Steve Jobs is getting ready to part the red sea of gadgets again in 2010.
Here’s a final Christmas gift from Neonpunch to make sure you don’t spend all that “lai see” money you get from unimaginative gift-buying relatives tomorrow. The internet rumour mill has been in full swing while Hong Kong has been sleeping, and it seems that Apple’s unveiling of a “MacTablet” is looking likely for January 2010.
Bigtimenewssources in the U.S. are declaring it’s coming in January so you can choose to believe them or not, but to us it seems like the perfect time for this to happen. The news is that developers are working on apps and the unveiling will happen in January but will go on sale in the middle of the year - an exact mirror of what happened with the iPhone launch in 2007.
While we are Apple zombies ourselves, we still question the practicality of such a device; which therefore makes us question if it’s actually a tablet or a bigger iPod instead of a netbook. Apple is all about user experience, the typical HK$4000 netbook is a negative user experience – people are trading in portability for their eyesight.
The lowest end Macbook is under HK$8,000 and the iPhone is under HK$6,000, so where will a “tablet” sit in terms of price point for Apple? Will it simply be a bigger iPod with apps, videos and possible magazine, comic book and newspaper content; or will it phase out the entry-level MacBook by having similar guts but more portability? Are you even ready to dump keyboards for touchscreens?
That said, of course we’ll be first in line to get one!
One thing we know, Steve Jobs will stun us: either with something no-one can guess or maybe even nothing at all (remember September?) We just thought we’d bring this to your attention in case you were still scurrying around buying gifts when what you, us, them, that guy over there really, really want…could be a few weeks away.
Motorola Hong Kong releases an Android phone and it’s the big one!
Motorola has finally launched its first Android phone in Asia and guess where the first place to get it is? That’s right, Hong Kong! The new Motorola Milestone (known as the Droid in the U.S.) is the latest Android powered device in the world that features a QWERTY slider with 3.7” multi-touch & pinch display, oh yes, pinch display!
The Milestone is a blend of form and function that offers the thinnest QWERTY slider on the market (13.7mm) and a hi-resolution, multi-touch and pinch display with twice the pixels of the leading competitor.
Remember we did a poll a while back on how many Neonpunch readers would be willing to buy the Milestone once it hit Hong Kong? It was obvious that Hong Kong gadget fans wanted it, and so your prayers have been answered just in time for the New Year!
A chance to win free tickets to see Clint Eastwood’s newest film in Hong Kong.
No sooner than we wrapped our Sherlock Holmes ticket giveaway, we have tickets for the next movie! This time, it’s for the Clint Eastwood directed film of Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in the r brilliant Invictus.
Invictus tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Both Freeman and Eastwood have each received Golden Globe nominations for this film, with early buzz leaning towards the former winning big for his portrayal of Mandela, so you’ll want to make sure you are one of the first to catch this movie in Hong Kong.
We’ve got 10 pairs of tickets to the advance screening on January 4th at the luxurious Grand Cinema at Elements Mall – all you have to do is list 3 of your favorite Morgan Freeman or Clint Eastwood movies and we’ll lucky draw from that pool to win them!
Half e-book reader, half netbook = 2 great tastes that go together.
Have you ever carried around an e-reader, notepad, audio/video recorder and netbook with you all at once? Either you’ve got a lot of pockets…or you have the enTourage eDGe. Read books, take notes, IM your friends, surf the ‘Net, listen to music, watch movies – there’s almost nothing you can’t do with it. They are calling it the first “dualbook!”
The eDGe works easily with a USB flash drive or SD card, making it easy for you to move files to your device from a Windows, MAC or Linux operating system. Retailing for approximately HK$4,000 (US$490.00), the eDGe comes in black, red, light blue, dark blue or white.
The 1200 x 825 pixel screen is made for glare-free reading, so you can use it even in sunlight. Use the stylus to draw to write anytime you like – you can save them to your eDGe or mail them instantly. The color touch screen makes it easy for you to explore features quickly. The built-in WiFi support works with 3G networks and has BlueTooth capability. The device is expected to ship in February.
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