Archive for December, 2009

IPhone Reception Issues Plague O2… Too (Updated With AT&T’s Response)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

It would appear that AT&T isn’t the only carrier in the world suffering from a horrible  and nagging case of the iPhones. In an interview with the Financial Times, O2 head Ronan Dunne apologized to customers for the poor performance the network has been experiencing since the introduction of the iPhone 3GS to its airwaves [...]

Sheng T108 Brushed Aluminum Netbook Appears

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Hey, now this isn’t your average, everyday, boring netbook now is it? Well, at least not in looks, anyway. The Sheng T108, which has recently been spotted in Shenzhen, China, has a brushed aluminum chassis that makes it stand out from the crowd, to be sure. Internally, you’ll find this 10.1-incher [...]

LG Goes Nouveau Nostalgic With First US Mobile DTV Devices

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

LG just announced its first commercial products for the fledgling US Mobile DTV standard approved in October. First up is what appears to be a DTV-ified LG Lotus clamshell — a phone first introduced in 2008 but now capable of extracting digital TV from the aether with an assist from that [...]

Pedal Brain iPhone Kit Smartens Up Your Bicycle

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Cyclists already have a range of dedicated  devices  to choose from that will help them with their training, and it looks like they’ll soon have an iPhone app / accessory kit to call their own as well. While the folks behind it are apparently still working on the finishing touches, they’ve [...]

Logic Wireless 150LGW Projector Phone Reminds Us of That Bolt We Once Saw

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Remember the Bolt from CES 2009? Man, that was ages ago. If you’ll recall, projector phones were actually all the rage for around 4.67 minutes at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and ever since we’ve been dealt months of nothing alongside one lone ranger of something in the LG eXpo. Evidently [...]

Google’s Chrome OS-based Netbook Specs Leak Out

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

We’ve already seen that early builds of Google’s Chromium OS can be hacked onto existing machines, but those Chrome OS netbooks that the software giant has planned for next year have remained curiously elusive until now. According to both IBTimes  and Netbook News, the company is in talks with a number [...]

NVIDIA Fermi Pushed Back To March, ATI Prepping Midrange Refresh for Early Q1?

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Considering the present date, it’s no longer a mystery that Fermi won’t be seeing the glaring lights of store shelves this year, but now DigiTimes reports that the delay might be even longer than feared. Sources from within board manufacturers have been informed by NVIDIA that the launch of the 40nm GPU will be pushed [...]

HTC Espresso’s Updated Sense UI Shown off on Video

Monday, December 28th, 2009

We’d been itching for some video of the mysterious  HTC Espresso’s updated Sense UI ever since we saw those intriguing screenshots last week, and here we go: a leaked version of the ROM has been hacked onto a Hero and given a run-through. Overall, things seem to be slightly cleaner all around, [...]

RIM’s BlackBerry Tour2 9650 Gets The Hands-on Treatment

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

There’s practically zero doubt remaining that RIM has a next-generation Tour in the works, but if you’re one of those tin foil hat wearers, you’ll be glad to know that at least one of these things really, truly exists. Boy Genius just got his paws around the Tour2 9650 (shown left), and aside from the [...]

iToos M6HD PMP Outputs 1080i Without Breaking Anyone’s Bank

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

There’s really only two things you need to know about the iToos M6HD PMP, and at the risk of repeating the headline: it can output 1080i via HDMI and its price is pretty hard to argue with. As for the fine print, we’re looking at a 4.3-inch TFT screen with 1360 x 768 resolution, 4GB [...]