Now playing: Watch this: Verizon Wireless Razzle 2:13 We’ll admit that we had our reservations about the Verizon Wireless Razzle. The swivel design seemed unusual and gimmicky. We weren’t sure if we liked having to swivel the phone all the time when switching between different functions. The Razzle, as you can see, has a QWERTY …
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Oops! It looks like a mistake on Motorola’s part is giving Google Android and smartphone fans plenty to talk about on this fine Friday morning. On Thursday night, Boy Genius Report was sent a tip that Motorola had posted an official product page for the upcoming Droid smartphone for Verizon Wireless. The site has since been pulled but not before …
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With Halloween coming up, we’re seeing several ghoulish games appear in the iPhone App Store, including one from Paramount Digital Entertainment that’s rather loosely based on Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary,” which was made into a successful film in 1989 (a sequel followed and according to IMDB, the movie will be remade in 2010). The iPhone iPhone/iPod Touch version of “Pet …
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Test-drive six 2010 VW hatchbacks in Firemint’s free Real Racing GTI. Firemint’s Real Racing is one of the top-rated and most popular racing games in the App Store, but at $6.99 it’s also among the priciest. Alas, there’s no lite version you can test-drive before you buy, but Volkswagen just unveiled the next best thing: Real Racing GTI, a free, …
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Net neutrality supporters may be celebrating the Federal Communications Commission’s unanimous vote Thursday to begin developing open Internet regulation, but the battle is far from over as the yet-to-be-written regulation is already facing Congressional opposition and will also likely be challenged in court. Votes at the FCC for the proposal to get the ball rolling on new rules to protect …
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AT&T’s bet on the iPhone continues to work well. The company reported Thursday a better-than-expected third quarter with 3.2 million iPhone activations–the largest quarterly activation total to date. The telecom giant had net income of $3.2 billion, or 54 cents a share. Revenue came in at $30.9 billion, down from $31.3 billion a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings …
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Graphic artists who work with Pantone colors may appreciate the latest iPhone offering. Designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch, the $9.99 MyPantone app lets mobile users create and share palettes of colors drawn from the familiar Pantone libraries. MyPantone Pantone The app opens with a fan deck of Pantone color swatches, a virtual replica of the print Pantone swatch …
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NFB Films streams over 1,000 shorts and feature-length films to your iPhone. Like indie films? Documentaries? Animation? Ho, boy, have I got an app for you: NFB Films lets you watch over a thousand movies on your iPhone. For free. The “NFB” stands for National Film Board, a kind of Canadian PBS. The app taps the NFB’s mammoth library of …
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The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously Thursday to get the ball rolling on creating regulation that will keep the Internet open. All five commissioners voted in favor of advancing the rule-making process for a proposal that was put forth by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski during the agency’s open meeting Thursday. With three Democrats on the commission, it was no surprise …
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Everything old is new again. Earthworm Jim, a run-and-gun platform game that debuted on the Sega Genesis in 1994, just hit the App Store. Earthworm Jim, brought to you by Gameloft (do these guys ever stop working?), offers the same terrific tongue-in-cheek sci-fi action as its predecessor. As the titular mutated character, you’ll run, swing, blast, and bungee-jump your way …
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Rock Band for iPhone does a nice job recreating the look of the original, if not the feel. Rock Band’s biggest disappointment: When you play vocals, you don’t get to sing. Rock Band. For iPhone and iPod Touch. Right now in the App Store for $9.99. Just thought I’d cut right to the crucial information, as hard-core fans of the …
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Envious of your mate’s Palm Pre, iPhone or Nokia N97, but not willing to shell out the wonga to make it your own? ARM, the British company that makes the chips that power those phones, promises its new Cortex A5 chip will make all your cut-price smart phone dreams come true. The Cortex A5 has three times the processing power …
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Nokia is suing Apple for 10 counts of patent infringement, pointing to wireless technology patents owned by the Finnish manufacturer. (Credit: Apple/CBSi) According to a statement from Nokia, all models of Apple’s iPhone includes technology for which Nokia owns the patents, including GSM, UMTS and WLAN technologies for speech coding, security and encryption. “The basic principle in the mobile industry …
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Apple will be hosting free iPhone Tech Talks starting later this month and continuing through December. The talks will be hosted by Apple engineers and technology evangelists in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Apple representatives will discuss and provide guidance in user interface design, game design, code optimization, Core Data, video and audio development, App purchases, push notifications, and …
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Earlier this week, at the launch of the new Dyson Air Multiplier or bladeless fan, we spoke with its inventor James Dyson about it and his other inventions. It’s clear from even one glance that Dyson’s Air Multiplier is unconventional. Where other desktop fans have a giant set of blades enclosed in a grille, the Dyson fan’s focal point is …
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