Archive for January, 2011 - Page 27

The folks in Korea can now get their hands on the LG Optimus 2X, the dual-core smartphone from local Korean giant LG. The LG Optimus 2X was unveiled at CES, and was one of my favorite gadgets of the show – and at the show (as Engadget points out), LG [...]

As you’re likely aware, a few weeks ago, Apple announced that the App Store was closing in on 10 Billion app downloads and said that they would be giving away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to whoever downloaded lucky #10,000,000,000. The winner was Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, in the [...]

A few days ago, we saw the first Verizon commercial announcing the arrival of the iPhone. At the time, I speculated that it was actually made by Apple. Regardless, we’ve now seen the first real proper Apple commercial promoting the Verizon iPhone. However, it may not be what you expect. [...]

It was a great year for ereaders–in fact, some say that 2011 is going to be the year of the e-publisher–and as such, there were more than a few of them released.  Obviously, of course, some of them were better than others, so we all gathered around just before the [...]

With CES 2011 now over we’ll look at the past year to better understand where the future is heading. And since CES 2011 was focused on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, we’ll show you what happened last year in the smartphone universe. After the break you’re going to [...]

Apparently there’s a Nintendo 3DS game list doing the rounds, sent by Gamestop to Nintendo 3DS pre-order customers. And you’ll be pleased (or horrified, depending on your tax bracket) to hear that the highest price on the list is $50. I know, I was half expecting them to bump the [...]

The Motorola Xoom keeps popping up in all sorts of rumors day in and day out. We have already heard the tablet will cost around $799 and hit stores on Valentine’s Day, all unconfirmed leaks so far, and it now looks we have a Best Buy release date for you [...]

Well, Valve’s rift with the PS3 seems to be well and truly healed, especially if they can get them to entwine their respective software delivery platform with Steam so tightly. On the one hand, being all buddy-buddy with the PC’s premier platform-holder apart from Microsoft has its advantages, on the [...]

We’ve covered Final Fantasy IV’s long road to the PSP before, but Square Enix is looking to make waves across all of their franchises at once it seems. They’re planning on releasing a Collector’s Edition which is a thing of beauty. Well, they call it an Ultimate Pack, but you’d [...]

Website “Cleveland Leader” is reporting that Best Buy and Verizon have reached some sort of agreement where Best Buy will be the only retail location to buy the HTC Thunderbolt. No word on online sales, but in exchange the Thunderbolt exclusivity, Best Buy allegedly has to give up the hope [...]