T-Mobile shipping the Garminfone for $199 in June, we go hands-on
T-Mobile and Garmin-Asus have just gotten down to the nitty gritty with us on the long anticipated Garminfone : the phone ships in June for $199 on a two year contract. Just to show they're serious, they also let us play with the phone, which is running a speedy, heavily custom Garmin UI on top of Android.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: asus, beach, garmin-asus, handset, heavily-custom, mobile, nitty, ships
Nanosys and LG Innotek agree deal for newfangled LED-backlit displays
For the nitty gritty of how Nanosys' proprietary LED backlighting technology works, check out our earlier coverage here -- what you really need to know is that the company promises a significantly wider color gamut from its displays, while reducing power consumption by up to 50 percent. Quantum dot LEDs have shown their faces before, but now there's the big hulking heft of LG Innotek -- LG's component manufacturing arm -- behind what Nanosys is offering, which indicates we might actually see the release of nanotech-infused displays within the first half of this year as promised.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, component, consumption, engadget, fri, innotek, led, ledlight, lg innotek, mobile, mobile-phones, nitty, quantum, release, result