Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
The tPhone is similar to the Peel 520 in that it attempts to convert your iPod touch in to an iPhone.
The tPhone makes your iPod touch in to an iPhone so that it can make and receive calls as well as send and receive texts messages.
It is said to have a better design and finish to the Peel 520, but essentially achieves the same goal in terms of what it is used for. [Read more…]
Keith over at Bit101 got his hands on a USB microscope. After realising that holding it to a Nexus One, he could see the individual pixels, he decided to test what the Amazon Kindle screen looks like compared to the iPad screen.
This isn’t a scientific experiment to prove that one screen is better than another. Images were just captured out of curiosity to see what the two screens look like when compared to each other as well as a comparison to a printed newspaper. [Read more…]
Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop.com Mobile. The new version has been renamed to Photoshop Express and now functions fully on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Previous versions running on the iPad had to use pixel doubling to fill the screen.
The application was launched yesterday in to the app store and for those who already have the original on the iPhone, you’ll get an update through the Apple App Store.
The Photoshop Express application on the iPad is basically the same as it was on the iPhone in that you can load up an image and enhance it with various controls. With the iPad having a much larger screen, the editing experience is improved although the results are the same. [Read more…]
The Motorola DROID 2 launched just yesterday and already iFixit has it’s hands on one to teardown. The teardown was put online yesterday and shows all of the insides of the DROID 2 and what is different to the original DROID that launched last year.
The new DROID 2 has a 1GHz processor along with wireless 802.11n for connectivity. Both these enhance the user experience on the device by allowing it to run more smoothly and connect faster where wireless n technology is available to connect to.
Although there are differences between the two models, there are also a lot of similarities. Motorola seems to have opted to keep anything that wasn’t complained about and fix the things that were complained about such as the keyboard and processor that have both received upgrades. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] will be holding an annual event mid-September according to AllThingsD.
This particular event has been held every year since 2005 and is expected to run next month. Items expected to be announced are the new iPod touch 4 with the Retina Display and the dual cameras for FaceTime. There is also the possibility that the iPod touch could get the A4 processor like the iPhone 4 currently has. With the higher resolution screen being mentioned, we suspect that the innards will also get spruced up a little. [Read more…]
As well as making the iOS 4.0.2 update available for the iPhone, Apple [AAPL] has also pushed out a new iPad iOS update taking it from iOS 3.2.1 to iOS 3.2.2. The update simply fixes the PDF security hole.
Installation is quick, around 5 – 10 minutes including the download time and doesn’t change anything on the iPad other than a quick update in the About menu to show it’s on 3.2.2 and of course, it breaks the iPad jailbreak for now. [Read more…]
The Dell Streak pricing was revealed yesterday on the AT&T network. You might be wondering what this has to do with the next gen iPod touch 4… well, in a post written over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber also mentioned the Dell Streak pricing, but also dropped a couple of details about the next gen iPod touch in that it will have a Retina display as found in the iPhone 4 along with dual cameras like the iPhone 4. The comparison was made because the Dell Streak looks a little overpriced in comparison when compared to the iPad or iPod touch pricing.
With the information coming from John Gruber, we are inclined to believe it. This is for a couple of reasons… first is that he is often spot on with the details he reports on in regards to Apple, and it just seems like the next logical step for the iPod touch to follow the iPhone in terms of technology used. [Read more…]
Today, the TweetDeck Blog had an announcement that mentioned TweetDeck for Android was almost ready for launch.
This week a public beta will be launched allowing users to test the application and report any bugs back to TweetDeck. It isn’t clear just yet when the final release will arrive, but we suspect that it isn’t too far away now although the final date will obviously be based on how well the public beta does. [Read more…]
Tawkon is an app that can be used to measure radiation on a cell phone. When gripping a mobile phone with a so called “death grip”, the amount of power needed by the call increases to keep the signal active. In turn, radiation levels rise.
A video has been posted by Tawkon that shows three popular smartphones being tested with a death grip see if they each suffer with death grip problems.
The death grip is normally associated with signal loss. This test shows the radiation increase which is caused because of the signal dropping. [Read more…]
BGR managed to get it’s hands on a roadmap for Verizon [VZ] that shows new device launches for this year and in to next year. As well as going in to 2011, the roadmap also makes mention of a few 2012 plans for the company.
New items include Android 3.0 tablets, LTE MiFi units as well as video conferencing to name a few things.
Before heading over to BGR, a few of the more interesting items I could find include a new Motorola Droid called the Motorola DROID Pro. This device will run a faster 1.3GHz CPU and have a 4 inch screen along with global roaming capabilities. [Read more…]
When the iPad launched a camera connection kit was also launched along side it. The kit contained two connectors. The first connected direct to your camera and the second allowed you to attach an SD card to the iPad so that image files can be read direct from a memory card.
The is new version is a two-in-one version that puts both together in to one unit for the same price. Right now, it’s only available over in China and isn’t officially made by Apple. It costs $29 just like the official kit that comes in two parts. [Read more…]
PayPal has updated it’s Android PayPal app to include the popular Bump service. What the PayPal/Bump integration does is allows users to bump phones together to send money to each other.
The feature has been available on the iPhone for a few months now and provided iPhone users a simple way to PayPal money to each other without having to enter email addresses to send the cash to. [Read more…]
