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The next generation of Samsung’s bada phone, the Samsung Wave 3, wasn’t given a release date when it was announced together with the Wave M and Wave Y phones last month. But today at the bada developer day in India, a Samsung executive confirmed a release date for the Wave 3.

The Samsung Wave 3 will be released in Europe sometime next month. No word on a US release date, but seeing how the previous Wave phones never made it to our shores, it’s highly unlikely we’ll see the Wave 3 – but there’s always a first for everything.

The Samsung Wave 3 packs some decent specs – no dual-core processor, but it will have a single-core SoC clocked at 1.4GHz, a 4? Super AMOLED display, a 5-megapixel camera (capable of 720p HD video recording), WiFi, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth, GPS, 3GB of built in memory, a microSD card slot (supports up to 32GB) and a 1500mAh battery. And of course, the phone will be running the latest version of bada – bada 2.0.

Corsair has rolled out a new laser gaming mouse, which is designed for PC gamers who like First-Person Shooters (FPS) video games. What makes the Vengeance M60 special is that it has an Avago 5670 DPI sensor with on-the-fly resolution switching and the Sniper button that allows you to automatically decrease the DPI for extra aiming accuracy. This new gaming mouse features a selectable response time(1ms, 2ms, 4ms or 8ms), a rubberized scroll wheel, PTFE glide pads, and a unibody aluminum structure with three adjustable tuning zones. The Corsair Vengeance M60 performance FPS laser gaming mouse is priced at $69.99 a pop.

A new factory-overclocked graphics card from Zotac has recently entered the market.

Known as the GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! Edition, this high performance graphics card packs a GF116 GPU set at 1000MHz, 192 CUDA Cores set at 2000MHz, a 192-bit memory interface and a 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM set at 4400MHz, and features dual-DVI, HDMI as well as DisplayPort outputs.

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! Edition retails for $155.

AMD is ready to launch its new Radeon HD 6970 and 6950 GPUs in the third week of December 2010.

Word has it that the nVidia GeForce GTX 580 has better performance than the AMD’s new Radeon HD 6970, therefore AMD is expected to price the Radeon HD 6970 US$50-70 less than the nVidia GeForce GTX 580 to cover the disadvantage.

HTPC are rarely associated with the word ‘performance’, but we’ve seen company that throws in a decent Core i7 processor into a nettop.

Now here’s another similar scenario. Giada has done the same, by throwing in a Core i7 into their latest super-slim nettop PC called the Giada D2301, which looks quite sleek for a HTPC, though the antenna makes it look like an FM radio.

D-Link has launched their new ShareCenter Pulse NAS Storage, which has a new sleeker exterior skin. Looks more like a nettop than a toaster with 2 large bricks.

The NAS is able to hold a pair of 3.5-inch SATA hard drives, and supports UPnP media streaming, iTunes server functionality, standalone BitTorrent downloads, and various power management systems that D-Link reckons, making the ShareCenter Pulse relatively green. Help saves you abit at the bills too.

The ShareCenter Pulse also supports hard-drive hibernation and “Green Ethernet”, which intelligently controls networking power consumption based on the state of your cabling, together with a smart fan that automatically adjusts according to temperature.

You can also schedule fixed downtime, turning the NAS off automatically as you wish according to your timetable, and use it with Apple’s Time Machine backup.

The D-Link ShareCenter Pulse NAS Storage is now available in the UK for £89.99 ($141). No drives included.

Amazon has started selling the Fluid Stream 10-inch Windows 7 tablet. The gadget comes jam packed with a multi-touch display with a 1024×600 pixel resolution, a 1.66 Intel Atom N450 processor, a 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard disk drive, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and HDMI output.

According to Fluid Computer Systems website, the device is priced at $599.

720p on your iPhone 4?,  That’s so yesterday. These days every Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane and Lucy’s phone can produce their own homemade .3gp at 720p quality. Let’s look over to South Korea. Yes, there seemed to be a political tension there, but if you look further into it. Yes. There you go with 1080p on a phone. That’s LG’s LU3000.

The phone comes with a very standard 1GHz TI OMAP3630 chip, allowing it to jot down 1080p video playback on its spec sheet. That goes great with the built-in HDMI port and DLNA wireless capabilities. The 3.8-inch screen offers an 800 x 480 resolution, there’s a 5 megapixel camera around the back, and a mildly skinned Android 2.2 performs the OS duties.

The phone sells for ? 800,000 (roughly USD 705) next week at the company’s country, but it seemed that they’re back at it again. South Korea only. No love for other countries it seemed. Reminds me of the time when Samsung sells shitloads of phones that are Korea-only back then.

Chinavasion has started selling the new Mini Bluetooth Keyboard that comes equipped with a touchpad and a laser pointer.
The device provides full wireless control of your PC and smartphone. This easy-to-use Mini Bluetooth Keyboard features a full QWERTY keyboard complete with function (Fn) key, F1 through F8 keys, space bar, number keys, Page UP/DOWN keys, left and right mouse keys and a responsive touchpad.

There are 72 keys in total – making this our most complete mini Bluetooth PC keyboard to date. The Chinavasion Mini Bluetooth Keyboard retails for just $45.22 each.

Corsair introduced two new members from the Force Series SSD family. As the name already imply, the Corsair Force Series F90 and F180 SSDs are built using the mighty Sandforce SF-1200 SSD processor, which provides an exceptional performance, including read speeds of up to 285MB/sec and write speeds of up to 275MB/sec, with a 4K random write throughput of up to 50,000 IOPs.

The Corsair Force Series F90 and F180 SSDs are now available for $189.99 and $399.99, respectively.