Isaiah's Tech

PocketNow was the first website to break this new news to us. On Motorola's own website, which is being redesigned, they have leaked a bunch of new devices that we will likely see later this year. There's the Motorola XOOM 2 which will obviously be a new tablet running on the Android tablet OS. There are also a bunch of new smartphones: Slimline, Zaha, and Targa. There's also the Tracy XL which looks like it'll be the company's first watchphone. Interesting.

Maybe we'll be hearing about all of these soon and maybe they'll launch in Q3. Of course, these are just guesses but you can bet that most of those names are just codenames - except for the XOOM 2. Not much is known about any of these devices right now but the smartphones appear to be on the slim side.

[Phandroid]

HP's CTO, Phil McKinney, has just teased three new devices that his company is working on. All three of them are in the photo above but he mysteriously cropped out all three of them. The first one appears to be a slate device, the second could be a phone or a new Zune HD, the third device is on his wrist so this one could be a watch of some sort. Sadly, he hinted that these prototypes are something that you could see in the distant future, about "5 to 10 years" from now so maybe these won't hit the market anytime soon. If they do, let's hope that's a WebOS tablet, the flagship WP7 handset, and a watch that does something a bit extra. You can check out the tweet here, we might be seeing them at SXSW 2010 according to him.

[Engadget]

WES 2010 is going on right now and RIM has already spilled a couple of details regarding their OS 6.0. That's not all they unveiled though because they have just shown off a video of their upcoming inPulse Smartwatch. This is set to launch for $149 and they're actually taking pre-orders for it right now. Check out the video above for a sneak peek at what this will offer.

[CrackBerry]

If you're keeping an eye out for the RIM's BlackBerry inPulse smartphone watch (smartwatch) then you should probably keep in mind that it is now in production. The shipping date is "soon" if you ordered it for $149 USD. Apparently, the shipping date will be announced "shortly" so just wait around.

[Mobile Syrup]

These are some brand new shots of the upcoming InPulse BlackBerry watch phone. RIM has mentioned that this watch is "almost here" and it should be shipping pretty soon. In case you forgot, this watch phone features a 1.8-inch OLED touchscreen display and Bluetooth 2.0 (to hook up to your BlackBerry). If you pre-ordered yours you could be getting yours in the mail really soon.

[Slash Gear]

LG's first watch phone is pictured above, the GD910, and it looks like we've just got word that they're looking to refresh it. The first model was a bit too bulky for the female users, so they could be making a smaller variant.

We're also hearing that LG is planning on releasing a non-keyboard Android handset sometime in 2010. Let's hope this is the LG handset with the Snapdragon CPU.

[Slash Gear]

• 1.3" full colour organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) display
• Bluetooth® v2.0+EDR
• 150 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery
• Glass lens and full metal body
• 22mm interchangeable wrist band
• Vibrating motor
• Micro-USB port (for charging)
• Over-the-air firmware updates
• Dimensions: 51mm height x 38mm width x 12mm depth

• it has been designed specifically for BlackBerry from the ground up - developed by a new BlackBerry-dedicated accessory company
• it features an OLED screen that we hear is "big, bright and beautiful" and optimized for displaying text clearly, and thanks to OLED has solid battery life
• it's designed to show you notifications and previews of messages arriving on your BlackBerry
• judging by the filename of the photos as they were sent in to us, we're thinking it's going to branded the inPulse smartwatch

If you're interested in the overpriced Orange LG GD910 watch phone, you should know that it is going to hit London on August 27 for £500 ($827 USD). This is much cheaper than when it initially launched two weeks ago, so that's a good sign. It's still quite expensive, but hey, it's revolutionary.

[Stuff.tv]

As you may or may not know, the LG GD910 is a watch phone and it is now available on Orange overseas in Europe. Ever since today, we've figured that they were going to launch it for £1,000 ($1,672 USD) on a 1 or 2-year contract. Well, today, the official pricing has been announced since it's now available - but it's not much of a better deal though. It is now available on Orange for £899 ($1,290 USD) on a 1 or 2-year contract, which is still a boat-load. I guess we'll just have to buy the Samsung GT-9100 watch phone instead - it's much cheaper at €450 ($646 USD).

[Engadget Mobile, Electronista]

Yes, the LG GD910 watch phone is launching on Orange next month. And yes, it's expensive. But, it's revolutionary or so they say. They decided to prove it by showing us a demo video - it's below. Hopefully, they'll iron some of the glitches that happened during the whole 54 seconds. Maybe, we should get the Samsung GT-S9110 watch phone over this one. We'll have to see when they go head-to-head in the future.



[Engadget Mobile]

You should know all about LG's watch phone, the GD910, by now. You know, the one Orange is going to sell for £1,000 ($1,620 USD) next month (August). Well, some people in North America were hoping that this LG watch phone would hit our shores. Fortunately, this is a shot of the LG GD910 hitting the FCC and, yes, it passed through. This means that it'll get launched in America sometime in the future. We don't know when or for how much, but we'll just have to see what happens by the end of the year.

[Engadget]

Remember the LG GD910 watch phone that was supposed to launch this month? Well, Orange UK has just announced that the watch phone will be available starting in August. "Orange is only going to offer this for limited time on PAYG and, weirdly, SIM-free, and it's rumoured the 'exclusive price point' pitched will be around £1,000 ($1,620 USD)." The GD910 watch phone from LG has: 3G connectivity, a 1.43-inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth, and a web browser. If you're willing to empty your wallet, mark August on your calendars.

[Tech Radar]

The expensive LG GD910 watch phone will be available starting in July. First, it will be available in Europe via Orange, then Asia, Middle East, Australia, and Latin America will be able to get their wrists on these - or these on their wrists. Just to recap, the GD910 has: a 1.43-inch touchscreen LCD display, Bluetooth, 3G, and video calling. It's not going to be cheap, targeted at £1,000 ($1,500 USD), according to what we last heard in February.

[Engadget]

AMD has announced the new ATI FirePro 2450 graphics card which has quad-monitor support. "The FirePro 2450 comes equipped with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, variable speed fan sink, maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1 support, native PCI-E x16 and x1, and [like I said] support for up to four independent DVI or VGA monitors." That's incredible, seeing how it only takes up one PCI-E slot in you computer. "The new card consumes less than 18W on average for 2D business usage, and no more than 32W when fully stressed." The FirePro 2450 is now available for just $499 USD.

I don't know the speed of normal SSDs, but A-DATA is reportedly rolling out a "high-speed" SSD line for notebooks. "The 300 Plus series takes advantage of a new memory controller to maintain constant 250MB per second read speeds as well as 160MB per second while writing data. It also has an uncommonly large 64MB cache to keep the system fed with information even in characteristically slower sequential reads." There will be 4 versions of the SSDs: a 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and a 256GB. They will all be available soon, but A-DATA hasn't given a shipping date or a price for that matter.

If you can't manage to fork over at least $1,000 USD on LG's watch phone, you can always go for the alternative. The Hyundai MB-910 watch phone has a 132 x 176 resolution (which is slightly larger than LG's), but only has 65K colours. The Hyundai watch phone also has: a 400mAh battery (enough for 70 hours of standby / 3 hours of talk time), SMS, MMS, email, video / music playback, but it lacks 3G. A watch phone without 3G may not be as big as a loss as we think it is, since a watch phone is new technology and may not even entirely take advantage of 3G anyway. If you're still interested in this watch phone by Hyundai, you're looking at spending only £200 ($277 USD) and this includes a Bluetooth headset.

MSI VX600 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/msi-announces-the-vx600-15-4-inch-notebook/
ATI FirePro 2450 (and picture): http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/amd_announces_ati_firepro_2450_graphics_card_with_quadmonitor_support
A-DATA's SSDs (and picture): http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/10/a.data.300.plus.ssd/
Hyundai MB-910 Watch Phone (and picture): http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/03/10/hyundai-announces-mb-910-watch-phone/

You can stop terrorists and rapists today by purchasing your very own Samsung (SPH-W7100) phone. The phone will emit a 100dB alarm with the push of a button. Make sure not to press it accidentally though. "The SPH-W7100 features and SOS function that alerts local authorities to your position via GPS. The phone is being marketed at women and children in Korea for its launch next month." Who cares about the specs because it has an alarm as loud as your MP3's earbuds on max volume. Wait, is that even loud? I don't really know, but i guess this is a step towards anti-terrorism. No?

Looking to purchase an LG Watchphone? Well, you'd just have to be rich. According to Engadget, the watchphone will be Orange's exclusively at the grand price of £1,000 ($1500 USD). This may be considered cheap to some people, but for me, it's expensive. But, it's okay because people will still buy this thing, so that they can look stupid talking to their watch. Luckily, we have Bluetooth in today's society, even in Canada!

The Final Fantasy IV sequel may be making its way to the US (I suppose Canada also). Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (name not confirmed) may be hitting us, but there is scarce information right now. There is no word on console, availability or price. It could even be available on Xbox Live Arcade, PSN or even WiiWare. The details are minimal right now, so just be on the look out for it.

Samsung SPH-W7100 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/samsung-sph-w7100-with-100-decibel-siren-proof-the-terrorists-h/
LG Watchphone Price (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/24/lgs-g910-watchphone-to-cost-1-000/
Final Fantasy IV Sequel: http://www.siliconera.com/2009/02/23/did-we-just-discover-final-fantasy-iv-the-after-years/

The long-awaited sequel to Street Fighter III is finally here. Street Fighter IV has hit the shelves today. All the Street Fighter fans need to get this so that they can Hadouken and Shoryuken all of their friends. It makes me sad that i don't have a Playstation 3. I'm missing out on Street Fighter IV and Killzone 2, damn.

Unfortunately, Samsung didn't get to show their Android phones at MWC, but this was anticipated. Fortunately, fans everywhere are now rejoicing because Samsung says that "more than three" Android handsets will be coming by the end of the year. If they're Android handsets are touchscreen, i hope Samsung fixes the touch-y problems, like the ones on the OmniaHD.

You probably already know about LG's watch phone and may be looking to purchase it. Well, it's not going to be the only watch phone out because Samsung is showing off their own. The GT S-1100 looks like it'll have your standard touchscreen, Bluetooth and speakerphone, which is similar to LG's watch phone. There is no word on the price or when it will be released. But it could be a while, maybe you'll see it around next year.

3 UK's INQ1 was named the best handset of 2009. How they gave the award to this phone, i don't know. Wait, you've never heard of this phone? It's okay, me neither. At the GSMA awards, this phone (somehow) came out on top, beating out the likes of: LG KS360, T-Mobile G1, Blackberry Storm and the Nokia E71. Apparently, the phone won because it was tightly integrated with Facebook and last.fm and also supported Skype and Windows Live Messenger. All of that being said, i don't think this handset should've won. Terrible call.

Street Fighter IV (and picture): http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693300/Street-Fighter-IV-In-Stores-Now.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed
Samsung To Release At Least 3 Android Phones This Year: http://i.gizmodo.com/5155599/samsung-promises-more-than-three-android-handsets-by-end-of-year
Samsung's Watch Phone (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/samsung-teases-wrists-with-gt-s1100-watch-at-mwc/
3 INQ1 Is The Best Handset (and picture): http://www.gsmarena.com/3_inq1_is_the_best_handset_for_2009_gsma_awards_announced-news-807.php