HTC ChaCha coming to Phones 4u in the UK, free on contract and the price will skyrocket to £299.95, at which point you might want to consider buying it through Amazon and saving yourself a precious £50. This smartphone features 800MHz processor, it’s an Android 2.3 device and have a penchant for QWERTY keyboards and peeping other people’s vacation photos………
Microsoft will be phasing out the brand started a while back and off late have been strengthened by more rumors that Zune will be merged with Xbox LIVE and Windows Live and a Microsoft patent was unearthed containing pictures and descriptions of a bantam media player. The first thing that comes to mind is an iPod nano competitor and one has to wonder when exactly the plug was pulled from such an initiative………
Toshiba is going to launches high-end gaming Qosmio laptops. Toshiba Europe introduced two new Qosmio series gaming laptops based on Intel’s Huron River platform. The 17.3-inch Qosmio X770 and Qosmio X770 3D. Both machines run Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) and are set to become available in June.
Sony begins full restoration of its PSN and Qriocity services, PlayStation Store already up and its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services in the Americas, Europe, and Asia (excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea) by the end of the week. PlayStation Store is already up with a huge lineup of new games, demos, add-ons, themes, avatars and videos along with an updated Playstation Plus………..
Intel’s convertible Keeley Lake concept laptop shows off Cedar Trail and features a 12.1-inch screen sits on a swivel hinge, thus allowing users transform this fairly slim laptop into a tablet within seconds………
Intel has decided to use Computex 2011 as its platform of choice to introduce their latest mobile computing effort in the form of a new category of laptops known as Ultrabooks and it seems that Intel has taken quite a few pages out from Apple’s MacBook Air book with the Ultrabook, where it will comprise of a super thin form factor, using the new 22nm Ivy Bridge processors inside while keeping the price at leass than $1,000………….
A new Meego 1.2 release has just been announced that with a little work – should be of interest to Nokia N900 owners and could be present on the mythical Nokia N9. Meego came into existence in early 2010 as a coming together of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin open source operating systems and so while Nokia is no longer looking to Meego as the primary OS for its high-end smartphones………….
Microsoft may be spending enormous amount of money and development effort on Windows Phone 7, but for now, it’s making more money off of Android than it is from Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft gets five times as much money from Android than it does from Windows Phone 7, because of a settlement in an intellectual property infringement case against HTC. The terms of the settlement call for HTC to pay $5 to Microsoft for every Android device HTC sells and HTC has sold 30 million Android smartphones, and so Microsoft has taken in $150 million so far as a result of the suit…………