Scandy: still another meaning of Smartphone

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We are big fans of Kickstarter around here, but for every good project that gets his much deserved financing, there are countless lesser ideas caught in financial uncertainty. What is at stake today: Scandy telescopic clip, which promises to turn your smartphone into a scanner.

The idea is that since Scandy your smartphone a pretty decent camera, mounted on his back, she will do a half-decent scanner, if you managed to hold just right. Instead of leaving the onus on the user, Scandy clips at the nearest table and allows you to adjust the height to get the entire document in a view.

In short, this is absolutely ridiculous. Time required to whip out Scandy, bolt it on the table and the height will be completely Eclipse time would snap a few photos and choose the best of them. Maybe there's some untapped market there really wants to lug around $ 40 set of plastic pipes in order to photograph the paperwork, but only 13 supporters at the time of writing, call it a niche market will be an understatement.

John said that it may be useful for researchers who don't want to spend 10 cents a copy on the old national library, but seriously? Plus it will not ruin finish reading table?

Alas, I could be completely wrong (Note: I'm not), and this could be the next must-have accessory for practise in your life. Scandy is compatible with all smartphones mostly because you should just relax your phone on top of it and get snapping. If the base model for $ 40 not strike your fancy, a limited edition model (plus capacitive stylus!) can be yours if you deposit $ 100, and a donation of $ 500 nabs Edition signature laser engraving.

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HTC is approaching release tab Puccini, but is there room for another honeycomb tabs?

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HTC prepping his first cellphone release tab. Previous rumors put Puccini, hitting shelves sometime in late August or early September. This seems a little more likely, according to a new report that States "Late Q3 or early Q4. But the question remains, does the market need another mobile tablet, even one as powerful as Puccini, where the ice cream sandwich is right around the corner?

The pill does not seem to be a priority at HTC and for good reason: nobody buys Android tablets. Earlier this year, the company launched its first tablet, Android 2.2 HTC leaflets when other companies, where the beginning of the cell tab. The brochure is an interesting piece, plate 7-inch Android 2.x $ 499 with Optional $ 80 stylus. The high price and the list of cheap components, the flyer, which is a high margin, low-volume product for HTC, one probably intended to test the waters without forcing HTC to immerse themselves in the head. Puccini may be more of the same.

Puccini is not yet official, HTC has teased any information about the tablet. However, a few leaks to state that a 10-incher packaging 1.5 GHz processor and dual-core pedigree Snapdragon. He wants to have 2 GB of RAM, active pen, dual cams, including directed 8MP camera, and if other rumors be considered AT&T LTE radio. Most likely, it will follow the "me too" price chart and hit the market at $ 499 to compete with the iPad. It's just too bad that the iPad not Puccini competition, but rather the other tabs in the honeycomb and soon, ice cream sandwich.

Hundred is a world destroyed by fairy tales, right now. The stock OS and applications are fine, but there are only a handful of useful apps even now, six months after the start of the OS. Ice cream sandwich promises to, incorrectly, that a single Android experience for the end user and developer. And so, it is quite curious why HTC is pushing its first Android 3. x tab for retailers at the end of the cells in the life cycle. According to the operating system is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2011, or rather only after Puccini hits the market.

Only likely to conclude that the above-mentioned difficulties is that Yes, the pills are not a priority for the HTC. Market timing and positioning is paramount to success and Puccini will be self-defeating.

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Sony is launching yet another nonsense teaser video for their upcoming tablets

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I mean, come on. These videos show the upcoming Sony S1 and S2 pills for about 4 seconds. It's just more Rube Goldberg folly, shown in the preceding teaser video. I want to see in stone. But if you're not; If you want to see silly, but still fun, Rube Goldberg machine by clicking on an embedded video.

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