Fermi is NVIDIA’s answer to ATI’s top dogs, but what about gamers on a tight budget? Should we be cast aside like yesterday’s trash? NVIDIA’s crippled Fermi GeForce GTX 465 was a waste of $300. The GTX 460 is priced accordingly and unlike the 465 (which is a stripped down GF100), it is based off a brand new core, the efficient and muscular GF104. More »

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Once upon a time, cell phones were simple radios that allowed two people to speak to each other. Today, smartphones include voice calling almost as an afterthought, and manufacturers load their top models with so many features that the phones could conceivably replace their owners’ cameras, music players, and netbooks. Motorola’s Droid X is off to a rousing start, as it excites gadget geeks and smartphone lovers across America. Find out why Verizon’s latest Droid might be the greatest of them all. More »

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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 »

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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 »

Slowly but surely, solid-state-drives are making their entrance into mainstream acceptance. For sometime, higher-end laptops from Apple, Sony, HP, etc. have offered optional SSD hard disks as replacements for mechanical drives, which, due to moving parts, are significantly slower than solid-state storage for random and sequential reading (as well as random writing) speed. More consumers are taking notice of SSD because their benefits are readily apparent: much faster operating system and application boot up times and quicker general response from computers. Unfortunately, the biggest hurdle of SSD (in addition to first generation drives that had terrible Jmicron controllers) has remained its small capacity and high price. While drives are becoming more affordable and bigger, 60-64Gb disks are still in the $150+ range. People like myself have waited for the ideal solution, and with Corsair’s budget Nova series, I think that I have found it. More »

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Just barely did the iPhone 4 manage to win our title as “Gadget of the Week.” It was a close decision between it and…the particle transporter on Star Trek! Here is a biased and easy to read review from someone who, like Billy Gates, has admired the iPhone from afar but has never really been lured to buy one for personal use. More »

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Just barely did the iPhone 4 manage to win our title as “Gadget of the Week.” It was a close decision between it and…the particle transporter on Star Trek! Here is a biased and easy to read review from someone who, like Billy Gates, has admired the iPhone from afar but has never really been lured to buy one for personal use. More »

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HTC’s Legend is an old toy for Europeans, but it has just landed in Canada by way of Virgin Mobile. An odd mixture of high-end build with modestly entry-level internal hardware, the Legend is luring few Motorola Droid, Nexus One, and other top-flight Android 2.1 smartphone owners from their devices, but it should satisfy most consumers who want a moderately fast and beautiful smartphone. More »

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Throw away those cumbersome USB hubs and space hogging card readers and let Desk Genie be your one-shop-stop for computer peripherals. Thanks to MobileFun, we’ve recently received a copy to review! More »

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The idea is so simple and useful that I am perplexed as to why there are not more of them around: a compact wireless keyboard and mouse combo designed to work on your lap for couch typing/gaming/music listening/film viewing sessions. Phantom’s $130 Lapboard is literally an all-in-one KBM device whose full-size keyboard can swivel 360 degrees and be pulled up by 20 degrees, leaving the board underneath to act as a mousepad for the small laser mouse. In theory, the product is an HTPC dream, but does it work? More »

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As a native Southern Californian, I am almost never not in my car. (Unless blogging, of course.) As a girl of many gadgets, I am almost never without my cell phone or things that require recharging-on-the-go. The kind people at MobileFun have recognized this and sent a TrailBlazer Universal Car Charger and Holder our way for review. More »

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Owing in large part to Intel’s energy efficient mobile “Core” chips that began with the Core Duo at the commencement of 2006 and later followed by the legendary desktop Core 2 Duo “Conroe” in August of the same year, Intel has thoroughly trounced AMD in the CPU wars. However, the tide could be turning just a bit. AMD’s recent, record setting 12-core Opteron workstation chips appear to be amazing bargains. For around $120, AMD offers the bang-for-the-buck Athlon II X4 635 quad-core processor, clocked at 2.9GHz and based on the Propus platform. More »

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An early review of the Windows 7 HP Slate has hit the web courtesy of Spanish blog Connecti. Mauricio Pastrana is not terribly enthused by the tablet. More »

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I’ve always been wary about transparent cell phone covers. Naturally, I was a little scared to put the BodyGuardz cover on my phone, too. Read on to find out what I thought about the covers… More »

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With all these new bells and whistles that come with the new TVs, one may inquire as to whether all these new specs really matter. Well, Michael J. Miller from PC Mag put two TVs against each other to find out. More »

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