iPad, wePad, we all scream for some kind of Pad, I guess. The WePad is another slate coming out of Germany that is being talked about quite a bit. Sascha of Netbooknews.com got a chance to get up close and personal with the WePad and of course there is video of the entire experience.
Xavier Lanier reported from the iPhone 4 OS launch at Apple headquarters that Steve Jobs answered a question about the possibility of a stylus for iPad with this little gem: “If you see a stylus, they blew it” Gotta love Steve J for his “super” quotes. Well sorry folks, but I’m with Steve on this [...]
The iPad has been called all sorts of things in its short one week life and to a certain degree I find that most of the descriptors are correct no matter which direction a particular commentator or reviewer is aiming from. In a short preamble, after a stressful and very non-normal week I find that [...]
Whether you’re itching to give the new interface a try or want to understand why anyone cares, you can give the new Windows Phone 7 a virtual run-through by following a how-to guide from Gizmodo.
It looks like AT&T is rebranding itself again . Remember when we went from the AT&T lettering to the globe plus lettering? AT&T wants to make itself a “consumer and lifestyle” company instead of a telecomm/wireless carrier company. According to an article over at Geek.com: The initiative is being described with the “Rethink Possible” slogan, [...]
Okay, I’ll take the blame for being careless on this, but really, after reading a big rehash about the HP Slate, I don’t feel too bad about missing this one snippet from The New York Times about HP also working on a different Android-based slate.
Amidst all the noise over iPad rivals, iPad competitors, and iPad killers, sneaks in a little rumor via The New York Times that Google CEO Eric Schmidt let slip that his boys are working on a tablet that runs Android.
Looks like Vonage, the popular VOIP service has finally gone Android with its Vonage World Mobile offering. Vonage has been available for some time for iPhone/iPod Touch and Blackberry, but it took a while for it to come to Android. The service, Vonage World Mobile, provides the ability to make unlimited international calls for $24.95 [...]
We are a society of multimedia consumers. We store thousands of pictures, videos, documents, games, etc on our computers hard drives, on USB drives, on portable drives and now in cloud storage solutions. We consume multimedia like its our favorite candy. And with consumption comes storage. We never seem to have enough for all of [...]
Today is the day we find out from Microsoft what all the hubub is about relating to the Microsoft Pink phones. What will a Pink phone be like? What about its counterpart the Turtle phone? Will it be more Zune than phone? Will it actually be pink? Well, SanDisk, the memory manufacturer, let the press [...]
It wasn’t the most popular of iMac designs, but I still think the iMac G4 with its swiveling, maneuverable display was the best of the bunch. Jon Berg seems to agree, as demonstrated on his Dremel Junkie blog where he’s showing off one he’s modded with a touchscreen and Windows 7.
Twitter finally has its own iPhone application. How? Well, they went out and bought Tweetie. Tweetie is a $2.99 iPhone app, which in a few weeks will be rebranded as the official free Twitter client for the iPhone. The developer who created Tweetie, Loren Brichter, will join the Twitter team to create an iPad version [...]
Lenovo is offering the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t Netbook Tablet with MultiTouch capacitive display for $499 after an instant discount and stackable $150 coupon code. The IdeaPad S10-3t includes a 1.83GHz Intel Atom N470 processor, 2GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive. Visit LogicBuy for more information and coupon code.
In a time where those who see and recognize the value of pen and digital ink, might liken themselves to Don Quixote titling at windmills, Michael Gartenberg has penned a piece on Engadget talking about the Microsoft Courier that offers a breath of fresh air. Coming after a week of iPad frenzy, wherein Steve Jobs [...]
If you’re an industrious type, you might want to get your workshop ready: there’s a new multi-touch surface computer project at Instructables. Requires some big panels of acrylic, IR equipment, and a decent webcam (they suggest the PS3 Eye), as well as a recent computer (PC or Mac, but they suggest Windows 7 for the [...]
LifeHacker is pointing to an article on Instructables that shows you how to take a static free sock, a pencil, and some sewing know how and create a soft stylus that might work well for an iPad or other capacitive device. I guess it beats using a sausage.
Ok, here we go again. Once again, Apple is in full rejection mode over at the iPad App Store. They are rejecting any application with the work “Pad” in the title. This is similar to what they did with apps with “iPod” in the title. Over at 9to5mac.com, they have a screenshot from a developer [...]
It seems everyone users Twitter. Its a religion. Between Twitter and Facebook, you can hear about every nuance of a person’s life. Its scary sometimes. However, Twitter is also a useful way to communicate with friends and get the word about about new business opportunities. Its a good service for both personal and professional reasons. [...]
The folks over at ASUS have been teasing us for some time about their new Eee Keyboard. The idea behind this device is that it will be a self contained computer (with netbook-like technical specifications) that is a keyboard. The Eee Keyboard connects to a TV or monitor over a wireless HDMI connection, connecting like [...]
John Gruber of Daring Fireball found the nugget in the developer’s terms of service and that added to Steve Jobs’ resounding no about any change in his feelings about Flash on his mobile devices has started a fire storm and is threatening to turn into a Hatfields vs McCoy’s like feud, if it hasn’t already. [...]
Steve Jobs may say that a stylus is a no no and any device that requires one fails, but the folks at Microsoft Research are the ones thinking different. Check out this video from Microsoft Research using pen and touch together on a Surface table. At the beginning of the video it looks very familiar [...]
I spent a big chuck of the day at Apple’s mother ship in Cupertino for the iPhone OS 4.0 event. Warner, Sumocat, Kevin and Amy have already covered the details of the Apple’s operating OS here on GBM and over at Notebooks.com. Our friends over at Laptop Mag were kind enough to give me their [...]
Among the new features Apple introduced in iPhone OS 4 is a new way to organize your apps called “Folders”. Great-looking feature. Great-looking implementation. But that name must go.
Of the many new features in iPhone OS 4, perhaps the one most exciting to developers is iAd, an in-app advertising system that offers the app maker a 60% revenue cut. But let’s be real: they did it for them, not you.
As expected, Apple rolled out a multi-tasking system in iPhone OS 4, and it is quite impressive. It is not, however, a thoughtless “let multiple apps run at once” proposal. Instead, they’re offering specific functions that run in the background that should keep it from being a huge drain on battery, processor and users. Updated!
Continuing to dominate the tech news, Apple rolled out its preview of iPhone OS 4.0 today and by and large there weren’t many surprises. On some fronts Apple is playing some much needed catch up to Android and the yet to debut Windows 7 Phone. On other fronts, Apple added what we all expected. Before [...]
Apple is set to reveal the new iPhone OS 4.0 in a little bit. Rather than make a prediction on what it does, I’m instead going to state I don’t want it to be that good.
Yesterday I returned to my office after spending time with my ailing mother, and in addition to catching up on quite a bit of work, I had to attend local auditions at our theatre. During that time I had both my iPad and my iPhone close at hand. I would occasionally flip on the iPad [...]
Boingo Wireless is a great service providing wi-fi access to thousands of hotspots and airports around the country. It just works. I have used it many times when I travel and have been thankful I coughed up the extra few dollars. People connect their laptops, netbooks, iPods and iPhones using Boingo every day. Well, according [...]
Looks like Amazon might be making a move into the big box brick and mortar stores with the Kindle. An picture of an inventory listing at Target shows the Kindle at a price of $259, supposedly going on sale on April 25. If true, maybe Amazon realizes that to play keep up with the iPad, [...]
It usually doesn’t take long after the release of a product for things to start bubbling (true or false) about the next version. That looks to be the case with Apple and the iPad. According to DigiTimes, Apple is working on a smaller version of the iPad (5-7 inches) supposedly for release in Q1 2011. [...]
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Brett Gilberston and thank him for agreeing to share his insight with the GBM community. Brett lives and breathes Tablet PCs and gets to play with a wide variety of tablets on a daily basis. Brett lives in Australia and is a Tablet PC evangelist. When he’s [...]
I decided to see what it’s like to use a MobileDemand xTablet T7000 in the rain and if it could in fact handle getting some water on it. I never have to work in the rain, but a lot of guys do have to brave storms to get their jobs done. The last thing they [...]
USB flash drives are a dime a dozen these days. Their commonality makes them almost throwaway devices. That was my general mindset, especially after getting a bunch at CES. However, I’ve found that build quality can really make a drive stand out from the crowd.
Take one iPad. Install Sketchbook Pro from Autodesk. Give it to renowned comic book artist and newly named co-publisher of DC Comics, Jim Lee. And in about an hour, you get this impressive, finger-drawn color sketch of Wonder Woman. Makes me glad I held on to his complete run on Uncanny X-Men.
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
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