Hey now! Axon Logic is touting an $800 tablet slate. Yes, that does seem a tad expensive, right? But what if you could run OS X on it?
Well, we suspect that just might change everything.
Sure, Club Cupertino’s stringent EULA prohibits the unauthorized installation of OS X on a non-Apple-branded computer.
Fortunately, the unfazed [...]
Is that a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) chipset inside your Android tablet?
Why yes, yes it is.
Of course, the popular chipset isn’t expected to remain confined to handsets and tablets forever.
No, WWAN components are tapped to power a wide variety of next-gen mobile wireless devices.
Indeed, iSuppli principal analyst Francis Sideco projects that at least 20.7 [...]
Did you know that at least 200,000 Android smartphones are activated on a daily basis?
The new figure represents a staggering 25% increase from just 7 weeks ago, when Google pegged Android’s frenetic activation rate at an impressive 160,000 units per day.
“It looks like Android is not just phenomenal but an incredibly phenomenal success in its [...]
MintyBoost was a terrifically handy DIY USB charger, housed in an Altoids gum tin. It worked great, until Apple changed the way it charged devices, gimping third-party chargers. But have no fear! The MintyBoost team is on the case. What they found, and what’s enumerated in detail in the video below, is that Apple puts [...]
The People’s Republic of China – also known as Zhōngguó – has eclipsed Japan and is now the world’s second largest economy.
According to World Bank projections cited by Reuters, China remains on course to overtake the United States and assume the role of the world’s number one economic superpower by the year 2025.
However, China’s per-capita [...]
Citigroup issued a warning today noting that there were some security loopholes in its mobile banking iPhone app, and also released an update that patches the hole.
Citi said that the app saved personal information about users, such as security codes, account imformation, and transaction details, to a remote file on the iPhone’s internal memory. That [...]
Don’t think this means Apple is going to fix the antennas with the white iPhone, or that Apple is racist, but it has yet again delayed the availability of the white iPhone.
“White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has officially disputed claims that he signed away a majority stake of his $25 billion dollar company to the owner of a wood-pellet fuel store in upstate New York.
“Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Paul Ceglia’s claims are absurd and we strongly suspect the contract is forged,” Facebook confirmed in an [...]
When I ordered my iPhone 4 on June 16th for delivery in July, one of the features that I was intrigued about was FaceTime, Apple’s Wi-Fi video calling application. Sure, other phones have had this feature for a while, but for me this was going to be something new.
After an abortive attempt at my first [...]
Beijing has finally moved to curtail China’s infamous “gray” cell phone market.
According to iSuppli, the government-enforced crackdown is causing domestic gray-market phone shipments to decline, while simultaneously boosting the output of major global OEMs.
“Recent developments indicate [Beijing] is beginning to take seriously the long-festering problem of smuggled handsets and counterfeit [...]
The UK retailer expects that this busy back to school season will get just a little busier as Apple plans to refresh their iPod lineup which will include features that will entice young kids and teens into buying this multimedia device.
Here are the features that we can expect to see in the new iPod lineup:
* [...]
Silicon Valley chip expert David Kanter has hypothesized that PhysX diminishes CPU performance by “exclusively” using an outdated x87 instruction set.
“x87 has been deprecated for many years now, with [both] Intel and AMD recommending the much faster SSE instruction [set],” Kanter told TG Daily in an e-mailed statement.
“On modern CPUs, SSE [...]
Because the most popular phone in the country doesn’t support the Flash video standard that powers Youtube, the video sharing giant has launched a new mobile site that’s capable with the iPhone’s replacement: HTML5.
It’s not just because of the iPhone, though. HTML5 is poised to become a serious challenger and possible [...]
South Korean based LG Electronics announced their plans this morning to bring a new Android tablet to the market before the end of 2010. This of course isn’t surprising considering that one of their largest rivals, Samsung has plans of launching their own S-Pad tablet.
LG offered few details of their new product other then to [...]
The MacRumors forums are abuzz with users comparing their recent upload speeds. TUAW reader Becca Holmes tipped us that iPhone users are experiencing uploads that appear to be capped at 100 kbps rather than the 1.6mbps that was a previous norm. Users have been comparing rates captured with tools like Speedtest.net’s [...]
I wouldn’t have called July 4th weekend as a great time for releasing studies about in-depth App Store information, but it was certainly that, as quite a few studies came to light this weekend about how the Android and the Apple App Stores compare. First up, App Store HQ has released [...]
The US mobile market is experiencing a seismic shift towards higher-end phones, with at least 50% of all handsets expected to be classified as smartphones by 2011.
According to Research and Markets (R&M), smartphones have become akin to “mini-PCs,” with a wide range of services offered alongside basic calling and texting functions.
The [...]
