You could soon be buying your clothes on an Apple-based point-of-sale system. 9to5Mac Apple’s iPod touch-based point-of-sale system, dubbed EasyPay, had been rumored to be available for third-party retailers looking for a mobile solution to their sales experience, which may soon land in some major stores. 9to5Mac reports that Gap, Inc. has begun piloting the …
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December, 2010
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2 December
Google Reader finally arrives on Android
Google has produced more than a couple Android apps over the last two years with Listen, Scoreboard, and Sky Map among its most notable titles. Yet, there has been one app people have been clamoring for since the T-Mobile G1 debuted: Google Reader. Sure, we’ve always had a mobile optimized site available to use, but nothing beats a good native …
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2 December
Eye
At CNET, we look at so many cell phones and smartphones throughout the year that many of them tend to look the same after a while. Therefore, it’s easy to remember the ones that looked especially interesting. I’ve compiled a list of the most eye-catching phones we’ve seen this year, be they short stubby phones like the Kin One or …
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2 December
Biggest mobile stories of 2010
Bonnie Cha/CNET With some 175 handset reviews in the bag, we can tell you it’s been a pretty busy year for cell phones and smartphones. However, it hasn’t been all about devices. Several companies revamped their mobile operating systems, next-generation technologies were introduced, and there were even some scandals–all of which are sure to make for an interesting 2011. Before …
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2 December
Best and worst phones of 2010
Though it’s not quite the end of the year, the new cell phone releases for 2010 are beginning to wind down. So as December lurches on, we take this opportunity to look back at the mobile year that was. Since January, CNET’s cell phone reviews team has reviewed almost 200 handsets. Some were fantastic, some were awful, and the rest …
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2 December
Android Atlas Weekly 26: Our Required Android App List (podcast)
A phone with the soul of a tablet, Google TV a flop?, and our required App list, All that and more on this week’s edition of Android Atlas Weekly for Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. Join Justin Eckhouse along side Senior Associate Editor, Nicole Lee! Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 26: Our Required Android App List 41:38 Podcast Your browser does …
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2 December
Motorola Flipside: Capable but boring (review)
The Motorola Flipside is a new messaging phone for AT&T. The $99 price tag isn’t bad at all for this midrange Android 2.1 handset, which sports a 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen, a 3-megapixel camera, and a 32GB-capable expandable memory card slot. It has the full range of rock-solid Android apps, but also some only arguably useful preloaded programs and the …
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2 December
Live Nation for iOS: Buy concert tix on the iPhone
Find concerts in your town and buy tickets on the spot with the new Live Nation app. Screenshot by Rick Broida Suppose you just found out Brendan Benson is playing in your town (he’s in L.A. tomorrow, FYI). You don’t have to run scrambling to the nearest computer to buy tickets; just fire up the new Live Nation app. With …
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2 December
Smartphone ads 2010: Clunkers and blockbusters
With all the millions of dollars that manufacturers and mobile operators pour into advertising their flagship smartphones, you’d think more commercials would be hits. But we all know better than that. For every poignant or entertaining ad there are five more duds that fail to entertain, or elicit any sort of emotional response. Take 2010, for instance. There have been …
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1 December
Dell Venue Pro now on sale
Saving the best for last? Well, we’ll have to see about that, but the Dell Venue Pro is finally available for purchase directly from Dell. The Windows Phone 7 device is available in two configurations: 8GB or 16GB. The former costs $99.99 with a two-year contract with T-Mobile or $449.99 without contract, and the latter goes for $149.99 and $499.99. …
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