Games retail giant GameStop’s days are either numbered or nascent, depending on whether you see brick and mortar retail as a digital-proof future presence. Well GameStop’s not waiting around to find out. They’re the largest dedicated video games retailer in the country, they’ve cornered the used games market, plus they’ve presciently …
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Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Won’t Be for Geeks
After months of rumors and speculation about Amazon’s tablet plans, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler broke some solid details.
Reportedly dubbed the new “Amazon Kindle,” this 7-inch tablet will use a heavily-modified version of Android, without any involvement from Google. The interface will be laser-focused on delivering Amazon content to the …
Report: They’ve Started Building the iPhone 5
Happy post-Labor-Day, and welcome back to another episode of “some sources say” starring Apple’s so-called iPhone 5. For today’s show, we’ll cite “a Chinese source” who apparently can’t keep it zipped, because he or she’s claiming the next iPhone is actually in production, in keeping with (the most recent) rumors that the iPhone 5 would …
BlackBerry Bold 9900 Review: RIM’s Best Smartphone Ever?
Make no mistake about it: The Bold 9900 is the best BlackBerry smartphone to date. But even with a handsome redesign highlighted by a new capacitive touchscreen (plus all the familiar features that make a BlackBerry a Blackberry) will it be enough to close the gap between Apple or Android? Maybe a little?
Take my hand. Let’s find …
Hands-on with Sony’s Tablets: They’re the Sonys of Tablets!
Sony had already sort of announced its new Android tablets again and again, but at the IFA consumer-electronics show in Berlin, it did the job officially. The 10.1″ model is the Tablet S, and will ship on September 16th for $499.99 (16GB) and $599.99 (32GB). The folding one with two 5.5″ displays is the Tablet P, and will be sold …
There Is No Tablet Market: Why Consumer Experiences Matter
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
Buried deep in the language on Apple’s website for the iPad 2 you’ll find this phrase: “It’s not a tablet, it’s iPad 2.” I would also challenge you …
Report: Leaked Best Buy Docs Show iPhone Could Arrive in October
Some folks over at Boy Genius Report have heard that Best Buy will be taking pre-orders for the next iPhone 5 pretty soon. Hey, it’s never too early to start lining up!
Basically, the supposedly leaked document shows that Best Buy is anticipating preorders for the first week of October. It also mentions that there will be a Sprint …
Eight New Tablets and Ultrabooks You Should Know About
Tech companies have been flexing their design muscles at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week, trying to prove that Apple’s not the only one that can make ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops and tablets. Turns out that these PC makers can out-slim the iPad and the MacBook Air after all. They just needed Apple to start the fire. Here’s a …
Paycheck Friday! Purchasing Suggestions for Your Perusal
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
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Inflatable Beard: $4
Your …
British Airways Flight Attendants to Be Outfitted with iPads
The future of flight attendant luggage may end up being even smaller than those tiny carry-on bags you often see them wheeling around as they roam airports in flight attendant packs; British Airways is testing to see whether iPads will make cabin crews helpful and more productive during loading and flights.
100 cabin crew members will …
Guess How Big Android’s Lead Over Apple Is Now
New data from Nielsen paints a revealing, if not all that unexpected, picture of the current smartphone market here in the U.S.
While earlier this year we saw Android’s lead over both RIM and Apple’s iOS continue to grow, many (including us) expected that extraordinary growth to curb.
Well that didn’t happen.
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Will Windows 8 Mark the End of the Post-PC Era?
My Technologizer column over at TIME.com this week was inspired by recent talk of the death—or at least the decline—of the PC, most recently inspired by HP’s decision to consider spinning off or selling its PC division. My take: The PC is actually in great shape, because smartphones and tablets have every right to be called PCs.
I …