Earlier in the week, we picked up on a trending topic over at the XDA forums that caused quite a stir in the Android community – the G2 was unrootable. According to the New America Foundation, the G2 has an embedded chip that resets the G2’s software back to “stock” once the device has been rebooted.
T-Mobile has responded to …
As part of the iPhone 4‘s design aesthetic, Apple decided to make the backside of the phone out of the same glass used on the front. Cool idea, right? You don’t see too many phones with the backside made of glass.
The problem with glass, believe it or not, is that it’s prone to cracking. It’s true! So with both sides of the phone made …
Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet will cost $399 with a two-year data contract through Sprint, according to the Boy Genius Report. That’s according to one of BGR’s unnamed “Sprint sources,” so take the information with a grain of salt—the site’s nailed plenty of rumors in the past, though.
Apparently the full, …
This holiday season will be full of TV boxes: Apple TV, Boxee, and Roku, to name a few. Google TV gets lumped in with all these other hardware boxes, but it does one main thing in particular that sets it apart from the rest.
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One of the more confusing aspects about buying an off-brand Android device is trying to figure out whether or not it has full access to Google-sanctioned software—a built-in Gmail app, the Android Market, the YouTube player, etc.
The 7-inch CherryPad America (what a strong, patriotic name!) promises full Android Market access and …
Finally, a USB hub made from a replica human skull. I hope it’s a replica, at least. At just $25, the 4-port USB 2.0 Skullhub (two ports in each cheek) features a carved out cranial area for you to store candy or your keys or whatever else someone who’d buy the Skullhub would want to put in there.
The USB ports are unpowered, so make
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FriendShuffle takes the idea that you share similar interests with your Facebook friends and runs with it. You go to FriendShuffle.com and sign in with your Facebook credentials, and then any web address—article, video, blog post, whatever—that one of your friends has tagged using Facebook’s "like" button will show up chronologically
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Sprint is hoping to make installing apps on new Android phones a more streamlined experience with Sprint ID. The basic premise is pretty simple: the company has created several "packs" of similar applications—Entertainment, Socially Connected, Health and Fitness, Business Productivity, Sports, etc.—which users can download in one
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This is getting redundant and completely obnoxious.
The WSJ is yet again reporting that Apple and Verizon will release a CDMA version of the iPhone in early 2011 and that production will begin later this year. But this coming from the same reporter who wrote back in March that Verizon would be getting the iPhone this fall. Following …
Following up on our earlier coverage of Logitech’s plans to bundle a HD video conferencing service into Google TV, we now have the official details.
During today’s press conference it was revealed that Logitech’s HD video service Logitech Vid HD would come preinstalled as an Android app (Android Market for Google TV will not …
Details are scant at the moment but I just had a quick conversation with Logitech’s video business VP and GM, Eric Kintz about Cisco’s video teleconferencing announcement.
“We congratulate Cisco on bringing video calling to the living room – it’s a great day for consumers and the video communications industry. We’re …
Expect to see a lot of news today on video teleconferencing.
Cisco has just announced the ūmi consumer HD video conferencing system. All it needs is a HDTV (connected via HDMI) and broadband connection to work. Calls will be streamed in 1080p and recorded at 720p/30fps, so you can share via Facebook, YouTube, etc. Based on your …
