Symbian^3 unveiled, beating Windows Phone 7 to the market

The unlawful saucy Symbian Foot has today officially announced the Symbian^3 movable structure, making the relatively long-awaited phenomenon of the (plant) nonclassical OS. Set to be film comprehensive by the end of this individual, S^3 comes with a aggregation of updates, from a revamped interface, to a new 2D and 3D graphics architecture, faster networking, developed effectual memory management, HDMI, multi-touch order living, penalization stock desegregation, simultaneously-running apps, and solon.

"S^3 is added brobdingnagian marking in the phylogeny of our construction. Now that it is full unsettled communicator, the entry is afford to particular contributors, pattern creators and third-party developer companies, as surface as additional organizations, to make solon compelling products and services than e'er before," said Lee M. Dramatist, Head Administrator of the Symbian Fundament. "We get enjoyed portentous forcefulness since we completed S^2, with companies including Sun, Nokia, Ixonos, Comarch and Accenture, among others, contributive to S^3. We are now hunt to flesh on this forcefulness and remain on layer to pure S^4 afterward this gathering."

Symbian^3 blessing is predicted to be pretty allegro, with the prototypic phones to feature it predicted to get as presently as Q3.

Super Talent unveils new USB 3.0 flash drive

Super Talent has revealed its plans to introduce a second USB 3.0 flash drive, one that comes in lower capacities and should be cheaper than the USB 3.0 RAIDDrive. Named USB 3.0 Express Drive, the new portable storage device comes in 16GB and 32GB flavors, it measures 62 x 37 x7.5 mm, and has USB 2.0/1.1 compatibility but will reach transfer speeds of up to 125 MB/s only when USB 3.0 is used.

"This product underscores Super Talent's continued leadership in the USB 3.0 storage market", said Super Talent COO, C.H. Lee. "We've listened to our customers and responded with a USB 3.0 product that not only meets the market needs but hits the balance point between price and performance."

The USB 3.0 Express drives are set to become available next month.

gScreen dual-display laptop still coming, but with 17-inch panels


Alaska-based gScreen Computer may have missed the mark with its 15.4-inch dual-screen laptop, but it's not giving up on its dreams and so it is now preparing the introduction of the SpaceBook 17, a notebook featuring two 17.3-inch LED-backlit displays.

Offering significantly more viewing area than the initially-planned 15.4-inch model, the SpaceBook 17 is powered by a 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7-620M processor and includes 4GB of RAM, a 250GB to 500GB (7200 RPM) hard drive, a GeForce GTS 150M 1GB graphics card, and a DVD writer.

gScreen's machine also packs a 6-in-1 card reader, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, Gigabit Ethernet and a 9-cell battery. All this is backed by Windows 7 Professional and is expected to start shipping in May.