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Woz was enthralled with his Google Nexus One when he purchased it, and although he still loves Android’s useful voice recognition, he thinks that its open source foundation (ironically) makes it too similar to Windows, an operating system that tries to do everything but staggers at doing anything well. More »


Let us play a game: regularly, we scour allover for the strangest looking gadgets, and then you guess wildly what they are. Today’s edition is a bit different because no one outside of Apple’s elite knows exactly what this prototype 3cm x 3cm touchscreen is for. Your guess is as good as mine. More »


Fortune is crediting another laurel to Steve Jobs‘ name, that of “Smartest CEO in Tech.” More »


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 »


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 »


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 »


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 »


Comex’s Frash teaser over the weekend has drawn the attention of all iPad owners. Today, instructions on how to install the hack on a jailbroken iPad has been released. More »


The RetroN 3 Video Gaming System brings back the ’80s and ’90s, when console games were about pixelated fun, not unnecessary things like production values, good voice acting, and downloadable content. With the RetroN 3, players can dust off their SEGA Genesis, Super Nintendo, and NES cartridges for a blast to the past. More »


I have outlined my reasons for believing that both/either the Xbox 360 Kinect and/or Playstation Move are/is going to fail epically, yet some of the same arguments for failure can (paradoxically) be used to suggest that one or both will succeed. More »


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