Personal Devices Category - Page 13

First Samsung, then HTC, and now Pantech–another cell phone maker has announced that AMOLEDs will not be part of their product line for some time to come. The Pantech Vega looks to be the last phone for at least a year to have AMOLED in its display.

You heard here back in February about how Google was looking to develop translation software for the Nexus One, but apparently, the folks out at DARPA, backed up by NIST, took that ball and ran clear out the door with it, because they’re looking at taking it out for a [...]

Image stabilization in cameras is something of a shaky (no pun intended!) prospect, but the folks out at Microsoft think they can keep your trembling hands from screwing up your pictures any more than necessary thanks to technology borrowed from a Wiimote…or from the iPhone 4.

You heard about the DMC Copia here back last January, and tragically, it has missed its original launch date of April 2010. But there’s a new date for the Copia, and this time, a fair chance it’ll make it. The DMC Copia is slated to hit stores this fall, and [...]

The Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, a private group of small rocket enthusiasts, got to wondering why satellites had to be so big, anyway, especially given that there were entire cell phones down here that could do plenty. To that end, they got together, took a now-defunct Nexus One, joined up [...]

The Devon Works Tread 1 wristwatch might well be the strangest gadget I’ve come across in some time, and that’s saying something. When you can combine the phrases “bullet proof”, “belt driven” and “wristwatch” into one sentence, you know you’ve got something worth talking about.

And once again, we’ve made it to that grand and glorious time of year known only as Shark Week, the week that makes us all happy to be paying perfectly extortionate prices for cable or satellite so that we can watch hour upon hour of beautifully-filmed underwater footage of sharks, [...]

In the early days of his administration, President Obama fought tooth and nail to keep his Blackberry, and in the end, following a massive security revamping, won out. But in his recent appearance on The View, he acknowledged something that at least a few Blackberry owners feel: that the phone [...]

The whole wireless power issue is an interesting one, no mistake there, but there are plenty of problems with it. The biggest of them is that some devices won’t work on some chargers. The Wireless Power Consortium, meanwhile, is working to make that problem a whole lot less prevalent, and [...]

One thing that’s been a rather common lament for a whole lot of iPhone gamers–is that they’re limited to touchscreen gaming. Thus, any console gaming ports are sort of left out in the cold. Sure, you could play Boomshine with no trouble, but try and get a copy of, say, [...]