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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Broadband should be a god-given right in every country, but today Finland becomes the first country to make it a legal right for each and every citizen. It’s only a 1Mbps connection for now, but by 2015 they’re promised 100Mbps.
If you’re still sad-faced about never getting a go in Concorde we have yet more bad news – air travel is getting slower again. This time we’re warping back to 1930s flight speeds, thanks to a new wave of cargo blimps.
Boy, that Sony sure does love 3D. A new firmware download, available from Sony’s site now, gifts all NEX-3 and NEX-5 owners with a 3D Sweep Panorama mode, with the stitched-together photos displayable in 3D when connected to a 3DTV.
Gizmodo readers might be getting the feeling their handset is more and more a data device and less and less a telephone. Virgin Mobile seems to be noticing that shift, too. The new Virgin Smart Caps, launched today, tip the voice/data balance firmly in favour of data. Starting at $29 per month, now offer unlimited SMS to any network plus 1GB of data included while giving a lesser focus to included voice value. And you can even get the Samsung Galaxy S on a $29 plan.
I was relieved to see the Nokia N9 surface, with a nice-looking slide-out QWERTY and 8MP camera. It’s been a long time coming for Nokia, even if it’s shown running Symbian for now. These new specs sound pretty decent.
There definitely won’t be an official Android version of HTC’s HD2, but the chaps at HTC Linux have finally released an Android 2.1 build for the WinMo-running largescreen, this time with a working touchscreen.
If you’ve been sitting here, reading the posts from our American brethren on the upcoming Droid 2 and Droid X handsets from Motorola and thinking to yourself that you would happily splash some cash to get one of those handsets in Australia… You can forget about it. Because today, Optus has announced that it will be selling the original Droid – the one reviewed by the US team in November last year – as the Milestone in Australia, starting next week.
On the back of the release of new Blu-ray home theatre systems, Pioneer has also expanded its lineup of iPod docks. And both new models in the range are somewhat… unique.
A good section of Core77′s (rare) Jon Ive interview is about the danger of relying too much on technology to build technology. And the danger of not touching the materials you work with. [Core77]
The Kindle DX gets refreshed today with a lower price of $US379, and a 9.7-inch screen with 50 per cent better contrast. It also happens to come in a graphite finish. Ships on July 7th but orders start now.
