Archive for July, 2010

Approximately 38% of iPad owners say that after they have purchased their cherished slates, they no longer have interest in acquiring a gaming handheld like the DS and the PSPNintendo has expressed understandable concern about the iPod Touch, iPhone, and the iPad’s threat to its DS. 49% of iPad buyers indicate that their likelihood of buying an e-reader is now nil. More »


Stuart Hughes, marketer of ultra luxurious versions of popular electronics, now has three different blinged out Apple iPad models to sell. The £79,995 Supreme Ice Edition is solid white gold weighing 2kg. More »


How mortifying is this –you, a lady, proudly purchase a “brand new” WiMAX smartphone (HTC Evo 4G) from a third-party Sprint dealer, show it off to your co-workers and friends, and they discover X-rated pornography on the device! Never would such an embarrassing fiasco occur with a Steve Jobs phone. More »


-ASUS is looking to beat out Apple’s iPad with its Eee Pads!

-Verizon may have shipped out their Motorola Droid X’s early, but new orders for the HTC Droid Incredible have been delayed until August 4th.

-The best thing about How I Met Your Mother? It introduced us to Teacup Pigs!

-Which Nation showed its superiority in the results for Ningin’s Avatar - The Last Airbender MLG Edition?

-If you’re lonely, consider renting a friend at RentAFriend.com!

-Look out of the ordinary with Iris Van Herpen’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection!

-Now you can use what the professionals use (at a cheap price) when you pick up Cake Lip Gloss La Femme Cosmetics for only $4.

-Watch out, Twilight fans…Vampire Academy is hitting the big screen! More »


From Htcyou: XDA Developers continue to put paid programmers from manufacturers/carriers to shame. One industrious individual has skilfully ported Android 2.2 FroYo over to the HTC Evo 4G, and Sense UI is even included! More »


Okoro offers two models of its OMS Ultimate Series, which are the fastest (and probably the priciest) Home Theater Personal Computers in the world. Each comes with an Apple iPad for multi-zone music control. The GX100 starts at $4995. More »


FaceTime is a great concept because it is free, but its being restricted to Wi-Fi (for now) also makes it limited. Fring is an application that allows 3G and Wi-Fi video calling between iPhone 4 owners. Best of all, though, is that Fring is cross-platform and enables callers using Android, Symbian, or iPhone 4 to chat together. More »


The LCD panel and its glass cover supposedly for the next iPod Touch have surfaced, and strong rumors are that the new model will have a front-facing camera with FaceTime, a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and 720p video capture, and a gyroscope just like the iPhone 4. More »


An Android smartphone called the Ace is being made by HTC. Speculation is that the Ace is either a GSM European Droid Incredible (exclusive to Verizon) or a 3G model of the Sprint Evo 4G. More »


From Htcyou: Rogers and Acer have teamed up to break from a painful (to the consumer) tradition, which stipulates that all powerful smartphones must sell for over $500. The Acer Liquid E is a Snapdragon CPU, Android 2.1 Eclair powered unit that has a delicious high-resolution (800×480) 3.5″ LCD and sells for only $424.99 outright or $49.99 with a standard 3-year Canadian contract. More »


When Microsoft retired the KIN quasi-smartphones after they had been on sale for barely a few months, everyone recognized the project as a monumental failure. Just how big of a catastrophe the KIN has been can be summed up in one number: 503, the alleged sales figure of both the KIN One and Two. More »


From Htcyou: Motorola hardly tried to keep its social networking smartphone, the Charm, a secret, so today’s announcement that it is coming to T-Mobile surprises no one. Built on Android 2.1 with an “enhanced” version of Motoblur, the Charm is noted as Adobe Flash enabled. More »


Low quality cases have no business being anywhere near costly gadgets. elementCASE’s $79.95 Vapor bumper for the iPhone 4 is more appropriate for protecting Apple’s premium smartphone. Furthermore, the Vapor case is designed to help maintain the iPhone 4’s optimal signal strength. More »


Right now at GeekStuff4U you can preorder a nifty ipod or iphone charger by Elecom. These mini, cube shaped chargers are easy to carry around as well as nice to look at. More »


From Htcyou: The MB710 looks strikingly like the MOTOROI and has T-Mobile’s WCDMA 1700MHz AWS. More »


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