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We were quite taken with the M11x when we got some hands-on time with it at CES, and while newly leaked info on the gaming ultraportable aren’t exactly what we expected, they don’t at all dampen the excitement. https://gizmodo.com/alienware-m11x-hands-on-fast-ride-in-a-short-machine-5442786 We knew already about the Nvidia 335M graphics running the show on Dell’s 11.6-inch machine, but…
The Superbowl is this Sunday so snag an HDTV in addition to the guacamole you plan on mainlining. Also, check out an HP TouchSmart, a nicely discounted Motorola Droid, or snag a surprisingly free and fun game for the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/hps-tm2-tablet-finally-touchable-5440162 Top Deals: • 12.1″ HP TouchSmart tm2 Multi-touch Tablet for $899.99 with free shipping…
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Handsets like the iPhone may be capable of transmitting stereo Bluetooth, but as we’ve seen, it’s tough to find a great stereo Bluetooth headset. So TDK just hands us a dongle instead. Their new TH-WR700 utilizes any 3.5mm headphone port to transmit music for up to 10 meters, and thanks to Kleer wireless tech rather…
Apple has already put a 3-week delay on all of its 27-inch iMac shipments because of the manifold issues with its display. Now Hardmac is reporting they’ve stopped all assembly lines until a fix is found. https://gizmodo.com/apple-puts-massive-delay-on-27-inch-imac-shipments-5453662 It’s an anonymous source that has yet to be substantiated, but it makes some sense given the depths…
Click to viewHere’s the reality of the situation: even when your job is to distract other people all day, you can still be distracted from that. It took me three hours to write this post. Damn you, internet! [CollegeHumor]
It’s taken me a couple of days for me to understand the wet sickness I felt in response to all the post-iPad whining, until it finally came up in a sputtering lump: disgust. The iPad isn’t a threat to anything except the success of inferior products. And if anything’s dystopian about the future it portends,…
Intel and Micron’s IMFT joint venture’s just announced they’ve started producing NAND flash using 25nm transistors—they’re pushing 8GB on a single die—with products shipping sometime this year in fatter capacities (up to 600GB). In English: Using the smaller 25nm manufacturing process, they can get roughly twice as much storage in the same amount of space…
Absolutely dread going to your location wireless provider’s store and having to be social? If it’s one of your worst nightmares, hopefully this will help you change that. Guest post by a “connect” in the wireless industry. Do: Buy at the end of the month or during bad weather. It’s funny, but the best time…
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Separate pieces of evidence have popped up lately that point to Nexus One being available through AT&T and Sprint, possibly in the near future. While it’s already possible to purchase an unlocked Nexus One—albeit for $530—to date you’d be unable to run it on AT&T or Sprint’s 3G network. That’s because while the Nexus One…
It’s not in the US just yet, but Japan will receive the option to buy a standalone 250GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 starting March 11th. Sadly, it’ll run the equivalent of $170. This news comes shortly after the 120GB hard drive has turned up out of stock at most retailers, meaning the 250GB…
Samsung Mobile Display has announced that they’re going to begin mass production of the world’s first 3.3-inch touch-embedded AMOLED panels next month. That means goodbye heavy glass display, and hello thinner, lighter, brighter phones. The technology Samsung has developed places .001mm thin touch sensors on-cell on a 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED, between the panel’s substrate and…
The phone-botherers over at Recombu have cottoned onto the fact that there’s not a single perfect phone built for gaming on. Not even the iPhone, regardless of what the advertising tells us. So they’ve created a Nokia concept, the Orion. Like N-Gage 3.0—but actually looking halfway decent—the Orion concept would be aimed at hardcore gamers…
Wireless HD TVs and Blu-ray players are far from standard, but that may change as a plethora of super fast millimeter wave chips—based upon a standard by the IEEE802 (Wi-Fi) board—are released later this year. We’re talking about a 1Gb/s transfer rates, which would allow you to transmit a CD in 5 seconds or an…
Reports are surfacing that GPS navigation on the Palm Pre Plus is a little janky, with full aGPS only working with the (recently updated to 5.0) Verizon Navigator app, not Google Maps—locks are inaccurate and slow. Personally, I noticed that positioning was a little off this weekend using Google Maps on a Pre Plus in…
Samsung’s the first to make DDR3 RAM using a 30nm process, which will hit mass production later this year. It uses 30 percent less power than RAM made at 50nm, and it’s twice as cost effective (meaning it’ll get even cheaper). [PC World]
The iPhone Dev Team has put the latest redsn0w jailbreaking tool up for your downloading pleasure, for use with iPhones and iPod Touches running OS versions 3.0 and 3.1.2. [Redsn0w via SlashGear]
In the ongoing sadness that is the legal battle between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage over the JooJoo tablet, Fusion Garage has moved to dismiss Michael Arrington’s lawsuit entirely. https://gizmodo.com/the-crunchpad-joojoo-lawsuit-has-been-filed-preorders-5424261 The Fusion Garage claim seems to center around there being a “lack of any formal legal relationship or contract” between the two companies, despite their openly…
Well, this is a fun reversal. Shenzhen Great Loong Brother has been manufacturing the P88—which looks just like, hey, a giant iPhone—for about six months. And they’re pretty ticked that Apple has so blatantly stolen their idea. Okay, so maybe the P88 and iPad don’t have that much in common. Or really, hardly anything. The…