Latest Sony Vaio UX490N UMPC

The Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sony has recently announced the launch of its latest UMPC, named as Vaio UX490N. This ultra-portable mobile PC features an Intel Core 2 Solo U2200 ULV running at 1.2Ghz, along with 1GB of memory DDR2 RAM and an 4.5-inches LCD display with nice SVGA 1024×600 resolution displaying pixie-dwarfing text size.

The main improvement of this ultra PC if compared to previous models is a new kind of solid state drive (SSD) with 48GB capacity instead of Ye Olde Hard Diske Drive.

As same as its predecessor, there’re also a built-in microphone, onboard monaural speakers as well as 2 cameras located on the front and on the rear, with 0.3 megapixels and 1.3 megapixels, correspondingly.

The new Sony Vaio UX490N UMPC which incorporates a fingerprint scanner is comes with a suggested price of $2,499. Check more details of this micro laptop on its official site.

Developers Start Develop applications on iPhone

The Much awaited phone developers dream kit the beta version of Apple iPhone SDK Beta 2 Now Available for download Surf to Apple Developer Connection - iPhone Dev Center at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Apple has released the second beta version of the software development kit (SDK) for developing applications for the iPhone handset and iPod Touch player The latest Add-ons on the new updated beta SDK is

1. GUI interface builder
2. Xcode integrated development environment
3. The phone simulator, frameworks and samples, compilers
4. Shark analysis tool

But many developers are not happy with some of Apple’s terms and conditions which apple ahs put out on a commercial sense that is to Apple’s requirement that all distribution of applications to iPhone users go through the company’s App Store.

But it is not a good news for the developers that Apple iPhone SDK is not allowing access to iTunes application which might have enabled developers create many cutting edge music applications.