It’s 8:10 AM here on the East Coast. I wonder if it’s just for this little gadget right here. Or maybe something more?
Mar 12
The Apple Store is down! I said the Apple Store is down!
Filed under: Apple, News at: 8:12 am Leave a Comment »
Mar 11
iPad orders start exactly at 8:30 AM tomorrow
Filed under: Apple, News, Tablets at: 9:00 pm Leave a Comment »
While we might have knew that pre-orders for the iPad started tomorrow, no one knew exactly when. Until now obviously. You can set your alarm clocks to 8:30 AM on the East Coast or 5:30 AM on the West Coast to pre-order yor iPad for an April 3 release. From there on you can transmit your $499 to Steve Job’s coffers. See you there, fanboys (and fangirls).
Source: TUAW
Mar 11
Barnes & Noble plans B&N Reader app for iPad around launch
Filed under: Apple, E-Readers, News at: 1:12 pm Leave a Comment »
The iPad isn’t even out yet, and the eBook app wars have begun! Barnes & Noble is promising the book savvy that “around the time” of the slate’s launch, a B&N Reader app for access to their 1 million+ eBookStore catalog will be “designed specifically” for the iPad. That means you’d have books, magazines and newspapers at your fingertips, and might even be able to dodge Apple’s prices on books, whether it be small or high. Now where’s that Kindle app?
Source: Engadget, B&N Unbound
Mar 07
This Week On LaptopMemo: All Sorts Of Crazy Stuff Edition
Filed under: Gadgets, News at: 1:36 pm Leave a Comment »
All sorts of crazy stuff. Broken Nexus Ones, Panasonic steals the Sunday news day, Android makes a flip to AT&T with the BACKFLIP, an old iPhone gets restored to its former glory, and more…
- Panasonic DMC G10 and G2 Micro Four Thirds cameras debut
- Motorola BACKFLIP is now available on AT&T
- How To: Amazingly Bring A Scratched And Beat Up iPhone To Life
- Test Drive Unlimited 2 Is Now Official! Can You Wait?
- Motorola iDEN Opus One is the i1 with MOTOBLUR
- Hey Steve Jobs, can an iPad tether with an iPhone?
- HTC: Don’t put your Nexus One in your pocket. Oh really?
- Video: HTC Legend gets its extra-early unboxing
- Microsoft Pink phones coming to Verizon on April 20th? Unfortunately, yes.
- Breaking: iPad launches April 3rd, pre-orders on March 12th
- Apple Sues HTC for Infringing Over 20 iPhone Patents UPDATE
Mar 07
Panasonic DMC G10 and G2 Micro Four Thirds cameras debut
Filed under: Cameras, News at: 1:20 pm Leave a Comment »
It’s a boring Sunday here in the gadget world, so that’s where Panasonic brightens up your Sunday morning/afternoon. While Panasonic isn’t the brand name of cameras, they definitely have cameras that people can feel comfortable with. First up, the Lumix DMC-G2, which kinda looks like the G1, and includes a touchpanel to take pictures, a 12.1 megapixel Live MOS sensor, Venus Engine HD II technology, 3-inch rear LCD and a 720p (AVCHD Lite) movie mode. Second is the DMC-G10, which is purportedly, supposedly, optimistically the “world’s lightest” interchangeable lens camera with a viewfinder. It has the same 12.1 megapixel sensor and Venus Engine HD II as the G2, but lacks the tilt / swivel / touch LCD panel that the G2 has. Pricing and release dates are in the dark for these guys, but they do support the expensive SDXC memory cards. Yeah!
Mar 03
Facebook For webOS Gets 1.1.0 update, Makes It Worthy (Nearly)
Filed under: Breaking, News, Palm, Web 2.0 at: 10:41 pm Leave a Comment »
Finally webOS users can have the Facebook app they’ve wanted for so long. A proper Facebook app I might add, which looks much cleaner and better. Right now the app is only available if you have the older version, then update through the Updates core app, as an official App Catalog release is not out yet. There’s new and greatly improved access to your photos, inbox, search, events and more. Video and chat is still absent, but so far this has become much better than visiting Facebook straight from the Pre. And if you’re not ready to jump the boat yet, there’s our gallery below and some video from PreCentral.
Facebook 1.1.0 for webOS
Source: Palm Developer Center Blog
Mar 03
Test Drive Unlimited 2 Is Now Official! Can You Wait?
Filed under: Gaming, News, Opinion at: 12:10 pm Leave a Comment »
For those of you who might not know, I am a super fan of racing games. More precisely good racing games. And more precisely still, online awesome racing games. The original Test Drive Unlimited was a dream for me. You started off with a sucky Ford Mustang or whatever you could buy with 5,000 dollars, then you had thousands of miles of Oahu, Hawaii to your pleasure. You could free roam, buy new houses at a real estate office, get chased by advanced cops, and play online and organize the coolest races ever. There was even one race that allowed you to grand tour the whole island for 2 hours. And that’s why Atari has its first customer.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 will also a seamless experience as Atari puts it and “is always live”, meaning that unlike the original which had offline and online modes, there’s a single narrative mode that can be progressed on online or offline, either on the Xbox 360, PS3, or PC this Fall. Good stuff. Press release after the break.
Mar 03
Skype Arrives At The Nokia Ovi Store
Filed under: Breaking, Handsets, News, Nokia at: 10:22 am Leave a Comment »
While Skype for Windows Mobile is technically gone, Skype for Symbian^1 and up is now available on the Nokia Ovi Store. The app allows users to place free phone calls to other Skype users over Wi-Fi, 3G, and even EDGE. As Skype’s mobile GM Russell Shaw said, “With Skype for Nokia smartphones, more than 200 million smartphone users worldwide will be able to take the Skype features they love with them on the move.”
And it’s free, so if you’re one of the lucky few to own a Symbian^1 and up handset, now is the time to get the free app on your app store.
Mar 01
Facebook app for Zune HD finally sees the light of day
Filed under: Gadgets, Microsoft, News at: 11:31 pm 1 Comment »
In the first looks from many of us gadget bloggers, the above Facebook app for the Zune HD looks pretty solid, doesn’t it? Until the inevitable happens with the Zune HD, because as usual, there’s something that has to go wrong. According to CrunchGear, Devin’s Zune HD won’t update its software because there’s a Wi-Fi error. And yeah, just to get the app you have to update your software. Come on! Many other users are also reporting that as juicy as the app may look, it barely works. Get working on version 1.1, Microsoft! And that’s an order.
Source: CrunchGear
Mar 01
RIM dev webinar shows mockup Blackberry OS of the future
Filed under: Blackberry, News at: 10:00 pm Leave a Comment »
If you’re wondering what that Blackberry Storm is running (a Storm2 actually), you couldn’t really say. The above slide was part of a “Super Apps” webinar for developers last week, and RIM’s explanation for the above rendering is that it’s a mockup, and does not indicate anything that might come in Blackberry OS 6.0 (or whatever it might be called). Although from what RIM is projecting for future Blackberries running newer OSes, all of those widgets make Android look awfully jealous, doesn’t it? Hey RIM, that could go into 6.0.
Source: Engadget, CrackBerry
