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SlashGear Roundup Video For This Week

Monday, March 28th, 2011

CTIA are bringing many announcements of new smartphones and tablets. This year’s everything revolves around tablets. Every manufacturer tried to creates different type of tablets with a purpose, to compete against Apple’s iPad. This week SlashGear is bringing back their weekly roundup video.

Here’s the list of the round up video.

10. iPad 2 international launch on March 25th. Check out our iPad 2 review. (iPad 2 lines images from Huffington Post).
iPad 2 international sales open with long shipping estimates
UK iPad 2 online delays mean queues the only hope for early-adopters
iPad 2 Review

9. ASUS makes official announcement for their ASUS Eee Pad Transformer.
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer official: 16hr battery in Honeycomb iPad 2 rival

8. Color Real-Time Image Sharing app.
Color image sharing app sorts by location (& gets privacy zealots worried)
The Color App May Serve a Purpose After All

7. Amazon launches Appstore for Android.
Amazon Appstore launches today
The Disruptive Potential of the Amazon App Store

6. Google delays Honeycomb for open-source.
Google Keeping Android 3.0 Honeycomb Closed For Now

5. RIM announces support for Android Apps on their BlackBerry Playbook tablets, and confirms pricing and date.
RIM To Support Android Apps For BlackBerry PlayBook

4. T-Mobile announces LG G2X smartphone, featuring glasses-free 3D display and 3D camera.
T-Mobile G2x by LG gets official: 3D Tegra 2 smartphone

3. Sprint announces HTC EVO 3D and HTC EVO View 4G.
HTC EVO 3D Revealed at Sprint Event [CTIA 2011]
EVO View 4G Revealed at Sprint Event [CTIA 2011]
HTC EVO 3D Hands-On
EVO View 4G Hands-On

2. Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab 8.9 and new version of Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 official
GALAXY Tab 10.1 & 8.9 Hands-on [CTIA 2011]

1. AT&T to buy T-Mobile.
AT&T Acquires T-Mobile for $39 Billion
AT&T and T-Mobile Acquisition Makes Sense
AT&T: We’d use T-Mo AWS spectrum for LTE plus double some 3G coverage

Product Reviews:

1. HTC Incredible S

2. Nintendo 3DS

To see and watch the video, head directly to SlashGear.

[via SlashGear]


Marvell and ASUS Jointly Develop TD-SCDMA Smartphones for China

Friday, February 25th, 2011

Asus has announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Marvell to develop TD-SCDMA smartphones in China. Together it will launch the new T10 and T20 smartphone initially, powered by the OPhone OMS system(a modified Android OS used in China). Asus has also planned to release more smartphones later this year, and equips its smartphone with 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0 and FM connectivity.

“I am proud of the leading role Marvell has played in the development of the TD-SCDMA standard, and I am particularly excited to see the launch of the ASUS TD smartphone with the addition of mobile gaming and mobile TV features all in one device – a true breakthrough in mobile telephone technology,” said Weili Dai, Marvell’s Co-Founder. “The ASUS smartphones are powered by Marvell’s PXA920 platform, the industry’s first single-chip TD-SCDMA solution: a tiny chip which delivers gigahertz speed, dynamic multimedia for mobile TV, live video, gaming and many exciting new applications, all to be unified by Marvell’s beautiful and easy-to-use Kinoma® software experience. I believe the ASUS TD smartphones will be just the beginning of mass deployment of cost effective, advanced TD-SCDMA-based smartphones throughout China.”


Asus E600 WP7 Phone Shows Off on Video

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Asus E600 Windows Phone 7 handset first appears on a December FCC leaked. But, we have only seen bit of pieces on the device. Fortunately, a Vietnamese site called Tinhte managed to capture a video of Asus E600 in action.

The WP7 phone will shipped with a 4-inch display screen and a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash. Also, featuring a 1300mAh battery, micro-USB port, lock/power button and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The device will officially unveiled in Barcelona at MWC.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[via Pocket-lint]


ASUS E600 Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Make an FCC Appereance

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Asus E600 Windows Phone 7 smartphone was first seen early beginning when the WP7 OS has been released. There’s couple blurry picture of the device to show it’s external form. But this time, we are looking at the device pictures through the FCC.

It appears that there’s rumor regarding the ASUS E600 arrival to retailers will be canceled. However, its just a mere rumor that lying around. As a matter of fact, the device might even head to AT&T retails stores when it’s ready.

[via Engadget]


Asus Rog Motherboard Talks to your Mobile Phone via Bluetooth

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

asus-motherboardASUS is debuting the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Maximus III Extreme, a P55-based motherboard that enables users to tweak system settings wirelessly over Bluetooth via a mobile phone. An extension of ASUS’ proprietary ROG Connect overclocking platform, RC Bluetooth allows users to review the status of their systems’ hardware and tweak parameters wirelessly from a Bluetooth-enabled PDA phone.

RC Bluetooth is also capable of performing standard Bluetooth functions, such as stereo music playback, Skype messaging, Internet access via a Bluetooth phone, and mobile phone or PDA synchronization. All it requires is the press of a button located on the rear I/O panel to toggle between overclocking and standard modes.