It’s time for your mid-week technology fix, best known as the US Update. In today’s news we start things off with a rumor on a new and improved Galaxy S smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy S Plus. We head over to Expansys and look at the availability of the SIM-free HTC Desire S and then look at the future of the iPod nano — will it be powered by our heart beat? This and more on today’s US Update.
March, 2011
With HP’s entry into the tablet market looming on the horizon, we couldn’t help but take interest in an update to the status of webOS. Over on the HP webOS developer center, webOS 3.0 SDK beta is now available in ‘Early Access’ mode. There’s a few hoops you’ll need to go through to get your hands on the fresh new SDK, but we’ll walk you through the steps.
While it’s true Apple fan boys keep all of their products close to the heart, the next-generation iPods may take this mindset to a whole new level. According to a report published by The Telegraph yesterday, new chips that can generate power from microscopic body movement have experienced a breakthrough development. The new chip is “thousands times more powerful” than previous prototypes and may be headed to an iPod in your neck of the woods very soon.
The successor to HTC’s best-selling Android smartphone is now available in the UK, SIM-free from Expansys. Priced at £409.99, the HTC Desire S is quite an attractive proposition. While it lacks the dual-core processing power of its competitors, it more than makes up in style. With a design carved from a single block of aluminum and an impressive spec sheet, we’ve been itching for a fix ever since our hands-on session at MWC.
![HTC Pyramid smiles for the camera [photo]](http://cdn.electricpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/htc_pyramid-150x150.jpg)
Oh how we’d love to get our hands on the confirmed, yet still quite unofficial, HTC Pyramid. A sibling to the HTC EVO 3D recently announced, minus the 3D display of course, is always a friend of mine. Thanks to the folks over at xda-developers we are pleased to bring you the latest images of the next-generation HTC flagship for GSM operators.
Android updates are hard to come by these days. That is if you don’t care to root your smartphone and install a vanilla kernel. For the Samsung Galaxy S fans in attendance, a new and improved version of your favorite smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy S Plus, is now rumored to debut this April in Russia. Oh yea, did we mention it ships with Android 2.3?
We’re well past the mid-point of the working week – in fact, by our watches, we make it Wednesday Going Home Time. To celebrate, we’re cracking open a bottle of vino and serving up a plate of all the afternoon’s big headlines right here for you in our teatime tech roundup. Tuck in!
For a company that’s abandoning Symbian, Nokia is certainly still putting some effort into new smarpthone hardware running the doomed operating system. Case in point: the Nokia E6, which has leaked out today in a flurry of photos and video. It’s a QWERTY keyboard touchscreen phone with a BlackBerry bent, and it looks like it could be the perfect replacement for your Nokia E72. Read on to meet it.