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HP turned the Touchsmart line on its head and designed an entire new touch interface for its IQ506 PC. The touch UI focuses around “lifestyle apps” such as calendars, weather, news and multimedia, and is supposed to offer a more intuitive experience. It also has 22-inch screen (up from 19-inches), 500 GB HDD and a…
I almost don’t care what’s inside Voodoo’s Omen desktop, beyond the usual gaming PC bombast —quad radiator and liquid cooling with integrated copper pipes to stave thermonuclear meltdown for extreme overclocking—because this is the best-looking made-to-order gaming desktop I’ve ever seen. It looks like a clean, efficient killing machine, not a disco-in-a-box. (Okay, there is…
HP overhauled its feature-packed consumer DV notebooks, the familiar black-and-silver ID getting a “magic chrome” enhancement: otherwise invisible controls light-up when touched. It’s the first new look for the Pavilion line since 2006. The entire line features HD tuners, Blu-ray drives, webcams, fingerprint readers and built-in 3G internet. Here’s a closer look at the line,…
Canon Japan today unveils the EOS Digital Rebel XS, a little brother to the critically praised Rebel XSi DSLR camera. This is good news for everyone but Nikon. When I reviewed the Canon XSi, the only thing that saddened me was its price tag, $200 more than the Nikon D60, but with enough performance to…
Yes, this is another iPhone post, but embrace it with true love, because it means two things: one, no more damn “iPhone to be available in [insert name of some weird country here]” articles ever again (stop saying words, Canada.) And two: you get to see We Are the World one more time. It also…
In the big book of ideas that sound better than they probably are, you will find the Rocketshield canopy for sportbikes. Obviously, the device is intended for people who are looking to turn their sportbike into a viable daily commuter, but the whole damn thing just seems a bit unnatural and dangerous if you ask…
In an otherwise surprise-free keynote today, one without booms or “one more thing”s, one bit of news stood out: White made a quiet return to the iPod family in the premium 16GB iPhone 3G. Sure, it never fully left Apple—remaining the default color for earbuds, plugs, power bricks, AirPort products and the cheapest MacBooks—but we…
In case our liveblog didn’t make you feel enough like you were there, you can get a step closer or (just re-live the glory) with the freshly posted video of the entire Stevenote. [Apple]
Yep, you heard right: Apple showed off the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due out in a year, to the attendees at WWDC, and let some details slip to the public, including: • Optimization for multi-core processors • GPU friendly (actually GPU utilization of highly parallel tasks generally done on a CPU) • Supports “breakthrough”…
Nokia is planning on delivering the long-awaited N96 and a group of new E-series models to the market sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year-with the E66 and E71 models coming as early as next week. Naturally, details are scarce, but both devices are expected to feature GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera and 128MB…
If you were one of people who was all about GPS on the iPhone, you will be glad to hear that TomTom already has a version of their navigation software running on the device. Unfortunately, no other details regarding a release date, features or pricing have been released-but it stands a good chance of being…
Click to viewIn my hand, the 3G iPhone is lighter, fits better, and noticeably thinner feeling as it doesn’t have the same squarish shape. (You won’t notice that it is thicker at all.) I made a call with it, side by side with my 1st generation iPhone, and the reception is noticeably better as well.…
OK, forget about what I said before. Screw the storage and the 5MP camera. I’ve been reviewing the iPhone 3G specs, and it’s finally coming with exactly what I wanted: a genuine iPhone SIM Ejector Tool. https://gizmodo.com/are-you-going-to-get-the-iphone-3g-5014709 YES! [Apple]
Click to viewWe just talked to AT&T’s President of National Distribution Glenn Lurie, who gave us all the pricing and activation details for the iPhone 3G, which won’t be getting special treatment anymore. It will be using all AT&T’s standard voice and data plans, which means $30 for unlimited 3G data for consumers, $45 for…
Do you plan on upgrading your now-obsolete iPhone on July 11th? Great-good for you big spender. Here’s the skinny. AT&T informed us that anyone who bought an iPhone after May 27th will be able to swap out their handset with no additional charges for an iPhone 3G. What about everyone else? If you signed a…
So finally, at long last, the iPhone 3G has been announced. It has 3G (obviously) and GPS! Great news! But what about the other stuff we were expecting to get upgraded as well? Was anything updated other than those two features? Yeah, the headphone jack is now flush. Otherwise, here’s a list of stuff that’s…
Click to viewJust now at WWDC, Steve Jobs confirmed the long-rumored iPhone 3G, which is what he actually called it. It hits stores in the US and over 70 other countries on July 11th. Here it will costs $199 for the 8GB version, and $299 for the 16GB one (in black and white). Here are…
Giz camp is divided. Some here are going to get the new iPhone 3G because of the new speed, the GPS, and, hummm… ahh… new design? Whatever. Others will not get it. I belong to the latter camp. I was really expecting more storage, at least 32GB. Or 64GB. I would have been happy to…
Did anyone else let out a Darth Vader scream when Steve said July 11? Sorry to mix movie metaphors here, but the new commercial makes me want to go all Mission: Impossible Tom Cruise and break into Apple’s high-security bunker, dangling from a rope above a grid of lasers to snatch it early, because July…
The 3G iPhone‘s second most persistently rumored and desired feature (or not), GPS is built in for location service hotness, which Steve says is “gonna explode.” Location data comes from a combo of cell towers, Wi-Fi and GPS. Google Maps is still the default interface. Wilson says that’s it’s probable Telenav will do an SDK…
