Take the phone off the hook, send the kids to Grandma’s, and light some aromatherapy candles as you prepare to hunker down for a weekend of iPad modding. If you want to stuff a Verizon 3G connection into your iPad, that is.
Assuming you have the chops to crack open your iPad, remove AT&T’s 3G module, and solder the innards of a …
Apple has never publicly published full spec sheets for its iPhones because it simply doesn’t matter to the general consumer. As long as the device works as advertised, Apple assumes we don’t need to know the processor speed or how much RAM a device has. And to be quite honest, they’re right in doing so for that specific …
A beta version of Swype’s very-excellent software keyboard interface has been made available to Android users for a limited time—“probably a few days”—according to the company’s website.
Swype takes the traditional on-screen keyboard model and tweaks it a bit to allow “one continuous finger or stylus motion” instead of …
If you haven’t been following the iPhone 4 preordering fiasco, here’s a quick recap. Yesterday was the first day the phone could be preordered and the first units out the door were to arrive by June 24th. AT&T and Apple’s ordering systems were quickly overloaded, leading to mismatched customer account information, credit card …
The little info cards next to the cell phones sold in San Francisco stores will soon contain data on the amount of radiation the handsets give off thanks to a citywide vote that passed yesterday, according to the New York Times.
There’s been conflicting scientific evidence over the years as to whether or not cell phone radiation is …
While Verizon and Motorola are expected to officially announce the gigantic Droid X on June 23rd, Engadget managed to get some early hands-on time with the phone. The 4.4-inch Droid X is expected to directly compete with Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G (see our review here), a phone that’s already quite large in comparison to other phones. The …
After reports yesterday involving glitches in the iPhone 4 preordering systems through both Apple and AT&T—servers crashing, ordering systems overloaded, stores taking handwritten orders, and more—it appears that simply not being able to preorder an iPhone 4 wasn’t the only problem.
Gizmodo is reporting that several would-be …
Rumors of a Google-backed music service aren’t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing “multiple music industry sources” as saying “Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.”
The search engine giant has several things …
Word on the street is that T-Mobile will be giving away any of its mobile handsets for free with a family plan this Saturday, just a day before Father’s Day. If you’re on a single-user plan, you can add a second user to make it a family plan and get the same deal, according to the Associated Press.
Not a bad deal if you’ve …
Watch The World Cup in a public space and eventually someone will ask, “What’s that awful noise?” (Hint: It’s not The Swarm come to life.)
(More from TIME: What Is That Weird Hum During The World Cup Games?)
The sound that’s keeping your television on mute is actually the vuvuzela, a plastic horn popular with South African soccer …
Starting tomorrow, Best Buy stores will be taking pre-orders for the new iPhone 4. According to the press release, “Consumers who purchase the iPhone 4 at Best Buy can avoid dealing with mail-in rebates and get help from a highly-trained staff of specialists at Best Buy Mobile.”
There’s been no mention of mail-in rebates when …
AT&T’s been noticeably skimpy when it comes to Android phones. It’s got the poorly-received Motorola Backflip and… that’s it.
Starting June 20th, though, AT&T will be selling the HTC Aria, an Android 2.1 handset with a 3.2-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera, HTC’s “Sense” user interface, and a $130 price tag after $100 …
