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#android Admittedly, I was a little disappointed to discover the G2's new Snapdragon processor is only clocked at 800MHz, but according to some leaked figures from GLBenchmarks, it should run at around the same speed as Motorola's Droid X and 2. More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 2:22pm #google Google's new Instant search autoloads search results as you type. I'm skeptical that it'll save fifty kajillion man-hours once you add up all the milliseconds saved. Its real use cases are still on the way: local, mobile, and video search. More » Author: Tim Carmody Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 2:20pm #review The privilege of being first to market with any tech means you're the only choice for people who want what you're offering. Exogear's iPhone 4 battery case is in this lucky position. The good news? It's actually well done. More » Author: Jason Chen Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 1:40pm #ipodnano The new iPod Nano certainly lives up to its name—it has a 1.54" touchscreen and very little else. IFixit blasted it open with a heat gun and found more screws (11) than parts (7) inside. [iFixit] More » Author: Kyle VanHemert Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 1:33pm #miracles Ever wonder what it's like to fall on the third rail? Just ask Andy Morris, who was thrown onto the tracks in East New York: "He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head." Ouch. More » Author: Jeff Neumann Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 1:26pm If you've been using Google Search on your phones, pat yourselves on the back—you've given Google another reason to smile this week. Their director of product management revealed the news yesterday, at the Citi Technology Conference. [AllThingsD] More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 1:20pm Amazon's reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices already selling out, we can only imagine what the nation's largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear] More » Author: Sam Biddle Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 1:15pm #ipadapps Tablets have the potential to topple stacks of textbooks, but it can't happen until publishers start cramming entire curricula into apps. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's new Algebra 1 app, which has a full year's worth of material, is the first attempt. More » Author: Kyle VanHemert Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 1:00pm #apple In a surprising announcement—and after receiving countless criticisms by developers, press, and users—Apple has announced that they "are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps" and "publishing app review guidelines." More » Author: Jesus Diaz Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 12:35pm #guts ARM is the company you can thank for your smartphone's heroic guts; their chip architecture underpins Qualcomm's Snapdragon, Samsung's Hummingbird, and iPhone 4. Soon, you can also thank them for making chips five-times more powerful than those with Cortex A15. More » Author: Brian Barrett Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 12:33pm #apple Mere hours after iOS 4.1 became available, an iPhone Dev-Team user Pod2g found a bootrom exploit, meaning that the new update is indeed jailbreakable. However, this one differs—and could cause Apple a lot of pain. More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 12:12pm #toys "Oh, what gift to offer the bipolar six-year-old nephew this Christmas...I know! These German toys with mental illnesses would please the little tyke. Would he like the depressive turtle Dub, Kroko the water-phobic crocodile, or the personality disorder-affected sheep Dolly? More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm #3dtv By the end of 2011, Sony is planning to cut most of the pure-2D models out of its 40-inch and over offering, upping the number of 3D-enabled sets. We can look forward to higher prices, then. [AV Watch via CrunchGear] More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 11:30am #concepts With iPhones being damaged by moisture, why not create a phone where water bubbles are the focal point of the design? Presumably that was the thinking behind Seoul designer Bon-Seop Ku's Aqua GUI concept phone. [Coroflot via Core77] More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 11:20am #google Welcome to the new meme, courtesy of Google Instant. After Google's official Bob Dylan video, ad agency Whirled had a go with Tom Lehrer's The Elements, to great success. More » Author: Kat Hannaford Posted: 9 Sep 2010 at 10:40am Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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