The Logitech Revue is the first stand-alone Google TV box to hit the shops in the US. The $300 (£190) box is designed to combine your TV with the whole Internet and add a smattering of TV from your cable or satellite provider. The idea is, Google ties all these things together, and does what …
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October, 2010
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10 October
Sony Ericsson baffles with LiveView Android display
Sony Ericsson (SE) is embracing Android in a big way; not only is the company rumoured to be developing an Android-powered PSP phone, but it is also splashing out on inventing Android-specific Bluetooth accessories, starting with LiveView. LiveView is about as big as the face on a wrist watch. (Credit: Sony Ericsson) Described as a “micro display”, LiveView pairs with …
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8 October
Alcatel OT
All the single ladies (all the single ladies), put your hands up for the Alcatel OT-808. It isn’t the first Qwerty clamshell mobile phone we’ve ever seen, but is possibly the first to be square rather than rectangular. In fact, it looks almost exactly like a make-up compact. That’s probably what Alcatel had in mind, because the OT-808 is “designed …
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8 October
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8: Does Android 1.6 still cut it?
Here comes the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8, just a day after we covered the new Nokia X5 and X6. Who said there’s no originality left in the world of mobile phones? Names aside, there’s very little similarity between Nokia’s squared-off youth phone and the new offering from Sony Ericsson. The 3G X8 sports a 76mm (3-inch) capacitive touchscreen with customisable …
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8 October
Preliminary Droid 2 Global specs indicate 1.2GHz processor
It has been a very busy week for Motorola as the handset maker announced no less than seven Android devices for various carriers. Yet, even afer all the CTIA buzz, there is still at least one super phone hiding up the company’s sleeves: the Droid 2 Global. The handset has been teased for a while and images even surfaced a …
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8 October
Sprint ID for Android smartphones (review)
We admit that we were skeptical when Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse launched Sprint ID at the fall CTIA show earlier this week. The service essentially gives Android users an opportunity to swap among five different thematic profiles. It sounds useful at first description, but we quickly wondered if the ID Packs–which contain the wallpaper, widgets, home screen shortcut buttons, and …
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8 October
Touching the LG Optimus T
Now playing: Watch this: LG Optimus T (T-Mobile) 1:00 SAN FRANCISCO–If you feel like you’ve seen the LG Optimus T before, don’t fret. The Optimus T does look a lot like the Optimus One slated for Europe, and it also has very similar specs to the Optimus S for Sprint. The main differences between the Optimus T and the Optimus …
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8 October
A first look at the Motorola Defy
Now playing: Watch this: Motorola Defy (T-Mobile) 1:08 Though it made its official debut three weeks ago, we haven’t had the opportunity to review T-Mobile’s new Motorola Defy just yet. So when Moto put the handset on display at the fall CTIA show in San Francisco we took the opportunity to give it a spin. Moto is pushing the Defy …
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8 October
Ask Maggie: On what 4G is and isn’t
Almost everywhere you turn, one major wireless carrier or another is talking about its 4G wireless network. Verizon Wireless says it will launch its 4G network by the end of the year. Sprint Nextel has been touting its 4G network for more than a year. And now all of a sudden T-Mobile, which on a few years ago didn’t even …
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8 October
LG Optimus S is for Sprint
Now playing: Watch this: LG Optimus S (Sprint) 0:52 SAN FRANCISCO–The Sanyo Zio and the Samsung Transform are not the only two new Sprint handsets announced at CTIA Fall 2010. We also had a chance to take a look at the LG Optimus S, which is the other Android smartphone to support the carrier’s new Sprint ID user-interface system. It’s …
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