Archive for June, 2010 - Page 24

iPhone 4 Yellow Screens to be Fixed Soon; Just Leave Them Alone

iPhone 4 Screen’s Glue Not Dry Yet, That’s How Fresh the New iPhone Is]
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Okay, so the main problem of the new iPhone 4 is not that it scratches easily but that it drops signal very fast if held in the owner’s left hand for a certain period of time. We now know this since the other main concern, the yellow dots, lines, and [...]

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Activision: Kinect and Move Are Too Expensive

Activision Exec Says Worried About Kinect And Move Prices, Says They'll Have Too Small Of An Install Base
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

While some gamers were wowed and impressed by Microsoft and Sony’s showing with the Kinect and Move – some people weren’t so impressed. Well, at least with the price. Activision is the world’s largest publisher at the moment, so them declining to support these two new motion control setups is [...]

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BlackBerry Bold / Torch 9800 Coming at AT&T?

BlackBerry 9800 Slider Smartphone Spotted with AT&T Branding; We Still Don’t Like It
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

The BlackBerry 9800 slider, a device that combines both a large touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard, is a new RIM invention that we can’t possibly like. We looked at it from every angle and we’re definitely not going to praise this weird Berry for its looks.

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Motorola Droid X Accessories Revealed

Motorola To Offer HDMI Syncing Dock, Along With GPS Car Mount, Prices Unknown
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Motorola and Verizon unveiled the Motorola Droid X to much community excitement yesterday (although the actual press itself was rather, uneventful). Every good smartphone needs accessories, and Motorola has detailed two official accessories that are for the Droid X.

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Zune and Bing Together Give Microsoft Music Edge

Bing Entertainment Adds On To Zune Marketplace To Drive Sales
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Here’s an idea that was probably just waiting to happen–the folks out at Microsoft have taken their Bing search system and melded it with their Zune Marketplace system to give you a faster, easier way to search for music you can buy.

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On iPhone Day - Microsoft Opens Up A New Store

The Microsoft Store Opens In San Diego To Confetti And Applause
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Today when the flagship Apple Store in Tokyo’s Harajuku district opened at 8am (marking the start of iPhone 4 sales), music played, people claimed, confetti shot down from the building and there was general applause and fanfare. Not to be outdone by Apple, people lined up and cheered for something [...]

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Kinect Technology To Join HTPCs By 2011

Home Theater PCs and Cable Boxes Alike Want Kinect-Like Controls
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

You saw it attached to the Xbox 360 first, but there’s a growing body of interest in making Kinect technology from PrimeSense the future of controlling most everything.

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Android on PC? Intel To Release x86 Android 2.2 Later This Summer

Intel VP Says To Expect x86 Native Android Coming Later, Based On Froyo For Netbooks and Tablets
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Have you ever wanted to run Android on your computer? Well, there’s an emulator that Google provides for developers. Outside of that, have you ever wanted to run Android on your computer? You may be in luck as Intel is working on an x86-native version of Android 2.2 that will [...]

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Mitsubishi LaserVue Returns, HD Ready

The 75 Inch Mitsubishi Makes a Big Return, Now HD and 3D Ready
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Two years ago, Mitsubishi released a television that was almost criminally monstrous–the LaserVue was a huge, fat-backed system in a market almost completely occupied by flatscreens, and the change was not well-received. But now, the LaserVue is back, big, and ready to blow your mind.

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iPhone 4 Reception Issue May Be In iOS 4

The "Holding" Reception May Be In iOS 4 As Some Are Able to Recreate It On iPhone 3G, 3GS
Filed by on Thursday, 24. June 2010

The iPhone 4 has a new antenna where it uses the chassis of the device as an antenna. I’ve seen more than one suggest that the infamous AT&T dropped calls scenario wasn’t caused by AT&T, but by the antenna layout in the iPhone 2G through 3GS. I assumed that the  [...]

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