Can traditional toy makers capitalize on the rise of smartphones and tablets? Wowwee Toys thinks it can. Next week, the company behind Paper Jamz and Lite Sprites is releasing its first toys in the AppGear line, which combine …
Tablets & Smartphones
How to Try Windows 8 on Your iPad
With $25, an iPad and a bit of curiosity, you can try Windows 8 on a tablet right now.
Splashtop, a maker of remote desktop software, has released a $25 iPad app called Win8 Metro Testbed. If you’ve got Windows 8 Consumer …
Nokia Lumia 900 Review: A Solid Slab of Windows Phone
Nokia’s Lumia 900 has the makings of the ultimate tech comeback story: A once-proud mobile phone maker makes a desperate pact with Microsoft, which despite its own juggernaut status in the PC market is similarly downtrodden when …
Five Things Siri Still Needs
Depending on how you look at it, Siri is either really helpful or limited in its usefulness.
A new survey by Parks Associates found that 87 percent of respondents who own an iPhone 4S use at least one feature of Apple’s …
Apple’s New iPad and the End of Hardware Impressiveness
Inevitably, some people were disappointed by Apple’s new iPad, which comes out this Friday.
Aside from the Retina display, the new iPad consists of minor updates, the Associated Press wrote. CNet’s David Carnoy wrote a …
Apple’s New iPad Should Be Google’s Wake-Up Call
A strange thing happened during the announcement of Apple’s new iPad on Wednesday: for a moment, CEO Tim Cook stopped talking about his company’s products and started dissing Google’s Android operating system. Cook displayed a …
With an App Store, WIMM’s Android Watch Gets a Little More Practical
Style considerations aside, owning a dedicated wristwatch is harder to justify when the smartphone in your pocket provides the same information and then some.
So now we have companies like WIMM, whose Android-powered WIMM One …
14 Notable Phones and Tablets from Mobile World Congress 2012
Quad-core phones, slim tablets and gimmicky features abound at the 2012 Mobile World Congress. Here’s a roundup of the most interesting smartphones and tablets from the show.
Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Living with a Gigantic Smartphone
Thanks to an over-the-top Super Bowl ad, millions of people have heard of Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone — but for the wrong reason.
Although the Galaxy Note’s stylus was the focus of the commercial, the real …
Forget the Vita, I Want a Real PlayStation Tablet
On Monday, Sony’s PlayStation Vita showed up for review. I unboxed the system, popped in the cartridge for Uncharted: Golden Abyss and settled on my couch for a long night of handheld gaming (or rather, about three hours of …
Note to Samsung: The Pen Doesn’t Sell
Samsung’s Super Bowl commercial had the makings of greatness. Like the company’s previous “Next Big Thing” ads, the TV spot begins with a send-up of Apple’s biggest fans, getting agitated by the long wait to buy the …
Putting the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx’s Battery Life to the Test
As Verizon Wireless tries to push a broad lineup of 4G LTE smartphones on its customers, the company omits an important fact: LTE destroys battery life. This may improve some day, when tech companies figure out how to optimize …
