Last week the iPhone 4S jailbreak finally arrived, and along with it, the ability to jailbreak the iPad 2. All of these A5 powered Apple devices can now be jailbroken to run all kinds of apps and tweaks Apple won’t allow. As soon as the iPhone 4S jailbreak tool was available I jailbroke my iPhone to share [...]
For students heading off to school in the next few days and weeks, toting an iPad might make you the envy of the class. It also ensures that you have some great tools to make the Dean’s List. There are numerous free apps for those on a budget, as well as excellent paid apps that [...]
American Airlines has announced that it will be using about 6,000 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Honeycomb tablets on its planes for in-flight entertainment in premium cabins on long distance flights. The tablets, though similar to the consumer tablets that users can get at Best Buy, will be slightly altered to fit the needs of [...]
Warner had talked about an iOS app used as a teleprompter and a tool for actors to rehearse and memorize lines, I discovered in Los Angeles, California at an outdoors shooting of the entertainment news show Extra, the iPad was used by production crew to help actors with their lines. The entertainment news show was [...]
Whether you’re a fan of Oprah or not, you might want to check out Friday’s episode. Tomorrow Oprah will reveal to the masses her favorite gadget. She describes this gadget in this promo video as “life changing,” “the most amazing thing,” and “the wave of the future.” Here are a few guesses what her favorite [...]
Steve Ballmer is tossing hints around on all sorts of things these days. He recently told us there would be a new cloud version of Windows, and now he’s broadcasting that the Zune software will be coming to Windows Mobile. No time frame on that, but it sure seems like Steve wants to let a [...]
If you’re a fan of Internet Radio or streaming music, or just a fan of Pandora (I’m a fan of all three) then you might want to heed a call from Pandora for some help. Pandora (and other companies that fall into this category) find themselves caught in a real squeeze play and, of course, [...]
I’m saying yes. Steve ““Chippy†Paine has been looking over investor presentations and points out that Portable Media Player (PMP) manufacturer, Archos, sees PMPs morphing into MIDs over the next two years. That only makes sense to me, simply because I continue to see much of the small mobile device push focusing on consuming media. [...]
Fresh into the delivery trucks is the Nokia N96, a new mobile entertainment and Internet device. According to the Nokia Press Release, the N96 offers the most personalized mobile Internet experience to date. The lines have truly blurred between phone, entertainment device, and MID. I just want to know when I can really shave with [...]
I’m an avid reader. I’ll read anything I can get my hands or my ears around. In fact, reading is one of my preferred methods of relaxation. It is also something I have to do every day for my job. I’ve enjoyed reading eBooks on mobile devices and I’ve also enjoyed audio books as well. [...]
Having content that you enjoy available when you’re mobile can fill lots of downtime. Mygazines, a web site that features complete print magazines and articles, can keep you entertained for hours. According to their web site, Mygazines offers unlimited magazine articles that readers are free to browse, share, and archive. Articles and complete magazines are [...]
MobileDemand’s xTablet seems to have a problem with gambling. First, it makes a mysterious appearance in Vegas during CES 2008; and now, it has taken over ABC’s new game show, Wanna Bet. Tune in Monday evenings, at 8pm Central Time on ABC, to watch the celebrity panel use the xTablet to record their bets. Should [...]
This will make my wife happy, and I imagine quite a few other wives as well. The NFL is going to experiment this season with streaming games over the web on Sunday nights. The announcement is due to come on Monday and Michael Learmouth of Silicon Alley Insider is linking to a Wall Street Journal [...]
You know that awesome touch-enabled TouchSmart PC that Sierra brought us news and video on from Berlin? Well, HP today announced you can now go “touch” it at traditional consumer electronic stores. Pricing starts at $1299. HP today announced that the latest HP TouchSmart PCs — the only touch-enabled, all-in-one PCs in the marketplace — [...]
Awhile back, good friend Ian Dixon invited me to do a guest spot on his podcast, The Media Center Show, to talk about all things mobile and where we see things going. We covered a range of topics and had a blast, so it might be worth a listen. Ian does a great job with [...]
We’ve been talking about the HP HDX Dragon for quite a while on GottaBeMobile.com, so we thought it was time to give a little review of this mobile entertainment powerhouse. Now, we know that a notebook computer this size is normally out of our coverage area and it pushes the envelope with the whole "mobile" [...]
This is not really mobile in the way we usually cover things here, but I find it an intriguing move by Sony to post here. This summer Sony is going to start distributing “live” events digitally to movie theatres. Broadway shows, sports events, and concerts will be presented simultaneously in movie theatres. The goal is to [...]
Microsoft is continuing to build upon the Zune service with a new software release that brings television shows to its video offerings, as well as other software enhancements. Launch your Zune software to get prompted for the new update. I’ll be doing the same later today. By the way, we are experimenting with some podcast [...]
Steve “Chippy” Paine has been taking a look at digital TV on UMPCs and is looking ahead to what that might mean for MIDs. He’s put up a couple of posts (here and here) that chronicle his experiences and they make for some interesting reading. He’s not talking about TV over broadband but instead using a [...]
Yesterday Apple surprised no one with their announcement that they would now make new movie releases available on iTunes the same day as the DVD release. That will certainly have an impact on NetFlix and Blockbuster, not to mention the postal service. In the continuing evolution of mobile entertainment we already have witnessed the decline of [...]
A few weeks ago Warner got excited about pico-projectors, those ultra-small projectors designed to be integrated into small devices. Although many of these pico-projectors have been demo’d at events like CES, there has been little news about productization. Today, Display Daily reports from the Hong Kong Electronics Fair that “Sunlink International Holdings and iView Limited [...]
NedZad Mujcinovic’s concept for a multi-touch screen e-Book reader makes so much sense, that I would imagine companies interested in the market are already working on their own. Doing away with buttons and relying on a touch screen, especially if there is multi-touch, just seems like a no-brainer way to go. Another nice feature of [...]
Microsoft is once again giving Zunes away, one per day. You can head over to the Zune A Day Giveaway page for all the details. This looks to be tied into a promotion for Windows Live Hotmail Mobile, but you can also use an existing Hotmail account or Windows Live ID. I picked this up [...]
We’ve talked in the past about the blurring lines (and horrible branding) when it comes to mobile devices like MIDs, UMPCs, and the like. It looks like those blurry lines are going to continue to become even more fuzzy from the Personal Media Player (PMP) sector. Electronista is reporting that Archos is readying a new [...]
Rob and I just got done talking with Pankaj Kedia with the Intel Ultra Mobility Group about the wealth of new MID devices being introduced at CES 2008. Intel has 10 partners who are announcing products here at CES, all based on the new Menlow low-power platform. In the Intel showcase there are MIDs from [...]
This has been rumored, hoped for, and forecast for some time now and it looks like it is going to come to pass. The Financial Times is reporting that Apple is going to start “renting” movies on line through its iTunes store. Apparently an announcement is scheduled for MacWorld in a few weeks, so you [...]
Interesting. Very interesting. We’re seeing quite a few devices that at first glance appear to be yet another portable media player, but on digging further seem to have quite a bit more functionality, perhaps pushing them closer to MID or UMPC land. Is the Cowon Q5W one of those devices? I’m not sure, but for [...]
Newsweek has more details on Amazon’s Kindle device and service, which begins shipping tomorrow for $399. Looks very similar to a Tablet PC and UMPC, huh? I doubt it supports ink, but it sure would have been nice. Like Scoble, I wish Microsoft would have gotten their Tablet PC team on to this. It screams tablet. Oh [...]
Ok, maybe you aren’t into the whole solar charging game, but you’re still looking for a more natural way to juice up your gear and save a few energy cycles. I posted this on my personal blog last night, but thought GBM Readers might want to take a look at this as well. I’m not sure [...]
Amazon.com is gearing up to release its Kindle E-Book Reader on Monday. Seiko Epson is readying their E-Book reader and we’ve also heard news recently from CyBook. Of course not a week goes by without hearing about Sony’s reader. There is obviously a market here, but I’m not in it for a couple of reasons. I’d rather [...]
Check out this PBS video of pianist Christopher O’Riley playing at Carnegie Hall with three children in “From the Top“. From what I can tell, he’s using a Toshiba Tablet PC. Very cool! I like how he flips the screen around so the keyboard part is in the back. I do that quite a bit [...]
I just got an email notification from the Microsoft Zune team that the updated Zune software will be hitting on November 13th for all of us Zune 1.0 owners. Here are more details Beginning November 13, Zune ® will be providing service and software updates for your device and your PC. The updates will be [...]
Over at the Origami Project forums Kurt has an interesting blog post on how to use an Ultra Mobile PC to listen to Internet radio. The post covers everything from streaming to Codecs, to how to optimize your UMPC for listening. So if you’re looking to turn your UMPC into a portable radio you might [...]
Talk of Mobile media and Mobile entertainment these days on the pages of GottaBeMoible.com (and elsewhere) usually centers around Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, the Zune, and what you can do with media on UMPCs using either the Origami Experience or Windows Media Center. But there are other mobile solutions out there that offer some [...]
I’ve never heard of WebGuide before. It is a web based add-on for Media Center that allows you to control your Media Center remotely over the web. In this video jkkmobile demonstrates WebGuide on a UMPC. And guess what? The add-on is free. > Tags: WebGuide, Mobile, Media+Center
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