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The HP Compaq Airlife 100 certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the specs, the more I’m doubting this first-wave smartbook. The 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB RAM and 512MB flash storage (along with a 16GB SSD) are all well and good. But then you hit the resistive touchscreen, the 16-bit TFT display,…
Apple’s only mention of any kind of new iPhone hardware (besides the letter they sent us), and mentions of “future product transitions” during its live earnings call: Apple COO Tim Cook made a single reference to “new hardware” for the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-iphone-back-5520479 His answer to a question about driving iPhone units sales across carriers: The…
Apple sold 8.75 million iPhones in the last three months. That’s over double what they did a year ago—the most quarterly ever—and how Apple nearly doubled profits: Up 90 percent for their best ever non-Christmas quarter. Updated live. I presume what we’re all actually interested in, though, isn’t the iPhones they’ve already sold. It’s the…
A controlled leak? The lost iPhone planted by Apple? You have no idea how Apple PR works—and how, like it or not, Gizmodo finally beat them at their own game. The only way the iPhone 4 was a controlled leak is if Apple has completely upended its PR strategy, which is the envy of the…
The interest in the tale of Apple’s next iPhone is melting our servers and causing some technical difficulties. As a result, we had to temporarily shut off our comments system. https://gizmodo.com/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone-5520471 But we want to hear your thoughts, so here’s how to keep commenting while we fix things: Use our tagpages, such as #whitenoise, #broken,…
Oh hello, pretty. This appears to be Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal, complete with instructions, as seen by someone hired to test its speech recognition. There’s not a lot of new info to be found here, although it appears that the Natal unit will need to be plugged in to the wall rather than drawing power…
Devon claims that their $15,000 Tread 1 watch, a motorized, belt-driven contraption, is “a big, bold sexy declaration of independence from the status quo.” The status quo, in this case, being affordable, legible, sensible timepieces. But all those belts. If your sense of what defines a good watch is how many moving parts it has,…
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It’s such an obvious question: Why couldn’t Apple track this phone down? As it turns out, they may have had two chances to get it back—and blown them both. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-apples-next-iphone-5520164 The timeline of the night goes something like this: On March 18th, an Apple engineer with a top-secret, next-generation iPhone prototype went to a bar.…
Did something happen yesterday? Sorry, we were too busy combing through deals to realize. Oh, say what? The volcano erupted again? LeBron scored 40? Wow. Was there something else though? We don’t remember. Anyway, here’s the latest deals! Top Deals: • 17.3″ MultiTouch Dell Studio 17 Laptop with Core i3 2.13GHz for $849 with free…
The latest beta of iPhone OS 4.0 is ooout. Besides desperately needed bugfixes, wonder what else is new? [Apple]
This is the Giovannoni Washlet. And while I don’t recognize exactly what each component of its feature set is supposed to do, I do know what awesome sounds like. And “tornado flush” sounds awesome. The toilet—pardon me, washlet—also has a “triple-jet rimless flushing system” and a “hygienic glazing” for its ceramic surface. To me that…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to help Microsoft take aim at some demographics other than hipsters. And while technically these entries fit that criteria, I’m not sure how many phones they’d sell. Yikes. https://gizmodo.com/hey-microsoft-enough-with-the-hipsters-5516318
A Mexican site called Conecti.ca got some hands-on time with the HP Slate, and walked away decidedly unimpressed. The verdict: that the device is basically a keyboardless netbook. Well… yeah. If nothing else, the mini-review confirms the leaked specs we saw a few weeks ago: the HP Slate runs full Windows 7 on an Atom…
Just in case internet iPhone celebrity Jason Chen needed another reason to feel smug: his alma mater, Berkeley, has the highest internet speeds of any city on Earth. http://tv.gawker.com/5520655/complete-coverage-of-gizmodos-iphone-story-on-tv With the average speed at 18.7Mbps, Berkeley is top on Akamai’s list of worldwide data speeds. Second place is Chapel Hill, NC followed by Stanford, CA…
Bill Jordan’s recent iPad purchase turned nightmarish, in one of those delightfully grotesque ways that local news affiliates thrive on: a thief grabbed his shopping bag, tugging so hard that he took most of Jordan’s little finger with him. Gross. Apparently the iPad is in more demand than we thought. Fortunately, Jordan wasn’t so scarred…
Last Saturday, Atlanta’s Georgia Dome was packed with students cheering on the FIRST Robotics Competition national championship. We covered the final matches via live feed, but these up-close photos truly capture the event’s electric atmosphere. Even on the live stream, the excitement at the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship on Saturday was palpable. But these photos…
Of all the days that you can lose Apple’s secret iPhone… [The Next iPhone Saga] https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-lost-the-iphone-4-5520438 The Complete Lost iPhone Saga • How Apple lost the next iPhone • All the details about the device • And finally, how Apple asked for their phone back
Anyone can build Optimus Prime out of an old semi and a glint of All Spark. But it takes a true craftsman, a visionary, an auteur (and OK, maybe a clown) to build him out of balloons. Some see an Optimus Prime balloon sculpture that stands seven feet tall, others see a wasted afternoon. I…
It was dubbed a “once in a lifetime opportunity” by UKAirshowReview, and I’ve got to agree—these photos of 13 Tiger Moth planes flying over Gatwick airport, with commercial planes grounded below due to volcanic ash, are amazing. https://gizmodo.com/volcanic-ash-could-last-months-larger-nearby-volcano-c-5518584 The de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth, to give it its full name, is a biplane that…
