ACER Iconia A100/101

The Iconia Tab A100 is the first 7-inch Android Honeycomb tablet on offer from Acer.

Specs reveal that the Acer Iconia Tab A101 / A101 has a 7-inch 1024 x 600 pixel display, and it is powered by the dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 platform, with 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 8GB of storage, front 2MP and rear 5MP camera, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, MicroSD card reader, micro USB ports and a HDMI output.

It has a 1530mAh 11.3W battery, weighs 450g, and has a thickness of 13.11mm.

Tablet is equiped with Acer's Clearfi to connect automatically to your home network, mobiles etc.

It will be priced around Rs. 20000/- in India.

Nokia N9-00

Nokia just announced N9-00, which is a MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan phone. This is interesting as Nokia is going all the way to Windows Phone OS.

N9 hardware is catch up to the competition offerings, display is 3.9 inch AMOLED, 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, with TI OMAP 3630 chipset. Dimensions are 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm. GPRS, EDGE, 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth are basic features in smartphones these days.

Camera 8 megapixel autofocus with Carl Zeiss optics and Dual LED flash.

Standard Li-Ion battery of capacity 1450 mAh giving standby Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 450 h(3G) and talktime of upto 11 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G), can play music for 50 h.

Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 lets you work from virtually anywhere and on almost any device whether you are a professional or a small business.

Microsoft Office 365 is a subscription service that combines the familiar Microsoft Office Web Apps with a set of web-enabled tools that are easy to learn and use, that work with your existing hardware, and that come backed by the robust security, reliability, and control you need to run your business.

Office 365 includes Email and Calendar, Office Webapps, Websites and Collaboration products, Instant Messenger and Online meetings.

Apples iOS 5.0 impressions

GSMArena guys got the taste of iOS 5.0 from apple and here are their first impressions

Apple iOS 5 new features:

• Notifications - real time on-screen notifications, lockscreen notifications and pull-down Notification Center
• iMessage service in the Messaging app enabling instant messages to other iOS users
• Reminders - including location-aware options
• Customizable notification sounds - email, voicemail and calendar alerts
• Twitter integration
• iCloud service integration
• Enhanced Camera app - viewfinder grid, hardware shutter key
• Integrated photo editing - crop, auto enhance, rotate and red-eye fix
• Updated Safari - tabbed browsing (on iPad), private browsing mode, integrated Reader, Reading list and optimized performance
• Dictionary lookup throughout the interface
• Computer free operation - independent activation, OTA updates, iCloud backup and restore
• Wi-Fi synchronization with iTunes with automatic operation
• New features in the Mail app - Bold, Italic, Underline and Quote options, extended Search, mass Mark as Read/Unread and Flag setting, Add/Delete mailbox folders
• Updated Calendar and Game Center apps
• Newsstand app combining all of your magazine subscriptions
• iPod player now called Music, has new icon
• Separate Video app for iPhone
• AppStore purchase history (already available for iOS 4 too)
• New Storage management options (list and info of all installed apps)
• Multi-tasking gestures for iPad
• AirPlay mirroring for iPad
• New accessibility options involving the LED flash and custom vibrations

Still missing:

• No Flash support in the web browser
• No quick toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G
• No Facebook integration
• No proper widgets for the lockscreen
• App folders still are limited to 12 apps tops
• No DivX/XviD video support out of the box (though there're lots of players in the App Store)
• No USB Mass storage mode for uploading content to the device
• No haptics for the touchscreen
• No Bluetooth file transfers to other phones
• Contacts lack a swipe-to-delete or mass delete feature