If there’s one thing every Apple fan should have on their desk besides their MacBook Pro (or maybe MacBook Air) and iPhone 4… it’s probably one of these. Coming to us from the M.I.C Gadget, this Steve Jobs Action figure is incredibly accurate… thought it was worth a late-night mention here. The figurine is quite…
Archives for 2010
Motorola Droid X 2.2.1 leaks – get your new Android if you dare
We know that the Android 2.2.1 build hit the original Droid about a week ago but now Motorola Droid X users can get this with a taste of Blue love. Droid-Life has a good walk through of how to get it on your system, but you need to have your Droid X rooted and be…
Apple replacing iPhone 4 screws with Torx screws
If you’ve had to get your iPhone 4 serviced recently, you might have noticed a little change down by the connector: it very likely has 5-point Torx screws in it. If you aren’t the type inclined to go digging into your gadgets or tweaking hardware for fear of destroying something, it’s probably not a big…
Apple ditching iPhone embedded SIM plans?
Well, it looks like Apple has nixed its plans to build the next iPhone with embedded SIM cards after the carriers cried out, “Bloody murder,” according to reports. As you may know, Apple was reportedly working with Gemalto for the next generation iPhone to have integrated SIM cards which could be flashed to work on…
Mozilla plans open mobile app store
Well, this could be interesting. It looks like Mozilla isn’t content with letting Verizon and Amazon open its own app stores, as the company will be building its own open app store but the main difference is that the Mozilla one aims to be device independent. Mozilla said it has developed an “Open Web app…
EA is giving away 2,000 free codes for Scrabble on iPhone or iPad
Starting at 6PM ET today, EA Mobile is giving away 2,000 free download codes for the iOS version of Scrabble. EA will be giving away 1,000 codes on Facebook and 1,000 codes on Twitter. To snag a copy of Scrabble, you must “Like” EA Mobile on Facebook or follow EA Mobile on twitter. To enter…
Foursquare blows up to 4.5 million users
Foursquare has seen some incredible growth in the past year as it went from having 100,000 users to 4.5 million, and it seems that the company is having some difficulty keeping up with the surge. Foursquare went from 5 employees to 35 during that time, and it looks like it’s expanding as quickly as it…
Samsung Nexus S Spotted Again
Schmidt’s flashing the upcoming Samsung Nexus S like it ain’t no thang, and today another short glimpse has been stolen of the upcoming handset. This picture was snagged on Picasa, and I.D.’d thanks to the “GT-i9020” model name found in the EXIF data of the image. The picture doesn’t show us much of anything, andreally…
Russian President Medvedev slams Samsung Galaxy Tab
One of the advantages of the Samsung Galaxy Tab over the Apple iPad is the fact that the Android-based tablet has multiple camera. While this is convenient, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the quality isn’t great. “Winter comes to Moscow. Picture taken with a Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s convenient, but the quality isn’t great 🙁…
Black Friday: Buy a smartphone, get one free from T-Mobile
T-Mobile announced its Black Friday promotion today and the wireless carrier is going all out with a buy one, get one free promotion for family plans. Starting on Black Friday, customers with a new or existing family plan can buy a featured smartphone and receive a second featured smartphone or an affordable Android handset for…









