The 12-minute video pretty much says it all. Well, it says it all in French, but there’s lots to see there. The HTC Touch HD was just recently unveiled and it looks like the lucky folks over at Generation were able to get the hardware in their hands. Initial reports indicate that the HTC Touch…
LAPD launches anonymous SMS text messaging tipline
The LAPD has been stereotyped as corrupt and brutal for years. How true that stereotype really is goes beyond the scope of our corner of the blogosphere, so we’ll leave that alone. But, no one can say that the LAPD isn’t embracing technology. Mirroring similar initiatives by law enforcement agencies around the US, the Los…
iPhone OS icon cupcakes – SWEET!
Literally. This is what happens when iPhone fans enter a baking competition. What you see here is the winning entry from Ignite NYC II’s Cupcake Decorating Championship. [Via: TheRawFeed]
Nokia’s Maemo 5 open-source Linux OS promises faster, more powerful Internet Tablets
Nokia’s little Linux-based, open-source darling has really blossomed into one fine looking platform. And, as the Maemo platform that powers Nokia Internet Tablets, like the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, again grows too big for its britches, Nokia will have to release newer versions of the Linux-based mobile platform. Turns out, Nokia is already working on…
Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera iPhone application – Augmented reality coming to iPhone
Forget virtual reality – that was soo last decade. The future will be filled with devices allowing us to view our real-world through augmented-eyes. Augmented reality is the idea that location-based data can be overlaid on your view of the real life. Last we heard, Enkin was developed to bring augmented reality to Google’s Android.…
Samsung bids $5.8 billion for SanDisk, gets rejected
Flash memory and the costs associated with integrating massive storage into higher-end mobile phones are apparently enough to drive one of the world’s largest mobile phone makers to put the moves on SanDisk. Rather than pay hundreds of millions of dollars a year in royalties to use SanDisk’s technology patents, Samsung has just made a…
Vuzix iWear AV310 video glasses brings 52-inch iPhone display to life
How cool would it be if you could watch a movie or TV show on your iPhone’s 52-inch display? Darn tootin’ that’d be cool. Unfortunately, the iPhone’s 3.5-inch multi-touch display is nowhere near as big as the eyeball-busting plasma hanging on your living room wall. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t get the 52-inch experience…
iPhone 2.1 OS and GPS location problems – What’s wrong and how to fix it
The iPhone 2.1 OS, billed as the iPhone firmware to fix all your iPhone stability, security, and battery woes, was recently released by Apple for all iPhone and iPhone 3G customers. Ironically, we’re hearing reports that the iPhone 2.1 OS is actually breaking one of the iPhone 3G’s headline features – GPS location mapping, to…
Google shows off polished Android in London
Google’s Developer Day in London was home to the latest demonstration of the search giant’s Android mobile OS. Just as we saw with previous Android demonstrations, Google showed off their mobile platform on what looks to be an HTC Dream G1 with an ever so lightly disguised mug. A few bits of tape on the…
iPhone 3G sales strong and steady in UK
As we wait for Sony Ericsson, RIM, HTC, and Samsung to drop their latest wares on the entire world, the iPhone 3G has apparently been doing quite well for itself. With the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 rumored to go live at the end of this month (except for us Yankees, of course); RIM’s first touchscreen…