Archive for February, 2011 - Page 6

All signals from the outside seemed to indicate that the launch of the Verizon iPhone wasn’t this mass exodus from AT&T to Verizon like you may have thought. And even we wrote about the launch at the Mall of America Apple Store, where just two people were waiting in line. [...]

For a few hours todays, the HTC Thunderbolt mysteriously appeared in HTC’s online webstore. Regular readers will note that the release date for the phone been somewhat of a mystery as it’s shifted back and forth and we really have no clue on when it’s coming out. While the Thunderbolt [...]

With all three major consoles now sporting some kind of motion control peripheral, probably one of the most exciting uses for the technology is playing a FPS without a traditional controller. While we may not have figured out how to make a FPS with decent Kinect controls, a quick look [...]

After seeing that terrific gaming chair made out of the front half of a Mini Cooper, I got to thinking about all the other gaming chairs out there, including plenty that have called themselves “ultimate”. And so I set out to make a little list–the top seven gaming chairs out [...]

For those of you in the market for a new tablet PC who are tired of going without news about Fujitsu, well, you may officially be of good cheer because we’ve got the relatively complete rundown of stats, price, and a release date general location for the new Stylistic Q550 [...]

Chances are, when you think of a Nook, your first thought is not of driving down city streets at night with Phil Collins shrieking “In the Air Tonight” with Genesis. But now, as one particularly enterprising soul has discovered, your Nook Color has a lot more use than you might [...]

You ever have one of those times when you’re working on your regular desktop monitor, and you find yourself needing, in the words of General Zevo from Robin Williams’ Toys, just a tiny bit more space? Well, if you have, you’ve probably looked wistfully at your cell phone or tablet [...]

I suppose on the one hand, this should really surprise no one. And yet, on the other, when Consumer Reports comes out and announces the results of its testing, saying basically that you’re going to be needing a case for your Verizon iPhone 4 too, it’s no less a blow.

Another sweet bit of news on the media front for those of you who like getting your media in various downloaded forms–the folks out at Xtreamer are bringing out their Prodigy media player, which will reportedly also be showing out at the CeBIT show.

The second coming of Samsung’s main Android phone, the Galaxy SII has been made official at MWC 2011 in Spain where we were present, on location, and offered you a hands-on preview of the device. But Samsung failed to announce pricing details or launch dates for this flagship Android handset [...]