Angry Birds Sync is coming this summer, which will be good news for Angry Birds fans who play the game on multiple devices as the service will allow, for example, you to pick up your game on an iPhone where you left off on the iPad or Mac. This way, you don’t have to start [...]
Though Asus and its retail partners have yet to announce official pricing for the optional laptop keyboard dock accessory that latches onto the Eee Pad Transformer Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet to create a laptop experience, various retailers have thus far leaked the accessory at $150. The leaks cove via two retail partners who have put [...]
Owners of the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet can now root and install a custom kernal to enable the memory card functionality on their slates, which was not enabled at launch. Though Motorola had promised customers and early adopters of its tablet that a future firmware update would enable the micro SDHC card on [...]
There are now a number of solutions–from VGA to component and composite cables to HDMI adapters–that aim mirror your iPhone’s or iPad’s display to a larger monitor, and now an Israeli startup is looking to do just that, but without wires. The company has built a prototype case, called the Moov, which has all the [...]
In a huge after hours sale, T-Mobile USA has tweeted that the nation’s fourth largest carrier will be offering 4G phones, including popular phones such as the myTouch 4G and the T-Mobile G2, for free with a 2-year service agreement. The promotional offer lasts until 3 AM Pacific Time, according to the Twitter message. In [...]
AutoDesk has finally confirmed that it will be bringing AutoCAD WS to the Android devices around the world on April 20th. It’s going to be a free download when it arrives on the Android Market and it will have all of the same features that AutoCAD for iOS has. Unfortunately, it’s only going to be [...]
According to BGR, Sprint will apparently offer a Wi-Fi only model of the Motorola Xoom to start which will be followed by a launch of a WiMax enabled version at some point in the future. This news comes on the heels of yesterday’s news that stated that the launch of Sprint’s WiMax Xoom was imminent [...]
There have been numerous reports floating around today that Motorola Droid X Gingerbread update version 4.5.588 has been silently hitting devices. And while it’s still unknown as to whether or not this is the official build that Verizon is going to release to the masses, it looks like it can be pulled by anyone with [...]
There is a prototype of a carbon fiber iPod that is supposed to be able to sync your songs and other media wirelessly, so says the rumor reported at Cult of Mac. The evidence suggests there is something going on with carbon fiber at Apple, but does it have to do with wireless iPod syncing? [...]
The upcoming BlackBerry Touch aka BlackBerry Monza/BlackBerry Monaco has shown up in its first unofficial video today ahead of next month’s anticipated announcement at the BlackBerry World conference. This official video shows off the device running the upcoming BlackBerry 6.1 and will give those interested in possibly picking this thing up a look at what [...]
There is a site are a number of that promises to unlock your iPhone so that it could be used on any GSM wireless carrier, like T-Mobile instead of AT&T in the US. Normally this requires jailbreaking the phone and going one step further to unlock it. The folks at GSM Phone Source, Unlock Base, [...]
Today, AT&T announced that it would be bringing the well-known Optimus One to its airwaves in the form of two devices called LG Thrive and the LG Phoenix, phones that will be attractive to those not wanting to break the bank paying for a smartphone. The LG Phoenix and the LG Thrive are both derivatives [...]
Wirefly is offering the HTC Thunderbolt for $149.99 through Sunday thanks to a $50 coupon. This is a full $100 cheaper than purchasing the HTC Thunderbolt directly from Verizon and $25 cheaper than purchasing it from Amazon Wireless. In order to get this deal, you’ll need to visit Wirefly.com and use coupon code THUNDER0418 by midnight [...]
If you own a Samsung Galaxy Tab on Verizon today is your lucky day because Big Red has started rolling out a decently sized update that will bring all sorts of improvements to the software. A full list of the update’s features came out last week and Verizon Galaxy Tab owners will see these improvements [...]
This morning in Notebooks we go hands on with the new Toshiba Tecra and Portege business class notebooks which have just launched and share a screen protector that will make your glossy notebook screen anti-glare and anti-reflective. We also share some news about gaming notebooks and 3D gaming. The biggest news of the morning is [...]
T-Mobile has announced two brand new unlimited data plans that will go into effect starting tomorrow. The carrier has introduced the $79.99 Even More plan and a $59.99 Even More Plus plan which both include unlimited text, talk and data. The Even More plan will require a new two-year contract while the Even More Plus [...]
HTC has announced that the HTC Flyer tablet, a device that won our award for Best Tablet at CTIA (as the HTC EVO View 4G), will be launched across European markets starting next month on May 9th. The company managed to slip this little bit of news in with the HTC Sensation aka HTC Pyramid [...]
For those just emerging from underneath rocks, HTC announced a new dual-core device this morning called the HTC Sensation aka the HTC Pyramid. It’s an exciting launch and those interested in the device will be happy to know that HTC has put up several promo videos showing off the device. The two promotional videos show [...]
Matt Burns of CrunchGear is linking to a TechRader report that has Lenovo senior specialist William Cai is talking about a 23 inch touch screen device that he’s hoping will be released later this year. Call it a large Tablet, call it a touch enabled all-in-one, but the idea looks to be a moveable (read [...]
HTC announced the HTC Sensation aka HTC Pyramid at a press event earlier in London and while it will be headed to Vodafone and Asian markets first, HTC and T-Mobile have confirmed that the device will be headed to T-Mobile USA this summer. This should come as a relief to those in the United States [...]
HTC officially announced the HTC Sensation aka the HTC Pyramid at their press event in London finally making one of the most rumored phones official. Folks on Vodafone in the United Kingdom and other European countries will be the first people to see the device in Q2 and that launch will be followed by a [...]
Video on the web. To say it is hot is an understatement. With companies like Google (YouTube), Netflix, and others now investing in the creation of content and not just the dissemination of existing video you can bet that there is big money at stake now and in the future. Of course all of that [...]
The HTC Thunderbolt is a new 4G LTE smartphone from Verizon which, thanks to Google Maps’ turn by turn directions and the Pandora Android app, is an awesome in car entertainment and navigation unit. Right now there is only one official car mount for the HTC THunderbolt, which charges the device, but requires that you [...]
A sad announcement came from Cisco today. They are shutting down their Flip video camera business, most likely due to the proliferation of cell phone and smart phone cameras capable of shooting decent HD quality video. I say sad because I love my Flip Ultra HD 8GB video camera. Most of the product videos I [...]
Shawn Welch is releasing an iPad app called Photoshop Remote for the iPad taking advantage of the new Photoshop Touch SDK which allows uers to interact with Photoshop on a tablet. In Welch’s app users can interact with their Photoshop application using an iPad connected to the same network. This is just the beginning as [...]
Eye-fi is launching a new 8GB SD card called Eye-Fi Mobile X2 that takes advantage of the Direct Mode capability announced at CES 2011. With the new higher capacity wireless SD card photographers can instantly and automatically transfer their full-resolution photos from their camera directly to a Wi-fi enabled iOS or Android device so long [...]
In a mobile handset that is speculated to be destined for Japanese carrier DoCoMo, Fujitsu is said to be placing the desktop-class Windows 7 OS along with Symbian on a dual-booting Fujitsu Loox smartphone. The former Windows Mobile licensee of Microsoft’s mobile OS will be attempting to bring Windows 7 and Symbian together on an [...]
The Flip video camera was at one time all the rage. Now it soon will be gone. Cisco, who bought the company in March 2009 in has announced that it is going to kill that bit of its business along with other consumer facing businesses to focus more on serving consumers indirectly through its business [...]
A new update to BlackBerry Traffic will be showing up in BlackBerry’s app store known as App World. According to maker Research in Motion, the new update to BlackBerry Traffic will allow users to select between two alternate routes, giving users the option to select the faster and least congested path of travel. Here are [...]
Sprint has just made its splash site live, which serves as a landing page for customers to get more information about the dual-screen Kyocera Echo tablet, Nexus S, the Sprint EVO 3D, and the EVO View 4G HTC tablet with a digitizer pen. Under the All Together Now moniker, the splash site takes users through [...]
Pieceable Viewer is the latest attempt to allow users to ‘trial’ and experience iOS apps before purchasing them for their devices, but the effort also has some implications for Android users. As Pieceable Viewer requires a browser with Adobe Flash plug-in support to allow users to run iOS apps, Android users with Android 2.2 or [...]
With 3D becoming en-vogue on mobile devices like the Sprint HTC EVO 3D and the LG G-Slate, the iPad 2 is not one to be left out of the 3D craze despite being released without the 3D-capable display from Apple. That little fact isn’t stopping researchers at the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Research group as the team [...]
With rumors that Apple may be releasing an update to its recently released iPad 2 in Fall 2011, upstream component suppliers are saying that a prospect of an iPad 3 appearing in 2011 is just wishful thinking, especially with the rumored Retina Display, AMOLED screen, or HD resolution touchscreen that rumors suggest. Recent speculations posit [...]
Nokia has just unveiled its latest Symbian-powered BlackBerry challenger with a front-facing full QWERTY keyboard in the form of the E6, which continues the tradition of the beloved E71, E72, and E73 (T-Mobile Mode in the U.S.) of solid, excellent hardware. I was a big fan of the E71 when it first debuted–the handset became [...]
In a tweet, Qualcomm Germany has confirmed the existence of the oft-rumored HTC Sensation Android smartphone, which has also gone by the name HTC Pyramid and is tied with T-Mobile USA in the States. Qualcomm’s Twitter message serves to confirm and promote the company’s mobile dual-core 1.2 GHz processor that’s coming to the HTC smartphone. [...]
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