We’ve been running several posts about products designed to let you use your capacitive touch screen devices out of doors in cold weather and given that the US (at least the central and eastern part of the US) is in the grips of a major cold wave, I’m guessing that some are looking for solutions [...]
If you’ve ever created an account and left a comment on Gizmodo, LifeHacker or any of the Gawker Media sites, this would be a good time to change your passwords, especially if you use the same password on other sites. A group of hackers called Gnosis launched the attack and comprised passwords have already led [...]
It’s list making time. And here is my list for the biggest stories in 2010. There are 20 stories here, some good, some bad, and some ugly. But these are the stories that I think 2010 will be remembered for, or rather those behind the stories will be remembered for. Later this week, I’ll have [...]
The folks at Netbooknews.com have gotten their hands on the peculiar Eee Note EA800 from Asus and put up an unboxing video. They give it a quick once over and note that they’ve been working with a Chinese language version of the device and an English language ROM that hasn’t allowed them much time. Nicole [...]
Ouch! I am reading lots of angry stuff about this move all over the web. Google has done some tweaking with its Android Marketplace and one of those tweaks is to shorten the refund window from 24 hours to 15 minutes. That’s quite a tweak. Although I’ve still yet to join the Android game, I’ve [...]
Google’s Chrome web store launched with a lot of fanfare on Tuesday at the Google Chrome event in San Francisco. I thought a ton of people would head over to chrome.Google.com/webstore to load up on free web apps and drop a dollar or two on a couple of paid apps, but that hasn’t been the [...]
A Pantech-made phone was seen passing through the FCC, a U.S. regulatory agency for communications devices, with the model number P8000. Not a lot of information is known about the handset other than that it supports GSM/EDGE, and WCDMA on the 850/1900 MHz bands, making it a candidate for AT&T’s network when released. As Pantech [...]
According to Google, all Chrome OS notebooks will come with Verizon 3G built in. The Cr-48 is no exception. One of the first things I did when I am boxed the CR 48 last night was to set up mobile broadband on the device. Set up was pretty painless, but there’s much more than meets [...]
After confusion regarding the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the Optimus One that happened earlier in the week, smartphone-maker LG is now correcting itself and the debacle it had created. The company is now committing to an upgrade path for Android 2.3 for the Optimus series smartphones that were released with Android 2.2 Froyo. Exact [...]
Yeah, the cloud news from Google just keeps rolling in this week. Back in November Google finally flipped the switch to allow iPad users the ability to edit Google Docs on that device using the mobile website. Now if you want to do a little more detailed editing and formatting you can access the non-mobile [...]
A patent filing by Sony Ericsson shows a smartphone and mobile internet device with a sliding screen that will slide up to reveal a blank canvas for an embedded pico projector to display images onto. As the portion that slides up is similar in size to–if not the exact same size–as the screen of the [...]
Last night FedEx dropped off Google’s first Chrome OS notebook. The Cr-48 isn’t going to be sold to consumers, but the story here is software, not hardware. Manufacturers like Acer will likely mix things up in 2011, but for now we have a pretty straight forward device in terms of hardware and software. This is [...]
Back in the days that I lived in Chicago it was a free fire zone in the Book Store wars. Downtown Chicago was certainly the centerpiece but in the area where I lived around Clark, Diversey and Halsted streets it was also full of action. Most of the book stores had a location in my [...]
With talks about MeeGo in a smartphone, tablet, and netbook, it’s easy to forget that the embeddable and scalable operating system can appear in other places. The jointly designed OS between Nokia and Intel could also be used inside a car as an embedded OS to power in-vehicle infotainment systems that can monitor and track [...]
A top Sprint executive told Reuters that the company is looking to expand its tablet lineup in 2011. The tablet craze has been popular among consumers, but is also catching on in the enterprise segment according to Sprint business market president Paget Alves, who says that corporate users are looking to replace aging, expensive laptops [...]
At the LeWeb Conference, Nokia Senior Vice President of Design and User Experience Marko Ahtisaari discussed some of design paradigms behind some current user interfaces. In his talk, Ahtisaari compares the user experience of Symbian and Android, and says that they are similar user interfaces of apps, widgets, and multiple home screens. The problem with [...]
Let’s just say you might want to hold off before ordering one of those Notion Ink Tablets that went up for pre-order yesterday. We’ve seen companies experience launch woes before, but Notion Ink is dealing with a number of issues, so much so that the company is suggesting holding off a bit, even if a [...]
I think we all know that one of the benefits of Cloud Computing is that your data can be stored on servers in the cloud and retrieved in case of a disaster. Well, in case you haven’t figured that out yet, Google has produced a video destroying a few of those Cr-48 notebooks in various [...]
Marley may be dead to begin with, but that line of text by Charles Dickens is one that gets read and heard all over the world this time of year, making a Christmas Carol one of the great living traditions of many a holiday season. One of the things that I know quite a few [...]
FedEx just dropped off my Google Chrome notebook. The Google Chrome notebook (Cr-48) probably won’t turn any heads. It’s plain black and void of any branding. Here’s a quick video unboxing of the thing. Google really built up my expectations at the Google Chrome event on Tuesday and so far I’m impressed. Setup took less [...]
Google has just released an update for Gmail for Android handsets running Android 2.2 or later, bringing Gmail for Android to version 2.3.2. The version adds improvements such as Priority Inbox support and an easier way to switch between reply and reply to all within the email composing screen. If you’ve integrated another email account [...]
Images have surfaced of what are supposedly cases for the next iPad. The first is being showcased for sale by a Chinese company called Shenzhen MacTop Electronics. Another is from Japanese site Kodawarisan with a caption stating the bottom cutout is for an SD card slot. Naturally, that caption is grabbing headlines, despite being completely [...]
End of the year means it’s time to fill out of those “Best of” lists, and Freescale is back at it with their hunt for the top 20 Smart Mobile Device Pundits of 2011. Back in the running is your friend and ours, 2010 “SmartPundit”, Warner Crocker. Will he make the cut? It’s up to [...]
The folks at Notion Ink have finally announced pre-ordering for their Adam tablet with your choice of standard LCD or sunlight-viewable Pixel Qi display. Friends of Notion Ink, i.e., those who had commented on their blog before the previous tease, will be offered a 6-hour windows to get first crack.
Dell’s discounting the Alienware M11x by $200, brining the entry level price down to $599 for a limited time. This 11.6″ gaming laptop is optimized for gaming and is capable of playing many of the latest video game titles thanks to its NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M GPU with 1GBM of memory. At this price, the Alienware M11x [...]
Yesterday I bought a gadget that I didn’t have much interest in buying at all…another printer. I have a large-format Epson Sylus R1800 and an HP Photosmart all-in-one that’s about two years old. I don’t print a whole lot, but when I do I use the HP all-in-one for printing documents and small photos, while [...]
Despite the debacle with LG and the Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade, HTC has gone on to officially announce that a number of the company’s current-generation Android smartphones will get an upgrade from their current Android version–Android 2.2 Froyo–to Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread. According to HTC, “We are excited about the OS update coming for Android, [...]
There are reports that certain variations of the Nexus S made for specific countries will utilize a Super LCD screen. The handset was originally slated for a Super AMOLED display, much like those found on the popular Galaxy S smartphones by Samsung, but it looks like Google and Samsung are experiencing shortages of the crisp [...]
At the D: Dive Into Mobile event, Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis says that the company’s QNX operating system will be coming to BlackBerry smartphones as soon as dual-core processors are available. The QNX operating system was unveiled for the company’s forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which boasts a smooth operation with multimedia prowess and [...]
Yesterday, handset maker LG had announced that Android 2.3 Gingerbread would require a minimum mobile processor clock speed of 1 GHz; the company used this requirement as justifications to why its Optimus One smartphone (which is available in various variants for U.S. carriers), would not be upgradeable. However, it looks like LG is retracting its [...]
Images of the Nokia X7 with U.S. carrier AT&T branding was seen on the Internet, suggesting that the multimedia- and gaming-centric Symbian touchscreen handset will be destined for release on the carrier. The images of the handset were released of Eldar Murtazin, who became famous for releasing a fairly negative Nokia N8 review months prior [...]
BGR has scored a demo with Research in Motion where the smartphone-maker showed off its BlackBerry PlayBook, which will launch in 2011. Unlike prior BlackBerry devices, which relied on the BlackBerry OS, the PlayBook utilizes an operating system from QNX, which boasts excellent responsiveness, multitasking, Flash playback, and great multimedia features. The user interface for [...]
The Texas Instruments OMAP 4440 chipset is a dual-core 1.5 GHz mobile processor that is based on the ARM Cortex A9 reference design, which is also found on chips such as the Samsung Orion and dual-core Snapdragon among others. In the past, single-core TI OMAP processors have been used by Motorola on smartphones such as [...]
Various PC makers will be laying the VGA port to rest in 2015 and transitioning their computers–desktops and laptops–to the digital DisplayPort and HDMI protocols in 2015. AMD, Dell, Intel, Lenovo, and LG all have announced that they will be dropping the analog VGA and LVDS connections in the company’s AMD and Intel-based computing products. [...]
Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini told an audience at the Barclays Capital’s Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, California today that the company’s low-powered chips will appear in at least 35 tablets from various manufacturers in 2011, but the world’s largest chipmaker’s journey into smartphone will be slow and steady. Although Otellini did not specify which [...]
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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 [...]
