By ditching the rear camera and stramlining the feature set, Acer has been able to adjust the price of its tablet and give some perspective to the industry by offering a reasonably priced yet powerful and updated Android tablet.
Reasonably priced. Powerful. Updated. Android tablet. What a delicious concept!
There's really no point in spending money on overpriced Android Honeycomb tablets with 3.0 or 3.1 operating systems right now, way to change the game Acer! Full press release after the break.
This is the most powerful VW Cabriolet ever. Revealed at the Geneva Auto Show, the VW Golf GTI Cabriolet accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h within 7.3 seconds, its top speed with the roof up is 237 km/h (DSG: 235 km/h). Pricing and availability has not yet been announced but seeing this in North America is unlikely seeing that the EOS and the Beetle Cabriolet are hot sellers.
Based on the year-old, third-generation Golf cabriolet, the GTI version receives the same turbocharged 2.0-liter, four-cylinder engine as the GTI with 211 hp.
Apple will have an iPad related event next week on March 7 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (where iPad 2 was revealed a year ago).
The invite states 'We have something you really have to see. And touch.' This 'something to see' could be the much awaited Retina Display (4X the resolution of the current model) similar to the iPhone 4 and 4S' super dense screen.
As for the touch part...well there doesn't seem to be a physical home button on the image above which means that maybe we will see some functionality from the bezel a la RIM's PlayBook.
All will be revealed next Wednesday! So stay tuned.
Nokia's Lumia 800 Windows Phone is coming to Canada and it will be exclusive to Telus. Nokia informed us that the device will be available in on March 2 for $49.99 on a 36-month contract. The Nokia Lumia 800 features familiar Nokia elements like unified design, vivid colours, outstanding Carl Zeiss imaging capabilities, and a unique unibody construction.
The Nokia Lumia 800 will be available for $49.99 with a three-year contract. Features include:
Head-turning unibody design in vivid colours: cyan, magenta, black
Deeply integrated social networking experience through Windows Phone 7.5 Mango; stay in touch across Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter right from the People Hub
Best Internet browsing experience with Internet Explorer 9
1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512MB program memory, 16GB internal user memory, and up to 9 hours of 3G talktime
Access to Microsoft SkyDrive for cloud storage
Access to thousands of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Leading imaging capabilities with Carl Zeiss optics, pocket-to-picture-to-post in seconds, 8MP camera with autofocus and touch focus capability, dual LED flash, high definition 720p video recording with 30FPS and one touch image sharing
We had a chance to check out the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 last year. We were very impressed with the build quality and the performance of the Lumia 800, it is a premium smartphone and one of the better Windows Phone devices that we've tried.
Glad to see there's something (sorta) new and exciting for Windows Phone in Canada.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 10:16AM 
