The iPad is an awesome musical tool, with apps like GarageBand, Korg iElectribe, Mugician and Looptastic. Just one problem: If you’re a performing musician, there’s no easy way to strap in your iPad and strut around the stage.
A couple guys named Casey Ayers and Patrick Duffy think they’ve got the answer with Trubador, an iPad case …
Kobo, the perpetual e-reader underdog, is back in action with the $130 Kobo Touch.
The Kobo Touch has a 6-inch Pearl E-Ink display, and uses the same kind of touch screen technology found in Sony’s latest Reader Touch Edition, according to The Digital Reader. Infrared sensors around the edges of the screen detect the users’ fingers …
The Macbook Air rivals are coming.
It started with Samsung’s Series 9, a pair of ultra-thin laptops cased in aircraft-grade materials and running on Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge platform. As you might expect, pricing caused a wince at $1,200 for an 11-inch model and $1,650 for a 13-inch model.
Next up is Dell, which will do its best …
Someone in retail’s not happy about Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook.
An anonymous source, reportedly from a “major big box retailer,” told Boy Genius Report that RIM’s tablet missed sales targets by more than 90 percent. The source also said that return rates were much higher than those of the Motorola Xoom, which itself was …
One of the greatest things about Android is that phone makers can cram the software into whatever hardware they like. It’s also one of the worst things about Android, as proven by Sharp’s upcoming Android clamshell phone.
This abomination, dubbed the Aquos Hybrid 007SH, hides a 3.4-inch display underneath one of its swiveling, …
Ladies and gentlemen, another tablet is entering the arena. HTC’s Flyer, a 7-inch Android slab, will be available at Best Buy for $500 starting this Sunday.
The HTC Flyer has a 1.5 GHz single-core processor, front- and rear-facing cameras, 16 GB of on-board storage, a microSD expansion slot and a micro-USB port. It runs Android 2.3 …
This post originally appeared on Technologizer.
In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones approach was simply inadequate. The app was also pretty buggy.
WordPress …
Windows Phone 7 is finally getting some love from the United States’ largest wireless carrier.
HTC’s Trophy, a new Windows Phone, lands on Verizon Wireless on May 26, for $150 with a two-year agreement. If you buy a Trophy before July 15, Microsoft and Verizon will sweeten the deal with your choice of Halo: Reach, Kinect Sports or …
The Apple rumor mill was aflutter earlier this week over the possibility of a new Apple product launch this weekend. But if 9to5Mac’s unnamed source is correct, the big surprise will actually be a revamped Apple Store.
Says the source, this “Apple Store 2.0″ will have iPads at every turn, acting as interactive signage for other …
In the game of Android tablets, Dell has two strikes against it.
Strike one was the original Dell Streak, a 5-inch tablet remarkable for its lack of identity. Was it an oversized phone, or a diminutive tablet? Dell’s press releases suggested the latter, but the only way to reduce the Streak’s shocking $550 price tag was to sign up for …
We’ve all been there: Someone calls your cell phone and wants to have a long heart-to-heart, so you tell them to call back on a landline to save voice minutes or to get a better signal.
Plantronics think it’s solved this problem with the Savi 740, a headset and stand that can answer phone calls from cell phones, landlines and …
T-Mobile’s leaked phone roadmap for 2011 has plenty of good news for Android and Blackberry fans, but no mention of Windows Phones or the iPhone.
You can check out the entire roadmap at This is My Next, including a bunch of unremarkable feature phones and dumbphones. Here are the hightlights:
June will likely bring HTC’s Sensation …
