The successor to the Samsung-branded SSD inside your 2011 MacBook Air has just been announced. The Samsung PM830 supports the SATA revision 3.0 interface and is capable of transmissions of up to 6 Gbps. Not to mention these drives deliver double the performance of company’s current SATA 3 Gbps drives, recording sequential read speeds of 500 MB/s and writes speeds of 350 MB/s. How do you like them apples?
August, 2011
News of the white Samsung Galaxy S2 heading to Europe dropped late last month but now the angelic version of the ace Android phone has been spotted on a UK carrier’s site. Head over to Vodafone now and you’ll see the new shade has been added to its “Coming Soon” section.
Our Samsung Galaxy S2 review hailed the device with its 1.2GHZ dual-core processor and 4.3in Super AMOLED screen as the “new hotness” and the new paint job only enhances that. If you’ve been itching to get a white Samsung Galaxy S2 to counteract a friend’s white iPhone 4, you can register your interest on the Vodafone site now.
OnLive, the online gaming service that lets you stream PC and console games through your existing kit, is hitting the UK on September 22. But what does it need to do to compete with the gaming big boys already here?
We’ve made a five point plan for success – OnLive, heed this and you can’t fail.
Intel is getting serious about its Ultrabook concept. We heard last week that it has developed a list of Ultrabook materials for manufacturers to help them undercut the MacBook Air on price and saw the extremely Apple-like Acer Aspire 3951 Ultrabook leaked yesterday. Now Intel Capital, the company’s investment group, has announced a $300m Ultrabook fund to invest in technologies destined for the new class of laptops.
In a statement, Intel said the fund is designed to help companies “building hardware and software technologies focused on enhancing how people interact with Ultrabooks, achieving all-day usage through longer battery life, enabling innovative physical designs and improved storage capacity”.
In other words, it’s a big stash of cash to compete with Apple’s research might. It’s a good move and we’re excited to see how that investment encourages laptop makers to get creative with Ultrabooks. After all, there’s more to life than the MacBook Air, right?
Out now | £NA | Intel
Cloud gaming platform, OnLive, will finally launch in the UK on 22 September. The service which launched in the US last summer, uses seriously powerful servers and canny codecs to let you stream games over the web.
As well as offering downloadable clients for PC and Mac, it’ll work with Android tablets and the iPad. You can also play on your HDTV using the standalone OnLive Game System. Read on for all the details…
Fujifilm has added a new camera to its range of compacts – the FinePix F600 EXR. While it looks very similar to its predecessor, the Fujifilm FinePix F550 EXR, and uses the same 0.5-inch 16MP EXR CMOS sensor, there’s a lot more going on inside including a new augmented reality feature which turns the F600 into tour guide pointing out prime picture taking spots.
Read on for full details of the Fujifilm FinePix F600 EXR specs including what that augmented reality feature is all about and the model’s new motion detection system…
HTC is on a spending spree. After snapping up cloud company Dashwire last week, it has announced that it has acquired a majority stake in Beats Electronics, the creators of the Beats By Dre headphones line. The $300m deal will see HTC putting Beats audio technology into future devices.
HTC CEO Peter Chou says: “We obsess over every detail of a consumer’s mobile experience and audio is a critical part of that.” The first HTC product with Beats tech is due for release later this year but HTC hasn’t revealed any other details yet.
Beats Electronics current deal with HP, which puts Beats audio into PCs and the HP TouchPad, will continue but HTC will have exclusive use of the technology for phones.
Is souped-up sound quality a big selling point for you when it comes to assessing a new smartphone? Click the headline and head to the comments to tell us what you think of Beats being baked into new HTC phones.
Out TBC | £TBC | HTC
The HTC Evo 3D might have dallied a bit too long in the USA before making its way across the pond to Britain. In the time since launch, LG has released a rival stereoscopic phone that’s not half bad in 2D too, and well, everybody appears to have stopped buying the Nintendo 3DS. So does this phone have a place anymore? Let’s take a look in our HTC Evo 3D review, shall we?