Spanish site Apple Weblog has discovered a hidden iPhone page from Movistar—Telefónica’s mobile arm. The page officially confirms what we already said two weeks ago: Telefónica will sell the new JesusPhone. The launch day was not mentioned in the site itself—which was supposed to be secret, and has been taken down already—but the date that we announced remains the same according to my friends in the company.
This iPod Touch-only stand from Rockridgesound blows the iPhone Xtand out of the water in its iMac-alike styling— it’s even got the drive slot there on the right-hand side. Handy for propping the iPod up when you’re watching movies, the iClooly’s got tilt and rotate functions, and you can connect up the dock connector and headphones whilst it’s in the mount. You can own this bit of shameless Mac fanboyness for around US$47 from RockRidgeSound. [Av Watch]
Long unofficially official, Asus is finally showing off its Atom-based Eee PC 901, which is remarkably speedier than the 900 with a 1.6GHz Diamondville processor. Expected to launch tomorrow, besides the predicted addition of Bluetooth, the specs are otherwise the same: 1GB RAM, memory card slot, 12GB of storage for the Windows XP flavor, 20 for Linux. Asus is promising four to six hours of battery life. There is a WiMax version in the works (it’s being shown at the WiMax Expo), but it’s a little further out. No pricing yet, but we’d heard US$650 earlier. [PC World]
If I seem a little grumpy, it’s probably because I didn’t sleep very well this afternoon. Which is crazy, seeing as how I was testing out the Pzizz – a gadget that’s supposed to help you nap better.
It’s pretty easy to use – you plug in your headphones and press the big button on the front once to turn it on. The next thing you seen on the small screen is the number 10 – this represents how many minutes you want to nap for. It goes all the way up to 60, but I opted for a half hour kip. For testing purposes.
Nvidia’s launch of its Tegra processors makes World War Mobile official, with multiple major players cramming serious juice into tiny, ultra efficient chips for a range of mobile devices. Nvidia is calling Tegra “the world’s first computer on a chip for mobile visual computers” which squeezes a CPU, GPU, system memory and more onto a dime-sized chip that Nvidia says is 10x more efficient than the competition, with up to 30 hours of HD video playback (WSJ says 26). It’s for so-called mobile internet devices that fall between smartphones and subnotebooks (like Nokia’s N810), so it’s taking on the lowest end of Intel’s Atom chips, though we’ll have to see how it fares head-to-head.
Some people think that I have the best job in the world. I happen to be one of them. The company who looks after the nap pods we featured on the site last week were kind enough to send over one of their Pzizz napping gadgets.
It looks like an MP3 player – there are three buttons on the front, a DC in and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top – but instead of playing music plays a series of relaxing and moving sounds to help you take a nap. From the website:
Last Week I caught up with the guys from Wowwee to have a look (and a play) with their upcoming range of products.
They’ve come a long way since they first launched RoboSapien, and seeing as how they’re covering such a wide array of robotic toys these days, they’ve broken up their range into four distinct categories. Because there are quite a few products, I’m going to break up my posts to cover each different range: Flytech, Robotics, Alive and Fun. This post, in case the title was confusing you, is all about Flytech:
Did you see Lam sweating it out in his Wii Fit review? Did that cause you rush out to the store, hands trembling with anticipation, in an attempt to procure one for yourself? Of course it did, but you probably came home empty-handed because the thing was basically sold out weeks before it even launched. And now we know why: the US Dollar sucks, and it’s causing the notoriously conservative Nintendo to shift stock to places like Europe and Japan.
Intel’s Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Corporate Demonstrations Craig Raymond had his lucky hands all over the new ASUS M51VA Centrino 2 (“Montevina”) portable at a pre-Computex demo session today, and—delay or no delay—he came away loving the freedom of Intel’s new chip and WiMAX. Sure, he’s an Intel guy talking about an Intel-equipped laptop, but he sounds like he put the thing through the paces, starting with a highly scientific test using World of Warcraft.
