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While Apple and AT&T have both been pretty quiet about what could be going wrong with the iPhone 3G, a new source from inside AT&T has finally broken the silence on the “bug fixes” offered in the latest firmware 2.0.2. So was it fixing the iPhone or the iPhone’s network? Well, sorta both.Essentially, the 2.0.2…
Sometimes, two companies decide that it would be advantageous to them both to release a product together. Sometimes it works well, like when Nike and Apple teamed up. Sometimes, it’s a bit more awkward. For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want to see some really awkward cross-promotions. You know, like a Jimmy Dean Sausage Nintendo…
Appleinsider has gotten their hands on a large patent filing from Apple that we haven’t seen before, and it’s loaded with plans for how a multitouch interface would work on a tablet Mac running full-blown OS X. It covers how small interface buttons will be handled, iPhone-like scrolling through lists, details on a full multi-touch…
Ah Miss IFA, Miss IFA… Miss IFA with your-fake-red hair, Miss IFA with your-real-long legs, Miss IFA with your really big Philips and Swarovski Active Crystals… how much do we love thee? Let me count the ways. Click to viewOne, because you put the “Miss” in IFA. Two, because of the way your sweet voice…
Not able to let cyclists and sprinters have all the performance-enhancing fun, pro gamers are apparently equally avid dopers, according to an interview Game Player Australia has with Alex Walker, the director of an upcoming World Cyber Games tournament. They stick him the hard question-what is the WCG doing to combat the growing problem of…
While the Xbox 360 arcade is ironically the least expensive version of 360, The Arcade Station T2 is the probably the most expensive…and it actually belongs in an arcade. Essentially an arcade cabinet housing an Xbox 360, the Arcade Station T2 features two controllers, memory card slots and system link gaming (which we’re assuming means…
Philips is working on their own ultra-thin backlighting technology. But compared to the absolutely stunning Sony ZX1 9.9mm-thin TV, the Philips 8mm 32-inch model is a) just too small and b) just a prototype. However, it looks like it uses a similar LED-in-the-corner backlighting technology. [More IFA 2008 Coverage]
With Samsung’s BD-P2500, we see that Blu-ray players are finally shedding that first-gen baby weight. Sized to fit in a normal dress, Samsung’s latest supports all current Blu-ray spec right out of the box and is prepared for expansion through its ethernet, 1GB of onboard memory and USB. In terms of audio, the system can…
As mentioned in the liveblog, Philips has stumped up a new home theater system that’s as small, and almost as round as, a soccer ball—for those of us bored of boring, standard rectangular entertainment gadgets. Though it’s tiny, it fits in an iPod dock, a five-channel amp, six speakers and a subwoofer built into the…
This week at Uncrate: We celebrate the remaining days of summer with Leinenkugel’s Explorer Pack, gear up for the DNC with some Barack Obama T-Shirts, and get cutting with the Revolution XT Tile Saw. We also jam out to Total Brutal by Austrian Death Machine, strengthen our Force powers with the Marc Ecko Star Wars…
It’s a rule as old as time: tell a bunch of geeks they can’t do something, and they will find a way. Any way. Thus the Flash-based Phweet trick to get around Aircell and American Airlines’ ban on VoIP using their Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service. Now, Aircell has responded with a light wrist-slapping statement. It…
While Wi-Fi is nice, what mini-notebooks need to reach their potential (and be more functional than the average smartphone) is 3G data. The LG X110 appears to be a pretty standard 8.9″ mini-note, but it’s packing HSDPA so you can browse [fill in crude meme of choice] almost anywhere. In addition to the wireless data,…
We are at the Philips press conference and it has started with… a Senseo coffee machine that can make latte macchiatos? Apparently, the new home appliances part of IFA is big. But there’s more, here comes their first TV, called Essence. Essence is quite cool, designed to hang on walls. Comes with a 4m cable…
So after much to-ing and fro-ing, it looks like BlackBerry Storms are BlackBerry Thunders (“…and violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I” as a schoolyard song used to go.) The same device will bear two names: Storm for Verizon, Thunder for others like Rogers and Vodafone. It seems like there’ll be an 8GB…
Another First today has been the Sony Z4500 with 200Hz Motionflow technology, which uses a special processor to interpolate frames from the original source, delivering 200 frames per second for ultra-smooth, I-wanna-rub-my-butt-against-a-giant-english-pudding smooth video action. I saw the demo, right next to a normal 100Hz TV and the difference was extreme, even for a half-blind…
We just saw the DMP-BD50 a few months back, but now at IFA Panasonic has made official two new BD-Live 2.0-compatible players, the BD35 and BD55. The only discernible difference between the two, at the moment, is the BD55 supports analog 7.1 channel audio output. On top of that, they both share a slimmed-down chassis…
Toshiba’s new Regza ZF HDTVs don’t upscale your DVDs to HD resolution with any old chipset or engine: they do it with a Cell-processor based system. Bonkers! It’s the first TV to upscale with a Cell, and according to its European executive vice president, Toshiba’s future “does not involve Blu-ray disc” but will use this…
Sony’s S-series Walkman is their new high-end digital audio player that is not only their slimmest player to date, but has active noise cancellation and the SensMe music suggestion engine. Sony bundled 13.5mm EX headphones with the S-series players, as well as a pass through cable that connects to an in-flight entertainment system and uses…
As we saw in the Sony IFA 2008 Liveblog, these new Sony Cybershot digital 10.1 megapixel cameras also shoot HD video (720p, though that’s not mentioned in the press release.) The T500 has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom, 3.5-inch touchscreen, eight-person face tracking, and something called “Double Anti-blur” technology which combines…
Hookai. I’m lining up to get into Sony’s press conference. They have some things under wraps, including a mega-TV with super-smooth video action and what could be some Walkmen. Hmmm, I love the smell of new plastic in the morning. More info and photos following up shortly. Keep watching this space. We are in, first…