HP has announced that the Wi-Fi HP TouchPad will be available in Singapore from 12th August 2011, through authorised retailers Best Denki, Courts, and Harvey Norman, and direct from HP. For National Day, the 16GB model comes with a case.
Windows Phone Mango, also known as Windows Phone 7.5, has reached Released to Manufacturing, meaning we'll have it soon, likely around September or October 2011. The RTM build is 7720, and the Windows Phone development team officially signed off.
This is my second Transformers USB Flash Memory Drive, after the Tigatron one, this time the Jaguar. Thanks to both Justins from Tech65, Justin Ng and Justin Lee, for this fun little gadget to add to my growing collection.
Mac OS X Lion is finally out, costing US$29.99 in the Mac App Store, I was downloading it at 11MB/s last night. For slower connections, it's also available on a USB thumb drive via the Apple Store Singapore for S$88.
I've joined the microblogging bandwagon, with Posterous as my weapon of choice. I picked it over Tumblr because its interface is clean and intuitive, and its iOS app is well made. For me, Tumblr has too many features.
As part of the Nokia Rangers Program, we could choose between the Nokia E6 and Nokia X7. I went for the E6 after trying it at the blogger preview in May 2011, mainly for its full QWERTY keyboard.
Thanks to SingTel and HTC for organising the Most Checked-in Party at Zouk, it was awesome. I arrived a little late due to work, but better late than never. On arrival, you register by logging into Facebook.
mig33 is about to unveil a new Developer Program, inviting developers and brands to build social games and apps for its 50 million registered users and thriving virtual economy. It's a joint initiative with Japan's GREE and China's Tencent QQ.
Here I share some rsync snippets I use to back up my data to Dropbox or Jungle Disk on my Mac. When I started, I struggled to find the rsync flags for these, so hopefully this post saves someone trouble.
PopCap Games has hit the jackpot, having produced hits like Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies. EA has now acquired the studio for US$650 million plus US$100 million in stock and a multi-year earn-out, bringing the total to US$1.3 billion.
I got the Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB from Amazon for US$91.49, alongside my Cocoon Grid-It, with shipping totalling US$21.46. The Eye-Fi isn't officially sold in Singapore, so you must buy from overseas resellers or Amazon, where it works out cheaper.
Cocoon makes an interesting product I'd call a bag organiser for gadgets, the Grid-It. It comes in various sizes and colours to suit different bags and devices, with prices from US$10 to US$50. It's a patent-pending object retention system.
Thanks to SingTel for inviting me to the SingTel AMPed Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Showcase at Marina Bay Sands on 7th July 2011. Lady Gaga came to mark AMPed's second anniversary, having launched the service here two years earlier.
I'd wanted the Simplism DockCarabiner Neo for iPhone at PC Show 2011, but the black sold out on day two, with no restock by day three. It was only S$13.20 at EpiCentre, and I've since checked several branches.
I got a retractable USB cable for iPhone, iPod, Mini USB, and Micro USB, 70cm long, from Deal Extreme for just US$7.20, the very same cable Challenger sells for S$29.90. I also grabbed a retractable RJ45 network cable for US$1.81.
The Nokia E7 is essentially a Nokia N8 with a keyboard, as you've probably heard many times. I won't dwell on the OS, since it's the same Symbian^3 as the N8, so this short review mostly compares the two.