Archive for July, 2010 - Page 13

The iPhone 3G, once a glorious gadget, it’s now slower and slower when it comes to performing well for the customer. The obvious problem is the new OS versions that require more and more processing power. iOS 4 is making iPhone 3G handsets very slow even if it doesn’t have [...]

The Motorola Droid is the indisputable star of Google’s mobile platform. Despite HTC creating the first Android devices and despite Google launching the Google Nexus One, the Droid was the most important addition to the Android universe so far.

A few days ago, some sites begun posting pictures of Droid X phones running Android 2.2. Because we were expecting Froyo to come to the Droid X’s next month and it’s so easy to fake those Android ‘About Phone’ pages now, we passed on the story. But now, more and [...]

What better way to confirm that RIM is definitely interested in the tablet market than to see the Canadian-based smartphone manufacturer buy a domain name like this one: BlackPad.com?

Korea’s “other” electronics company, LG, had a pretty bad fiscal Q2 2010. They reported a net profit of $106 million, which is good, but it’s a 33% drop from Q2 2009. According to reports, their poor quarter was led by losses from their HDTV and mobile phone spaces.

Yesterday we told you that Verizon’s hot Droid lineup, the Motorola Droid and Droid X and the HTC Droid Incredible, are going to get the Android 2.2 Froyo update starting with next Friday, August 6. While that’s not confirmed yet, we now find out that the first HTC smatphone to [...]

Laptops and notebooks and the like are awesome things to have around–they let you work remotely, watch movies on an airplane without paying ridiculous prices, and plenty more besides. But let’s face it, folks, the worst thing about them is that they’re so easily stolen. The folks out at Kensington [...]

Good old Steve tried to explain to everyone the non-issue a few days ago, and he acknowledged the iPhone 4 is not perfect and we’re not perfect either. But he and Apple definitely failed to explain the Death Grip properly. The iPhone 4 has a flawed antenna design, incomparable with [...]

The Terrafugia Transition is definitely a strange model, folks–some call it a flying car with stars in their eyes and a wistful memory of The Jetsons bombing around in that high-altitude antigravity platform of theirs. Others call it a roadable aircraft, a much more utilitarian name for a car that [...]

The iPhone 4’s Death Grip issue comes back to our attention, like it will ever go away, and by ever I mean the very immediate future, and this time around it’s Best Buy that’s ready to fix it for us.