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iPhone 4 Price, Release Date and Specs Revealed (4th-Gen, Not 4g)
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As expected by pretty much the entire world, Steve Jobs today showed off the new iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. With all of the leaked prototypes over the last couple of months, we weren’t expecting too many surprises today. The new phone is officially called,… |
June 7th, 2010
Htc Evo 4g Price, Release Date and Specs Revealed by Sprint
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Sprint today revealed full details for their new HTC EVO 4G, the first Android phone to support 4G/WiMAX connectivity. Hardware specs include a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 (1GHz) processor, and an 800×480 4.3″ capacitive touchscreen display. Battery life is rated at 6 hours of talk time. And while Sprint bundles an… |
May 12th, 2010
Android-Winmo-Iphoneos Guitar: What Happens When the Phone Rings?
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This crazy looking contraption isn’t just a bunch of smartphones, it’s a musical instrument. Made for a presentation at MobileCampBrussels, the Phone Guitar is made out of five smartphones (actually there’s an iPod Touch standing in for the iPhone) on three different mobile platforms using three different programing languages as… |
May 10th, 2010
Dell Thunder Android Smartphone Pics Storm Onto the Scene
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In a week that’s been filled with stories of Apple’s smartphone leaks, I guess Dell got a little jealous and let some photos slip out of their own new mobile handset. The Dell Thunder looks pretty slick from these early pics the guys over at Engadget managed to get their… |
April 21st, 2010
Bphone Flipscreen Smartphone Runs Linux, Java
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If you’re in the market for a smartphone, but want to run something besides Windows Mobile, Android or the iPhone OS, you might want to check out this little rarity from China that runs on a flavor of the Linux operating system. With a ginormous 5-inch screen, the BPhone actually… |
March 23rd, 2010
Product of an Unholy Matrimony: Mac Osx on a Nokia N900
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Toni Nikkanen just earned himself a bit of Internet fame. With Apple and Nokia trying to bury each other in lawsuits, Nikkanen must have been aware of the irony when he posted a video on YouTube showing his nerdy (albeit useless) achievement: an N900 running Apple’s OS X 10.3, aka… |
February 2nd, 2010
Google Nexus One Hands-on at Engadget: “Not Blow You Away Good Looking”
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Man, the Internet and blogs sure have changed the media landscape. Ten years ago no one would expect an exclusive scoop as big as this to be found in a blog. Of course engadget isn’t just another gadget blog, but still. Now on to the meat of things: Joshua Topolsky,… |
January 3rd, 2010
Nexus One, the Real Google Phone
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What do I mean by the “real Google phone”? Google has finally confirmed their own phone – the Nexus One. It’s not an AT&T/T-mobile branded Android 2.1 phone. Its an unlocked GSM phone that you can use on any GSM carrier and sold directly by retailers to you! The Nexus… |
December 13th, 2009
First Else: New Smartphone With an Interface That Hates Left-Handed People
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Else – formerly Emblaze Mobile – is the latest company to challenge Apple and the iPhone’s domination among smartphones with their curiously-named device, the First Else. The phone is apparently bursting with “revolutionary” and “game-changing” technology and design, including the sPlay, “a right-thumb-controlled, sci-fi-like fan menu interface.” What’s that? You’re… |
November 25th, 2009
Are You a Debian Nerd? Then You Can Play NES on Your Palm Pre, Double Literally
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Do you know what a chroot… is? No? Then let’s file this under Cool Shit We Don’t Understand, because I have no freaking idea either: A bunch of cool nerds at Pre Dev Wiki (motto: “Let’s open this beast up”) have managed to coerce the newly released iPhone rival Palm |
June 18th, 2009
