Tegatech announces global launch of TEGA v2

TEGA v2 will be launched globally on 12th of October in North America, Europe, Australia & New Zealand.

It is with much excitement and anticipation that Tegatech share with you some details of the upcoming release of TEGA v2. With capacitive multi-touch screen, built-in 3G, accelerometers to register rotation and approximately 5hrs battery life. The TEGA v2 will impress greatly when coupled with Windows 7 and will be available from October onwards.

Yep, ready or not, there’s a new Windows 7 slate on the way in less than two weeks (or Tablet PC or whatever you want to call it; I’m thinking of it as a UMPC). No additional info on its Android side, but we’ll find out soon.

Oh, and for you folks in Australia who weren’t sweating the availability, you’ll get to see it early on the Kerri Anne Show on October 4th.

Via : gottabemobile

Panasonic Jungle games system packs QWERTY, HDMI & more

Panasonic perhaps aren’t the first people you’d think of to produce a portable gaming system, but the company is hoping to change your mind with their new The Jungle. The clamshell console packs in a touchpad, full QWERTY keyboard, high-resolution display and various ports including mini-HDMI and microUSB.

There’s also a touchpad and other gaming controls, together with a 3.5mm headphone socket. No word from Panasonic on potential battery life or what’s powering the whole thing, but it’s apparently Linux based.

As for the sort of gaming titles you can expect, the only game Panasonic is talking about is a browser-based MMO called Battlestar Galactica Online; that allows you to play as a human or as a Cylon, and “experience space combat, exploration and mission-based gameplay.”

More @ slashgear

Garmin updates GPS watch line with Forerunner 210 and 410, data-craving runners rejoice

Runners love to tell you about their post-workout highs, but they rarely mention the mid-workout delirium that comes when muscles deprive your brain of blood, leading to doubts about how long you've been running, what your target heart rate should be, and indeed how to get home again. Garmin's updated Forerunner 410 (above) can help you out with all those things, and the larger touch bezel means oxygen-deprived cardio hounds can easily scroll through data describing things like pace and heart rate, even when it's raining -- or you're sweating excessively. Once back home and showered this $325 watch automatically syncs to a USB dongle via ANT+, uploading data to Garmin Connect, just like its predecessor the 405. Then there's the $300 210, pictured below, a follow-up to this spring's 110 and providing a more simple display of real-time distance and heart rate without a bunch of other confusing data. Both models will be on display at the upcoming Chicago and New York City marathons before pacing themselves into stores this fall.

Via : engadget, Nuy @ Garmin 410, 210

Palm 'Mansion' coming: 800x480, no physical keyboard

Device rumors surrounding Palm smartphones are starting to heat up. After we saw the P102 appear in a certification database (and subsequently get pulled) and heard that we might see something in October, another very reliable tipster has written in that Palm is planning a new device - which may or may not be the same thing as the P102.

The phone is codenamed 'mansion.' It is to have a 800x480 screen and it will not have a physical keyboard - a design decision that's very interesting given that we assumed that virtual keyboard code buried in webOS 2.0 was meant for the PalmPad.

We know that webOS scales easily so we're not concerned about a smartphone with a virtual keyboard from that standpoint - but we'll be curious to see if Palm can rise above the mix of 'pretty good' virtual keyboards on Android phones and get theirs up to par with the iPhone and Windows Phone.

Does a slate-style webOS device without a physical keyboard interest you? How about an 800x480 screen?

Via : precentral

Palm planning keyboard-less 'Mansion' with 800 x 480 screen?

This one is still very much a rumor, but PreCentral is reporting that it's heard from a "very reliable tipster" who says that Palm is prepping a new phone codenamed "Mansion," which may or may not be the same device that recently turned up in a certification database under the name P102. The real kicker, however, is that the phone is supposedly a touchscreen-only device, and that the screen is said to boast a fairly high 800 x 480 resolution -- no word on screen size, unfortunately. Not much more than that to go on at the moment, but the "Mansion" codename itself does at least make a bit of sense -- as a PreCentral commenter has noted, the Pre was originally codenamed "Castle."

Via : engadget, PreCentral