Motorola phone battery: In 2010, universal charger for cell phones in EU
30 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

“Lend me the charger”. It is not the motto of an advertising campaign but a frustrated dream for millions of users. It happens every day when somebody has a mobile phone with a discharged battery at the workplace and, although this person is surrounded by other cell phone users, nobody can help. And that is because all phones have a different charger or adapter. To solve this problem, the major European mobile phone makers have concluded an agreement with the European Commission in order to market an universal charger starting from 2010 (mid-year).

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Laser lightsaber for the Wii Star Wars game
27 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

There are good and happy news for those who are fans of Star Wars: a saga that is really popular around the world. And here’s the news.

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iPhone 3G cell phone is replaced by 3G S
21 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

A better camera, a faster performance and new features: these are the proposals that come with the new iPhone 3G S that had been announced by Apple, the California-based company, during a press conference.

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PDA phone: Is Palm Pre better than iPhone?
14 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

iPhone, get out of the way!

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Apple will market its new iPhone 3G S starting June 19
8 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

Steve Jobs was not present but there was much expectation until the last minute. Apple executives Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall had called a meeting with the media. The meeting was supposed to talk about software development but the Apple representatives ended up revealing some technological novelties of the company. Among them, and maybe the most important, the arrival of the third-generation iPhone. And, as usual, they made the announcement when all the Apple stores around the world had their doors closed.

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Video games – Invizimals: a Spanish game that uses the PSP camera
5 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

It is one of the most innovative games that can be seen in the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this year and it was developed by the Spanish game studio Novarama, based in Barcelona. Invizimals takes advantage of the Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) camera to capture images of the real world that can become embedded in a virtual world.

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N97: Stay connected at any time, everywhere
4 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

Nokia has introduced, by way of some operators such as Telefonica, its latest product of the N-Series multi-media phones. The new phone has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.5-inch high resolution touchscreen and several services related to Internet connectivity.

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Xbox 360 controls that use voice and gestures will take several months before becoming available
2 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

The Project Natal includes a camera, a motion sensor and a microphone, which are elements that will allow users to play by using their bodies and voices to control the Xbox 360. But it will take several months before becoming available in the market. It was confirmed by Daniel Cervantes in an interview yesterday. He is the director of games and entertainment division of Microsoft in Spain. He didn’t specify how long it will take, but he said this technology will be launched at a “global” level. The accessory will be sold as another peripheral and the users will be able to adapt it to current consoles. Don Mattrick, the head of Microsoft’s videogames group, said yesterday that this is a way to renovate the console without changing the hardware.

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PSP games console: Size of the PlayStation Portable Go compared with other gadgets
1 Jun 2009 - By Omar Mariño

The images published on some websites and the video you can see above (about the new PSP GO) are very illustrative of many design aspects for the new Sony’s PlayStation Portable but they are not very helpful if we want to know the real size of the handheld game console. For that reason, it is really interesting to take a look at the comparison that was made in a website called Kotaku. Basically, the website made a comparison between the size of this new handheld console and its predecessor (the PSP-3000), the iPhone and Nintendo DSi.

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