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Once upon a time the Asus Eee brand held some weight. The Eee name debuted with Asus’ netbook line, which nearly instantly set the bar for low-cost, but still quality, computing devices. That’s why the Eee brand was used for Asus’ first tablets. But now, in 2012, with netbooks quickly fading into irrelevance, Asus wisely decided it was time to retire the name. From here on out Asus tablets will be known as Transformer Pads. Along with the rebranding, Asus also used the Mobile World Congress stage to announce two new tablets. The TF Pad Infinity is the first model in the new high-end Infinity line while the TF Pad 300 aims for the budget market. Both are styled similarly to the original Transformer Prime but seem to pack slightly different components that shouldn’t cause as many headaches with non-functioning components . Sorry, early adapters. You were beta testers. Both of…
Samsung previously made it known that the Galaxy S III would not be announced at Mobile World Congress. But it leaked anyway. And it might steal the show. Forgot about the HTC One X and Sony Xperia U, the Samsung GSIII will be the Android phone to beat in 2012. Inside the Galaxy S III is said to be a quad-core Samsung Exynos CPU running at 1.5GHz. It will power a 4.8-inch 16
Nokia N9 users, if you’ve yet to activate your beloved device today, then do so post-haste. It looks like our army of faithful tipsters found PR 1.2 ready to roll this morning. The 284MB update should be available worldwide, although a few users in Saudi Arabia are yet to see any goodies. Video calling, folder functionality and copy and paste should all be available in this release, but we’ll let you get elbows-deep in the update and stop spoiling the surprises that are in store for you. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Touchscreens are a step up from keyboards for interfacing with mobile devices, but they’re still not as easy to use as they could be. Voice recognition technology is one way to go, but for many tasks, a direct approach is more efficient, and Google has patented a new gesture that’ll make searching nearly effortless.
[MWC 2012] If you’ve been waiting for Adobe Photoshop to arrive on your iPad for you to edit your photographs, good news because it’s finally here. Today, Adobe announced the launch of Adobe Photoshop Touch for the iPad. As part of the Adobe Touch Apps family, Photoshop Touch brings Photoshop from the desktop to your tablet, revamped and designed to take full advantage of the tablet’s touchscreen controls. With Photoshop Touch on your iPad, you can combine photos into layered images, make essential edits and apply effects, touch up photos, paint, lay out ideas and more. A lot of tools from the desktop version have been brought over, so if you’re a Photoshop user, you’ll probably feel at ease right away. Adobe Photoshop Touch is available now from the Apple App Store for $9.99. By Ubergizmo . Related articles : Adobe Photoshop iPad apps released , OnLive Desktop Plus now lets you enjoy Flash
“I saw it, so now you have to see it,” is a common phrase around the Joystiq offices. The course of our daily work takes us to many strange and unexpected parts of the Internet, and often times throughout the day someone on staff will witness something so horrible that it must be shared in order to save their own sanity. Today, I’ve decided to extend that tradition to you, our beloved readers. While looking up pictures of the Atari Jaguar’s monstrous controller to win an argument on Twitter, I stumbled across a fighting game I’d never heard of before: Kasumi Ninja . The game’s muddy, generic graphics, Space Mutiny soundtrack and painfully faux-accented announcer are only the tip of this atrocity iceberg, and in order to free myself it, I must pass it on to you. I am so, so sorry. 3DS 94,667 (UP) 27,109 (40.13%) PS3 21,993 (DOWN) 9 (0.04%) PSP 14,824 (DOWN) 1,036 (6.53%) Vita 12,309 (DOWN) 1,630 (11.69%) Wii 7,874 (DOWN) 332 (4.05%) PS2 1,433 (UP) 194 (15.66%) Xbox 360 983 (DOWN) 156 (13.70%) DSi LL 901 (DOWN) 56 (5.85%) DSi 656 (UP) 5 (0.77%)
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Could it be that Samsung really, truly, has another 10.1-inch slab in store for us this week ? After seeing the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 make its official debut earlier, it appears more and more likely that it’ll have a counterpart equipped with an S-Pen before the week is over. Apparently, someone was snooping sneaking around a hotel that the Sammy folks are staying at — and are planning to show off its products — and uncovered a poster teasing the wildly rumored Galaxy Note 10.1 . Naturally, this doesn’t guarantee we’ll actually see the mystical tablet in Barcelona (after all, we’d imagine something like this would merit a press conference), but it’s looking a heckuva lot more likely now, isn’t it? [Thanks, Peter]
