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We’ve seen leaked pics and specs for HTC’s latest touchscreen Android phone, but AT&T just made it official. This is a pretty small phone compared to the gigantic Android phones we’ve been seeing lately, with a 3.2-inch screen that’s over an inch smaller than the Evo’s 4.3-incher. It also comes stocked with a 5MP camera.…
Scroll any number of Android forums, and there seems to be a fair few HTC EVO 4G screens separating from the device. It’s surprising news as HTC’s build quality tends to be exemplary, but you just can’t ignore these stories. By the sounds of it, the EVO 4Gs are perfectly fine until a few days’…
There has been a lot of discussion about the iPhone 4 Retina display lately. Forget about it and look at the amazing resolution in this extreme close ups. Compare it to the iPhone 3GS screen or your own phone. Insane. Click images for high resolution versions Check the video in full res and HD to…
Any carpenters or architects reading this? Leave your measuring tape at home and download the Advanced Ruler Pro app on your Android phone, which measures the height of buildings, people—basically, whatever you aim it at. You’ll have to enter your own height into the app first, deducting a couple of inches if you hold the…
I think most of us are in agreement that one of the nicest things about the Palm Pre was its wireless charging Touchstone dock. At $20, you too can try your hand at modding one for your HTC EVO 4G. While the modder is yet to publish details on how he made the Touchstone compatible…
Forget the plethora of keyboard peripherals for the iPad—this is the only one you need. If you don’t mind typing at a speed of three words a minute, that is. On sale over at Etsy, Jack Zylkin’s USB typewriters range in price from $400 to $500, but if you’ve got an antique hanging out back…
Pricing is still a mystery, but at least now we know Kinect will be on sale in at least one country come November. [MCV via Kotaku]
For a leaked tablet, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab sure is getting a lot of specs suddenly. The Vietnamese site Tinh te is now reckoning on an A8 1.2GHz processor and 16GB of internal storage being squeezed into the shell. Not to mention the fact that their sources are claiming it’ll be running Android Froyo 2.2, and…
This app’s been available for a month now, but I’m willing to bet few of you had heard of the darned vuvuzela horns before the weekend just gone. If FIFA actually bans them, here’s your free app replacement. The app description promises to “annoy everyone in sight, in the pub, wherever…whilst watching your favorite football…
41 per cent of you may not be bothered about the AT&T iPad security breach, but for the remaining 59 per cent of Giz readers who were either outraged or slightly laissez faire about it all, this is for you: The emails were sent out Sunday night to the 114,000 iPad customers whose email addresses…
Backstage at the Fern Gully acid trip spectacle that was Microsoft Kinect’s (nee Project Natal) coming out party, we got to see Kinect up close. It’s elongated black and shiny plastic, like a PS3 accessory. Take a look. I played the new racing game. It was fun, though I oversteered a lot, because the controls…
Well, the leaks were right. At tonight’s E3 kick-off party, Microsoft officially pulled the curtain off Kinect, formerly known as Project Natal. Kinect! Like “connect” and “kinetic” and “Kin.” Among the first games to be shown off: Kinect Star Wars. Star Wars! Controlled with the power of the Force, as best as we can approximate…
A large mineral deposit worth an estimated $1 trillion has been discovered in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials revealed today. The find could change the nation’s economy, alter the war, and contains vast amounts of lithium—found in many of today’s batteries. Better still, beyond batteries —rather unimportant when your country is war-torn Afghanistan‐are the numerous jobs that…
Move over, Mr. President, for the world is here, with its cup, and the whole hot mess is setting crazy new Internet traffic records thanks in part to the massive video streaming efforts covering the games in South Africa. The previous record, held by the U.S. Presidential Election in 2008, was a paltry 8.5 million…
Arduino modder Matthew Garten took his previous watch, a stingray hide “Biopunk Edition,” and wrapped it with pseudo steampunk. It’s an acquired taste, to be sure, but a temperature-sensing watch is handy if you’re dealing with heat (or steam!). There’s also a range-finding feature, Breakout, a trackball and a 128×128 OLED display. The whole kit,…
Approval process be damned, the dedicated iPad App Store section is 10,000-strong and shows not signs of slowing down anytime soon. Even more impressive is that iPad apps have reached the 10,000 milestone faster than their iPhone cousins. Back in 2008, it took a full five months for dedicated iPhone/iPod tuch apps to reach 10,000.…
Stefan Magdalinski’s wife is a self-described “Apple nut.” We could debate whether that’s redundant or not all day, so instead we’ll just marvel at the fact that the gift Stefan gave her is very fitting: Yes, as the headline lets on, the perfect gift was a chocolate-covered, perfectly functioning iPad. Word is there would have…
If you’re lucky, one day you may have a near-death experience that will make you appreciate the joy of life in the most powerful way imaginable. If you are a Red Bull Air Race pilot, those experiences look like this. This is Matt Hall at the qualifying day—June 5th—of the Red Bull Air Race World…
The Beautiful Game is played on a beautiful field, typically one comprised of grass. So, when ESPN commentator Adrian Healy said 2 million artificial fibers were woven into the Moses Mabhida Stadium pitch this morning, I was dubious. No longer: You see, for all intents and purposes the field is predominantly grass. Beautiful Game integrity…
Pro tip: When you post a Craigslist ad proposing an iPad-for-“blue dream straight outta Cali” marijuana trade and also post a picture of said illegal substance for all to see, the local police will find and arrest you. I know this because it just happened to an enterprising duo in Gilbert, Arizona the other day…
