it can even pump out to a flat-screen TV via a standard HDMI port.
Don’t let the obtuse name deter you: This is one of the most powerful laptops in our round up. Gateway’s NV5387u offers AMD’ Turion II Ultra Dual-Core M600 processor clocked at 2.4 GHz, not to mention 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, 15.6-inch display, and ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics. The estimated battery life under three hours won’t make it much of a travel machine, but users who need the extra power will be amazed how much grunt they get for the dollar.
Lenovo treads the line between notebook and netbook with the X100e, one of the few computers in the respected ThinkPad line to fall below the $500 mark. While the 11.6-inch screen and weight under 3 pounds might qualify it as a netbook, an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor, rock-solid build quality and trusty ThinkPad keyboard with built-in TrackPoint joystick elevate it to a machine worthy of wearing the ThinkPad badge. Users who need a little extra power can also upgrade to the dual-core Neo X2 for another $50.
The Energizer Bunny of netbooks uses a capacious six-cell battery to deliver 14 hours of run time – according to Asus, anyway. As with all notebook battery estimates, it’s a bit of a pie-in-the-sky estimate, but even after accounting for the optimism of Asus’ marketing department, you can expect honest all-day computing. And at only 2.8 pounds, you won’t throw out your back carrying it around all day, either. A 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor won’t get anything done in a hurry, but for surfing the Web, rearranging spreadsheets and writing papers, you won’t find yourself pining for anything more.
HP’s dm1z stacks up similar to the Lenovo X100e with an 11.6-inch screen and choice of AMD Neo processors, but you’ll get the faster Neo K125 CPU in the base price, a superior Radeon HD 4225 graphics chip that handles HD video, as well as more memory (2GB instead of 1GB) and hard drive space (320GB to 160GB). Specs don’t tell the whole story, since we find Lenovo’s build quality is hard to match, but the dm1z makes yet another excellent alternative for folks looking for a little more power than the average netbook supplies.
HP means business, quite literally, with this rare corporate-class entry in the netbook category. Although the guts look a lot like any other, HP has wrapped them in a sturdy magnesium chassis trimmed with aluminum, which looks, well, ready for the boardroom. It also gets the same drop protection as full-fledged business notebooks, an almost-full-size keyboard, and Corel Home Office preinstalled. (Yes, it’s the poor man’s Microsoft Office, but it will save you $150).
OK, it’s a blatant rip-off of Apple’s MacBook Air. But for a penny under $500, what’s not to like? The X340 features the same rounded clamshell edges, 13.3-inch screen, and even a 0.78-inch thick profile that’s only a hair away from the Air’s 0.76 inches. Of course, you get a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Solo chip instead of a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo, integrated Intel graphics instead of a Nvidia GeForce 9400M, and a glossy plastic body instead of an anondized alumimum unibody one. But hey, what do you expect for a third the price?
Looking for a netbook with some style? Sony’s Vaio W Series delivers with classy pink, blue and white finishes, along with a swank Billabong edition you can pick up for an extra $50. As with most devices bearing the Sony name, you’ll pay a little more for it than the generic equivalent, but a peppier 1.83GHz Intel Atom processor and large-capacity battery both come standard, negating some of the brand name price inflation.
This spacious 15.6-inch machine offers the comfort of a notebook, with the price of a netbook. The AMD V Series CPU you’ll find on the base model won’t get out of its own way in a hurry, so we recommend dropping $30 to step up to a significantly faster Athlon II dual-core processor. As on the HP dm1z, ATI’s Radeon HD 4250 should make short work of HD video on the (admittedly low resolution) 1366 x 768 display, but won’t leave much headroom for gaming.
Earlier I made a post about the iPhone 4 “diamond edition” which was the closest you could get to the white iPhone which still hasn’t been released and is further delayed. The diamond version had a large price tag on it costing you around $20,000 dollars! Now Stuart Hughes, the creator of that diamond iPhone 4. He has created a new solid 24CT gold version of the iPhone 4, now this isn’t cheap. Just like the diamond version, this one will have a massive pricetag, it’ll cost you $22,000 dollars estimated.
SPAMMING ON FACEBOOK INCREASING:Spamming Applications/Pages on Facebook a Problem for Users...Facebook Not Banning these pages and applications.
Various Sites are claming fake recharges of mobiles and various types of prize winning contests.Previous spams were only limited to e-mails now it is fully growing in social networking sites and the worst to be affected by this is the social networking giant:Facebook.
Below is the screen shot of the page/application on facebook claiming to recharge mobiles(prepaid): Spam Page address on facebook of this application: http://freerecharge.mastertrickz.com/index.php
This is what the application claim to do(below image)
Well, what do you know? Another Tablet PC! We are about half-jokingly, but there is no doubt that 2010 is becoming the year of the tablet. Apple this week released its first quarterly profit with IPAD included in sales, and they managed to sell more devices that iPad Macs during the past quarter. It is a clear indication that the revolution is back on Tablet, and almost all other firms in the market is scrambling to catch up.Lenevo LePad
Lenovo has long held a peak in the Business Notebook, with its tough, stylish machines seem to be in the building business most often. But the company has generally shied away from nothing too outrageous. They left the line earlier this year by launching their first smartphone in China, and now it looks like they will join the movement slate a little later with the introduction of the LePad.
I found this small latest USB flash drive device absolutely amazing. Kanguru has just launched the “Defender Basic” after releasing various other encrypted usb flash drive devices. This USB flash drive is much more affordable and great for anyone with everyday use. The Defender Basic features a 256-bit AES hardware encryption built in. It also has on chip password matching, limited password attempts before you get locked out, and 1 free year of anti virus and malware protection for your USB drive. Like the other defender devices it has rugged aluminum design with a physical write protection switch.
Nowadays it’s all about devices that are here to preserve environment and power. Since power supplies are limited, only way to make the most of it is to use power sources that are reusable. We have seen many green devices on the market and this time we’ve got a brand new green charger that comes from Chinavasion.
The award winning web browser Firefox and Thunderbird mail client are both immensely popular applications from Mozilla. Both applications have huge audience so its more than necessary to protect the users from attacks.
Here’s LogicBUY’s latest gadget deal of the day for a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 laptop. This 14.1-inch laptop is powered by the newest Core i5 or Core i7 processor. It supports up to 8GB of RAM, 18 hours battery life with optional 9-cell slice battery and optional NVIDIA NVS 3100m 256MB GDDR3 switchable Graphics.
Some people might not remember the old 8-bit consoles that we all played it as kids. Before Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, there were good old-fashioned 8-bit consoles. Back in the 80’s and 90’s everything was all about NES and SNES but the present day improved gaming systems have phased them out.
