Archive for the ‘HandHelds’ Category

Apple unleashes iPhone 3G S on well-prepared US public (with video!)

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

As the international date line swung around to the States and rain finally stopped in NY, a few hundred people lined up outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store today for Apple's new iPhone, with the those The iLife guys up front descending into the store at 7AM to the sound ...

NVIDIA Tegra 2 to double performance, arrive in 2010?

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Word on the grapevine is that NVIDIA is preparing to mount a fresh assault on the mobile front, with a successor to Tegra that moves to a dual-core ARM9 CPU and adds improved graphical performance to produce what's said to be twice the power. This sort of aggressive roadmap ...

Achtung, T-Mobile: if Project Dark is $50 unlimited, you’re in trouble

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Put yourself in T-Mobile USA's shoes for a moment: rumor has it that the guys who pay the bills aren't happy. History, happenstance, and the realities of electromagnetics have left you with an oddball 3G frequency that literally no other carrier in the world uses (at least, not for HSPA). ...

Freescale netbook and Android-powered smartbook debut

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

We knew good and well that Freescale wouldn't let Qualcomm go and have all the fun with these newfangled smartbooks, and already we're seeing a few new devices powered by Freescale-branded semiconductors. In the video posted just after the break, the company's own Steve Sperle sat down to talk about ...

Time looking to kick out the e-readers after all?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Hey -- this one makes sense, so we shouldn't be too surprised, but it turns out that Time, Inc. is seriously looking into getting into the e-reader business, according to a leaked presentation from June of this year. The slides, which are entitled "New Platforms & Business Models for Publishers," ...

Eston’s 7-inch Android MID believes it’s an N97, can play full HD

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

We'll go out on a limb here and suggest that Nokia probably doesn't care about Shenzhen Eston's N97-branded device, but what really matters is whether you should care about it. Positioned slap bang in the middle between smartphones and netbooks, this Android-driven MID offers 7 inches of viewing real estate ...

iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 released (update: disables tethering, enables AR?)

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Unless you have a developer account with Apple, don't bother plugging your iPhone into iTunes -- we promise you're not going to have access to it -- but devs can now get their grubby paws on beta 2 of iPhone OS 3.1. We'll let you know if we see anything ...

BlackBerry Storm dummies coming to Best Buy around October 25?

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

We've long suspected that the Storm 2 would be bowing in the next couple months, within earshot of the original Storm's one-year anniversary -- and new evidence suggests that even if we can't get an actual device in October, we'll at least be able to make clicking sounds with our ...

Palm Pre comes to Bell on August 27

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Up until now, Bell's been coy about an exact availability date for the Palm Pre -- a tactic borrowed from Sprint prior to its release -- so we're happy to hear that they've finally decided on August 27 to get it out of the door. It'll run CAD $199.95 (about ...

New Zune HD colors found in source files: pink, magenta, purple, and atomic?

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Well, here's something interesting. According to tipster Josh S, a perusal through the Zune Software source files will net you pictures of four as of yet unknown Zune HD palettes. From left to right, we've got pink, magenta, purple, and "atomic." We're still looking through the source code ourselves to ...