Amazon announced this morning four new Kindle products: Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Touch and Kindle. The latter three are your average e-ink readers with six-inch screens, but they’re a little more sleek than previous Kindle models. They’re made with magnesium and soft-touch plastics, so they feel sleek. Amazon kept pushing its “premium products…
Hands-on Amazon Kindle Fire Android tablet
Amazon finally made the Kindle Fire Android tablet official this morning and we were able to get our hands on this Android-powered tablet. While there are some features that are missing that some may be disappointed with – namely the camera – the Kindle Fire is a very nice-looking tablet that should move a ton…
Amazon intros the Kindle Fire – an Android tablet for everyone
We all knew it was coming, but it’s now official: Amazon has just announced the Kindle Fire, its first tablet computer. The Kindle Fire is an Android tablet that doesn’t look like your average, well, Android tablet. It’s skinned down to the bone, so you’ll never actually see the home screens or menus like you…
Apple iPhone 5 event on October 4 at Apple campus – finally!
Were you getting tired of iPhone 5 rumors, too? Apple has finally given us a date to look forward to, not just to hear about its new smartphone, but a day to look forward to the end of all those ridiculous rumors. One iPhone model, or two? Radical new design, or minor upgrade? A major…
Hands-on with the new Samsung Galaxy Players and Galaxy Tab 8.9
Samsung showed us last night that it has plenty more to add to its Galaxy portfolio. If you thought the Galaxy S II devices weren’t enough, or that maybe the Galaxy Tab and Tab 10.1 were feeling a little lonely, how about a Tab 8.9? Or to accompany its smaller cousins, the Galaxy Player 4.0…
Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T initial impressions and photo gallery
We saw the Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T at the unveiling event recently, and while we had a little bit of time with it, we really couldn’t get a feel for the device since it was tethered and tied down. Now that we have our review unit in tow, we’ve been able to spend…
Select NYC subway stations getting cell phone service next week
Starting next week, a handful of New York City subway stations will have cell phone service for AT&T and T-Mobile users. There has been plenty of talk about getting wireless service in the city’s subway stations, but it seemed like a pipe dream. Now that it’s about to become a reality, New Yorkers are already…
AT&T rolling out Mango update on September 27?
AT&T may be rolling out Mango, the update that will dramatically improve Windows Phone 7, on September 27 according to leaked information. This definitely jives with the details that we reported on yesterday, wherein we said the update is coming within the next week or two. The info was contained within a series of e-mails…
Al Gore confirms two iPhone models coming in October – that’s right, Al Gore
It looks like two iPhone models will be coming in October, presumably the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S that everyone’s been yapping about. Forget what I said this morning about how tiring and obnoxious iPhone rumors are, because if we’re to talk about sources familiar with the matter, this one happens to sit on the…
Apple iPhone 5 event set for October 4?
Rumor has it that Apple is holding its iPhone 5 event on October 4, and quite frankly, I just really don’t care anymore. It’s not that I don’t care about the iPhone 5’s release, but how many announcement and launch date rumors have we heard in the past two weeks along? Five? Eight? So before…