Onkyo Reveals Wireless Headphone for iPod

If you value good quality audio playback and are pained by the awful sound quality of existing Bluetooth headphones, Onkyo has come to your rescue with their MHP-UW2 wireless headphone. Bluetooth compresses the audio to transfer it wirelessly, which results in degradation of sound quality. The Onkyo MHP-UW2 wireless system sends uncompressed audio signal using 2.4GHz digital connection, Onkyo claims that this will deliver true CD quality sound wirelessly. Read More

Apple Might Launch $800 Laptop; More Images of ‘Brick’ MacBook Casing

Apple has sent out invites for their 14th October laptop event this morning. As soon as the invite went public, various websites have posted rumors about the upcoming laptops. Some of these rumors might come true as Apple is trying to increase their presence in laptop market. Yesterday, Engadget posted a spy-shot of the MacBook Pro casing made by the new 'Brick' manufacturing process. And, today Apple.Pro blog has posted three more images of what looks like the new MacBook casing. The shot from the top shows the keyboard view and larger trackpad, which is nearly identical to the current MacBook Air case design. Read More

Acer Takes Lead in Worldwide Notebook Shipment for September

Industrial sources are reporting that Acer shipped 3.4-3.6 million notebooks in September this year beating both HP and Dell. Acer sold 1.2-1.3 million Aspire One netbooks and 2.2-2.3 million notebooks in September. According to estimates HP sold 2.5-2.7 million units and Dell reached 1.8 to 1.9 million units. Read More

Toshiba Also Joins the WiMAX Crowd with Satellite U405-ST550W Laptop

Toshiba has also joined the WiMAX laptop race with the Satellite U405-ST550W ultraportable laptop that features a 13.3” LCD screen. The Windows Vista Home Premium based laptop will come with Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology, combined WiMAX / WiFi module, eSATA / USB combo port, webcam with face recognition technology, 4GB RAM and 320GB hard drive. Read More

Motorola Unveils Q 11 Smartphone with WiFi

Motorola today officially unveiled the new Q11 handset based on Windows Mobile 6.1 with WiFi and GPS support. The features on the phone include 2.4” 320 X 240 LCD screen, 3-megapixel camera, quad band GSM / EDGE (no 3G), 128 MB onboard memory, Bluetooth with A2DP and microSD card slot with support for up to 32GB cards. Read More

Sprint Launches XOHM WiMAX Network in Baltimore

Sprint has officially launched XOHM WiMAX network in Baltimore, along with WiMAX enabled notebooks from Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba. All the WiMAX enabled PCs use Intel’s combined WiMAX / WiFi module. Sprint has also released WiMAX devices like Nokia N810, USB WiMAX dongle and WiMAX expresscard. For home use Sprint has introduced ZTE MAX-206m2 modem/router, which offer both WiMAX modem and networking functionality. Read More

Upcoming MacBook Pro “Brick” Casing Spy Shot

Engadget has posted spy shot of the upcoming MacBook Pro casing made by the rumored “Brick” manufacturing process. The photo first originated from a Chinese website. The image shows outer casing of MacBook Pro around the keyboard area and it looks like it was made out of one piece of aluminum block. Read More

Vodafone Officially Announces BlackBerry Storm in UK

While everyone was guessing that Verizon will be the first to announce the new BlackBerry Storm touchscreen handset, it turns out that it is Vodafone from the other side of pond who first came out clean about the new handset. The carrier has confirmed that the new handset will feature a 3.25-inch 460 x 360 resolution LCD touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, 128MB RAM, 1GB of flash memory and microSD card slot for expansion of up to 16GB. Read More

BerryStore – a Better Alternative to BlackBerry App Center?

Yesterday, we got information about RIM’s upcoming App Center, a portal for third party apps. The information revealed two major negative points about the new BlackBerry application store. First, it was controlled by the carriers and second, it was web browser based system. If you are like most people and you didn’t want greedy carriers to decide, what applications you can have on you BlackBerry smartphone, an alternative just came along - BerryStore. It’s an unaffiliated startup that has launched a competing app store for BlackBerry Apps. Read More

BlackBerry Storm will have Copy/Paste Function and App Center

BlackBerry’s upcoming touchscreen phone will follow the iPhone by giving its users and developers an application store called “App Center”. Additionally, it will try to one-up the iPhone by including the copy-and-paste feature. The App Center will be a portal for third party apps like the Apple App Store but carriers will control it. Though, BlackBerry will host all the applications on a central RIM server, filter will be in place depending on carrier network that is accessing the server. Read More

BlackBerry Storm will have Copy/Paste Function and App Center

BlackBerry’s upcoming touchscreen phone will follow the iPhone by giving its users and developers an application store called “App Center”. Additionally, it will try to one-up the iPhone by including the copy-and-paste feature. The App Center will be a portal for third party apps like the Apple App Store but carriers will control it. Though, BlackBerry will host all the applications on a central RIM server, filter will be in place depending on carrier network that is accessing the server. Basically, giving complete control to carriers, who will decide what applications, the consumers can download on their phones. Road More

Toshiba Showcases Notebook Battery That Recharges 90 Percent in 10 Minutes

It has happened to every one of us, when we need to use the notebook on the go there is no power left in the notebook battery. Imagine if there was a battery that would charge 90 percent in 10 minutes, how many problems that would solve. Last week at CEATEC 2008 in Tokyo, Japan, Toshiba unveiled its prototype notebook battery that charges 90 percent in 10 minutes. Toshiba calls the battery Super Charge ion Battery (SCiB) and it uses a new lithium-titanate anode material. Read More

iPhone Cruises Past the 10 Million Goal and It’s the Top Selling Smartphone in US

Members of Mac Observer’s AFB have been tracking the IMEI numbers for the iPhone sold. International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is a unique 15-digit code assigned to each individual iPhone found in its settings. The members of Apple Finance Board at Mac Observer are maintaining a spreadsheet of iPhone IMEI data points with the purchase date, model and production week. According to the data from early September Apple was on its eighth TAC, each TAC can register one million iPhones, meaning 8 million 3G iPhones have already been manufactured. Read More