This is what your next generation cellphone charging/syncing cable is going to look like. At CES 2010, the USB Implementers Forum announced that the first products to use their new USB 3.0 SuperSpeed spec are now available. Transfer rates on these bad boys are ten times what you’re used to (400 MB/s versus the traditional 40 MB/s).…
Slacker Radio Announced for webOS, Wireless Caching for Everyone Else
The partnership with ABC News wasn’t the only thing coming from mobile music service Slacker at CES 2010 – they’ve also announced a new app for the Palm Pre and Pixi, as well as wireless caching across their iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry clients onto microSD or device memory. Sideloading the high-quality versions of favourite stations…
BBC accidentally breaks the ‘unbreakable’ Sonim XP3 Quest on video
It seems Sonim’s super-ruggedized XP3 Quest is merely mortal, after all. The ruggedized phone maker was at CES 2010, showing off their new “unbreakable” handset and asking anyone and everyone to give it their best shot to break the handset. Sonim even offered a free phone to anyone that managed to break the phone that…
Video: Hands-On with Saygus Vphone, First Android Phone with Video Calling
You might have heard about the Vphone at CES, the first Android handset by new manufacturer Saygus. The main thing it’s bringing to the party is two-way video calling by way of a forward-facing VGA video camera (the first Android device with such a thing), and a specialized protocol that can supposedly produce calls at…
Inbrics M1 is DLNA-enabled Android-powered QWERTY phone
A company called Inbrics has been showing off its Android smartphone at the CES – M1. Specs include a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, side-slide QWERTY keyboard, 3-megapixel camera, front-facing VGA camera, Samsung 800MHz CPU, and 16GB of storage that is further expandable with microSD cards. At the moment, this baby is running Android 1.5, but…
Samsung launches Jitterbug J in red
Jitterbug J, the super simple-to-use phone, has been launched in red in support of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Go Red For Women movement. In that sense, the device will ship with health and wellness services and applications including “Daily Health Tips”, which sends heart-healthy tips from the AHA, as well as the LiveNurse service…
Powermat’s new Powerpak batteries – The best thing in wireless charging since magnetic induction!
Thanks to companies like Powermat, Wireless charging isn’t just some sort of far-away future based on the dream of doing away with all those random charging cables and adapters that come with portable gadgets nowadays. It’s now possible to charge your electronics sans wires and cables through magnetic inductive chargers like the Powermat. As it…
A look at Windows Mobile 6.5.3 from CES 2010
At this point, Windows Mobile 6.5 is still a far ways off from being the intuitive mobile operating system it needs to be to take on the finger-friendly offerings from iPhone, Android and webOS. Microsoft’s latest update to the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform is incremental at best, but shows that the company realizes that their…
CoPilot Live GPS Navigation App for Google Nexus One Debuts at CES
ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot Live v8 GPS navigation app is compatible with the newly released Google Nexus One, and is available for download from the Android Market for $34.99. “CoPilot Live has already proven to be a must-have app for Android smartphone customers,” said Michael Kornhauser, Managing Director at ALK Technologies. “We…
Hands-on the ELSE Linux smartphone at CES 2010
Google’s Android might be the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a Linux-based mobile operating system, but it’s not the only player in the Linux game. There’s also the ELSE Intuition OS that powers the ELSE First smartphone from phone maker ELSE. The ELSE Intuition OS is based on the ACCESS…