Mp3 Players & PMPs Category - Page 7

Strange but interesting fact for the Apple fans out there–you might think that in terms of sales to square footage, a jewelry store or a car lot might pull down the best ratio. But as it turns out, that particular honor goes right to the Apple store.

Since 2007, everybody in the mobile space has been chasing Apple and their iPhone and iPad devices. It’s certainly a tall order, and HP announced today that they were giving up on that chase by discontinuing their webOS phones and tablets. RIM is still trying to take on the beast [...]

If you’ve got a lot of portable devices–and let’s face it, with all the possibilities out there, you almost certainly do–then you know first hand how tough it can be to get them all juiced up and ready for a day in the field, or a night on the town, [...]

It’s been something of a recurring theme since 2008 for Apple, that when their namesake fruit starts getting close to being in season, they start looking at launching a press conference. And this year looks to be no exception, as word has emerged from several quarters now saying that September [...]

If you, like me, were wondering what was keeping Apple from throwing hordes of lawyers at the Chinese who were opening up those fake Apple stores we’d been hearing about these last couple of weeks, the answer appears to be simple: it was only a matter of time. And now, [...]

We earlier wrote about the Skytex Primer Pocket, the $99 device that we thought would be a good alternative to more expensive tablet computers. Early reviewers might not agree, although they say it’s a good enough device for the price.

Android tablets don’t have to be expensive. But while there are a handful of manufacturers that sell inexpensive Android devices, these have very poor built and specifications. Skytex might have a solution, with a combination of low price and reasonable featuers.

It may well be the most roundabout support yet for an iPhone 5 release date of September, but Apple has been spotted approving a variety of app updates with little more improvement in their functionality than one critical phrase: iOS 5 compatibility.

Apple patents are a wonderful thing; sure, many of them never actually make it to market, but Cupertino’s secretive nature (they won’t even tell us when the iPhone 5′s release date is, for crying out loud) means that checking patent information is a great way to tell what’s possibly on [...]

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 [...]