Jan 16
McDonalds announced last week (Jan .11th) that it would be offering free wifi across the board to all customers in most of it’s restaurants starting yesterday the 15th. As promised, the wifi is now open! It used to offer free wifi to iPhone/AT&T customers, but now it has opened the flood gates to all of it’s customers with a laptop or wifi enabled cell phone. Go and try out your local McDonalds and report back, 11,500 of 14,000 of their buildings have it!
So facebook quietly update their iPhone application earlier this week. What’s the major update? Contact syncing of course! It allows you to connect your iPhone contacts with your facebook friends and even download their picture from their profile! This used to cost a few bucks extra to have an un official app do this for you, but now the official app does it for freezies! Check out some screenshots below:
With Sprint announcing the Overdrive 4G router, it seems to be the coolest little handheld router out there. This thing runs on the only live 4G network in the U.S. and will be ready to purchase in the BestBuy stores on January 10th! This thing touts being able to stream your favorite video services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon; turn your wifi only phone into a Skype phone, or stream Pandora to your devices on the go. It’s pretty much ousted the MiFi and still allows up to 5 devices to connect to it’s wifi spot.
via [Engadget] via [BusinessWire]
Lenovo branded IBM IdeaPad has been announced at CES and this thing is a two for one deal! It runs it’s own Linux style UI while in Tablet mode, and let you get to the internet as needed and just a 1.5 inch thick, but doubles into a notebook computer with the add-on keyboard which turns it into a Windows running PC so you can do the office things that you need to do. It literally takes seconds to switch over, check out the video below from Revision3:
via [Revision3]
The HP Slate announced at CES 2010 seems to be the way things are going. The last few years it was the netbook, but now it seems we are going to the touchscreens of tomorrow with these new computers. Right now, all we know about it is that it supports Windows 7, as shown by Mr. Ballmer himself, and it does multi-touch. Ballmer even showed it running the PC version of Kindle software and it looked great! A cool new way to read a book. It’s not the for mentioned Courier that we have seen previously, but it is a good step in that direction. I don’t know if the Courier was still in development or not, but this is definitely a cool new PC to look out for in 2010.
Dell also pulled aside a few people and show them the slate from Dell called the “Streak”. (not “the streak”, just streak). Now this guy is only a 5 incher, but looks pretty sweet. Engadget got a few shots of it, here is one:
Now this thing is touted as running Android and not Windows. Now this is more a phone than a PC, because it does have a SIM card slot in it, so we know it will be a GSM phone.
Dell Slate Hands on via Engadget
via [Engadget]
via [Engadget]
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