Tag: Gadgets

Samsung Electronics officially announces the first motion-controlled angry birds App for its Smart TVs. Angry Birds is one of the most popular smartphone game apps worldwide with over a billion download. Photo Credit: Samsung Tomorrow Conventionally, Angry Birds is played by touch-drag-release control scheme to fire a slingshot. But with Samsung Smart TV you can do it remotely without touching the TV screen. The game will respond to the gamer’s gestures to set off the slingshot and activate each bird’s unique abilities. Samsung Smart TV will become the first TV to offer the world’s most popular game and set a ... Read more

Online shopping is a lot convenient than personal shopping especially for gadgets. Because aside from the internet accessibility to search for the complete specifications, you can instantly browse for peer reviews and feedback. Though you do not have the grasp of the product you wanted to buy which I guess is also essential for decision-making, the savings you got from fare-free shopping and the detailed reviews are enough to compensate it. I have enlisted below some of the trusted online gadget stores. KimStore A GoNegosyo 12 Young Entrepreneurs 2011 awardee, KimStore bears a Multiply’s Trusted Business seal. Kimstores sell variety ... Read more

Sold at $10,999.99 or nearly half a million pesos (PHP), Sharp’s 90-inch LED TV (Aquos LC90LE745U) stands 4 feet tall, 6 feet wide and weighs 64 kg (141 lbs). Like any other LED TVs of Sharp’s Aquos family, Aquos LC90LE745U is already a Smart TV with built-in web browser and Wi-Fi and is 3D capable. It also features a surround sound subwoofer system. Though it was tagged as the largest LED TV, it does not surpass the planet’s largest Plasma TV, Panasonic’s 4K2K 3D 152-inch Plasma Display Panel. Sharp’s 90″ LED TV (Photo from SharpUSA.com) Specifications: 90-inch LED-LCD screen 3D-capable ... Read more

Something cool is coming this May 2012 in the Philippine gadget stands, the Nokia 808 Pureview. The latest Nokia phone is not powered by Windows Phone 7 OS but with the near-dead platform, Symbian Belle. The phone’s soft launched came after the announcement of Nokia and Microsoft’s partnership to topple Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Symbian OS, by the way, is currently maintained by Accenture. What is making Nokia 808 Pureview a lot interesting is its integrated 41-megapixel camera backed with Carl-Zeiss optics which Nokia aptly renamed as Pureview and a performing xenon flash. It is about capturing and housing ... Read more

A cellphone with a built-in project was a just dream few years ago. Now, it is completely a reality when Samsung Electronics released Samsung Galaxy Beam. The phone was announced two years ago as Samsung I8520 Halo and was released last July 2010 in Singapore under a carrier contract with Starhub. Worldwide release was August of the same with its Singapore release, however, it is not making a big wave on the market maybe because of poor publicity. The phone is already available yet rarely seen on the market stands, and only few individuals are aware of such phone. In ... Read more

After a careful consideration and evaluation on whether I go for Blackberry bold 9300 or HTC Explorer, I finally decided to take the later. The only edge Blackberry has against HTC is its BBM service and since only few of my friends use Blackberry and there are other several multi-platform messaging service available in applications stores or markets, I scratched the option of having BBM on my phone. Also, I am hearing that RIM (Blackberry OS developer) is considering options of making BBM be available on other platforms like Android and iOS, though its a paid app. December 23, 2011 ... Read more

Question: Can I create my own WiFi hotspot without a router or a MyFi device? Answer: Absolutely Yes! Question: What do I need to Begin Answer: A Windows 7 OS, a Laptop or Desktop of course and an internet connection (DSL, LAN, or WAN) Question: How do I begin? Answer: Download the Connectify software by clicking here After downloading, Install the application, make sure that you have a Windows 7 OS, this may not work with the previous versions. Run the application. You will have an application window that looks like below. Click Easy Setup Wizardto name your hotspot and ... Read more

Something happened to my iPod Touch 4G (read the story here) so I decided to restore it, of course with the latest Apple Firmware, the iOS 4.3.2. Since AppStore apps are really expensive, especially for me who just wanted to try then delete if I don’t like the app, I’d jailbreak with SnOwbreeze 2.6 for me to use cracked apps. I tried using redsnOw 0.9.6rc14 however it could not recognize the iOS platform I do have. Good thing that I had successfully jailbroke my iPod and I can see Cydia and Installous in my apps. I can also use free ... Read more

Grrr! It was really a bad Maundy Thursday. Aside from a very silent neighborhood, my iTouch, my last resort to ease the boredom, does not boot. It’s been hours that I only see this apple logo in the device, and damn, it stayed in the booting mode till the other day. Sad is, warranty is void because I jailbroke the device (this is not a good thing for jailbreaking). So I tried to restore it, the problem is, I used iTunes from internet cafe’s. My idevice is passcode protected and will require a passcode every time I connect to iTunes. ... Read more