When Apple switched to Intel chips back in 2006, reality almost imploded, and when Steve Jobs launched the iPad without an Intel microprocessor, you could almost feel the ripples through the time-space continuum. What you probably didn’t know, is that the iPad almost had an Intel chip under the hood.
And here’s the kicker: The guy …
Amazon’s Kindle Fire may be a bigger deal than many were expecting, if J.P. Morgan’s about-turn on the device is anything to go by. Weeks after telling investors that the device was “noise” with a low price point that only reflected how much it lacked in terms of usability, the company is forecasting Kindle Fire sales of between 4.5 to 5 …
It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Apple MacBook Air: Starting at $835 at MacMall
The cheapest MacBook Air model generally starts at $999 but MacMall has discounted several closeout models, with prices starting at $835 for the 11.6-inch version. These models come preloaded with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but …
MacBook Air style with a more PC-like pricetag: That’s the promise of Acer’s new S3 ultrabook. At $900, it beats Apple’s lowest-priced 13-inch MacBook Air by a full $400 while measuring up almost identically in weight and …
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I don’t mean to be painfully Pollyannaish, but I’m almost glad that RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis didn’t announce any new products or other major news at the keynote during its DevCon conference in San Francisco, which I attended on Tuesday morning. A year ago, at the 2010 edition of the event, he unveiled the PlayBook tablet. I got all …
Good news, Neil deGrasse Tyson fans: Your favorite astrophysicist and company will soon be coming to Amazon. The company announced today that it has struck a deal with PBS Distribution to bring more than 1,000 episodes of PBS shows such as NOVA, Antique Roadshow and Frontline to its Amazon Prime service.
Yes, you’ll also get the …
Bumped from its original planned “holiday 2011″ release window, Sony’s PlayStation Vita will finally hit the U.S. (and pretty much everywhere else, worldwide) on February 22, 2012, roughly two months after Sony’s powerhouse gaming portable goes on sale in Japan.
Sony president and CEO Jack Tretton broke the news at the Web 2.0 Summit …
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is here, and it knows your face. Literally.
Though Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus will be ready for primetime in November (we can only surmise that it will drop on Verizon), the announcement of the Android 4.0 HSPA+- and LTE-capable phone raises another question: who can make the best software?
(MORE: Samsung …
The world got a peek at Android’s new operating system late Tuesday night in Hong Kong, when Google and Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Nexus in all its gooey, Ice Cream Sandwhich glory. The phone, which will launch sometime in November, will be the first to sport the deliciously-named Android 4.0 software.
The Galaxy Nexus will feature …
It it really, truly “impossibly” thin? With “unstoppable power”? A device ready-made for America’s “fastest and most reliable 4G network”? Hey, what do you expect Verizon and Motorola to say when they’re showing off their new powerhouse portable, a smartphone they’ve dubbed the DROID RAZR? As in: “DROID Strong” and “RAZR Sharp” (go …
The iPhone 4S may be packing the iPad 2′s speedy hardware under its iPhone 4 hood, but it’s not quite as fast as Apple’s bestselling tablet. AnandTech gathered up a bunch of benchmarks from around the web and put together a summary that concludes the 4S is “slight slower…than iPad 2″ though “still very fast.”
Like the iPad 2, the 4S …
A year and a half after Apple launched the iPad, Facebook has launched an official iPad app. Um, whoopie?
While it’s nice to see Facebook finally take part in the biggest personal computing phenomenon since the laptop, Facebook’s iPad app has left me feeling cold. For one thing, it’s barely distinguishable from unofficial Facebook …
