Archive for July, 2011 - Page 12

The thin and inexpensive Asus EeePC X101 is already up for pre-order and Asus is making sure the netbook gets through all the regulatory requirements. The X101 is already going through FCC scrutiny as of this writing, with photos, specs and product manuals, to boot.

Google has a new Google Maps update available for Android users, version 5.8, which is going to bring you a bunch of new improvements to Places and Latitude. The update requires Android 2.1 or later, and it is available in the Android Market in various regions.

You might be paying a lot of money for smartphone data you’ll never use, says Illinois-based organization Citizens Utility Board (CUB). By how much you ask? After studying 11,000 Verizon bills across the United States, CUB comes to the conclusion that 9 out of 10 users could be paying up [...]

T-Mobile G2x users rejoice – you can now get Android 2.3 Gingerbread over-the-air update for your phone. The T-Mobile G2x with Google phone originally shipped with Android 2.2 Froyo. The Gingerbread update will apparently fix some problems users have been experiencing with the phone, as well as boost the device’s [...]

Does the name “HTC Vigor” mean anything to you? Unless you’re working at HTC you shouldn’t be familiar with it, but starting today, we’re going to think of it as the next potential Android flagship phone coming from the Taiwan-based manufacturer.

UK-based retailer Play.com posted images of a Sony Walkman A-series device in its web site. In fact, it’s now available for pre-order in the UK with July 31, 2011 marked as release date. Earlier this July, the Walkman A-series passed through the FCC, indicating release in the United States sometime [...]

Yesterday we looked at various leaked documents suggesting that the Droid Bionic could be launched as early as next week by Verizon, with Sam’s Club getting the LTE superphone at some point in September; or so we believed.

America is now being called a YouTube nation. Survey results show that use of video-sharing sites like YouTube has grown among online Americans from 66% last year to 71% in 2011.

We’re about to take a new ride on the iPhone 4S/5 rollercoster and we have a brand new release date window for the handset, at least according to Chinese sources. Better yet, according to the same sources the iPad 3 will follow the iPhone 4S/5 although, as expected, nothing can [...]

Ustream has finally been released to the tablet users of the world. Two weeks ago the video streaming company released a Honeycomb app and now the iPad gets some love too.