Gadgets and Mobile Reviews

Similar to Sony Bravia’s SDK, HP will be announcing the details of the Touchsmart Development Kit for its touch enabled PCs.
HP informs us that it will post the guidelines to its TouchSmart Community Web site later today. The site will also host applications for TouchSmart owners to download, with the existing discussion forum providing a means for users to comment and give feedback.

HP says the programming guidelines are meant for “experienced, professional developers with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and C# language proficiency,” so you’ll need to know your stuff before you get coding. You may also want to consider that HP is not following the iPhone/iTunes Store model, and any applications hosted on the TouchSmart Community site will be free to download. HP says that it won’t block developers from hosting and charging for applications themselves, which is good news for those who may need a financial incentive to start programming.
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Isn’t that what the Apple Macbook Air was supposed to do? Toshiba claims the Portege R500-S5007V contains the world’s first widescreen 12.1-inch indoor/outdoor transreflective LED backlit display. The company says the Portege R500 battery will last for eight hours.

With its ultralight design and stunning silhouette, the feather light 1.72 pound*† Portégé® R500 Series is the transcendent expression of executive mobility and style. Offering the world’s lightest* widescreen 12.1″ notebook PC in one configuration, and the world’s thinnest widescreen 12.1″ notebook PC with an integrated DVD-SuperMulti drive in another, the Portégé® R500 Series represents an uncompromising synthesis of portability and productivity that’s meticulously engineered for the demands of executive computing.

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Well finally the all new Macintosh Laptop from Apple - The all new MacBook has been launched. It’s time that we took a look at this new laptop. Well for starters, Apple has done away with the plastic casing and has redesigned the entire casing in Aluminum. This essentially makes it a smaller version of the MacBook Pro and is a nice design change. The entire body looks more classier than before.

Even the new Nvidia chipset and integrated graphics are impressive, offering playable frame rates in games such as Quake IV and Call of Duty 4 (as long as you keep your expectations modest). One thing to note is that the entry $1,099 price is gone (replaced by a $999 version of the previous plastic MacBook model), and that the FireWire port is gone as well. It has a giant touch pad, attractive edge-to-edge glass on display, improved integrated graphics, backlit keyboard on some models and is thinner than previous version.

Apple’s redesigned 13-inch MacBook is essentially a shrunken version of the more expensive 15-inch Pro line. With its new aluminum body, new trackpad, and Nvidia graphics, it’s an even more attractive choice for mainstream laptop buyers than was the plastic model it replaces.
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