April 2008 Archives

Shock Gadgets will be attending Internet World 2008 in London next week. The show features over 200 hours of seminars from companies ranging from Microsoft to the BBC to Royal Mail, and exhibitions from over 300 companies. All discussing the latest Internet technologies. We'll be sure to keep you posted on everything interesting that pops up, so watch this space.

The Nokia E90 communicator is the eleventh-generation Communicator phone, which are all essentially large high-spec mobile phones with wide screens and qwerty keyboards inside. Unlike the previous generations however, the E90 is on a par with competitors in the field, rather than lagging a few years behind. Launched just over a year ago, the E90 features quad-band GSM, 2100 WCDMA, UMTS, WiFi b/g, 3.6Mbps HSDPA radios, Bluetooth 2.0, A2DP for bluetooth stereo audio, a 3.2 megapixel camera (with flash), a second VGA camera inside for video calling, GPS and Nokia Maps. Inside it has an ARM11-based TI OMAP2420 processor running at 330 MHz, 128 MB of RAM (80MB available), a 800×352 screen inside and 240×320 outside. It has a full-speed USB 2.0 connector for data transfer and an SD card slot, although it also came with a MicroSD adapter...

Shock Gadgets has suffered a severe technical problem over the weekend. Our main server went down, along with all our current data and a lot of useful backups. We have rolled back to an old version of the site, and we will be posting as many salvaged articles as we can (thanks to Google's cache and archive.org) and re-implementing the redesign from a few months ago. We thank you for your patience whilst we get up and running again.