Good news: Dell has finally released pricing and availability information for the Streak tablet. Bad news: it’s another AT&T exclusive.
The Dell Streak is coming this week, Friday the 13th to be exact. It’ll cost a little-higher-than-expected $549, or $300 with two-year contract. And again, AT&T has got the rights to the thing–and that’s true even for the $550 version; it’s locked into AT&T.
In the months before the onset of some serious competition, the Nintendo Wii continues to sell well. A little over a year after reaching 20 million units sold, Nintendo has reached the 30 million sold. And that’s just in the U.S. Perhaps even more impressive, the console made this dent in just 45 months on the market, continuing its reign as the fastest-selling console ever.
Thanks to a Verizon road map leaked onto Boy Genius Report, we have a look at some upcoming tablets and handsets that will be making their way to market between now and 2012. The first and arguably most interesting is a new member of the Droid family (those Droids are really humpin’ like rabbits), the Droid Pro. Said to feature a 1.3 GHz processor, 4-inch screen and global roaming capabilities, the Droid Pro will reportedly launch in November–so don’t be too quick to hit the trigger on that Droid X.
Motion control gaming is the future! Or so we’re being told by Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. The truth is, motion control, for as fancy and Minority Report-y as it is, is still in its infancy. There are a lot of bugs to work out and kinks that need to be smoothed. While the Nintendo Wii has been tearing up the console sales charts, the implementation of the hardware hasn’t been as revolutionary as its once mysterious codename alluded so many years ago. And while Microsoft’s off-puttingly named Kinect and Sony’s Wii-ish Move are hoping to offer us everything we’ve been hoping motion control would be, so far nothing has blown any minds.
This is probably due to the limitations that are inherent within motion control gaming, which is a bit strange seeing as motion control was supposed to free us of all the limitations of those dastardly controllers with their antiquated stiff, plastic buttons that our grandparents once used to dial phones and turn on blenders. If the big three console makers want to convince us that motion control gaming is the glorious future they are telling us we’re already living in, then they’re going to have to address some of its biggest drawbacks, most of which involve asking gamers to accept certain things that gamers – specifically, hardcore gamers –have historically been known to shy away from.
There’s not too much information floating around on this big, bad boy, but it appears to be the first ASUS Windows Phone 7 phone (that new OS just makes things redundant doesn’t it). The leak hails from Pakistan, where the ASUS is presumably doing some time field testing.
Near as we can tell, judging from the picture, it appears to be a rather large phone, in the 4-inch range. It features stylish brushed metal casing and looks to include a front-facing video-call camera. Outside of that, all that’s left to look at is a central Windows button and a number of icons for Microsoft apps like Internet Explorer and XBOX Live.
As has been the trend of the past decade or so, Microsoft is pulling up behind Apple with a product all its own. In this case, it’s rumored that Microsoft will be launching a multitouch mouse to succeed its Arc Mouse.
Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse will launch in September, according to Neowin. This new piece of hardware is said to be the same piece of gear that Microsoft teased earlier this week in two pictures.
The recent MyType study reveals iPad owners are six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30-50 year olds,” according to MyType’s Tim Koelkebeck [via Wired].
In another (even less scientific) study conducted here at uCrave, we discovered these same iPad owners are six times more likely to be drawn to tacky, useless iPad accessories that appeal to their over-inflated sense of self. When I showed the iCade (Think Geek’s April Fool’s Joke), to iPad owning friends – every one of them expressed interest in acquiring the iPad Arcade Cabinet. Judging from some actual iPad accessories, the fictional iCade wasn’t such a far-fetched concept.
Motorola and Verizon have become inseparable as of late, and there’s another new service that’s expected to tie them even tighter at the hip: FiOS TV, Verizon’s subscription television service. According to a recent report on Financial Times, Motorola is preparing a tablet that will feature the television service, making it more of a fully functioning portable TV. Motorola has also teamed with Verizon in designing set-top boxes for the FiOS service.
This lovely little mouse here is called the G50 Vanguard. Taking the term ergonomic to another level, designer Damien Crossan has shaped the G50 just like a full hand–it’s like a computerized catcher’s mitt. Slide all five digits over the large, comfortable mouse and enjoy a much more intuitive man-computer interface.
Instead of slapping the scroll wheel in the middle of the mouse where you have to contort your pointer to access it, the G50 puts it on the right side where you can use your thumb–the one that’s not really doing anything anyway–to scroll. The mouse also includes 11 clickable controls for gaming, rather than your typical left-click, right-click.
