The Gadget Gurus

Nokia N96 to Launch in The UK on October 1

technobrains — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:26:52 +0000

According to reports, Nokia�s next-gen mobile computer, the N96, is scheduled for an October 1 launch in the UK. The handset is the upgrade to their immensely popular N95 dual slider. Its form factor, as I�ve said before looks like a hybrid of the N95 and the N81. A dual slider, the N96 comes equipped with a 2.8-inch QVGA display with a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and 16 million colors.

The handset features a 3.5mm earphone socket that doubles as TV out, DVB-H TV broadcast support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP support, USB v2.0 and even though it has 16GB of internal user memory it also has support for microSD cards. The N96 is a GPS-enabled handset and also comes equipped with a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and flash.

This full featured handset is estimated to cost about Rs. 32,000 (�400).

We can expect this handset hopefully in time for Christmas.

Apple iPod Shuffle Price Slashed

technobrains — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:23:11 +0000

The Apple iPod Shuffle will now cost Rs. 2,700 (with taxes) for the 1GB model – that’s down from Rs. 4500. Apple has introduced a new 2 GB model of the iPod shuffle for Rs. 3,200 before taxes.

“At just Rs. 2,300, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever,” said EY Yeo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Apple Asia Pacific. “We’ve also introduced a new 2GB model that lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle.”

The iPod shuffle comes in four colors – silver, blue, green and purple with up to 12 hours of continuous audio playback.� It syncs seamlessly with iTunes and the “Auto-fill” function allows the iPod shuffle to randomly select songs from a music library and sync them.

“With most flash-memory music players, users must use tiny displays and complicated controls to find their music; with iPod shuffle you just relax and it serves up new combinations of your music every time you listen”, said EY Yeo. &gt;

IBM Thinkpad

technobrains — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:44:19 +0000

IBM’s Thinkpad Series is one of robust notebooks available in the market for daily users or professionals spending more then 10hrs on the front of their notebook.

My experience : I have used R52 Model of IBM Thinkpad Series which gave me a high end experience and performance during the process of software development even when I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition on the machine. despite of all other incompatibilities in hardware the machine kept me happy with the performance and output speed even after installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional and Microsoft� SQL Server 2005 within the memory of 768MB shared for dispaly