CNET Update - What to expect in the next BlackBerry
CNET Update - What to expect in the next BlackBerry
2013-01-16
there's some juice out on blackberry I'm
Bridget Carey and this is your cnet
update you've heard the rumblings about
a new blackberry phone for over a year
now well it seems some specs have leaked
regarding the first BlackBerry 10 L
Series all touchscreen smartphone the
website tech radar reports that it got
ahold of research emotions official
training documents which say the phone
will have a 4.2 inch high-definition
display 2 gigs of ram and 16 gigs of
storage there'll be two cameras a
front-facing 2-megapixel camera that can
record in 720p and the back has 8
megapixels with a flash and can record
video in 1080p it also will be able to
tap into 4G LTE connection speeds these
specs are typical of today's smartphones
but rim needs something more than
typical to help it rebound in the
smartphone space we're expecting the
phone to be unveiled at an event later
this month gaming giants Nintendo and
PlayStation also seem to preparing to
shake things up reports are out that
Nintendo is changing its corporate
structure to combine the teams that
handle consoles and handhelds before
each department was separate but by
combining the minds of both teams
Nintendo believes it will lead to the
creation of the next generation of
hardware and Sony's vice president of
Home Entertainment hinted that the next
generation PlayStation 4 may be
announced in the coming months in an
interview with a Chilean news website
the Sony executive implied that a
PlayStation product may be ready to be
unveiled by the time the Electronic
Entertainment Expo happens in June but
that's not the only PlayStation news a
white version of the police station 3 is
coming to North America Best Buy's
Canadian and US based websites posted
white versions of the 500 gig ps3 that
will be bundled with three games and
cost $300 the Canadian site says the
units will arrive in stores on january
twenty seventh but the US site just says
coming soon the white version was
launched late last year in Japan and
speaking of best buy you'll start to see
the leap motion control system on sale
in stores leap is a device that gives
you the ability to control a computer
program by just moving your hands and
it's accurate to a hundredth of a
millimeter leap motion also just made a
deal to bundle the device with a sous pc
computers
you can also pre-order it for seventy
dollars on the leap website looking
ahead to later this month Google will be
holding to hackathons for developers to
create programs to work on the Google
glass headset and Microsoft Surface pro
will be arriving in the coming weeks
according to a tweet from Microsoft
unlike the surface that's out now this
will be a computer that has no
restrictions it could be a tablet that
can do everything a PC can prices start
at nine hundred dollars that's your tech
news update you get links to all the
stories I mentioned at our blog sina com
/ update from our studios in New York
I'm Bridget Carey
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