Emporia RL1: a straightforward phone for todays
world

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 11:55:46 PM. © Ubergizmo

Emporia RL1

Emporia and Vodafone have just announced the release of a stylish-looking feature phone that’s meant to be the “most straightforward mobile phone in the world” ? which is possible, considering how incredibly complex most devices are nowadays, (though I refuse to believe any phone could be as simple as this but I digress.) The RL1 lets you text, make calls, store numbers, set alarms, birthday reminders, and solve your mathematical problems with a calculator. Other than that it does nothing else; which somehow reminds me of the Bluchip BC5i except that the BC5i doesn’t pretend to market itself as a cool, simple phone ? it gets straight to the point.

While the RL1 is a pretty decent feature phone with a talk time of 3 hours, the worst part about it is its price tag. The phone costs $99 (£60) on Vodafone’s monthly pay as you go plan. Who would’ve thought simplicity would be this pricey?

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MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition shown off in 30
minute video

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 11:38:41 PM. © Ubergizmo

MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition

If you can’t get enough of MeeGo and want to see what the latest version of the operating system is like, you’re in luck. Amanda of mysinablog.com has shot an informative half-an-hour long video about MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition. In the video, she goes in depth into pretty much everything you wanted to know about it. While it’s an unfinished build of the operating system, and it is the developer edition, so it won’t be the as the version that regular consumers will be getting their hands on but it should be a pretty accurate representation of what to expect when it is released. The video shows her running the build of MeeGo on a Nokia N900, which is starting to show its age, judging by the slow response it seems to be exhibiting. Grab some popcorn and drinks ? it’s going to take awhile.

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Nexus 3 spotted in the wild

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 11:24:24 PM. © Ubergizmo

HTC Nexus 3

It’s been rumored that Google has been working on a new Nexus device, but I didn’t think we’d be catching a glimpse of it this soon. The folks at TechHog managed to get their hands on a photograph of what is touted to be a prototype of the next Nexus phone, dubbed the Nexus 3. The phone is said to be manufactured by HTC this time around ? giving them another shot at making a Nexus phone (HTC came up with the original Nexus One).

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T-Mobile/Danger Sidekick servers will be shut
down on May 31st

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 10:26:11 PM. © Ubergizmo

T-Mobile Danger Sidekick

For folks who are still using the Danger Sidekick from T-Mobile, we’ve got some bad news for you. T-Mobile has officially announced that they will be shutting down the Sidekick data servers on May 31^st. While this means that you’ll no longer have access to them online, here’s one surprising piece of news: the files on your phones will be gone forever as well, if your phone’s battery completely loses power.

While you can still get them from the myT-Mobile backend, those servers will be shutdown as well on June 30^th. This means that all your photos, contacts, calendars, notes that you have stored on your Danger Sidekick ? it’s time to move them somewhere else. Take note that this doesn’t apply to the newly released T-Mobile Sidekick 4G phones ? they’re totally different devices.

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Google gets rid of APIs for Translate and other
services

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 10:02:29 PM. © Ubergizmo

Code While this piece of news might not directly affect you, it looks like some of your favorite websites or web services might be affected by Google’s latest announcement. On the official Google Code blog, they announced that at the end this year, they will be getting rid of some of their APIs (Application Programming Interface). In case you weren’t aware of what an API is, it is a collection of code that’s already written for developers to use. Companies like Google provide APIs to the public so that they can easily implement them into their own apps, websites and services.

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iOS 5 rumored to have improved notification
system and widget support

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 09:19:51 PM. © Ubergizmo

While we may or may not see the next generation iPhone being unveiled at this year’s WWDC, we’re more or less confirmed to see the next version of Mac OS X at the event. The other big reveal rumored to be at the event will be the iOS 5, the upcoming version of mobile platform Apple designed for its iOS devices (the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad).

Some new rumors have sprouted up concerning iOS 5, and these features are basically what people want to see in the operating system. With Apple tight-lipped as usual, we won’t know until the big reveal at WWDC, but iOS 5 is expected to have a revamped notification system and widget support. Now we all know that iOS’ current notification system is one of the most disliked features of the operating system. An update to the system would definitely be a long time coming, let’s see what Apple has in store for us on that front. As for widget support, it doesn’t seem very likely ? but hey, anything can happen. Then there are also rumors of Nuance technology (Text to Speech) being fully integrated into the operating system.

What features would you like to see in iOS 5?

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Panasonic Blu-ray players having issues with
Netflix

post from Ubergizmo on 27 May 2011 08:30:09 PM. © Ubergizmo

Panasonic DMP-BDT210

The folks over at CNET recently posted up a new report concerning a certain Blu-ray player which they gave the Editor’s Choice Award: the Panasonic DMP-BDT210. As of recent, there have been a number of customers complaining about the player’s inability to stream movies over the Netflix service despite being able to log in. After more digging around they realized the issue was present on other Panasonic Blu-ray players as well.

The cause of the Netflix streaming issues is yet to be discovered but some folks who have called up Panasonic have heard that fix is being worked on to solve it. Are any of you guys experience problems streaming Netflix over your Panasonic Blu-ray players? Let’s hope an update that fixes the issue arrives sooner than later.

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Google now searches for flight schedules

Flight Schedule

Google has just announced a new feature for its search engine that will help make life easier for you when you plan your next trip. The search engine now has the ability to look up flight schedules for you. All you have to do is input “flights from ___ to ___” (fill in the blanks with your location and destination of course) and it will scour the internet for flights that are on that route.

If you’d like to see where you can fly to from a certain place, just input “flights from ___” and you’ll be given a list of destinations you can reach from that location. The feature is currently available globally in 10 different languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Catalan). Head over to Google and start checking out flight schedules now.

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EASYWAKEme: the intelligent alarm clock

If you feel like you’re always not sleeping enough or sleeping too much, you ought to get your sleeping habits checked. As we all know, sleep is vital to our health, and too little (and even too much) of it can be bad for us. But the right amount of sleep will help people get up feeling refreshed, stress-free, totally alert and prepared to take on the day. Well the folks over at Dreamtrap have announced the launch of the EASYWAKEme Sleep Stage Alarm Clock to help us to do just that.

This intelligent alarm clock is capable of detecting the most optimal moments to wake up a person by monitoring how they sleep and tracking his/her body’s motion and detecting sleep phases. Using Dreamtap’s proprietary 3D Adaptive Sleep Capture (3D ASC) technology, the EASYWAKEme can determine when is the optimal time to wake you up and leave you feeling great.

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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm teaser trailer
leaked online

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

It’s been almost one year since the sequel to one of Blizzard’s most successful games was released and people have been wondering when the second part of the StarCraft 2 trilogy would come around. Since Blizzard hasn’t officially announced a release date for the game, everybody’s been speculating about its arrival. While we still don’t have an official release date yet, a leaked trailer for StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm has found its way onto the internet. It doesn’t give us any clue about how close we are to getting our hands on it, but it does give us something to chew on and watch over a hundred times while we wait for the next juicy tidbit to leak. Hit the break to check out the trailer before it gets removed:

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm teaser trailer leaked online, By Ubergizmo. Top Stories : Motorola Xoom Review, Atrix Review,