Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Hackers have managed to root the Google Nexus S just hours after it launched to the public.
The Nexus S root allows users to gain full access to the file system of the phone and hence, make many changes to the Android operating system. Changes could include overclocking the Nexus S, changing the UI, installing a custom Android build as well as many other modifications. [Read more…]
iFixit has taken apart the new Google Nexus S. They have given the Nexus S a repairability score of 7 out of 10 due to needing a heat gun to separate the glass from the LCD.
One observation they made was that the curved Nexus S screen has only curved glass and not a curved LCD. iFixit found the Contour Display name a little misleading. [Read more…]
The Dell Venue is the Android version of the Dell Venue Pro (Windows Phone 7 device).
The Dell Venue has been announced by KT over in Korea. It has a 4.1 inch AMOLED screen and uses curved Gorilla Glass on the front panel. The OS running on the new Dell Venue is Android 2.2. [Read more…]
Amazon currently have a number of deals on for digital cameras ready for the Christmas season. We’ve hunted through them to find the best digital camera deals.
We have mixed together a range of cameras which includes regular Point & Shoot cameras as well as a few Digital SLR’s. The list can be found below. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] has approved the Bing 2.0 app for iPhone.
New features of the app include quicker ways to find restaurants based on price range, cuisine, atmosphere and location. Also, movies can be found by name, location or theater. As well as creating new ways to search for things to do in your local area, Bing 2.0 also has Facebook integration as well as access to the Streetside service. [Read more…]
Several months ago, rumors were going around about the HTC Scorpion smartphone.
At the time, we heard that the smartphone was to use a 1.5GHz CPU that would be dual-core and that it would run Android 2.2. The Android 2.2 part has obviously been and gone as we are now transitioning to Android 2.3, but what we have yet to see is the phone or the processor. [Read more…]
Mark Zuckerberg was recently named Person of the Year by Time Magazine. Along with naming Zuckerberg, some pictures of one of the data centers used for Facebook was also posted.
The image above is one of several that shows users where their data is held and how the service manages to keep 500 million + users happy with the service. [Read more…]
Flipboard for iPad has received an update today. The latest version brings a bunch of new features to the social news reader app.
The new version is numbered 1.1 and allows you to now sync Google Reader to it which in turn, lets you browse through your combined feeds in one in a handy and readable format. Flickr is also available now and the updated app lets you browse more easily through pictures stored in the web service. [Read more…]
Navigon has updated MobileNavigator for the iPhone and increased it to version 1.7. The new MobileNavigator 1.7 brings a few new features to the iPhone which includes Retina Display support.
Another handy feature is that the iPhone app is now also compatible with the iPad and allows you to run the iPad version as an iPad version and not stretched like before. [Read more…]
Nintendo will be holding a press conference on January 19th 2011 where it is expected the release date for the Nintendo 3DS will be announced.
The event arrives about a month before the Japanese launch on February 26. When the release date for Japan was announced, the company also said that the European and US release dates would be announced in separate events, which makes us believe this will be the date for Europe. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] released a minor update for iTunes on Wednesday. The new version is iTunes 10.1.1 and this version was designed to fix problems which caused iTunes to occasionally crash.
Unfortunately, it seems to have caused more problems in that some users are reporting that when opening iTunes it simply crashes immediately now and refuses to open. [Read more…]
Several days ago, Gawker’s comment boards were hacked and a number of usernames and passwords stolen. Due to the size of the Gawker network which includes sites such as Gizmodo and LifeHacker, it has prompted a number of web companies to reset passwords of users they think were effected by the attack.
Yahoo!, Flickr and LinkedIn were amongst the first to reset passwords of users and we hear that Blizzard (world of warcraft boards) also reset a number of passwords. We also believe that Amazon has also followed along here. [Read more…]
