Archive for the 'mobile' Category

Unreal Engine 3 Running On Palm WebOS

Capcom’s Street Fighter 4 iPhone may look impressive, but Palm is looking to give it a run for its money, with their incredible Unreal Engine 3 WebOS port. Continue reading for a video demonstration.

It runs at a pretty smooth clip, with just a tiny bit of artifacting…Palm has it currently setup to demonstrate the game [...]

Apple iPad

If there was ever room for a device that fits in between smartphones and laptops, it’s the Apple iPad. The Apple iPad sports full multi-touch functionality, 16-64GB flash storage, has a 10-hour battery life and one full month of standby time. It’s .5 inches thick and it weighs a mere 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7 [...]

What the Apple Tablet Interface Should Look Like

 
Designer Lex Lareo gives us a look at what the Apple Tablet user interface should look like. The goal of these interfaces is to let users "manage the system with [their[ thumbs while holding the tablet with the two hands." Videos after the break.
The chance that Apple will pull something just like this out [...]

NVIDIA Tegra Tablet

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was recently spotted with a tablet-like device, and it just so happens to be a real device that might be released some time next year. It’s running Windows CE and features a 15" or 16" resistive touchscreen. Video after the break.

HTC Droid Eris Available Free for New Verizon Customers

The HTC Droid Eris is the least expensive Android OS phone released this fall, and now one retailer is selling it for even less: free for those are switching to Verizon Wireless.
The official price for the Droid Eris is $100 with a two-year service contract. That’s half the price of its sister model, the Motorola [...]

eBay Watch: $6,000 16GB iPhone Studded with 1240 Diamonds

At $6,000 on eBay, this 16GB iPhone "has a staggering 1240 diamonds on the front with clarity SI, Color F and Bezel carat approximately 12.4CT."

HTC Touch Pro2 Preview

HTC just might be the king of Windows Mobile smartphones, and the Touch Pro2 just adds to their impressive lineup. Featuring a 3.6-inch touchscreen display, 3.2-megapixel camera, and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. Video after the break.

As is common with variants, Sprint’s Touch Pro2 has gotten a visual makeover as well. We have to say, unless [...]

Motorola Cliq

The Motorola Cliq is going to be this company’s first Android-based smartphone, but one of several running this OS being launched by T-Mobile this year.
It will have a sliding keyboard, 3G, Wi-Fi, and a 5 MPx camera. This device will be aimed at pro-sumers: people who use their phone for much more than voice calls, [...]

iPod Touch 3G Tear Down

While the new iPod Touch may not come with a camera, this tear down reveals that there actually is a spot for one at the top. That’s not all, the "ARM processor in the iPod touch is a newer revision than the iPhone 3GS’s CPU."

It has a 1080 mAh battery; what does that [...]

Acer’s Congo-based 11.6-inch Ferrari One

Acer is extending its boutique Ferrari lineup with the Ferrari One, an 11.6-inch machine that is among the first to rely on AMD’s newly announced Congo platform. Packed within the chassis is a dual-cure 1.2GHz Athlon X2 L310 CPU, ATI’s Radeon 3200 graphics, an XPG port for connecting an external graphics solution, a 1,366 [...]

A new effort to extend the cloud to the iPhone

The iPhone has proven to be a strong content creation tool, with applications that allow the user to create graphics and presentations, record video, sequence audio, or draft compositions. But while it gives users plenty of tools to create, it doesn’t exactly have a uniform tool to let users manage, move, and share their creations: [...]

iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update Released

Apple announced the iPhone OS 3.1 software update, a free update to iPhone OS 3.0 users. The update will be made available today through the iTunes store.
It’s a slim update though, adding support for ringtones and Genius technology. 30,000 ringtones will be available from the four major labels, selling for $1.29 per ringtone. A [...]

HTC Touch Pro2

The HTC Touch Pro2 is this company’s new flagship Windows phone, and one that offers virtually everything that a smartphone user could want: WVGA screen, mobile broadband, Wi-Fi, GPS, and much more.

HTC Tattoo has resistive touchscreen, a few regrets

We suppose it was inevitable. In the effort to take Android to the mainstream with the HTC Tattoo (i.e., cheap), HTC had to commit that most controversial of technological sins: fronting a touchscreen-only device with a resistive sensor. Granted, Android is more prepared for pairing a resistive screen with your stubby fingers than something [...]

How Apple Will Sell 50 Million iPhones

There are two kinds of investment analysts: the kind no one listens to–who say crazy things just to get noticed–and the kind who say smart things that everybody ought to hear.
Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi is definitely in the latter category. So when Sacconaghi wrote something pretty startling Monday: that Apple ( AAPL – news – [...]

Nokia Booklet 3G Live Shots

The Nokia Booklet 3G isn’t just a concept or prototype, as Reuters managed to snag some live shots of the mini laptop. This 10.1-inch device, powered by a 1.6-GHz Intel Atom processor, will reportedly last 12-hours on a full charge.

iPod Touch 3G

Covino and Rich has supposedly gotten their hands on an iPod Touch 3G test unit, and it’s got a camera. This was acquired "from a guy that [they] buy parts phones and iPods from — a recycler." Video after the break.

Samsung Comeback

With a slide-out QWERTY keypad and simple design, meaning the bare necessities, the Samsung T559 Comeback is strong on both looks and performance. You also get a 2.0-megapixel camera, music/video players, microSD expansion, and Bluetooth 2.0 w/A2DP. Video after the break.

We really can’t complain too much about the Samsung Comeback T559. Despite its [...]

WinMo 6.5 caught on tape

Lucky Rob Kerr got a little face time with Windows Mobile 6.5 running on a HTC Touch Diamond2. During the demo you’ll thrill to the very Zune-y interface, marvel at the nascent Market Place and plotz when you see the My Phone sync. Yep, My Phone backs up your phone’s data to your Windows Live [...]

Track Your Happiness on your iPhone

Track Your Happiness is the front end of a research project that seeks to figure out which factors contribute most to our happiness. If you sign up, fill out a 10-minute questionnaire about your life situation, and let the researchers poll you about your mood a few times a day via iPhone, you’ll eventually get [...]