Now playing: Watch this: Features missing from iPhone 5 3:07 At long last, the iPhone 5 is here, and now the dissection begins. Of course, whether it truly lives up to expectations won’t matter to millions of people with older iPhones (and other smartphones) who’ve been waiting to upgrade to the next iPhone no matter …

If you’ve watched any “American Idol” the last couple of years, you’ve probably noticed a heavy dose of record impresario Jimmy Iovine’s Beats headphones on the show — from the hat that he always wears to the omnipresence of the product itself. It’s awful in many ways, but that’s what corporate sponsorship is all about. And it seems to be …

We’d been expecting new Kindles to be unveiled almost any day, and now that day has been set — Amazon has sent out invites for a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif., on the morning of September 6. While it’s unclear just what Amazon will roll out, it’s a good bet we’ll see a new Kindle Fire (or maybe even …

Chalk up India as the next destination for the Kindle, as Amazon has launched the new India Kindle Store and partnered with Indian electronics retailer Croma to sell the Kindle in Croma retail outlets across the country for 6,999 INR or about $126. That Kindle model is the entry-level, non-touch-screen Kindle, which sells for $79 in the U.S. in a …

Don Cayelli says one of his main motivations for developing his SunVolt Portable Solar Power Station was that he couldn’t find a solar charger that worked well for charging his iPad on his boat. He sails a lot and uses his iPad as a chart plotter and preferred to use the sun as a power source rather than rechargeable battery …

A lot of people have noted that best thing about Blu-ray is seeing “new” versions of old films in the format. “Jaws” doesn’t qualify as a really old film, but it did first hit theaters in 1975, so it’s certainly an older film, and it looks truly impressive on Blu-ray. This is one of the films that Universal has chosen …

Earlier this week I did a quick article on what Apple would name its next iPhone. Of the more than 4,000 readers who voted in our poll, 40 percent thought the next iPhone would be called “The New iPhone.” Coming in second was “iPhone 5” with 34 percent of the vote. If the rumors are true — and there are …

Welcome another couple of pricey wireless AirPlay speakers to the market. They arrive courtesy of Denon, which has introduced the Cocoon Home ($599) and Cocoon Portable ($499). Both models feature an integrated iPhone/iPod dock as well as the aforementioned AirPlay feature, which allows you to stream music directly from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch (or from a Mac or …

You can read what you want into this special sale, but discounting certain e-ink Kindles to as low as $47 would seem to indicate that Amazon is starting to clear stock to make room for new models. Alas, the 40 percent discount on “select Kindle devices and Kindle accessories” is only available to folks who are Amazon.com Rewards Visa Card …

When Apple released the latest iPad earlier this year, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said that naming the device iPad 3 would have been so predictable. “We’ve had many products where we’ve never used numbers,” Schiller said. “Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t.” Some people don’t care what the next iPhone will be called, but some …