It’s time for your daily tech recap where we bring you the top stories headlining today’s news cycle. In today’s US Update we begin with an interview of HTC Europe’s head honcho, Mr. Florian Seiche. New details have emerged suggesting LG, not Motorola, will produce the Nexus 3. We finish up with an iPhone 4 forecast which looks to confirm a late 2011 release of the iPhone 4S.
Florian Seiche, head of HTC Europe, has gone on record to predict the future of tablets. He believes “we can’t even guess the potential”, but even more shocking — he thinks Nokia will be the long-term solution to bring Microsoft back into the smartphone lime light. The LG P930 was spotted yesterday, hidden in a XML file, by our friends at Unwired View. The device sports a “P” in the model number, indicating it is a phone rather than a tablet. In addition to the model number, the XML file also contained a rather interesting specification, a 4-inch 720 x 1280 resolution display. The same size and dimensions as the display Toshiba is showing off at SID. Is this the Nexus 3?
Gear of War 3 is now the fastest Xbox 360 title to reach 1 million pre-orders. Now that the beta has ended we must ask — did it live up to the hype? The world’s first 1.5 GHz dual-core smartphone has an unlikely suitor, Pantech. The upcoming Pantech Vega Racer has a wrap sheet that challenges the HTC EVO 4G and HTC Sensation, want to find out more?
We’ve heard of dual-screen smartphones, but tablets? The NEC LifeTouch W promises to be just that, a dual-screen tablet powered by a Cortex-A8 processor and two 7-inch SVGA displays. Last up this afternoon is a DigiTimes report which confirms our previous iPhone 4S coverage: production begins in August, 8-megapixel OmniVision camera and A5 processor — the same piece of silicon inside the iPad 2. The report suggest Apple has cut back iPhone 4 production to make way for the iPhone 4S, coming this September.
That wraps up the latest and greatest in the fine world of tech. As always I’m Nick Marshall and I’ll see you again tomorrow.
