Apple has finally announced its official plans for online ordering of its new iPad 2. As was previously reported, they will be allowing buyers purchase online before the iPad goes on sale in stores. Apple will start taking online orders starting at 1:00 AM PST or 4:00 AM EST. We have our suspicions that pre-orders were [...]
Turns out Microsoft Research published a video demo of their grip-sensing pen that we mentioned yesterday. The demo shows how the pen cursor changes in response to different ways of holding the pen, as well as recognizing it as a different type of instrument when held like a saxophone.
The OnLive Gaming System is a unique streaming video game system which allows users to play video games with rich and sometimes complicated graphics without an expensive or high-powered set-top box or advanced gaming computer. We tested the system and found that while there are a few compromises to be made, OnLive delivers on what it [...]
In addition to the rumored HTC Pyramid, a rumored dual-core 1.5 GHz Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone made by HTC for T-Mobile USA, the carrier is rumored to be carrying another HTC device called the Doubleshot. Unlike the previous Pyramid rumors, details are even more scarce about the Doubleshot and it’s unclear still if the device [...]
Long believed to be the first 4G LTE Android smartphone to debut on Verizon Wireless’s mobile broadband network, the HTC Thunderbolt has been plagued with numerous delays. To be fair, though, Verizon never really disclosed a specific actual launch date for the device so theoretically the phone’s non-launch at this point can’t be a delay. [...]
Waterfield Designs makes some great mobile cases, so when we learned that they are now making iPad 2 specific versions of their excellent cases, we were excited to see them. We’ve taken a look at some of their cases for the iPad and notebooks finding them always to be of high quality. These are not new [...]
Recent reports on the Internet that Apple may be looking towards another vendor to manufacture its A5 processor and rely less on Samsung–which was responsible for manufacturing the bulk of the A4 chipsets–tell us why that would be good for Apple as the company would be less reliant on a competitor. Not only does Samsung [...]
Following Steve Ballmer’s Mobile World Congress keynote featuring cut and paste functionality for Microsoft’s emerging Windows Phone 7 platform, the software company was rumored to be delivering that functionality to end users in the first part of March. The speculated release date was March 8th, according to Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, but as that [...]
There’s only a day before Apple releases the iPad 2 with refreshed magical and revolutionary capabilities to the masses online and in local Apple stores. If you are looking solely at the numbers you might think that the iPad 2 is an upgrade you could skip, but once again it looks like Apple’s engineers have [...]
While RIM never really announced the PlayBook ealier than its Spring launch timeline, it is speculated that Research in Motion was hoping to launch the BlackBerry tablet in time for the holiday shopping season a few months ahead of the device’s now confirmed April 10th launch date. That delay may be caused by RIM’s partnership [...]
Last year when the original iPad was initially put up for pre-orders, I sat in a local restaurant with a Wi-Fi hotspot and gave Steve Jobs and company my credit card number. I eagerly awaiting the Fed Ex man on the day of the launch, which was a Saturday. By the end of the day [...]
Nokia has had several popular and affordable BlackBerry-style phones with front-facing keyboards over the years, including the E71 series–which also was subsidized on AT&T as the E71x, the E72, and the E73 Mode available through T-Mobile USA. The latest one, the E6, will bring subtle refinements to this popular form factor that offers business and [...]
On its own, I commend Sprint for being the first 4G network in the U.S. by debuting its WiMax network and its EVO 4G smartphone long before rival Verizon Wireless had even unveiled its own 4G network based on the competing LTE network. However, when the carrier says that it’s committed to WiMax despite looking [...]
Apple’s white iPhone 4, which has been delayed ever since the GSM-model launched in late June 2010, will go into production this month and will be available to consumers in April, some ten months after the black model was originally available. Although Apple had introduced the white version of the iPhone with previous models, the [...]
While dual-core Tegra 2 processors are only starting to roll out on popular devices today, NVIDIA is not sitting cozy. The company has an aggressive roadmap for its Tegra line of ARM-based mobile processors, and the company is looking ahead to quad-core performance by the end of this year. I caught up with NVIDIA at [...]
The wait for the iPad 2 is almost over. The second-generation Apple slate will be available for sale on March 11th at 5 PM. With the tablet, Apple is promising some evolutionary spec updates, and if you’re on the fence about how those specs will affect your user experience, you can check out Xavier’s iPad [...]
Xavier had posted a great guide on the various iPad 2 configurations that you may purchase come 5 PM on March 11th along with some of the considerations for those with an iPad 1 who may be on the fence about upgrading. For those who are ready to upgrade or make the jump into the [...]
Despite being branded as 4G Android smartphones for AT&T’s HSPA+ network–the carrier will be migrating to LTE for 4G in the latter half of this year–the HTC Inpire 4G and Atrix 4G had failed to ‘inspire’ us with slow upload speeds. Whereas the iPhone 4, a 3G-branded handset, was able to garner upload speeds in [...]
While Samsung and Verizon Wireless had shown off the manufacturer’s 4G LTE Android smartphone earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung did not have a name for the phone, which utilizes Verizon’s faster 4G mobile broadband network along with rivals like the LG Revolution, HTC Thunderbolt, and the Motorola Droid Bionic. However, since [...]
Chinese-PC maker Lenovo, which acquired its ThinkPad brand and heritage from IBM, is gearing up to launch the LePad tablet this month as a rival to the iPad 2 made by Apple. Not only is the LePad an Android tablet–it will be launched in the U.S. later this year with Android 3.0 Honeycomb–with the optional [...]
It appears that someone in Hong Kong had managed to acquire an early iPhone 4 prototype manufactured for Apple by China’s Foxconn manufacturing facility in Shenzhen with 64 GB of on-board storage. News of a 64 GB early iPhone 4 prototype has the Internet wondering if the Cupertino, California company may release a 64 GB [...]
The Nikon D7000 is the best general-purpose DSLR I’ve ever purchased and the camera I recommend for most users, except for those that must have a full-frame body. There are some point and shoot cameras that take pretty good photos, but nothing beats a good DSLR. They offer much more control and much better optics [...]
A leaked screenshot shows T-Mobile will be offering a larger 10 GB per month data plan on March 13th in addition to other changes, including a 20% data discount if bundled with a voice plan. The leak, originally reported on TmoNews, outlines that the carrier will not be charging overages on its Even More webConnect [...]
Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the sliding PC concept garnered a lot of attention as the design was implemented on tablets from Samsung and Asus. First popularized on smartphones from HTC and Nokia, the sliding PC tablet concept had been implemented in the past, with a tilting screen, by HTC via the [...]
Guinness World Records has deemed the Microsoft Kinect the fastest selling gadget of all time. The Kinect launched on November 4 and Microsoft sold 8 million in the following 60 days. That’s an average of 133,333 units PER DAY. Last year, the iPad held the crown as the fastest selling gadget of all time when [...]
With Sprint already linked to the HTC EVO View Tablet via a rumored leak earlier in the week, an HTC trademark filing for a device of the same name with a 4G moniker at the end helps to solidify the tablet’s 4G roots. If in fact the HTC EVO View Tablet will be coming to [...]
Instead of the 16 GB micro SDHC card that had shipped with the first generation Motorola Droid X, a device that Verizon Wireless had positioned against the Sprint HTC EVO 4G at the time of launch, the successor, the Motorola Droid X2, will ship with a paltry 2 GB micro SD card according to leaked [...]
J.P. Morgan Research analyst Mark Moskowitz is speculating that tablet-makers who are hoping to capitalize on Apple’s success with the iPad are building too many tablets while there may not be enough demand for those tablets running rival operating systems to iOS. According to Moskowitz, the tablet bubble may burst in the second half of [...]
Previously slated for release on March 11 and subject to rumors of early release pretty much since its announcement, people syncing their iDevices have found iOS 4.3 is ready for download. Quick, everybody else plug in your iStuff now and let’s see if we can crash the servers!
There’s no denying the iOS ecosystem has the biggest pool of money, but it’s also true there are a lot more people fighting over that pool. For every Angry Birds, there are a hundred games struggling to reach an audience. Hence, it makes sense that some games will find greater success in smaller, less competitive [...]
According to Verizon’s CTO, Verizon’s first 4G LTE phones will launch before the second half of 2011.The HTC Thunderbolt is one of the most-anticipated phones of the year and there have been several signs that the phone would be launched earlier rather than later. We’ve written about quite a few Verizon Thunderbolt rumored launch dates, [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint has reopened discussions on how to merge with T-Mobile USA as the two slip further away from their far more powerful rivals, Verizon and AT&T. Would be a very interesting move complicated by Sprint’s poor history with mergers. Of course, the big question is: Could SprinT-Mo get the [...]
One of my favorite iPad apps is now available in Apple’s Mac App store. Air Display is a utility that turns a Mac into a wireless display, which means your secondary computer doesn’t have to go completely unused while you’re at your desk. I’ve used the iPad version of the app to turn my iPad [...]
If you’re looking to keep up on Notebook news, then here’s your mid-day recap of notebook, netbook and software news from Notebooks.com. We have a collection of new netbooks arriving on the market soon with the latest Intel and AMD Fusion processors. First off we are expecting at least five new Intel Atom N570 dual [...]
As always, Microsoft Research has some exciting work in development. Their belle of the ball for TechFest 2011 will be natural user interfaces, and they’ve taken the wraps off several projects at their blog, including 3-D rendering of medical images and objects, computer-assisted freehand drawing, and pens that can recognize different grips.
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