By Sean P. Aune |
The future of webOS has been a bit murky since HP bought Palm last spring. We got hints we would see a webOS-based tablet this year, but that never came to fruition. When that deadline passed, we thought we might see one at CES 2011,…
By Jack McGrath |
Media conglomerate News Corp. has supposedly delayed the release of The Daily, an iPad-exclusive newspaper that is to cost $0.99 per week. It was supposed to be announced next Wednesday by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the San Francisco…
By Sean P. Aune |
I have a confession that I’m a pretty big fan of Griffin cases. I love my iPod Touch 4 case, and actually held off getting one until theirs was ready. So, as I walked around CES last week, I made a point to drop by…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that iPad 2 mock-ups have been running rampant as of later, but this is the first one we know of being caught on video. The mock-up seems to have everything we’ve heard about such as the front and rear cameras, larger speaker…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that The Daily, the iPad-only “newspaper” being worked on by Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs, is rally getting close to launch if graphics on their website is any indication. Rumors indicate that The Daily may launch as early as next week, so…
By Noah Kravitz |
I’ve got this friend. He’s a new parent. His daughter – let’s call her “BabyGurl” – is just over a year-and-a-half old (19 months, since new parents apparently track time in “months” not “years”). BabyGurl likes to look at photos on her daddy’s smartphone. She…
By Sean P. Aune |
The rumors of the iPad 2 just seem to be coming in from every direction at the moment. First we heard there might be a Feb. 1st unveiling, and now we’re hearing that could be followed up by the actual release coming on either April 2nd…
By Sean P. Aune |
It is well known that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is obsessed with simplicity in design, and he has an aversion to buttons. He hates them, he thinks they are evil and bad. So, is anyone surprised he may have decided one button was too many?…
By Sean P. Aune |
Rumors have been circulating for some time now that Apple and News Corp have been in talks to start a new daily newspaper called the Daily that will be exclusive to the iPad tablet. When the rumors first popped up back in Nov. of last…
By Sean P. Aune |
In all of the excitement yesterday about the iPhone finally coming to Verizon after years of customers and journalists wishing and writing about it respectively, another story was overlooked by many. The iPad is coming along for the ride also. While it is nowhere as…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) rapidly fading into the sunset for this year, we wanted to take a look at who the winners and the losers of the show were. It was definitely a mixed bag this year with no one product just leaping…
By usersubmit |
One of the great things about the iPad is that there are apps that escalate the experience to a whole new dimension. One of those in particular is Flipboard, available from the App Store for free, and an app I have personally gained a huge…
By Sean P. Aune |
HP purchased Palm a while back, and it is well known that they are about to adapt the webOS into a new tablet called the PalmPad. While that is definitely happening in the not too distant future, HP is still progressing with the long discussed…
By Sean P. Aune |
Kevin Rose, one of the co-founders of social news site Digg, has a track record of being one of the first to break Apple rumors. It has usually been about iPods, but there’s no reason that he wouldn’t occasionally get some leads on the next…
By Sean P. Aune |
RIM is jumping into the tablet game (as is everyone it seems), but theirs has been billed as being directed to the business users out there. After Jonathan Rettinger got to spend a few minutes with it today, we both walked away thinking it worked…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’re live at the T-Mobile demo event, and we’ve just spent a few minutes with the just announced Dell Streak 7 seven-inch tablet. The most immediate thing you notice is the heft of the device. It doesn’t exactly feel “sturdy” in the hand so much…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Motorola XOOM may be the hottest item at CES this year, and yet none of us can touch it. Introduced yesterday, it is definitely the item I have heard the most people talking about in the halls and in the press rooms. People want…
By Winston Sih |
Verizon has announced in partnership with Samsung, that it will be offering the first 4G-enabled version of its Samsung Galaxy Tab, running Google’s Android operating system. A few highlights of the device includes full 4G-LTE connectivity to Verizon’s network, a 5MP rear-facing camera (a 2MP…
By Jon Rettinger |
We are only one day into CES and thus far Motorola has made the biggest splash. Before we discuss what they’ve done this week, think back to where they were a few years ago, kicking out every dull variety of an aging Razr platform they…
By Jon Rettinger |
Fresh off the Motorola Xoom announcement, Verizon and Google are showing off what to expect from the next (Tablet-centric) build of Android, Honeycomb. Expect a revamped modern UI, faster performance, new API’s, and a tastier dessert themed name than Gingerbread. (Developing) As Twitter user @difero…
By Tom Moccia |
There have been many competitors to Apple’s iPod, but all of them have fallen by the wayside. The Microsoft Zune has somewhat held it’s own, but the iPod still holds over 70 percent market share for digital music players. The Apple handheld media player has…
By Jack McGrath |
The hype surrounding the next iteration of Google’s Android OS has been gigantic as it provides a new user interface that will be specifically targeted for use on tablet devices. While some features of the update, dubbed Honeycomb, have been shown on camera before, details…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve all been wondering when we’d see and hear more about the BlackBerry tablet called the PlayBook, and now we know that Sprint Nextel in the United States will be selling these new devices. We’ve known since Nov. of last year that the RIM PlayBook…
By Sean P. Aune |
Just shown at the NVIDIA press event. No explanation, but it sure looks like what the Motorola tablet is supposed to look like. Thoughts?…
