Philips Android Powered Soundbar Streams Content From Any DLNA Enabled Device

Phillips has unveiled a new soundbar speaker system, which has been designed to enable you to stream content from your computers, tablets or smartphones. The new Philips Soundbar CSS5123 is powered by Google’s Android operating system and provides surround sound together with content streaming from any DLNA enabled devices.

The Philips Soundbar CSS5123 is available in either black or silver to match your interior, and is equipped with 5 “virtual” surround sound speakers into a case which fits just below your HDTV screen.

The Soundbar CSS5123 system also comes with a wireless subwoofer as well as a WiFi adapter and enough processing power to handle 1080p HD streaming, together with system management features. The Soundbar has been designed to provide Audio and/or video streaming via Philips SimplyShare app on either your Android smartphone or tablet connected to your local WiFi network.

It also provide the ability to simply plug in a flash drive or hard drive to load up video, music or photos, or stream directly from your PC. The Philips Soundbar CSS5123 will be available to purchase in April this year for around $349.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus Headed To T-Mobile?

It looks like Samsung and Google’s flagship Android 4.0 smartphone, could be headed to another mobile carrier in the US, T-Mobile, as some references to the device have been discovered by the guys over at Cellphone Signal.

T-Mobile has yet to confirm whether they will sell the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on their network in the US, but it looks like one Samsung Android device with a 1280 x 720 display is headed to T-Mobile.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes with the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and the device features a 4.65 inch HD multi-touch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

Processing on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is provided by a dual core 1.2Ghz processor, it also has 1GB of RAM and an advanced 5 megapixel camera which can record HD video in 1080p, plus a front facing HD camera for video chat that is capable of 720p video.

We don’t as yet have any confirmation from T-Mobile that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is headed to their network, as soon as we get some more details we will let you guys know. Have a look at our Samsung Galaxy Nexus review to see what we though of Google and Samsung’s flagship Android device.

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Samsung Dismantles Its Galaxy Note Smartphone Tablet Hybrid For All To See

Samsung has this week taken screwdriver to its own Galaxy Note tablet this week and dismantled it revealing its workings to the world. The Samusng Galaxy Note was originally announced by during IFA 2011 in Berlin and was later launched in late October 2011 in Europe. Last month, Samsung announced that 1 million Galaxy Notes were shipped in less than two months, and that Galaxy Note would be available in the US in 2012.

To recap the Smasnug Galaxy Note is equipped with a 5.3” WXGA (1280 x 800) HD Super AMOLED screen and comes powered by a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S3 Chipset.

Other features include a 8 megapixel main camera that can record 1080p video, and a 2 megapixel front-facing camera
802.11 b/g/n support for Wi-Fi. The tablet smartphone hybrid device also comes supplied with a built-in stylus, called the “S Pen”. The stylus neatly tucks into the bottom panel of the phone, and can be used in a variety of apps, when extra precision is required.

For a compete run through of all the components Samsung style jump over to the Samsung Tomorrow website.

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CyanogenMod 9 Running On Original Samsung Galaxy Tab (Video)

We have already seen CyanogenMod 9 running on a number of different tablets, and now we get a look at CyanogenMod 9 running on the original Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet.

The guys over at Netbook News put together the following video which shows Android 4.0 ICS, with CyanogenMod 9 running on the original Galaxy Tab P1000 tablet.

So whilst we wont have any official release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich from Samsung for the original Galaxy Tab, you will be able to use CyanogenMod 9 on your Galaxy Tab and it looks pretty good from the video.

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Launch Center 1.1 Update Rolls Out Adds Alarms To iPhone Automation

Anyone looking to take a little more control of their iPhone might be interested in a new application that was launched late last year called Launch Center. The handy little iPhone application is now available to help you mange tasks and automatically carry them out is necessary.

The features within Launch Center app enable you to launch other apps and trigger actions. For example Call a friend, start an email, send a text, post to Twitter, turn on a flashlight.

If that wasn’t enough a new update has today been rolled out which has added the ability to create shortcuts through custom URLs and activate them with a single tap, adding the new alarms features which can now also be linked to actions. Supported launch actions include: Phone, SMS/iMessage, Email, Twitter, Facebook, Flashlight, Google search, Custom URL actions.

The updated Launch Center app  is now available to purchase from the Apple iTunes Store for $0.99.

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Motorola Files Lawsuit Against iPhone 4S And Apple’s iCloud

Apple is engaged in a number of lawsuits with a range of different companies, which include Motorola, Samsung, HTC and more, and now Motorola has filed a new lawsuit against Apple.

Motorola obviously has the backing of Google in this new lawsuit against Apple, as the Google and Motorola merger does not allow Motorola to issue any new lawsuits without Google’s blessing.

Motorola have listed six different patents in this new lawsuit against Apple, and the lawsuit is claiming that Apple’s iPhone 4S infringes on these six patents.

The lawsuit also claims that Apple’s new cloud based service, iCloud infringes on two of the six patents listed, both the iPhone 4S and iCloud didn’t exist when Motorola filed the original lawsuit against Apple, so now they have two lawsuits against Apple.

It will be interesting to see what the outcome of this latest case between Motorola and Apple is, although it could take a few years before we have any conclusion to the lawsuits.

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