Swivl Motion Tracking Smartphone Camera Dock Starts Shipping

Anyone patiently waiting for the arrival 0f the Swivl motion tracking smartphone dock, we first featured back in November last year. Will be pleased to know the device has now arrived and is ready to purchase.

So if you pre-ordered the Swivl for $179 you can expect it to arrive very shortly as shipping has now started, according to its creators and developers. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

Swivl will first reach those of you who first shared our vision the soonest and we will continue to fulfill pre-orders in the coming weeks” -“If you pre-ordered but have not confirmed your order yet with credit card information, check your email or head over to the site and do that right now.

Swivl has been designed to hold your smartphone and then follow you where ever you may walk within your room through 360-degrees. The system uses a “Marker” which is worn by the person that wants to be tracked. The “Marker” also doubles as a remote control for the Swivl.

The Swivl has been designed to provide a hands free unit that lets record your actions with your iPhone, iPod Touch, Android phone, GoPro, or Flip. Although the remote control will only currently work with iOS devices via an additional application.

Swivl Motion Tracking Smartphone Camera Dock:

Chinese iPhone 4S Clone Comes With Android 4.0 ICS

We thought we’d give readers a strange thing to contemplate today so how about an Apple iPhone 4S running Android ICS 4.0. Well, of course this is not the real thing, rather an iPhone 4S lookalike that has been brought to our attention but we thought it was interesting enough to share with you.

Although the iPhone 4S is now officially released in China it hasn’t stopped the usual Shanzai brigade coming up with their own versions. This clone iPhone 4S certainly looks the part and whether it’s intended to deceive, or merely an option for those who don’t want to pay iPhone prices, it certainly gives the iPhone a twist to see it running Android instead of iOS, especially the recently released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. However this particular ICS appears to have been skinned so that it looks closer to iOS.

This clone iPhone 4S was brought to our attention by Ubergizmo and to be fair the phony iPhone not only looks pretty convincing but it also has at least a few similar specs, although certainly not all. For instance it has the same sized screen as the iPhone 4S with the same resolution of 960×640 and cameras front and rear. It also has a 7227-T HTC Touch processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage and also WCDMA 3G technology. There’s even built-in Vlingo voice assistant to rival Apple’s Siri. However it is slightly lighter weighing in at 114g though we don’t think many would deduce it was a fake just because of the weight.

After seeing this iPhone 4S clone running Android 4.0 ICS it has made us wonder. If the internal specs were in fact a match for Apple’s iPhone could this be a dream device for many? We think there could be a lot of people who’d like the specs and looks of the iPhone 4S but running the Android OS and it would be interesting to hear what you think about this so why not send us your comments.

Airphone No.4 - iPhone 4 clone - from fastcardtech.com:

HTC One V To Join Mobile World Congress Party

Here’s another reason to watch out for the upcoming Mobile World Congress: HTC One V. The new phone was previously called the HTC Primo. It’s the third device HTC will be unveiling at the Mobile World Congress, with the HTC One X and the HTC One S also reported to be the names for HTC’s new line of phones.

The HTC One V is one of the company’s music-centred phone and as such, will come with Beats Audio, which is part of HTC’s collaboration with the brand known for their bass-pumping headphones. Other details for the One V is that it will come with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), a 5-megapixel camera, 1.0 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, not really top-end specs but more than enough for the average user. Besides, it’s targetted for those who often use their phones as their music player.

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