Samsung posted a nine-minute video showing off their new Galaxy Tab. No voice-over. No splashy effects. Just a straightforward demonstration of the device in hand. Despite or because of that, I found it very informative and easy to watch.
This weekend provided a nice bit of interesting Windows Phone 7 news. Nothing official really, but enough to give us all some more dates to speculate on. We have a couple dates and some early, apparently leaked, AT&T ads featuring an HTC phone. The Dates in question are October 11th, October 21st, and November 8th. [...]
You might be saying to yourselves, “well duh, the HTC EVO is the fastest smartphone with hotspot access: it’s on 4G”. True, but it wasn’t the only 4G phone tested by LAPTOP Magazine, nor is it dominating only on 4G. Also: it seems the newest DROIDs aren’t necessarily the fastest.
When I read “Galapagos” I think of Charles Darwin and his theories on evolution. Perhaps Sharp’s choice of name for its Galapagos Tablets and media platform is inadvertently pointing to what will obviously become a “survival of the fittest” landscape when it comes to Tablets and Slates. Sharp is unveiling its Tablet/Slate plans and it [...]
If you’ve been around the block enough times you know good and well that life will choose to deal from the deck of aggravation when it chooses to and not on your time. This has been one of those weeks for me on a number of levels. We experienced more than our fair share of [...]
The formerly anonymous leaker of the HP Slate revealed more in a new YouTube video. He showed us the pen, the number of fingers it can recognize, and the webcams, front and back.
Lifehacker, always looking for ways to get things done now, has a short list of ways to print from your iOS device without waiting for the wireless printing built in to iOS 4.2. Which will then require support from printer makers. Which will then require you to have a wireless printer.
I Clearwire, the major WiMAX service provider in the U.S., today announced a partnership with Japan provider UQ Communications that allows roaming between the two networks. Great news for all you folks roaming between U.S. and Japan.
Over the years I”ve had a chance to go hands on with hundreds of mobile devices, too may of which look and feel cheap. I generally only plunk down hard-earned cash when a computer or any other gadget is well-built. Manufactures can throw all the gigabytes, megahertz and megapixels in the spec sheets that they [...]
The Netbook Navigator Nav 9 is a slate with an 8.9″ multi-touch display that runs Windows 7. There, that’s my even shorter version of the short version of CrunchGear’s review of this device.
I am disappointed with Ars Technica this morning. In fairness, that’s largely because I hold the site in such high regard. As a “long form” blog, they typically deliver information that is well-researched and informed. Their analysis on the HP Slate, however, misses on a few details.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told investors he hoped Apple would bring the iPhone to the Verizon network once their 4G network was up and running, which would put it at 2012 at the earliest (assuming the world has not ended).
Word out of Washington is the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to allow the use of “white spaces” for wireless broadband, allowing for the creation of what they call “Super Wi-Fi”.
Well, this is interesting. Two days after I praise Hugo Ortega for including a dedicated Ctrl-Alt-Del button on his TEGA V2, a sign of his experience with Tablet PCs and UMPCs, every hater on the Internet is bashing the HP Slate for having a dedicated Ctrl-Alt-Del button.
Been more than two years since we saw the debut of the Panasonic Toughbook U1 rugged UMPC. But now it’s been updated with a brighter screen and better innards as the Toughbook U1 Ultra, which in no way reminds me of the Samsung Q1 upgrade to Samsung Q1 Ultra.
Some dude (that’s not a slam; the guy is pretty anonymous) has posted a YouTube video showing a prototype of the mythic HP Slate. He offers a once over of the exterior and a brief look at the basic software.
The Galaxy Tab will soon be available from every major U.S. mobile carrier, sporting a slick design, Google’s Android operating system and of course Android Market. Samsung’s acknowledged one very real problem with Android apps on the Galaxy Tab. Samsung previously As Google representatives have recently explained that Android 2.2 (Froyo) is not optimized for tablets, specifically the larger [...]
Australian site Smarthouse revealed the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in their country will be A$999. That converts to, well, not much less in U.S. dollars. More shocking, it’s only A$50 less than the highest priced 64GB 3G iPad. Huh?
Evernote and Lexmark are giving away five Lexmark Interact S605 all-in-one printers. If you’re an Evernote user you’ll appreciate the fact that it can scan documents and photos straight into your Evernote account. It has a large touchscreen display and all the usual niceties you’d expect from a modern all-in-one. This is a Twitter contest [...]
Scaleform is showing off some interesting technology at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. The company develops tools for game developers and it was showing off a demo of a Flash 3D gaming UI, running on NVIDIA’s mobile Tegra platform. 3D on mobile devices is something I’d like to see, but I’m not about to wear [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Michael Dell announced that his company would release 7-Inch Android tablet. He wouldn’t provide specs or a release date at Oracle’s Open World conference. This follow-up to the Dell Streak would be firmly in tablet territory size-wise and compete with the Galaxy Tab. My bet is that it’ll [...]
Too many people here in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley have a distorted view of the country. With friends and neighbors working for tech giants and just about everyone slinging a smartphone, it’s easy to forget about technology challenges outside of the area. Take for example Google’s datacenter up north in Oregon. Vijay Gill, Google’s network engineering manager, [...]
After catching the Pocket eDGe dual-display eReader/tablet from enTourage in the hands of the Terminator, The Digital Reader managed to snap a few shots of the device in-person, which they share along with some all-important details.
Kensington has a number of interesting cases for the iPad out, including the Powerback. The Powerback case provides some protection and 4400mAh of extra juice, providing up to five hours of use on top of the iPad’s standard 10 hours. Who needs 15 hours of battery life out of their iPad? Super Moms apparently. In [...]
File sharing and sync service Dropbox today announced support for BlackBerry, updates for their iOS and Android apps, and a directory to help users find new ways to make the most of their boxes.
I ran across the Clear booth at Intel Developers Forum last week and learned a bit about the WiMax network’s plans for San Francisco. WiMax is one of those technologies that’s been ‘coming soon’ for way too long. Coverage is still sparse, even in some communities that have had it for a while, but word [...]
AT&T’s CEO said that about half a million iPad owners actually pay for AT&T 3G service. That might sound like a lot, but it’s only a fraction of the total number of iPads out there considering more than three million were sold in the second quarter of the year alone. Even worse, from AT&T’s point [...]
I spent Tuesday at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. I saw a lot of cool stuff, but one demo really got me to the edge of my seat. Adobe’s re-thinking the way we capture images and in the future we may never have to miss that perfect shot. Using an array lens, next-gen [...]
HP’s refreshing the touch interface on its all-in-one PCs. The Touchsmart 600 and the newly minted Toucsmart 310 appear to have a heavily customized version of Thinix running on top of Windows 7. The Touchsmart’s UI is much more fluid and touch applications are no longer required to run in full screen, offering a little [...]
The Wall Street Journal has assembled every rumor about the impending BlackBerry tablet, possibly called the BlackPad, put them in one place, and tied them together with an announcement date of next week.
Google’s released a new version of the Gmail app in the Android Market that has a number of improvements. Since the app is available in the market, Android users don’t have to wait for major system updates to get new Gmail features. The interface has been revamped, allowing users to star or reply to messages [...]
The age of domestic satellite phone service begins with the TerreStar GENUS, a dual-mode smartphone that switches between cell and satellite. Available now to AT&T Enterprise and Government customers for the low price of $799. Satellite minutes and data not included.
I was driving from San Francisco to San Jose this morning for NVIDIA’s GPU Technology conference. A BMW M3 passed me on my right as I apparently wasn’t driving fast enough. It’s pretty common for people to get passed by M3s, but this isn’t just any M3, it’s a thin client M3. I asked my [...]
In a couple of tweets last week from a visit to the factory, friend, former GBMer, and founder of Tegatech Australia, Hugo Ortega (a.k.a. @MrMobilePC) revealed two interesting features of his TEGA V2: a dedicated button for Ctrl-Alt-Del and something called “Android”.
This morning Twitter users who went to the Twitter.com page (as opposed to using a 3rd party Twitter client) found that it was really easy to fall prey to an exploit that took advantage of something that is all too common on so many sites, using onmouseover to trigger an action. In this case the [...]
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