Reviews

Joos Orange Charger Reviewed: Solar-Powered Gadget Charging, For Real

We were a little skeptical of claims that the Joos Orange offered 6 to 20 times more sun-to-power conversion than its competitors. But Giz editor Brian Lam tried one recently and says it’s the “best solar charger [he’d] ever tested.” https://gizmodo.com/joos-orange-solar-charger-has-6-to-20-times-more-sun-to-5486004 He reports that it’s rugged, works in weak light and can charge an iPhone…

Reviews Kyle VanHemert

Vapir NO2 Vaporizer Review: Cut the Cords and Get Portable

The Vapir is like many other small vaporizers, with one key difference: it’s powered by a rechargeable battery, allowing you to bring it with you anywhere. It’s a neat trick. Most vaporizers require you to keep the thing plugged in to power their electron-hungry coils. A monster machine like the Volcano could probably never go…

Reviews Adam Frucci

Runnur Bag Review: A Bandolier for a Sadly Select Few

The Runnur is a bandolier. Instead of carrying a full-sized bag or backpack around town, goes their thinking, why not tote a little sling with just a few pockets? Because it’s not very useful, is why. I’ve had the Runnur in my closet for something like six months—far too long. I don’t like presenting a…

Reviews Joel Johnson

iPhone 4 Review

How can a flawed iPhone be the best yet? Here’s how: *** I’m at dinner. The waitress is slow to take our order. I don’t mind. I reach into my pocket for the iPhone 4. It seems like the fifth time I’m doing this tonight. It’s probably the fifteenth. It’s nearly impossible to tell which…

Reviews Jason Chen

Test Notes: iPhone 4 Call Quality

The iPhone 4 is supposed to have better reception than prior generations. Its additional noise-cancellation microphone should result in better call quality and less distortion during chats. Our somewhat unscientific tests confirmed it—iPhone 4 is go for talk. https://gizmodo.com/roundup-the-iphone-4-re-revealed-5557549 We made a series of calls to a regular landline from an iPhone 3G, an iPhone…

Reviews Rosa Golijan and Jason Chen

Test Notes: iPhone 4 Screen

When I try to look for the pixels, I get close. Then closer. Before I can discern them, my vision goes cross-eyed, blurry. Eyes: 0; Retina Display: 1. Android has larger screens on phones like the Droid X. But no one’s screen is as sharp. The Retina Display is a peach—except without a hint of…

Reviews brian lam & matt buchanan

10 Takes on Apple’s Unibody Mac Mini

When Apple quietly introduced the Unibody Mac Mini, many people wondered if it was the perfect HTPC. Considering that it packs a HDMI-port (a first for Apple) and is housed in a sleek design, it just may be. ZDNet UK The new aluminium case carries with it all of the uber-industrial charm common to the…

Reviews Casey Chan

OnLive Streaming Game Service Tested (At Home, Finally!)

We’ve checked out the OnLive pure-streaming gaming system before, but it was always in a somewhat controlled environment. Finally, the service has launched, and we can see what it’s like to play this at home. Where it matters. To start off, a quick explanation of what OnLive is. It’s an entirely cloud-based, server-side rendering solution…

Reviews Jason Chen

HTC Evo 4G Review: A War Machine

You know that scene in Iron Man 2, where Justin Hammer asks Rhodey which weapons he wants inside War Machine—and Rhodey says “all of them”? That’s exactly how the Evo 4G was born. Somebody said “everything.” The Evo comes out tomorrow (6/4) on Sprint for $200 with 2-year contract rebate. 4.3-inch, 800 x 480-pixel screen.…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Canon PowerShot SD4000 IS Review: No More Noisy Nights

The Canon PowerShot SD4000, the company’s first compact with a back-lit CMOS sensor, achieves an elusive point-and-shoot camera feat: crisp, clean nighttime photography. And it’s not even that expensive. If you already own a DSLR, you probably don’t think twice about snapping shots in low-light conditions. But as most point-and-shoot camera owners can tell you,…

Reviews Kyle VanHemert

Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ Review: It’s Sweet

If you consider where Android was when it started versus how far it’s advanced in 18 months with Android 2.2, you might get brain freeze. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-g1-google-android-phone-review-5062977 Android 2.2—aka Froyo—is the most usable, polished iteration of Android yet. But more importantly, it’s the first release that makes Android truly compelling for a broad consumer audience. Froyo’s…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Sausage Stylus Review: A Surprisingly Useful iPad Accessory

This review was typed using two sausages on my iPad. Wait a Minute! Why Sausages? Sausage finger puns aside, meat-shaped iPhone and iPad accessories don’t exactly seem like the most natural thing. The whole trend supposedly started with a some Koreans who decided to use regular sausages to play games on their iPhones. You see,…

Reviews Rosa Golijan

MyPhoneDesktop Links Your Computer and iDevice the Way Apple Should Have

Froyo? That’s just what the myPhoneDesktop app eats after a hard day of wirelessly zapping links, text and images from your computer to your iPhone or iPad—a taste of the mouthwatering functionality Google demoed on Android last week. As it becomes clearer that smart phones and tablets aren’t people’s lesser computers but simply their other…

Reviews Kyle VanHemert

LG Ally Review: It’s No Droid

Among Android handsets with keyboards, the Droid is the indisputable king. The LG Ally, also on Verizon, doesn’t change this, but it does make buying a Droid tougher to stomach. The LG Ally is an odd handset, spec’d through the roof in some respects—its 800×480 screen and top-notch keyboard, along with Android 2.1—while painfully lacking…

Reviews John Herrman

I’d Advise You Not to Buy the iPad’s Keyboard Upgrade App

Keyboard Upgrade is an iPad app that allows you to split and resize the base iPad keyboard. For a moment, I thought this idea might be neat or even useful, so I dropped $1 to test it. I was wrong. Since developers can’t modify the basic iPad OS, Keyboard Upgrade is similar to those old…

Reviews Mark Wilson

Canon Rebel T2i Review: This Should Be Your First DSLR

Canon’s Rebel T2i is an incredible camera—everything a first DSLR should be. It takes fantastic photos (and, crucially, video) for the price, it’s easy to use, and perhaps most importantly, it’s a camera you can grow with. But there’s no shame in using it if you really know what you’re doing, either. That’s in part…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Sony Dash Review: The Clock Radio, Evolved

Sony calls the Dash a “personal internet viewer.” It’s more like a $200 alarm clock with an app store. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. https://gizmodo.com/sony-dash-internet-viewer-hands-on-like-a-giant-beaut-5442053 The Dash, if you’re unfamiliar, is a glossy, Sony spin on the Chumby. But while the original Chumby was a personable, hackable beanbag; the Dash is a typical…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

The Best $250 Blu-ray Players, Reviewed

I’ve argued that a Blu-ray player could soon be your only set-top box. These $200-$250 models, the four fullest-featured you’re likely to buy, all strive to be Swiss Army-like in their utility, but only one comes closest to the promise. https://gizmodo.com/why-a-blu-ray-player-might-become-your-only-set-top-box-5447402 We call them “Blu-ray players,” but if you use these right, you’ll spend less…

Reviews Wilson Rothman

The Fastest (and Slowest) Way to Charge an iPad

The flipside of the iPad’s seemingly inexhaustible battery life is that the length of time it takes to recharge it is best measured in epochs. Turns out, some methods work better than others. There’s a lot of ways to recharge an iPad—thank you, USB—but the iPad is finicky. For a portable, it has high power…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Iron Man 2 Review

“Rhodey, get down!” And with those words, a one-second effect, a secret Iron Man weapon that was so stunning and so unexpected and so well rendered, forced the audience to make a noise I’d never heard a group make before: A cross between a gasp for air and a Scooby Doo “gewuhhhh???”. For a moment,…

Reviews Mark Wilson

Joos Orange Charger Reviewed: Solar-Powered Gadget Charging, For Real

Vapir NO2 Vaporizer Review: Cut the Cords and Get Portable

Runnur Bag Review: A Bandolier for a Sadly Select Few

iPhone 4 Review

Test Notes: iPhone 4 Call Quality

Test Notes: iPhone 4 Screen

10 Takes on Apple’s Unibody Mac Mini

OnLive Streaming Game Service Tested (At Home, Finally!)

HTC Evo 4G Review: A War Machine

Canon PowerShot SD4000 IS Review: No More Noisy Nights

Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ Review: It’s Sweet

Sausage Stylus Review: A Surprisingly Useful iPad Accessory

MyPhoneDesktop Links Your Computer and iDevice the Way Apple Should Have

LG Ally Review: It’s No Droid

I’d Advise You Not to Buy the iPad’s Keyboard Upgrade App

Canon Rebel T2i Review: This Should Be Your First DSLR

Sony Dash Review: The Clock Radio, Evolved

The Best $250 Blu-ray Players, Reviewed

The Fastest (and Slowest) Way to Charge an iPad

Iron Man 2 Review

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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