Apple iPad 2 Review

Here is the next generation iPad from Apple which has gone thinner, lighter and faster of course. Seriously, this has turned out to be one of the cool tablet PC versions from Apple which can give a stiff competition to its counterpart Blackberry Playbook.

Let us peep into the Design and Features aspects of this all new cool iPad,

Design:

There is not much of a difference in the design of the next generation iPad expect a minor change in the back side. The back portion has been made flatter than its predecessor that of course has made a lot of difference in holding the gadget. The all new chassis is also an immediate and a clear improvement to the device.

The new version has been made thinner which makes the ipad 2 weigh less than its predecessor. Dimensions of thenew iPad measures: 7.31 in x 0.34 in x 9.5 in (WxDxH). Thickness of the device is less than your iPhone 4. It is just amazing to have a gadget in thickness less than a phone.

Apple has provided iPad 2 with two cameras, one is the front one just like what your iPhone 4 has and another one is a HD camera located on the back top right corner of the 9.7 in screen.

Features:

The most important feature is the all new A5 dual-core processor from Apple which gives a real boost to the iPad 2. The new version has got dual CPU which ensures that the applications are opening in a good speed than its predecessor. Apple has promised that the Graphics display would be much better than the original one as the company claims that the new A5 Processor is 9 times better in graphical aspects.

The rear HD camera can capture 720p videos while the front facing camera helps in video calling just like your iPhone 4. Facetime chat application was introduced along with this new version which will help in the video calling. Apple has also introduced two more apps for iPad 2, Garageband and iMovie.

Another feature of this 1.33 lbs weighing gadget is the support to HDMI compatibility which helps in sending the output to a TV. It supports wireless connectivity including IEEE 802.11n IEEE 802.11g IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11a.

Review:

The all new A5 dual-core processor double power CPU support really helps the new version run faster than its predecessor and the graphics support present helps in playing high graphics videos/games with ease.

The flat surface helps the gadget to fit into the surface more precisely than its predecessor. The weight, the thin construction, the sexy look are the real plus for the new version which can play good number of applications when compared to its other market competitors.

Apple has missed the retina display present in the iPhone 4 which should have been here in the iPad 2. Another thing missed by Apple is the display, there must have been some changes done to it.

10 Hours of battery life is also an advantage in the new boy. Last but not least, do not forget the price of the iPad, it is highly competitive for the features it is offering.

Price:

Pricing is steady in the US, iPad Wi-Fi only version has been given a price tag of $499, $599, and $699 for the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions respectively. iPad Wi-Fi+3G has been given a price tag of $629, $729, and $829 for the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions respectively.

Techperk Tagline:

Nicer look, Nice to feel, Nice to hold, Nice to run apps are the cool features of the all new cool iPad. The Drastic dimension and processor difference from its predecessor helps the new boy to become a stiff competitor for its counterparts.

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HTC HD2 Review

smartphones are known for its versatility, if you are looking for a phone that is sleek, sharp with a smart outlook and the one which will fit for your needs and requirements then you will find this all-new HTC HD2 as a pretty interesting and a amusing business smartphone.

Design:

This has a serious business look which is not much appealing for many of the users other than those who are looking for an executive touch smartphone.

The phone comes with a reasonable weight of only 147 grams with the battery and fits all its components with dimensions of 115 mm × 62.88 mm × 12 mm. The phone is one of the kinds that sports on the largest screen with a VGA display capacitative touch screen, and is built as a potential multimedia mobile phone as well.

HTC HD2

The phone comes with a 3.5mm port on the top to fit in with the stereo headsets, and has a 5 MP camera at the back. The phone seemed to carry some kind of attraction for the curved edged design in metallic luxurious black.

Features:

There is so much to tell about the phone specifications if you take a closer look in detail. Here are some of the most displayable specs that the company is trying to bet to cross the river of competition in the mobile market. This will include a Vibrant Touchflo 3D user interface for smooth touch screen gestures running on Windows Mobile 6.1, which is backed up by Qualcomm MSM 7201A and 528 MHz, with a memory capacity being 512 RAM and 288 ROM. You have a 16 GB expandable micro SD slot which will keep the memory options wide open

Connectivity solutions provided by this phone will include HSDPA and WCDMA, Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and are hoping to get an upgrade to HSUPA soon. Other connectivity solutions will include GPS navigation, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, IEEE and HTC Ext USB.

For pictures and videos, there are two cameras to serve the dual purposes. A 5 MP camera that can capture color with autofocus on the rear side and a second camera is a VGA CMOS colour camera on the front for video calls.

There is a built-in 3.5 mm audio jack, microphone, speaker and FM radio and music files are being supported in a number of formats. One other special features is a G- sensor.

Review:

The phone though comes with a TouchFlo 3D user interface friendly touchscreen for intricate gestures, you will still find yourself that the HTC TouchFlo 3D is unable to meet the demands of minute gestures.
What is better about the phone is that it comes with a slim design that has a convenient large screen for full view of the entire web page. HSDPA connectivity is a positive feature of the phone which provides you with blazing speed connectivity for a mobile phone. Some of the other good things in this smart business companion will include the Wi-Fi accessibility and the GPS navigation system.

So now you can move with confidence as the GPS option is backed up with Google maps to view both satellite maps and Google maps, and the display lets you get a clearer, detailed and ultra sharp images.
Nevertheless, how can you forget the Windows mobile 6.1 OS and the services is offers

Blackberry Playbook Review

BlackBerry Playbook is one of the best multimedia tablet PC that is out in the market following the CES 2011, where in the BlackBerry stall they showcased these breathtaking multimedia gadget in hand with a number features to tell instantly like HD video, HD display with rich stereo sound and hard-core gaming as well. You are sure to gain entertainment and business needs under one roof from this Playbook only and nowhere else.

Let us peep into the design and features of the Tablet PC,

Design:

The tablet is ultraportable that comes with the convenience of easy to carry as it is sleek, slim and elegant in design. The dimensions are height × Width × Depth × Weight, 5.1” × 7.6” × 0.4” ×0.9 pounds respectively. The device comes only in one color of luxury, which is the color of elephant, black.

Features:

Blackberry Playbook will include a 7” LCD touchscreen display that sports a highly powerful computing power backed up 1 GHz dual core processor and a 1 GB RAM that supports multitasking.

The full Adobe Flash 10.1, built-in HTML5 support will support web browsing experience like that of your PC. The high speed connectivity solutions that the tablet can reproduce has been credited to 3G and 4G network accessibility, while the former runs on BB smartphone OS and the later on the 4G playbook OS. Other connectivity solutions will include the Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and a Bluetooth 2.1 EDR.

Apart from this the tablet has a front facing 3MP camera for video calling and a rear facing 5 Mp camera with the necessary software to support an excellent video capturing at 1080p HD quality or pixel resolution.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server is the built-in software that enables corporate access and is meant for business operations efficiently. Otherwise, the OS of the tablet is meant for making the tablet powerful, user-friendly and is built on QNX technology, which is the secret behind the accessibility for multi-tasking.

Some of the other applications that have been introduced are the exclusive brands of rapid development support to POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry 6, WebKit, Adobe Flash, Java and Adobe Mobile AIR. It has the following output ports like H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output ports, micro USB and micro HDMI ports with a fully-fledged multi-touch capacitive screen.

Review:

There are a number of goodies in this Playbook that helps with your wireless connectivity solutions like the real time accessibility to emails, calendars, address book, task list and BBM, in short, your personalized organizers that which is connected continuously with the internet and keeps you updated online too.

The multitasking accessibility on the BlackBerry OS makes this tablet convenient to do many tasks simultaneously and access information concurrently. This feature, in addition to the corporate access is a real gift to corporate sectors that will help you gain immense access of taking your office wherever you go.

To support the entertainment phone is the video conferencing accessibility that will produce crystal clear and sharp image outputs, backed with rich stereo sound and dual HD video cameras for recording high quality videos.

What is not good is the size of the tablet and it lags behind with the competing tablets in capturing videos in various shapes and angles, and is a difficult task to achieve as well.

Overall, the Blackberry playbook will receive a big welcome from the customers, despite this too cannot surpass the size limitations like other tablet PCs, but is well compromised with a better browsing experience that you have been receiving earlier. Yet another problem that is faced by the Blackberry Playbook is the amount of battery consumption that you will find it hard to work when not in connection, and with time, you will be finding the quality of the battery wears out sooner than before you think. An enhanced battery life comes with a cost of not being ecofriendly, which of course, will not miss the eyes of the environmentalists.

TechPerk Tagline:

Ultimately, in one sentence this seems to be one of the promising and will be a tough competitor for all the tablets out in the market and could be tagged as an all-in-one entertainment, gaming and business tablet that will keep you on the go!

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Verizon Wireless to launch Motorola XOOM on February 24th

Verizon Wireless has announced the launch of most awaiting Motorola XOOM Tablet PC, which is considered as the competitor of Apple iPad2. Verizon has declared that XOOM will be available in its stores from 24th of February and has also confirmed the cost of this Honeycomb device.

Verizon is offering XOOM for $599.99 with a two-year service contract, which without a contract costs only $799.99. Verizon offers 3G data service for 1GB of data at $20/month and also the company has announced free upgrade of 4G LTE for XOOM during the second quarter of this year. But, still there is no word on the cost of its upcoming 4G LTE.

Here are the spec details of the XOOM Tablet,

10.1 inch touchscreen HD display

1GHZ dual-core processor

5-megapixel rear camera along with 720p HD video support

2-megapixel front facing camera for video chat

Tabbed browsing

Honeycomb user experience helps to improvise Android favorites like browsing, notifications and multi-tasking. Free download of Adobe Flash Player will soon be available for enjoying rich Web contents.

Motorola Xoom Tablet

10 Best Gaming Laptops

Gaming lovers are spread all around the world and I am sure you will be one among them as well. Of course I come under that category as well. I would always suggest spending some thousands of dollars extra to buy a powerful gaming laptop rather than an ordinary one.

What are gaming laptops?

Gaming laptops are expected to have powerful desktop processors, big high-resolution screens, extra large graphic chips, virtually large storage and memory, and advanced technology in screen display.

Here is a collection of 10 best gaming laptops that are available in the market. If you are planning to buy a laptop then stop here and start peeping into the details.

1. Asus G51JX 3D:

This is one of the top powered and top valued notebooks made for games from Asus, with the minimum price for a real gaming experience from $ 1, 618. 99 along with 3D Vision. Although quite heavy, this 15.6”laptop is no big surprise over the design being simply black and beautiful with a very powerful hardware running on an Intel Core i7 processors and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M graphics card. This has all the ports that a gaming laptop will require to connect a play station like four USB ports, VGA and HDMI ports, Firewire, eSATA, Ethernet and an audio in/out headset. The laptop is equipped with a Blu-ray player and DVD burner combo driver with a multi-format memory card reader. For 3D vision technology, the laptop is equipped with an essentially Nvidia 3D Vision kit that comes separately with an active IR emitter active glasses connecting via an USB port, which helps in converting videos into 3D movies. Other specifications will include 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 2 slots and 4 GB max with a Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit, complemented with a Gaming Backpack and Gaming Mouse.

2. Alienware M17x:

The fastest and best gaming Laptop that has ever been tested has been packed into the various shelf-components of Alienware’s M17x coming with a massive 17” screen. The laptop has been dedicated for gamers and the price is somewhere that will take a big share of your pockets with the price beginning from $ 4, 849. The laptop comes with a 2. 53 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300 with a very big RAM memory of 8 GB and two partitioned 500 GB drives. The 17” display screen of the laptop with dimensions 1, 920 × 1, 200, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M occupying a 2 GB worth memory, all this loaded on Windows Vista Home Premium edition of 64-bit operating system and weighing nearly 12.7 pounds, which will require you to have a few additional calories to carry this piece.

3. Asus G73JH-A2:

The 17” Asus G73JH is one of the fastest gaming laptops currently available and is popularly known as “Republic of Gamers” with the price range starting from $1, 599.99. This laptop runs on a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8GB of DDR3 and ATI’s top mobile GPU on the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and has a 2-partitioned 500 GB storage capacity. The optical drive is DVD±RW with a 17.3” screen that weighs only 7.4 pounds. The laptop has the following dimensions of 2.2 × 16.3 × 12.6 inches with an operating system running on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit design. For gaming, the laptop has a large and comfortable multi-touch touchpad usually runs in a 1.6 GHz but can switch to a Turbo Mode of 2.8 GHz for higher speed when the graphics has higher pixels.

4. Alienware M15x:

The M15X, is one of the performing best gaming laptops that has a widescreen of 15” and is loaded with a number of cool tools and attractive features worth the price beginning from $ 3, 274. The laptop is loaded with Windows 7 Ultimate operating system of 64-bit version, 15. 6” display screen of resolution of 1, 920 × 1, 080 pixels running on 2 GHz Intel Core i7-920XM with a 4 GB RAM. The notebook is fitted with a DVD±RW/BD-ROM combo weighing a massive 9 pounds to carry.

5. Asus G51jx-x3:

This is yet another gaming laptop that falls under the category of “Republic of Gamers” is this model running on Intel Core i5, which is less powerful and less expensive. This falls in the upper mid-range of gaming notebooks that is equipped with a 2.26 GHz Turbo boost and a 4 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 memory and 500 GB storage capacity. GeForce GTS 360 M graphics processor that has memory modules to compensate for the loss in speed handles the graphics. The laptop has a 15.6” screen, memory card reader with a full HD screen. Other specifications will include a memory card reader, n-class Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Altec Lansing speakers. All this comes for a remarkable price of $ 1, 029, which is much lesser than i7.

6. Alienware Area-51 m9750:

Not to disappoint Alienware fans, this company has launched a new series of gaming laptops that couldn’t get better than the early ones, with a nice LCD for gaming, fast SLI graphics of 1 GB in total memory made for killer gaming system and great for desktop replacement, with scratch and fingerprint resistant. The notebook runs on a 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo T7600 processor with 2 GB DDR2 RAM memory that has two hard drives each capable of 160 GB storage capacity. The optical drives are a double-layered DVD±RW with s 17” TFT technology built for high quality display. The high quality display are of high quality with a two Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX GPUs of 512 MB, SLI interface running on a Windows XP Media Center Edition version 2005 operating system. I hope that this will fall in one of those costly gaming laptops for a price of $4,699.

7. Vaio Z Series:

Yet another small wonder apart from Alienware m11x is the 13”, 3.2 pounds weighing Vaio Z that is largely packed with powerful boosters for gaming. Some of the specifications are 32nm processor running on Intel core i7 620M, Nvidia GeForce GT 330M and is equipped with an additional 2.66 GHz Turbo Boost feature. Other specs will include GT 330M with 40nm DX10.1 cards with 48 unified shaders on a 13” frame that is marking the reason for the price tag of $1, 799. 00. Other important features affecting the gaming performance are the 4 GB RAM with 2 GB storage capacity that runs on a 128 GB Solid State Drive with a DVD/CD RW Optical drive running on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit weighing only 5.4 pounds.

8. Eurocom D900F Panther (2010 Version):

This $ 4, 000 uber-laptop offers an unsurpassable speed with plenty of 3D horsepower that is really a great investment for those whom $ 4, 250 and more is not an issue, to use this giant for gaming, content creation and entertainment use. This is best gaming laptop that runs on Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit version with 3. 33 GHz Intel Core i7-980X Extreme running on 6 GB RAM with a 128 GB solid-state drive, a 500 GB hard drive and a BD-ROM/DVD±RW combo drive. The display screen of the size of 17.1” display with dimensions of 1, 920 × 1, 200 resolution, Nvidia GEForce GTX 480M graphics occupying a massive 2 GB weighs nearly 11.9 pounds and has the dimensions of 2.4 × 15.6 × 11.7” of HWD.

9. MSI GT660R:

A slightly smaller and easy to carry gaming notebook is GT66R, which actually weighing around 7.7 pounds and provides with an impressive graphics performance and edgy look, without attempting to put a major share on your valet of only $ 1, 649.99. This notebook is capable of handling 3D games with preloaded Windows 7 Home Premium edition of 64-bit size. The computer runs on 1.73 GHz Intel Core i7-740QM running on a 6GB RAM for all the gaming specs to be included like Nvidia GEForce GTX 285M graphics occupying 1 GB and a 16” display with 1, 366 × 768 pixel display resolution on a dimension of 1.8 × 15 × 10.2” HWD. There are two hard drives partitioned to 500 GB each and has BD-ROM/DVD±RW combo drive.

10. HP Pavilion HDX16t

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Yet another best gaming laptop is from HP that is sleek and beautiful is the HP HDX 16t that sports on a stylish silver streaky pattern with a lid and keyboard on a 16” flush glass of 1920 × 1080 pixel resolution with a 16.9” HDTV LCD screen. The model runs on a P7350 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz and a 512 MB Nvidia GeForce 9600 GPU with a 4 GB RAM memory and a 250 GB HDD having a Blu-ray technology player for graphic display. The laptop is expected to cost a bit on your valet, but is pretty portable unlike many of the other gaming laptops. This has the price tag around $1099.99.

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