Lenovo’s offering the IdeaPad U150 for $629.10 after a 10% off coupon. The U-series IdeaPad measures just .75″ thick and weighs less than three pounds. At this price, the U150 comes with a 1.3GHz Pentium Dual-core processor , 3GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive. Visit LogicBuy for more info and the coupon [...]
According to some recent Laptop Magazine tests, some netbooks’ batteries aren’t running as long under Windows 7. Laptop Magazine’s editors ran testedthe Toshiba Mini NB205, ASUS Eee PC 1008A and HP Mini 311 with both XP and Windows 7. The result? The netbooks with Windows 7 ran for an average of 47 minutes less than [...]
Few things bring me joy like watching gadgets get blow up, smashed, destroyed, or scratched. One southern gentleman has been brave enough to subject his Motorola Droid to the famous “sharp key scratch test.” As the video shows, a sharp key is thrust over an unprotected Droid’s screen numerous times with no visible damage. The [...]
LAPTOP Magazine has delivered an in-depth review of the Nokia Booklet 3G, one of the most thorough I’ve read so far, and sucks the wind out of what I think is its most attractive feature. Its 16-cell battery lasted 8 hours and 24 minutes on our LAPTOP Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi-Fi). That’s a [...]
MobileNoter is one of those iPhone apps that I’ve been following and testing with keen interest. Why? Because it allows me to sync OneNote data to my iPhone. I’m a huge OneNote fan and love that application. I often call it Microsoft’s biggest secret that they want to keep a secret because there is so [...]
In this video a litl employee unboxes its webbook, which is now selling for $699. The webbook doesn’t do much besides connect to the Internet and its pricing is clearly out of whack with the netbook market. On the exterior of the litl webbook’s box is some text that reads “Inside you will find an [...]
Personally, I don’t think the current state of wireless chargers are really worthwhile. Placing your device on another device seems no more convenient to me than plugging it in to another device, or at least not worth the extra cost. However, this hack turning a Palm Pre Touchstone charger into a magnetic car mount has [...]
This looks intriguing, and if you’re in Japan on December 1 you might get to try this out. Sanyo’s eneloop stick booster looks like a small stick and with two rechargeable batteries, it will supposedly charge up your small mobile devices (think MP3 players and other handhelds.
What does 16TB of web-accessible storage look like? In my current setup, it would look like 32 NAS enclosures (yeah, I need to upgrade that) wired to 8 routers and plugged into 5 power blocks with backup batteries. But if I bought that from Google, it would look like $4,096 a year. Yes, Google’s dropped [...]
Call it red tape, call it incompetence, call it too big to move, call it insanity, call it what you will, but in the end you have to call it losing. Word is trickling out that Microsoft will begin testing Windows Mobile 7.0 with OEMs in the 1st quarter of 2010, but then the real [...]
Gearlog has the goods on the enTourage eDGe, a dual-screen eBook reader that features a 9.7-inch electronic ink display next to a 10.1-inch LCD, first mentioned here a few weeks ago. After reading their description, it’s clear I should have taken a closer look back then. The 10.75-x 8.25-x 1-inch (HWD) device, at 2.75 pounds. [...]
Due to everyone and their rival giving away wifi for the holidays, the folks at PC World put together a timely list of simple ways to keep yourself and your data safer when you access that free broadband. It ranges from the obvious, like don’t do your banking at public hotspots, to the more advanced, [...]
Dell’s offering the Vostro 1320 for $539 after a $103 instant discount and a $50 stackable coupon. A this price, the Dell Vostro 1320 comes with a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 250GB hard drive, 3GB of RAM and a DVD burner. Visit LogicBuy for more details and the coupon code.
Amazon’s Kindle reader for PC has been out for less than a day, and already people are posting shots of it running on their tablets. No surprise that Chippy from UMPCPortal was quick to try it on his ultra-mobiles. He’s showing it off on his Gigabyte T1028M convertible. Looks like a good fit on the [...]
How many times have you been kicking back at home wishing you had your own 30+ inch multi-touch interactive display? If you’re like me, that’s every night right after The Daily Show (which for some reason is not a daily show). Well, good news: if you’ve got an lcd projector, a couple hundred bucks for [...]
Well, no major surprise or revelation here: the unknown tablet device spotted with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang as been identified as a prototype for what has been called their Tegra media pad. According to Engadget, the device has a resistive touchscreen and runs Windows CE, but “both Android and capacitive upgrades are in the cards, [...]
Kevin Tofel found this goody. I just hope I don’t hear of him trying it out. Make is highlighting These Do It Yourselfers at Waterloo Labs who rigged up a car with an amazing series of servos, wrenches, and other gizmos to drive a car using an iPhone. Though I don’t think they use iPhones, [...]
Mozilla’s Firefox browser turned 5 years old yesterday and there was much celebrating around the Internets. I use Firefox extensively on both the Mac and PC and find that it is a hard habit to break. That said, Google’s Chrome browser keeps impressing me and I keep cheering it on. Now that Firefox has turned [...]
Intel’s health group is getting in on the eReader game. While the Kindle, Nook and others try to replicate a natural book reading experience, the Intel Reader is built specifically for people that have trouble reading print, including those with dyslexia, low-vision or blindness. The Intel Reader ca take pictures of text and read it [...]
If you were wondering whether that $600 Nokia Booklet 3G ($300 with wireless Internet service) is worth the premium, the answer from CrunchGear appears to be a resounding… maybe. I feel that the Booklet is an odd chimera by any standard. It’s a netbook by one of the most famous cellphone makers and it’s subsidized [...]
ASUS has put together a demo video of the Eee PC T91′s multi-touch capabilities. user interface. The custom UI can be accessed by tapping at the dock at the top of the screen. There are some touch-enabled games and apps shown in the demo. FotoFun lets users sort images and build photo albums. The ASUS [...]
Many of us use our smart phones (or is that super smart phones, or app phones?) as devices to do a lot of things right out of our pocket. But how about using it to diagnose what ails you? Scientists from America and Australia are teaming up on development on an app that once you [...]
During a visit to the American University of Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang raved about the awesomeness of Apple, while sitting in front of a mystery tablet device, making no statements about it whatsoever. Logically, when one claims that all they use is Mac (“It’s just Mac, Mac, Mac!”), you’d assume the computer in front [...]
Amazon has pulled the covers off its Kindle Reader for PCs. It is now available for download here. In very early testing, it works completely as advertised and on a touch screen device it is a real pleasure to use. The UI is completely unassuming and takes you from book selection to text and that’s [...]
Everybody wants you to use their search products. So, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all playing Santa this year and giving you the gift of free WiFi in various locations. Google is offering free WiFi to customers in 47 airports across the US. This begins tomorrow and runs through January 15.Google is also providing free [...]
Dell is offering a 23″ Samsung LCD monitor for just $183.99 after a 20% discount. The display has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a 1000:1 contrast ration. Inputs include DVI and VGA. This deal includes free shipping. Visit LogicBuy for more details and the coupon code.
Apple released OSX 10.6.2 today and fixed quite a few bugs, including a nasty one that ate all data if you logged in with a guest account. Apparently, as has been rumored off and on, the official release does not support Intel’s Atom chipset and so Hackintoshers are out of luck if they want to [...]
You don’t by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand? If so, FingerMgmt will let you track the movement of all eleven of your fingers on a Macbook multi-touch trackpad. Yes, the latest Macbooks and Macbook Pros can track eleven points of contact on their pads. Seems somewhat excessive to me [...]
Word out of TechCrunch is that Google is finalizing a deal to purchase VoIP provider Gizmo5. The most obvious ramification of such a deal would be the addition of a VoIP component with call-out functionality to Google Voice, enabling users to make calls through GV on their PCs. The combination is already being used to [...]
Good news, everyone: Troll Touch is now offering touchscreen mods for the latest iMac and Macbook models. Not-so good news: slapping a touchscreen on that $1,000 13″ Macbook will cost $700, while the iMac touchscreen can, in one case, double the price tag. I love touchscreens as much as the next guy (assuming the next [...]
Last week Warner Crocker wrote that AT&T’s wasn’t amused by Verizon’s ‘There’s a Map for That’ commercial and filed a lawsuit. Instead of backing off as many of us expected, Verizon’s released three new ads featuring a map of AT&T’s 3G coverage. I usually don’t like negative tech ads, but these ads really speak to [...]
Last week, word worked its way around the Internets about a Dutch hacker trying to squeeze 5 Euros out of folks with jailbroken iPhones. Today, jailbreakers from Down Under are getting Rickrolled by the very first iPhone worm. Turns out, if you jailbroke your iPhone and installed SSH, opening the root directory to file swapping, [...]
Nokia is issuing a voluntary recall of cell phone chargers, quite a few of them actually. 14 million chargers are subject to the recall and the reason is a possible shock hazard. The chargers were made by one manufacturer, BYD Co Ltd of China. Nokia is recommending that if you have one of the affected [...]
The forum members at MyDellMini are busy tablet modders. A few weeks back, we saw a Dell Mini turned into a touchscreen tablet by Rob928. Now, there’s a new one from rock99rock sporting accelerometer-based screen rotation that looks really smooth in the video demo. What’s really impressive is that he pulled it off with a [...]
istartedsomething has video of a natural user interface concept being demonstrated around U.S. colleges by Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie. Includes a brief demo of predictive handwriting recognition, much like what we have in Windows 7, but also some stuff that is beyond cutting edge. A feature of this year’s tour appears [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
