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One of the greatest video game franchises of all time has got to be Konami’s Contra series. There’s just something so satisfying about making your way through a number of interesting and detailed locales while shooting the snot out of anything that gets in your way. While Konami has yet to create an official port…
Need an in-car charger but don’t want to deal with extra wires while driving? Check out the DrivePad, a new charging solution from Mizco International’s DIGIPOWER division. It sports a sliding charge base that allows for perfect alignment between the charge sweet spot of the base station and of the phone. This so called “FlexArm…
Modern smartphones are pretty powerful and some folks may use them to do serious work while on the go. In case they need a bigger screen, there’s always an option to connect your beloved gadget to a TV screen, but if one is not available around – you can use an external monitor. Or at…
Microsoft announced on Thursday that LG signed a licensing agreement for its Android and Chrome OS products. LG is one of several Android manufacturers which have a licensing agreement with the Redmond company. It’s ironic, but some analysts believe Microsoft receives more revenue from these Android agreements, than it does from its own Windows Phone OS. Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel…
You’re out and about and you need to respond to an urgent message, but you really don’t want to be bothered hunting and pecking on your phone’s screen. What do you do? One2Touch is looking to solve your problem with the creation of an NFC enabled keyboard that doesn’t need batteries to work, nor any…
Braodcom has just announced a new system on chip called the BCM21552G that they say will let handset vendors create $100 smartphones that have 3G connectivity, GPS, and near field communication support. What components make up the BCM21552G? On the CPU side there’s a 1 GHz ARM11 processor, which isn’t the fastest thing on the…
Seven days from now Apple will be hosting an event in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum where they’ll be holding an “education announcement”, which we can only assume will be their entrance into the textbook market. If you read Walter Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs, you’re already familiar with Steve’s urge to disrupt the…
Every year Intel talks the talk about being able to put their chips inside devices as tiny as a smartphone, but this year they’re walking the walk with the help of Lenovo. The Chinese personal computer maker may not be known for smartphones on this side of the pond, but in their home country they’re…
At the start of each year, as the technology community looks back to what’s happened during the past 12 months, publications like to say things like “2011 was the year that Android caught up” or “2011 was another failed year for Microsoft’s Windows Phone”. We didn’t really do that this year since so much happened…
Polaroid, the company you used to love back when you were a child, is about to enter the smartphone game with a new device called the SC1630. It’s going to pack a 16 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, have a 3.2 inch screen that does 800 x 480 pixels, and it’s going to cost…