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Palm, a brand that was once loved by many who made the company’s delightfully simple and easy to use personal digital assistants an essential part of their lives, has been repeatedly kicked in the face over the past few years. On the brink of death, they got some money from a big mouth long haired…
The Nokia N9, one of the most controversial devices to ever come out of Finland, is now available in the United States. You can order it for $690 from Expansys, an online retailer we thoroughly recommend for those of you who want to get your hands on the latest handsets coming out in Europe and…
Nokia, along with every other handset maker who builds Windows Phones, have a problem. Microsoft controls the Windows Phone experience with an iron fist, dictating what can and can’t be done to the operating system, going so far as to even specify the exact chips that must be used to make the OS run. So…
Less than 100 hours ago we were tipped off about the release of an upcoming Sony Ericsson device called the Xperia Arc HD. As the name implies, it’s set to feature a screen with a 720p resolution, similar to the recently announced HTC Rezound and Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Now we have images of the device,…
Back in July we brought you news of Mozilla’s new smartphone operating system called “Boot to Gecko”, known as B2G for short. It’s essentially Android under the hood, but with a user interface that’s built using web technologies, so it “borrows” the principles behind Palm’s failed webOS. Now when we wrote up that article it…
Rumors are circulating around the internet that say one of the highlight features of the iPhone 4S, Siri, is currently being tested by Apple employees on other devices. For those of you who have been living under a rock these past few weeks, Siri is Apple’s personal assistant that you interact with using your voice.…
Motorola will soon launch a feature phone called the MOTOKEY SOCIAL. We’ll assume that the person who came up with the product name has an IQ comparable to that that of an abused chimp who inhabits an office where every caps lock key on every keyboard is glued down. Anyway, here’s what we know about…
Back in the late 90s a new television channel dedicated to technology called ZDTV was launched in the United States by Ziff-Davis. When the bubble popped they sold it to Vulcan Ventures at the turn of the century. ZDTV was renamed to TechTV and over the next few years it built an immense following, some…
Nokia’s going all out when it comes to hurling millions of dollars at ad agencies to promote Windows Phone and the upcoming Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. The Finnish handset maker announced earlier this week that they’re going to be giving away WiFi connectivity at 26 locations in London in a pilot that will use…
Amazon’s $200 tablet, the Kindle Fire, was announced in late September and is expected to start shipping in about two weeks. When the online retail giant published their Q3 2011 financial results in late October, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said: “Based on what we’re seeing with Kindle Fire pre-orders, we’re increasing capacity and building millions…