The “NGP” is rumored to be released in Europe by the end of this year.
UK trade site MCV reports that “sources” have told them that NGP “development deadlines have been set to ensure key Western releases are finished before the end of the summer for deployment in the autumn.” And if you thought “sources” was vague, try “online leaks” which, according to MCV, ” suggest the console will launch on Friday, November 11th.” That’s awfully specific, no?

Speaking with Engadget, SCEA’s Jack Tretton already said that while Sony’s desire might be for “a worldwide simultaneous launch,” a more realistic goal would be to “get at least one territory out by the end of holiday 2011.” If NGP only came to one territory this year, Japan would be the obvious choice; however, MCV’s sources would indicate otherwise, with the site writing, “third party licensees insist that NGP will arrive in Europe this year.”

Source: Joystiq

Nvidia’s Tegra Zone which got launched this month is a news and information app specially made for Tegra 2 devices like the upcoming Galaxy S II. The app has been the source of some really mouthwatering news. First the PlayStation suite app will not be exclusive for Sony Ericsson devices like the Xperia Play but will be available for other Tegra 2 devices as well. The second will make you shed tears, guess what? PS2 games are also coming to the the PlayStation Suite! The PlayStation 2 games would take some time but at least we’ll be getting some. So start saving up some money for those expensive as hell Tegra 2 Devices because they will be worth it in the long run.

Source: AndroidAndMe

Even though we won’t be able to get one ourselves for another week, The 3DS had a pretty big launch with just around 400,000 of it’s initial shipment drying out by the end of the day. Customers had to wait for hours and some lines went up to 2000 people long but almost everybody got themeselves a 3DS by the end if the day. The figure of 400,000 also includes pre-order shipments.
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Here you are folks, Ben Heck is at it again making the news this time with his brilliant portable Sega Genesis CDX. Heck combined a old camcorder battery, a disk drive and motherboard from an on CDX, added a chopped up Genesis six button controller and a four inch LCD screen to make this thick so-called portable console. Ben made the portable master piece on the request of it’s fatheful followers, although he himself believes most of the games were “FMV nonsense” which we can relate to somehow playing classics like Sewer Sharks. Check out his weekly web show in which he introduces with portable CDX:

Ben Heck’s Sega CDX Portable

We previously heard that Staples would start selling the Motorola Xoom in April but by looking at this ad it seems it would be coming sooner at the 27th of this month. That’s not all though, Pricing for the Wi-Fi only Xoom seems to have been confirmed as well at $599. Altough the Wi-Fi only model should have been available on day one like the other tablet (iPad for example) it’s nice to see that we are getting a simple model at…

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So most of you know how those 21 apps were removed because they were supposedly spreading malware well they were downloaded over 50,000 times. So all those people were still using those apps, so Google decided to flip the kill switch and remotely disable them all. Well that’s not all, Those apps also installed some offending packages which Google seemingly removed used it’s own backdoor exploit the “Android Market Security Tool March 2011″. The application would also send you an email to report what it has done. Well we welcome Google looks after our best interests but it just makes you wonder how much control has Google has over our phones?

Source: Google Mobile Blog

First of all you should know that this is strictly a dev-kit, So don’t expect this to hit your local Walmart anytime soon. The ODRIOD-A reference platform is being developed by Korean maker Hardkernel and is powered by Samsung’s Exynos 4210 (Cortex-A9 dual-core) processors. The monster tablet features a 10-inch 1366 x 768 display, TWO MicroSD cart slots, a USB 2.0 port, HDMI port, HSDPA+ modem, a huge 9000 mAH battery dual cameras on front and rear and a fully transparent real panel which looks epic. The tablet is set to cost only $750, How? We don’t know. Check out the hands on video after the break.

Source: Hardkernel

Back in November Viewsonic announced that the first Android and Windows 7 dual boot tablet would launching in Q1 2011 and that day is now here. Starting from just $599 you too can pick up this awesome tablet. The tablet features a 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, 2gb of RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a much demanded microSD card slot. The size of the storage medium depends of the the type of Windows 7 you buy with it. Windows 7 Home Premium comes with a 16gb SSD and costs $599 while Windows 7 Professional comes with a 32gb SSD and costs $679. The only apparent let down of the tablet is that it is powered by the ancient Android 1.6 (Donut) which we hope is upgradable soon.

Samsung released some teasers regarding it’s new Tab a few weeks ago, Which is expected by many to be the new 8.9 inch Galaxy Tab. Today they released another teaser on their Facebook page featuring the 3.5mm jack and the sexy back. The device seems to be much slimmer than the current Galaxy Tab. The 3.5mm jack has an extra bowling around it which means that the device could prove a decent rival to the iPad 2.

According the picture the official reveal is planned for March 22 in Orlando, Florida. We are expecting a dose of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and a dual core (Nvidia Tegra maybe) processor just like the Motorola Xoom.

Source: Samsung Mobile’s Facebook

Yeah we all know that the 3DS was hacked on launch (well sort of) but no Nintendo is claiming that if you use a flash cart or try running pirated content through other means the company could send a firmware update your way and brick the system. This is similar to the security measures taken by Sony and Microsoft where they would ban users from their respective networks (PSN and Xbox Live) who play pirated content or become a nuisance but Nintendo is going out for a full on brick. When Nintendo was approached regarding this issue they replied:

“We do not discuss product security details (for obvious reasons), nor can we discuss the details of countermeasures available in the Nintendo 3DS system. Nintendo 3DS has the most up-to-date technology. The security has been designed to protect both the creative works in the software and to protect the Nintendo 3DS hardware system itself.

So we would recommend you guys to not buy any used 3DS’ for the time being until this matter is situated.

Source: GoNintendo