Feb 27, 2011

As far-fetched as it may seem, rumors that RIM is working on some sort of Android app support for its QNX-based PlayBook tablet have persisted in various forms for months now — and they’ve turned up once again in a video posted by development community MobileMonday’s Rio chapter taken at MWC earlier this month, where a RIM rep seemingly says...

Feb 27, 2011

Joystickers’ Classic stick-on buttons for touch-screen phones. Photo: Joystickers Check ‘em out: nipples for the iPhone. Or, more accurately, “removable gaming buttons for touch screens”. We have seen a lot of clever products which add physical, moveable joysticks to touch-screen devices and make many games easier to play, but the...

Feb 27, 2011

After having played with it back at CES, we’d argue that the Xperia Arc is a pretty stunning phone purely by virtue of its design; there’s not really any need to spice it up with a crazy color. But hey, if you want to, you’ll be able to — if you’re on Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, anyway. The carrier has announced the Xperia Arc as the...

Feb 27, 2011

<< Previous | Next >> << Previous | Next >> View all From the outside, tablets are almost all the same, especially when seen from the front. But like a pretty actor in a reality TV show, once you get under their skin you find out...

Feb 27, 2011

Yill is a roll-along battery pack that powers a one-man office for three days Yill is a giant, rolling battery that will let you run an office wherever you might be. Think of it as a storage heater, except instead of chugging down cheap nighttime electricity to warm a box of bricks, it instead uses that same budget juice to charge a huge lithium titanium...

Feb 27, 2011

Options are good — especially when those options include all-you-can-eat data. T-Mobile has beefed up its individual plan portfolio in the past few days with a limited-time Even More package: 1,500 minutes plus unlimited text / picture messages and data for $79.99 a month, $20 less than what you’d pay for unlimited voice minutes — and...