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 Jack McGrath |
Though the hype surrounding Dell’s Press Event held earlier today was not particularly large, the consumer electronics manufacturer certainly made a splash by announcing a slew of new devices that will help the company compete with the best of ‘em in three distinct niches –…
By Winston Sih |
LG unveiled its new Optimus Black smartphone powered by Android 2.2 Froyo at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas. The selling feature of this phone is it’s supposedly the phone with the world’s brightest screen. It claims that the phone has the “brightest,…
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 announced and previewed LG’s first-ever LTE smartphone. The device is a Google Android 2.2 device, in a 4.3″ capacitive touchscreen body. Features of the device includes a 5MP camera, DLNA, HDMI, HD video and photo capture, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi. The phone is DivX…
By Sean P. Aune |
Samsung is going to be releasing an LTE-capable handset for Verizon towards the middle of the year, and we’re hoping by then it may even have a name for it. While we found it rather odd Samsung hasn’t bothered to name its new handset yet…
By Winston Sih |
On Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Darth Vader and his Storm Troopers revealed that their Star Wars Saga will now be available for pre-sale for Blu-ray disks. As you can see in the full press release below, “Twentieth Century Fox Home…
By Sean P. Aune |
Discussed this morning at the Verizon keynote address, we have now been able to go hands on with the new Droid Bionic. Physically the handset had a good solid feeling to it, and the Android 2.2 installation seemed zippy and responsive thanks to the 1 GHz…
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 |
If you were following our live updates of the CES 200 Verizon press event, you got a chance to see the newest darling in HTC’s lineup, the Thunderbolt sporting the carrier’s new 4G network. As a point of clarification, the presenter was unaware of the…
By Sean P. Aune |
T-Mobile has been putting a massive push behind its 4G network lately in all of its advertising. With Verizon quickly rolling out its LTE network, 4G is definitely on the lips of everyone, but with it being such a broad term that people are getting…
By Sean P. Aune |
Tony Bates, CEO of Skype talked with the press this morning here at CES 2011, and considering the man has only been in the post for 70 days, and suffered through worst outage in the company’s history, he was well put together on the future…
By Sean P. Aune |
Verizon took to the stage this morning at the Las Vegas Hilton this morning to discuss their success of the past year, and what is to come in 2011. The rumors of the seemingly inevitable addition of the iPhone to the company’s line-up hung thick…
By Jon Rettinger |
We want you to feel like you are right on the floor with us at CES, and as such we’re going to keep you updated on our (short)comings and goings. Right now we are in line waiting for the Verizon LTE event to start. I…
By Jon Rettinger |
Live from the Skype keynote at CES, it has just been reported that VOIP giant Skype has purchased Qik, of video chatting fame. This will position Skype extremely well to dominate burgeoning mobile video chatting industry. Price has not been disclosed, but it is believed…
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 Jon Rettinger |
Usually you buy a TV to go with your house, in the case of Mitsubishi’s just announced 7.5 foot wide behemoth, you’re going to need a new house to accommodate your TV. Standing tall at 92 inches (measured diagonally) this 3D capable set will…
By Winston Sih |
Earlier in 2010, Apple previewed and announced the launch of the Mac App Store. Early Thursday morning, Apple released the official version to the masses – mainly all users running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The update is available via a Mac OS X…
By Tom Moccia |
Back in the 90’s, tech start-ups were all the rage in the Silicon Valley and anyone with a fistful of twenties and an idea that wasn’t totally out in left field could go public. Many people made a lot of money on these start-ups and…
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 Sean P. Aune |
You know it’s officially CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) when Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft takes the stage. At the Wednesday night pre-show keynote, Mr. Ballmer took to the stage to discuss the year gone by and what the future holds for the company. Gaming…
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…
