It's not been a great year for glossy gadgets. Apple recently quietly discontinued its uber-shiny white MacBook from range in favor of the more sophisticated finish of the MacBook Air and MacBooks Pro, while Sony has also moved on from the early days of the PS3, which too sported a glossy finish.
Today’s a good day to be an Android fan: Google announcing their acquisition of Motorola Mobility and, as if it couldn’t get any better, HTC’s bootloader-unlock process has gone live for keen Sensation owners.
For the last year, smartphone makers have shipped 4G-capable devices using a technology known as "LTE". 4G, as the name implies, it is much faster than traditional 3G, sometimes as much as 10 times faster.
There's no doubt that the iPhone has been a runaway success, but Apple has once again felt the need to make more devices. According to a new report, Apple plans to order as many as 26 million iPhones from suppliers.
Windows Live SkyDrive is Microsoft’s service that lets you store any file on a virtual online folder that can be as large as 25GB, all completely free of charge, and then access it from anywhere from any browser, PC or Mac. While Microsoft’s implementation works fine, there isn’t a clear way to get to those files from Windows 7 Explorer, but it is possible.
Ever wished your iOS device would play a smooth intro video whenever it's powered on? iStartupMovie is a new jailbreak tweak that lets you do just that with little to no effort.
Its been ages since cellphone users have been able to set custom ringtones on their handsets, but Apple on the other hand has been steadfast in their belief that they only have strong control over what we listen to whenever someone calls in our on our iPhone. While other platforms have really offer a handful of ringtones to choose from. Remember when all Nokia handsets had that one ringtone? Yeah, it's like that.
These days, Apple sells several 3G-capable devices, namely the iPad and the iPhone, but there is no such product on their iPod or Mac lineup. Indeed, no 3G-capable Mac even exists at the moment, but a new leaked prototype proves that Apple has looked into it.
Remember that 58” capacitive multi-touch screen that allowed you to connect your iPhone? Well, that was later proved to be just a hopeful geek’s wet dream. What we’re featuring today is awesome in its own way and it’s 100% real.
With extravagant casinos and expensive supercars, Las Vegas is known for its larger-than-life scale of things. Since we’re a technology blog, we can’t cover both, but we can cover things like, well, the world’s largest and most expensive iPhone case.
