Taiwanese Manufacturer Acer finally unveiled their latest Tablet although they’ve been into trouble keeping their product in secret. Leaks and Rumors spread out about their Tablet powered by Tegra 2 and today they’ve finally uncovered their latest line of Iconia goodness. The Iconia Tab A200 is powered with Android Honeycomb OS but will be receiving the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment some time in January.

It clocks at 1ghz dual core processor and a 1gb of RAM. Powerful enough to do the usual task and is targeted for budget users. If you can’t wait for the ASUS Transformer Prime and you’re strict with your budget then this could be something that you are waiting for. At 10.1″ display having a 1280 x 800 resolution then it’s perfectly nice to run Youtube Videos and the like. Pricing and Availability is not yet revealed but that would be something around Third Week of January in the Philippines if my guess is right.

Just as expected, smart followed globe’s strategy on enlisting customers interested on getting the iPhone 4S on it’s released this December 16. It’s very similar to globes registration page but no info yet on what will be the pricing of the phone. I hope the pricing won’t be a failure since I know a couple of phones available in postpaid plans which is priced ridiculously.

Anyway here’s the iPhone 4S registration page if you’re one of the eager customers wanting a 4S unit from smart. The good thing is that there’s a location tracker too where you’ll most likely purchase the iPhone 4S. Anyway if you can’t wait till December 16 then I saw Widget City offering it for 36,500 Php in straight cash.

Update 12/01/2011: Google silently rolls out a patch on the volume issue bug on some Galaxy Nexus Owners.

Yes, you’ve heard it guys! Google is currently working on a fix right now to the recently found bug about the volume issue and they will be rolling out an update to fix the annoying volume problem when switching cellular signals. This just proves that it’s not about a hardware problem but more of a software glitch.

It’s still unknown on what could have caused it and the good thing is that google is fast enough to distinguish that it’s a bug on the software side. Not too sure on when they will be rolling the patch but as far as I know engineers are definitely working on it pretty fast as it appears to be very critical to the reputation of both companies (Samsung and Google).

Samsung Galaxy Nexus is still unreleased here in the country but that’s good to know that it’s not about the hardware that is causing the unusual volume issue, so rest assured that problems like this is fixable without handing over the phone to Customer service. Anyway, no news yet on when the Galaxy Nexus will be released in the country but one thing’s for sure, Globe will be the very first telco to release the unit.

It goes in the 22k price range and that’s affordable for sure, It does have a 500gb disk storage and a 2gb memory which is more than enough to store your office and school data. Also this have a 2gb memory, perfect for programs that is memory intensive and if you’re planning to play some games for this netbook then an ATI Radeon HD 6320 is there to help you out.

Anyway the Lenovo s205 is an 11-incher so that’s really good if you think that 10-inchers are too small for your vision.  It’s preloaded with Windows 7 Home Basic OS which explains why it reaches the 22K Php price range. Nevertheless I’ll recommend the Lenovo s205 and if you’re looking for more then Dell M102z is probably much better because of the 4gb boost. Not to mention Asus U32U is also in the same plane.

Update 11/28/2011: I’ve tried playing in RGC Client for 3 days, read my feedbacks below. 

One of my friends recommended me to use RGC Client in playing dota. I haven’t tried it yet but I’ll find time to look at the unifying platform in hosting DOTA games. Currently I’m using GARENA to join publicly held dota games but I think I’ll try using RGC this time since I’ve been disappointed to pub gamers in GARENA ph.

So far I’ve been seeing positive feedbacks of RGC and they have a feature that bans the ip address of users who quits continuously in dota games. Also most of their games played in RGC are in cm mode. Anyway I’ll be giving some feedbacks later after I play a public game with my friends.

Update 11/28/2011: One of the things  I like RGC is that it has a much organize way of setting games in DOTA. It’s strong points lies in the host bots that manages in creating games. It has an ip-ban and points system such that if players quit  the points are reduced and others are banned for a week in using RGC. When you log in RGC and you connect to the server and run Warcraft all the rooms available are displayed. No Rooms to join, just bot created games. Compared to Garena you’ll be having a difficult time entering the room.

Others say that RGC doesn’t lag much but in my own experience I experience more lag in playing RGC compared to Garena. Not to sure on other’s experience but almost all of my games lags for some reason. Also, you must know several “RGC Commands” such as “!ready” for activating game start. Other than that you can check “!ping” to check the ping of all the players or suggest “!votermk” if players want to remake the game. It’s just too bad that my RGC experience is not that good because it really lags too much. If they can fix those lag, I’ll rate RGC a 9/10.

.Com registration costs  will increase from around $7.34 to $7.85 and .Net fee will be $4.65 to $5.11. As per ICANN the one in charge of domain name distribution, they will be charging an 18% fee so it will come to a $8 increase if you some all the price bloat according to DomainWire. I thought that I’ll be happy of the ASUS U32U release but reading the news of this one made me down a bit.

I’ve been planning to purchase a couple of more sites to expand my network of sites but it seems that I have to purchase earlier and let it park before the price increase happens. Might as well compile a few coupons to reduce the costs and the upcoming holiday slashes will benefit me from it. ^^

The 128gb SSD storage would be the standard for the 13-incher and is powered by a Core i5-2467M processor with 4gb Memory in place. It promises a fast boot and resume time but that still needs to proven. The backlit keyboard is perfect for users working on dark environment. So if you haven’t mastered the art of touch typing then you can just take a peek at the keyboard without tilting the display to lighten up the buttons.

Surprisingly no 11-incher which is the perfect size of screen display in my own opinion. I just hope that they release one in the near future so users who opts portability will surely pick the sleeker Folio version. The fully array of ports won’t dissapoint you, USB, HDMI and a card reader can be found on the machine. I guess I’ll be putting up a comparison table so users can easily compare which ultrabook is best suited for their taste. Pricing will $899 and is 38,657 in Php, This seems to be on a similar range of the Acer Aspire S3.

If you’re out of budget this Holiday season and still need a laptop for personal and work reasons then ASUS U32U might be something to consider of knowing how ultrabooks are priced. The only downer about the ASUS U32U is that it’s limited to a 13-incher model and 2gb  memory while the Dell M102z packs a 4gb memory and a whooping 500gb disk space and the choice of a sleek 11-incher and the bigger 13-inch lappy. So far ASUS U32U based from my own experience creates quality models and you won’t be dissapointed by their crafts. And yes, the ASUS U32U promises a 12hour battery life!!! so yeah! this wins the battery division!

ASUS U32U Specs

AMD Dual-Core E-450 APU (1.5ghz)
AMD Radeon HD 6320
13.3″ HD 1366X768
320GB HDD Sata
2gb DDR3 RAM
USB 3.0
WLAN 802.11 b/g/N
8-cell Li-ion 5600mAh

It seems that only the Curve 9380 is the one that’s new here and the Bold 9790 is still the same. I’m not too sure on how responsive the touchscreen is but if it’s comparable to Android or much better then I’ll recommend it right way if you’re a blackberry fan that is tired of limiting screen size. The storm series and the torche from what I heard is not that good but anyway let’s just wait from other communities if these two is just the plain old berries or is something worth buying for. I guess I have to update my Blackberry phones list which I have in this blog it seems that it’s being left behind.

What you see right now is  the rumored Blackberry London, and if the picture is authentic (which it seems to be) then this will be RIM’s next flagship phone having the QNX-based operating system. Could be one of the dummy units caught on pic and I’m really curious on what it’s capable of.

Anyway the signature shortcut is still there which is one of the things that I like about berries. Let’s just hope that RIM surprise us this time the moment they release this smartphone. We’re still stucked with old berries here in the Philippines and no matter how good berries are in messaging capability they still soon to be doomed when newer droids and iDevices not to mention WP7 nhandsets are released. Anyway, here’s the blackberry 9360 if you’re interested in purchasing one. But I still prefer the older 9300.

Thanks: The Verge