Late night poll: Do you stream music

There's a lot of choice for playing your music on Android.  For every option that plays music from your local storage, there's one that pulls music from the cloud and streams it.  Both have their advantages, as well as disadvantages.  Streaming can play havoc on your battery and your data allotment, but the almost limitless catalog of tunes is pretty handy.  Conversely, it takes less juice and no data connection to play from your device itself, but you're working with limited space.

Personally, I do both.  I keep four or five of my favorite albums on my phone, and I use Google Music to stream the rest of my collection.

Cowon Z2 Plenue MP3 Player Breaks Cover

If you are a fan of music that needs a new MP3 player, but you don’t want anything from Apple developer check out the new Cowon Z2 Plenue MP3 player the has recently launched. The device is Android-based and uses a 1 GHz Tellychips Cortex A8 CPU. That CPU runs 800 GHz and the device supports full HD video playback.


The player also has a 320 MHz Mali OpenGL accelerator for graphics and has 512 MB of RAM. The player uses the NTFS file system and promises to sport files larger than 4 GB. The device is also packed with a microSDHC card slot to expand storage. The player has a 3.7 inch 800 x 480 resolution OLED display.
The Z2 comes in several different versions that vary with storage space ranging from 8 GB up to 32 GB. Prices run from $230-$300 pending on the storage capacity. MP3 player also has integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM tuner, and a mic along with integrated speakers. For now, the device is only available in Korea.

Apple’s HDTV Being Tested By Rogers And BCE

According to the Globe and Mail, two companies already have Apple’s new HDTV in their labs, and are testing out the devices, the companies in question are Canada’s Rogers Communications and BCE Inc.
The report says that the HDTV has some of the features we have previously heard rumored, Apple’s Siri and hands gestures are apparently used to control the device.

An on-screen keyboard, meanwhile, can also be activated in a similar manner, allowing viewers to surf the web, conduct video chats and use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook – all without any physical interface.
Apple are apparently looking for other partners to work with on their HDTV and they are not closed to doing it with one company or two.
It isn’t clear as yet whether the information came from, although if it turns out to be correct it certainly sounds very interesting, we were expecting the device to be controlled by Siri, but the bit about hand gestures is something new.
We are expecting to see the first Apple HDTV some time this year, when that will be nobody knows at the moment, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guys know.

White Nokia Lumia 900 Leaked

Yesterday Nokia announced that they would be launching a white Nokia Lumia 800, with the announcement of the new Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia posted some photos of the device to their Facebook page.
It would appear that someone at Nokia made a mistake, and instead of posting photos of the white Nokia Lumia 800, the photos were actually of a white Nokia Lumia 900 which has yet to be announced.

According to the guys over at Pocket Now, the photo is believed to be the internal version of the Nokia Lumia 900, which has yet to be announced, and we can expect to see the device launch at MWC 2012 later this month.
The international Nokia Lumia 900 is expected to share many of the same specifications as the US version, which include Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device and it features a 4.3 inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.
Other features include a a single core 1.4GHz processor, plus a rear facing 8 megapixel camera with an f2.2 Carl Zeiss lens, the rear camera is capable of recording HD video in 720p, up front we have a 1 megapixel camera with an f2.4 lens and the device comes with 16GB of built in storage.

Nokia 801 Symbian Belle Smartphone Leaked

It looks like we may have some information on a new Symbian Belle smartphone from Nokia, the Nokia 801, which you can see in the photo below, and the device is reported to come with a 4 inch AMOLED ClearBlack multi-touch display.
Other rumored specifications include a 640 x 360 resolution display, a 1.4GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and a 12 megapixel camera with a dual LED flash that can record full high definition video in 1080p.

The photo was originally posted by SmartPhoneGeeks, and according to Eldar Murtzain this is in fact an actual new Nokia Symbian Belle device, although there are no details on when it may actually launch.
We have been hearing rumors over the last few days that Nokia will release just one more Symbian device, could this be the last Nokia Symbian smartphone to launch, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guys know

Canon ELPH Series 530 and 320, D20 And SX260 Compact Cameras Unveiled

Canon has introduce a new series of compact cameras to their ELPH series range in the form of the ELPH 530 and 320. The new Canon compact cameras have been designed to use a complimentary iOS application developed by Canon called the CameraWindow.
Canon CameraWindow enables users to quickly view and transfer photography wirelessly. Canon says that support for Android devices will be arriving in May later this year. As far as specifications go the ELPH 530 HS which will be priced at around $349.99 when it arrives in April. Is equipped with a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor, 12x optical zoom lens, together with the same DIGIC 5 image processor.

The slightly cheaper ELPH 320 HS priced at $279.99 is out slightly earlier in March, and features a 16.1-megapixel CMOS sensor and 5x optical zoom. Both Canon ELPH cameras are capable of recording 1080p video footage and are fitted with 3.2 inch touch screens on the rear.

Another new addition to Canon’s range includes the new D20 a waterproof camera that is arriving in may for around $350. The Canon D20 is equipped with a 12.1-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, 1080p video and an “underwater macro” mode designed especially for divers or snorkelers.
Rounding off the new additions is the Canon SX260 arriving in March for $350. This is equipped with a 1.29-inch thick superzoom and a 25-500mm equivalent lens providing a useful 20x zoom. Other useful features included are 1080p video recording, GPS image tagging, and a burst shooting mode that can capture around 10 high-resolution shots at over 10 frames a second. Its also fitted with DIGIC 5 image processor and 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor.

Netbook Navigator NAV10T Dual Core Atom N570 Windows Tablet Launched

This week Netbook Navigator has launched a new Windows tablet to their range which is equipped with a 10.1 inch 1366 x 768 Capacitive LCD display. The new Netbook Navigator NAV10T is powered by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 dual core processor, supported by 2GB of DDR3 800MHz memory. Internal memory is provided via a solid state disk that can be increased up to 128GB depending on your storage requirements.

The Netbook Navigator NAV10T will come supplied running Windows 7 Home Premium, with other versions of Windows available rich up to the Ultimate if preferred. Other features on the Windows tablet include 2 x USB 2.0 ports, microSD card reader, VGA/LAN adapter, 1.3MP front-facing camera and optional 3G support, together with WI-FI 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 connectivity.
If you think the new Netbook Navigator NAV10T tablet is for you its already available to purchase online with a 16GB SSD and non operating system installed for $500. If an operating system is required Windows 7 Home Premium is available to be pre-loaded for $100.