In the short history of post-iPad tablets, the holiday 2012 season is shaping up as an important moment — the first time that there will be a bunch of decent low-priced models to choose from. You’ve got your Google Nexus 7. Your …
BlackBerry 10: Good Enough Won’t Be Anywhere Near Good Enough
So help me, I want to be excited about BlackBerry 10, the all-new operating system powering the BlackBerry handsets which are now supposed to show up in the first quarter of 2013.
I was keeping an open mind about it almost a …
The Jetsons Turns 50: How the Future Looked in 1962
On Sunday, Sept. 23, 1962, Hanna-Barbera followed up its wildly successful prime-time cartoon The Flintstones with a new series about another family of a different era. TIME liked it. We said it was “silly and unpretentious, …
Apple’s Maps Loss Could be Telenav’s Gain
When Apple announced that iOS 6 would include a new Maps app with turn-by-turn driving directions, I’ll bet that the companies behind the many third-party iOS navigation apps feared that their wares would be rendered instantly …
Are You Upgrading to iOS 6? A Twitter Symposium
The shaky state of iOS 6’s maps — at least in some parts of the world — leads to an interesting question: If you already own an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, should you hold off upgrading it in order to preserve the old …
Kickstarter Aims to Make Gadgets Less of a Gamble
For the new dead-tree issue of TIME that comes out today, I had fun profiling Kickstarter, the highest-profile site enabling crowdfunding of creative projects. (Subscribers can read the article here.) I write about some of the …
Behind the Story: TIME’s Harry McCracken Discusses Kickstarter
Tech editor-at-large Harry McCracken talks about how he reported and wrote his magazine story on the increasingly popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter
New iOS 6 Maps: The Data Seems to Be Messy
Apple debuts its all-new Maps app, but users are reporting difficulty in navigating with the program
Apple iPhone 5 Review: It’s All About Refinement
Last Wednesday, Apple held one of its traditional media events in San Francisco. The company introduced the iPhone 5, which surprised absolutely nobody. In fact, anyone who’d been paying close attention to the Apple rumor mill …
The Polaroid Revival Continues: An Instant Camera for Your iPhone
Back in 2008, a team of instant-photography fans — despondent over Polaroid’s decision to stop making film for its cameras — set out to acquire a Polaroid factory in the Netherlands and restart production of the film packs …
Apple’s Secrets Aren’t So Secret Anymore, and That’s O.K.
Surprises about different products are nice, but they aren’t the ultimate goal if the idea is to sell lots and lots of gadgets
Review: Kindle Fire HD Is a Very Amazon Tablet
From the moment Apple shipped the first iPad back in 2010, pundits started wondering when someone else would ship a tablet that rivaled it for overall appeal. The initial wondering, logically enough, focused on hardware …