Georze Hotz aka GeoHot infamous father of iPhone jailbreak announced that he hacked the Sony Playstation . GeoHot said he was working from 3 years, 2 months and 11 days in Playstation Project. According to GeoHot he got read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. He also managed to dumps of LV0 and LV1 and the NAND without removing it or a modchip. Means you can flash the NAND without any hardware hacking.

The exploit has not yet been made public because GeoHot feared that Sony can update the firmware or launch a new layer of security to make it unusable. GeoHot also compliment to Sony for making hacking very hard on PS3 gaming console. GeoHot likely to post new updates on his blog, in the coming hours, days, or weeks. Stay tuned with us because lots of other information will be posted here as soon as he finishes.

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The Creative announced a new device with all the conditions for entering into direct competition with Apple. In addition to excellent technical characteristics do not miss the design, rather “inspired”. Zii EGG is the first handheld device that can support High-definition output of up to 1080p to HDTV. The Zii EGG features a 10-point multi-gesture touch screen that allows developers to offer a customized device with a compelling widget-based user interface. This is the Zii Eggwith Plaszma or Android platform and then find all the details:

Display :

Screen capacitive multi-touch can perceive up to 10 touches at the same time. E ‘un LCD 3.5 “with resolution 320 × 480 pixels, true-color.

Cameras :

It has two cameras can also record video in HD. Supports streaming video at 720p and 1080p HD via a cable directly into your TV at home. The front camera is VGA resolution, and provides access to video chat.

Hardware :

The device hardware is just as full as it integrates:

• A GPS receiver,
• WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR,
• Accelerometer based on 3 axes
• Light sensor
• Microphone
• Speaker

Memory, Connectivity and More :

The device starts with a 32GB memory which is expandable via SDHC memory card up to 64GB in total. We are also a USB 2.0 Mini-b for synchronization and charging. The battery is a 1200mAh ions lition, the device measures 115 x 62 x 12 mm and weighs 108 grams. Supports Plaszma Android OS or the OS, which increases the potential in software.

Pricing and availability :

At the time the Egg Zii is reserved for developers who can buy it in two solutions:

• $ 199 with zero GB of memory (can be customized further with the amount of memory required).
• $ 399 with 32GB of memory, (while supplies last)

More information on the official site. Here’s a video demonstration in which you can see the Navigator, the browser and more. Note: In all likelihood, Android should not support the multi-touch (it is not a limitation of the device but of OS).

Western Digital Worldwide leader in storage launched One Terabyte (1TB) and 750 Gigabyte (GB) models in My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives. This compact drive fits easily in your pocket or purse, weighs only a few ounces and with massive storage capacity, you can take tons of photos, videos, files and music with you wherever you go. WD’s My Passport Essential SE portable drives are available now in the U.S. at select retail stores and from WD’s online store (www.shopwd.com). My Passport Essential SE 1 TB portable drive is available for $299.99 USD and for the 750 GB model is for $199.99 USD.  Portable drives powered directly from the USB port on your PC. No separate power supply is needed. Both portable drives comes with Government-grade security for the drive and the data on it with 256-bit hardware-based encryption and password protection.

The Western Digital Passport is a fitting name for this device, since it’s about the size of a standard passport (albeit a bit thicker). It weighs a light 0.40 pound and measures 3.1 inches long, 5.0 inches wide, and 0.6 inch thick, though it looks even smaller because of its curved edges. For customer support company provides toll-free telephone support for the device, though its phone lines are open only for various hours Monday through Saturday. Free e-mail support is also available. The Western Digital support Web site includes a searchable FAQ database and a handy forum where you can get help from other users or a Western Digital moderator. Overall if you are looking for carry a high volume data while move WD is the best choice..

Recently Apple updates iTunes from 8.2 to 8.2.1 for disabling Palm Pre sync to iTunes. Now it’s time for Palm to push a new update for answering Apple and they did it. Palm pushed webOS to 1.1.0 with bugfixes, battery performance improvements, and UI enhancements. Ahh, and Palm has re-enabled full iTunes sync with iTunes 8.2.1 So we can say After Dev team Apple got a new reason to update iTunes frequently. Love to see a cat n mouse race between Apple and Palm. From Official Palm blog “ In addition to these treats for business users, Version 1.1 also includes a few other goodies for everyone — like support for emoticons in the messaging app, and the ability to set “person reminders” in the contacts app (next time you get a message or phone call from that person, a message pops up showing you a reminder to ask them about their vacation in Maui — cool, huh?). Oh, and one more thing: Palm webOS 1.1 re-enables Palm media sync. That’s right — you once again can have seamless access to your music, photos and videos from the current version of iTunes (8.2.1).”

Palm Pre iTunes

Here’s the recap of what’s changed:

• New service pre-installed: NFL Mobile Live from Sprint.
• Calendar: the default reminder intervals are 15 minutes for timed events and one day for all-day events.
• Camera: Photos application opens more quickly when launched from the camera.
• Clock: better support for time zones; when alarm is set, a small icon will appear in the notification area at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on that icon will display alarm details.
• Contacts: improved synchronization with Facebook and Google.
• Email: mail server can be an IP address; support for self-signed certificates; improved Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support.
• Messaging: emoticons support; better management of IM accounts.
• Phone: minor usability improvements.
• System: improved functionality of person reminders; syncing with iTunes works again!
• Web: few usability improvements.

Palm Pre is available in Sprint stores but the early response is not so good for the Palm Pre A.K.A iPhone Killer. The main reason behind the slow response is iPhone Video or iPhone’09 which is just around the corner. Still there are many Palm boy who can’t hold there-selves to get their hands on Pre. iFixit are always number one in Tearing Down the latest launches but this time they lags. Couple of another sites posted the set of photos of tearing down the Pre. To Disassemble Palm Pre you need to have a small Phillips screw driver, small flathead, pliers, solder iron, exacto razor & safe open tool. A report from Engadget indicates that the total hardware cost of  Palm Pre is not more than 170$. Rapidrepair was the very first one who published the Teardown photos. Lets take a quick look at the teardown of Palm Pre.

This disassembly is done by the specialist don’t try this at your own. You may be interesting in the following Palm Pre related posts.

Palm Pre Back

Battery Removed

Palm Pre Front Panel

Palm Pre Keyboard

Palm Pre Memory Board

Palm Pre Complete Disassembeled

Palm Pre is just around the corner and will be available very sooner in the stores for US Sprint Subscriber. GSM is the predominant wireless technology throughout the world and it is also used by AT&T and T-Mobile in the US. If the European GSM model is “quad-band”, then an “unlocked” version would be functional with any US sim card. Sprint is CDMA based carrier and GSM users may have to wait till September for Pre GSM edition as many companies started bookings for a Unlocked Palm Pre GSm edition phone. It’s a good news for peoples like me who never want’s to be bound with a specific carrier. MobileCityOnline is the one of vey first who claims to provide Unlocked Palm Pre GSM edition phone which is supported with 3G AT&T Standard , 3G EURO Standard, Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900. The Pre is available on Pre-order/Backorder @ $699.99. But the providers are unable to provide Expected Arrival Date at the moment.

Mobile City Online lists the retail price  as $899.99, and their ‘cheaper’ price at $699.99.  Elite-Electronix also lists the unlocked GSM Pre as having a $699.95 USD price tag with an expected ship date as June 2009.

Please note: This phone is unlocked and can be used with any SIM card. No activation required (check carrier frequency requirements)

• Carrier: AT&T (GSM based), T-Mobile, and Other GSM carriers* (*Please check compatibility with your service provider)
• Technology: 3G AT&T Standard, Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900
• Feature: 3+ Megapixel Camera, A2DP, Bluetooth, Calendar, Camera, Candy Bar Form, Edge, Email Client, High-Speed Data GPRS, Megapixel Camera, MPS, Qwerty Keyboard, Slide Form, Smartphone, Speaker Phone, Touch Screen, Video Capture, Video Clip, Wi-Fi

Engadget posted the very first pictures of Sony PSP GO A.K.A PSP 3 A.K.A PSP 2009. The pictures are surfaced on the net while an official announcement is expected at E3 on June 2, 2009.On May 30, 2009, the June issue of Qore was unintentionally released early and it contained an interview between Veronica Belmont and John Koller, Director of Hardware Marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America, discussing the PSP Go. Compared to the PSP-3000, the PSP Go has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 3.8 inch screen, weighs 43% less, which makes the PSP Go approximately 108 grams (3.8 ounces), contains 16 GB of internal storage that can be expanded via Memory Stick Micro versus Memory Stick Duo on previous PSP models, and a slide-out gamepad that has the same controls of the original PSP. Also unlike previous PSP models, the PSP Go does not have a UMD drive. An official announcement is expected at E3 on June 2, 2009.

Sony PSP GO Closed

Sony PSP Go Open

• 3.8-inch display (resolution is undisclosed)
• 43 percent lighter than the PSP-3000
• 16GB of Flash storage
• Bluetooth built-in; supports handset tethering and BT headsets
• No UMD drive
• Memory Stick Micro slot
• New Gran Turismo, Little Big Planet and new Metal Gear Solid (!) on the way
• Full PlayStation Network support (movie and TV rentals / purchases)
• Integration with PlayStation 3 (works the same as the PSP-3000 does)
• Sony views each of its products as “10-year lifecycle products,” so the PSP “needs to live on.”

Palm Pre generates a lots of buzz since it’s first preview at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Palm Pre will be available on June 6th, 2009 (Sprint Nextel) and Second Half 2009 (Bell Mobility). Many peoples beleives that Pre is an iPhone killer. Pre features a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen over a 24-bit color 320 x 480 resolution HVGA liquid-crystal display. If you are migrating from iPhone to Pre you will definately miss the virtual keyboard as Pre  features a full QWERTY physical keyboard. Pre is equipied with three sensors Accelerometer, Ambient Light Sensor and  Proximity Sensor.  An accelerometer will automatically change the orientation of the display between landscape and portrait when the device is rotated in the user’s hands. An ambient light sensor allows the Pre to automatically adjust the brightness of its display. Aproximity sensor allows the Pre to disregard touch inputs when the phone is held close to a user’s face during a call.

The most advanced feature of Pre is Wireless Bateery Charging. The Pre will be one of the first smartphones to feature wireless charging.  Another big new features is something called Synergy, which can pull contacts from all your sites (Facebook, Gmail, AIM, etc…), gather and organize them into one coherent list on the Palm Pre. The Pre is the first Palm device to use webOS. In terms of connectivity Pre is clear winner  and features EVDO Rev. A or UMTS HSDPA, depending on location. The Pre also includes 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with support for A2DP stereo headsets. A-GPS with support for turn-by-turn navigation is also included.

For now the Palm Pre will be available to the US only through Sprint on June 6th. Canada will be getting their Palm Pre through Bell Mobility.  AT&T and Verizon are also joined the race and plans to sell the Palm Pre in 6 months.

Pricing & Availability : Where to buy how to buy Palm Pre? The Palm Pre requires a two-year contract with either the Everything Data or theBusiness Essentials with Messaging and Data plan. You can buy Pre from BestBuy or Radioshack for $199 with a 2-year contract and  instant rebate. If you plan to buy through Sprint retail stores or Sprint.com you will not  get instant rebate, and you will have to pay $299.99 and fill in a mail-in-rebate for $100. And Without Contract Palm Pre will costs you about  $549.99.

Syncing : Like all smartphones on the market today, Pre uses the cloud based services model. Syncing is becoming controversial issue as  Fortune magazine has discovered that if you plug a Palm Pre into a Mac, it will sync content from iTunes with no issues. According to the article, the iTunes Music Store will recognize the Palm Pre the same as it does an iPhone or an iPod. However, it will not load the DRM-protected music that the iTunes Music Store used to sell.Palm has announced that the Pre will be capable of “seamlessly” synchronizing with Apple’s iTunes via its Media Sync feature The Pre is believed to achieve this by switching its USB Product and Vendor IDs to those of an Apple iPod, thereby mimicking or “spoofing” the Apple device.

You have seen the disassembly pictures of Mac Mini 2009 and iMac 2009 now it’s time for Amazons Kindle 2. The pictures are taken from iFixit one stop shop for parts of iPhone, iPod, Mac Machines. Kindle 2 was available in market from February 23, 2009 @ USD $359.The new Kindle features improved battery life, 20 percent faster page-refreshing, a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and overall thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches (9.1 millimetres).The Kindle 2 has 2 GB of internal memory of which 1.4 GB is user-accessible. According to an early review by website iFixIt, the new Kindle features a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11 90 nm processor, 2GB moviNAND main memory, and 3.7 V 1530 mAh lithium polymer battery. Kindle supports unprotected Mobipocket books (.MOBI, .PRC), plain text files, and Amazon’s proprietary, DRM-restricted format (AZW).The Kindle only supports the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) character set for its content. Unicode characters and non-western characters are currently not supported. The device comes with electronic editions of its owner’s manual and the New Oxford American Dictionary. The Kindle also contains several free experimental features, including a basic Web browser. Users can also play music from MP3 files in random order in the background. Operating system updates are received over the air and installed automatically.

Windows 3.1 OS from Microsoft in Early 90’s got a new platform like Nokia N 82 and Nokia N 95. Folks of FrazPC has done the experiment successfully. Reverse Engineer used Windows 3.1 operating system on the Symbian-powered smartphone, allowing both operating systems to run side-by-side. N95 has 128 MB of Internal Dynamic Memory and a Dual 332 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 2420 (ARM11-based) CPU,The developer Marcin-PRV used Dosbox in his Experiment. DOSBox is an emulator for Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. However, it is not restricted to running only games. In theory, any MS-DOS or PC-DOS (referred to commonly as “DOS”) application should run in DOSBox.

Take a quick tour of screenshots.

Video Proof of Nokia N82 below.