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The Apple iPad 3G has received the stamp of approval from the Chinese regulatory bodies and this potentially opens up a huge market for the touchscreen tablet. As you’d expect, the Apple iPad 3G is the company’s tablet but with integrated mobile data radios inside. China has been notorious for not allowing certain technologies in…
Last week we saw the unveiling on the new iPhone 4 made strictly for Verizon. The CDMA Apple smartphone is nearly identical to its GSM cousin in every way, except for two things – it doesn’t have a SIM card slot for obvious reasons, and the seams of the antennas are different, pushing the silent…
Sure, maybe it’s not as cool as that retro calculator watch you strap around you wrist (you nerd), but slapping a calculator case on your iPhone 4 has to be the next best thing. Coming to us from Etsy (no surprise there), this Calculator Case for iPhone 4 is a little bit of awesome. Sadly,…
In case you haven’t noticed, casual games aren’t my cup of tea. When it comes to games, I usually enjoy games that include some kind of story, a lot of action, and the occasional girl in a string bikini. That’s why when I came across Push Panic, I didn’t pay attention to it at first…
Nuance will release an SDK for its voice services and this could lead to a series of Android and iPhone apps that can leverage your voice. On its developer page, Nuance says: Our Dragon Mobile SDK is easy-to-integrate and accessible to anyone interested in enhancing their applications with speech input and text-to-speech output. We offer…
When Apple released a beta of iOS version 4.3 out on to the internet, one of the first things people noticed was that it gave the iPad multitouch gestures. Users could swipe up with four fingers to reveal the multitasking toolbar, pinch inward with five fingers to go back to the home screen, or swipe…
The Apple iPhone is great and all but it has had a severe lack of robotic tanks … until now, that is. The TankBot is a small, robotic tank that can use an iPhone app to control it. It will supposedly use the accelerometer controls to direct the tank and it will even let you…
The headline says it all, folks. Or does it? A recent study shows that users with the little green robot on their phones are more likely to upgrade to another Android device than an iPhone user is to upgrade to another iPhone. This may come as a surprise to some, but when you think about…
As much as folks are frothing at the bit to ditch AT&T for Verizon and their iPhone 4, retail partner Best Buy is sticking by Big Blue. Best Buy training documents have revealed that they won’t be carrying the Verizon iPhone 4, citing “only” 3G isn’t good enough for newer products, especially when VZ is…
Don’t be surprised to see the Apple iPad winding up under a few mattresses, as Hugh Hefner said that the uncensored Playboy archives will be coming to the iPad soon. This could indicate a change in Apple’s developer stance. “Big news! Playboy–both old & new–will be available on iPad beginning in March,” Hugh Hefner tweeted.…