Posts Tagged ‘Gadgetry’

Pure art in the iPad – Teardown pics from iFixit

iPad Teardown – iFixit I don’t have my iPad yet so I’m doing my very best to reserve judgement on just how it’s going to change things. But based on iFixit’s teardown, I think I can safely say that there is an equal amount of engineering inside this thing as there is pure art.


The Google Phone Cometh

Technology blog Techcrunch.com has long held the banner that there will one day come a “Google Phone” — a phone branded by Google itself, bearing the Android operating system, not offered in partnership with a wireless provider. This is sort of big news. See, currently, in the United States, if you want a cell phone, [...]


Sprint to sell Android phone in October

Just to follow up the Pre article from earlier this morning, if I were walking in to a Sprint store for a phone, which is unlikely for me, but if I were going to do it, I’d be waiting for the HTC Hero. Widely praised by reviewers as well as users who can already buy [...]


Palm Pre Selling Below Estimates

Palm Pre Selling Below Estimates

I’ve now actually touched a Palm Pre. I was walking through Best Buy and, for the first time, they had a functioning model on the floor — not the plastic brick placeholder they usually have around. I stood there poking around at it for about 20 minutes and walked away with a few quick impressions. [...]


webOS 1.1 out for the Pre, Breaks Apple’s break of webOS 1.0 break of iTunes device authentication lock… got it?

The Official Palm Blog: Palm webOS 1.1 enhances support for enterprise — and beyond And for my next theory, Palm is making a very simple play for Apple to shut them up by buying the company outright. And they’re doing it the only way they know how anymore: engineering hooliganry. Audacious play, indeed. Oh, and [...]


iTunes 8.2.1 Breaks Palm Pre Sync

Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing | PreCentral.net No surprise that the latest iTunes breaks the Palm Pre USB hack which allowed the device to sync with iTunes. This is a promise Palm should never have made, and users who bought the Pre thinking this was a viable option to get music on their phones [...]