Phones

This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death

We’re idiots when we drive. We text, we watch movies, we careen into lakes blindly following GPS directions. So I’m having some trouble understanding how bolting your phone to the middle of your steering wheel is supposed to make us pay more attention to the road, not less. https://gizmodo.com/man-drowns-after-gps-guides-him-into-a-lake-5655527 Amazingly, that’s the claim of the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Blackberry Users Are More Important than iPhone or Android Users

Social influence-ranking service Klout released some interesting numbers yesterday showing BlackBerry users are more influential than Android or iPhone users. Take that, you smug RIM-hating jerks. Klout reported that the average Blackberry user it tracks scored a 43.6. The average iPhone user was a 42, while Android users came in behind both at 40.6. The…

Tech News Mat Honan

Nokia’s U.S. Customers Will Only Get WP7 Devices

Realizing that U.S. consumers have by and large abandoned Symbian, Nokia will no longer release Meego or Symbian-based devices in the U.S. That means no N9 over here, unless it’s running Windows Phone 7. [All Things D] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n9-beautiful-hardware-zombie-software-5813907/?tag=nokia

Tech News Adrian Covert

myTouch 4G Slide Review: An Actually Awesome Camera Phone

The problem with Android phones—a problem, anyway—is that for all the talk of choice, they can be remarkably undifferent. They lack a reason to exist. The myTouch 4G Slide has one, though: to be the best cameraphone you can buy. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-4g-slide-the-best-camera-phone-everrr-5816053 Why It Matters The cameras in your average smartphone today are, by and large,…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Hey Maybe This Samsung Galaxy II Celox 4G Won’t Feel Like Crap

We like the Samsung Galaxy II a lot. Hell, we think it’s what your next Android phone will look like. But one thing that’s terrible? The overwhelming sucktitude of its plastic. Hopefully this Galaxy II Celox will be different. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-a-first-draft-of-your-next-android-5818202 IT Tong has released an image of the currently unannounced Galaxy II Celox 4G LTE…

Gadgets Casey Chan

No Matter How Pissed You Get At This Phone, You’ll Never Break It (Probably)

The Samsung Convoy 2 is here for Verizon, its latest ruggedized feature-phone built to withstand the rigors of outdoorsy people, or butter-fingered indoorsy people. Is it bad that I want to try and beat it up? The Convoy 2 meets military specs standards for shock, low pressure (altitude), low and high temperature, temperature shock, solar…

Tech News Brent Rose

The First BlackBerry Running QNX Shows Up and Sounds Like the Same Old Story

Codenamed BlackBerry Colt, details of RIM’s first BlackBerry to run the new PlayBook tablet-like QNX software has been leaked to BGR, and from what they’ve reported it sounds like same old RIM: a single-core chipset, and lacking BES support, too. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-playbook-preview-the-first-great-7-inch-tab-5725985 We’d previously heard that RIM won’t include Flash-support on its phones as “you need…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola Droid 3 Lightning Review: Another Summer Sequel

The original Droid was the phone that put Android on the map. Two sequels later, here we are with the Droid 3. But is it more The Dark Knight Rises or Spiderman 3? Like The Droid 3 is solid. Like tank solid. Assembled from magnesium alloy and glass and a soft matte plastic, it won’t…

Reviews Adrian Covert

Pioneer’s SC-57 AV Receiver Wirelessly Blasts Your iTunes With AirPlay Using the Most Powerful Amp Around

Pioneer has announced their newest flagship digital AV receiver, the 9.1 channel, 140-watt Elite SC-57. It uses the most powerful amplifier of any multi-channel A/V receiver on the market. And yes, it runs Airplay. The SC-57 uses proprietary D3 digital amplifier technology to drive nine channels at 140 watts each, simultaneously. The amount of powered…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Samsung Conquer Is a 4G Phone for Cheapskates

Sprint and Samsung think that access to a 4G network shouldn’t be limited to handsets that will require you to take out a small loan in order to purchase. Enter the Conquer, a $100 Android handset with WiMax power. Though it runs Android 2.3, the Conquer’s guts are purely pedestrian (3.5-inch screen, 1GHz processor, 3.2-megapixel…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Virginia Tech Emergency Alert System Has Eight Ways of Finding You

After the 2007 massacre in which Seung Hui-Cho killed 33 people, Virginia Tech has gone to great lengths to improve its campus safety. The University’s latest system is designed to alert students and faculty whether they’re on campus or online. In the event of a real emergency, the VT Alert system sends out notifications via…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola

The iMac of the Future Could Wirelessly Charge Your iPhone

Wireless charging is already here, but in most instances, the charge base is tethered to a power strip. Not so elegant. What if charging a phone/tablet/MP3 player was as simple as placing it near your computer? MacRumors mentions that Apple has worked with the MIT-affiliated WiTricity in the past on research projects involving computers as…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Is Android About to Get Crushed?

This fall, smartphones are going to be better than they’ve ever been. That’s true every year, but iOS 5 and Windows Phone 7.5 are looking pretty fantastic. What about Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, though? We know a little bit about Ice Cream Sandwich, which seems focused on fixing a lot of the nagging issues…

Tech News Brent Rose

The First BlackBerry 7 Phones Look Mighty Familiar

If you were hoping for a revolution with RIM’s first BlackBerry 7 phones, you might as well throw yourself off a cliff while trying to send a BBM for help on the way down. First up, the most pedestrian of the bunch is the Torch 9810 for AT&T, a steroid-injected refresh of the original Torch…

Tech News Kelly

Is 4.7-Inches Too Big For a Sony Ericsson 3D Gaming Phone?

Phone sizes keep creeping up, to the point where I worry using a 10.1-inch tablet will soon become the norm. If rumors are correct, Sony Ericsson’s thinking big with their first glasses-free 3D phone—a possible PlayStation phone, perhaps? Word on the street is Sony Ericsson wants a slice of the 3D pie that HTC and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Finally Pushes Gingerbread to Desire, But Only For “Expert Users”

As promised, HTC has updated its once-flagship Desire phone with the Gingerbread version of Android its users almost rioted over. Only problem is, they recommend that only expert users update, and that certain “features” (such as texting) may be lost. https://gizmodo.com/htcs-gingerbread-update-for-desire-inches-closer-5816984 Correct me if I’m wrong, but texting is the second-most important function to a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

AT&T Chokes Unlimited Data Dead. Dead Dead Dead.

If you’ve still got an unlimited AT&T data plan that you’re holding onto for dear life to stream gigs and gigs of Spotify and Netflix and god knows what else, your life is about to suck a lot more. Even if you’re grandfathered in with one of those good-old-days unlimited plans, the all-you-can-eat-as-fast-as-you-want data plan…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This Would Be Terribly Lame on AT&T’s Part, If It’s True

A rumor from 9to5 Mac: Like Verizon, AT&T is going to start slowing down the internets of its heaviest users—something like the top 5 percent of data hogs—starting around October. https://gizmodo.com/hello-data-hog-verizons-about-to-slow-you-down-and-c-5750903 This would be okay (grudgingly), given precisely two conditions: If everybody on AT&T still had unlimited data (they don’t) or if AT&T only applied…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Specs For HTC’s Mango-Running Omega Phone Emerge

If the recent trend of larger-than-your-hand phones has got you down, you’ll be pleased to hear that the rumored HTC Omega supposedly has a 3.8-inch display for the WP7 Mango it’s going to (allegedly) run. Coupled with a 1.5GHz Qualcomm chip, 8MP camera and 16GB of onboard storage, these leaked specs give us something to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Mozilla Is Making an Android-Based Mobile OS

Choice is a wonderful thing, but successful restaurants have smaller menus for a reason. If you’ve been grappling with making a decision on phone platforms as is, Mozilla’s about to chuck their hat into the ring with their Boot to Gecko mobile platform. B2G, as it’s being called, aims to clean up mobile fragmentation with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death

Blackberry Users Are More Important than iPhone or Android Users

Nokia’s U.S. Customers Will Only Get WP7 Devices

myTouch 4G Slide Review: An Actually Awesome Camera Phone

Hey Maybe This Samsung Galaxy II Celox 4G Won’t Feel Like Crap

No Matter How Pissed You Get At This Phone, You’ll Never Break It (Probably)

The First BlackBerry Running QNX Shows Up and Sounds Like the Same Old Story

Motorola Droid 3 Lightning Review: Another Summer Sequel

Pioneer’s SC-57 AV Receiver Wirelessly Blasts Your iTunes With AirPlay Using the Most Powerful Amp Around

Samsung Conquer Is a 4G Phone for Cheapskates

Virginia Tech Emergency Alert System Has Eight Ways of Finding You

The iMac of the Future Could Wirelessly Charge Your iPhone

Is Android About to Get Crushed?

The First BlackBerry 7 Phones Look Mighty Familiar

Is 4.7-Inches Too Big For a Sony Ericsson 3D Gaming Phone?

HTC Finally Pushes Gingerbread to Desire, But Only For “Expert Users”

AT&T Chokes Unlimited Data Dead. Dead Dead Dead.

This Would Be Terribly Lame on AT&T’s Part, If It’s True

Specs For HTC’s Mango-Running Omega Phone Emerge

Mozilla Is Making an Android-Based Mobile OS

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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