Would we care about Android if it weren’t for HTC? Perhaps not. The HTC Desire was an early poster boy for Android, a genuinely great design that squared up to Apple’s all-conquering iPhone and suggested it step outside.
The HTC Desire remains at the top of our Best Mobile Phones in the World Today [...]
Lenovo Group, a Chinese computer maker said they are planning to launch 2nd version LePad by the end of this year as to show their efforts to catch up Apple iPad 2.
The chief executive of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing said Apple has set new level for the others computer makers to catch up. [...]
Sharp has lifted the veil on its first offering of 3D TVs. To be packaged under its high-end Aquos brand, the TVs bring with them a new feature that lets multiple viewers choose between 2D and 3D at the same time.
The Aquos LE925 series also offers something that most TV manufacturers [...]
A prototype Android-powered “desk phone” designed by Rockchip was recently spotted in the wilds of IFA 2010.
The device – which features both landline and 3G connectivity – can reportedly be used to make video calls or surf the web.
“[Sure], Android-based landline phone renders are one thing, but Rockchip has been quietly beavering away at the real [...]
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 [...]
Google has officially ended development of its nascent web-based Wave application due to a lack of user adoption.
“Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Wave – a web app for real time communication and collaboration – it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser,” explained [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
When a 3D TV is switched from 2D mode to 3D mode, the power usage can swing dramatically
depending on the manufacturer, according to a new report from Cnet.
Cnet monitored the number of watts used from four different 3D TV models and studied how they changed when toggled between 2D and 3D [...]
On the heels of announcing that it had dotted all the I’s and crossed all the T’s on its buyout of Palm, HP confirmed that its upcoming Slate media tablet will run on Palm’s WebOS operating system.
The HP Slate was first introduced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in January, but at [...]
Glasses-free 3D technology is not something confined to the upcoming Nintendo 3DS, as digital camera manufacturer Aiptek plans to bring out a new kind of digital photo frame in the next couple months.
3D digital cameras are still kind of relegated to a niche market right now, even more so than 3D TVs, [...]
Kristen Stewart, or as millions of hardcore geeky fans know her, Bella Swan, wants the next and final installment in the Twilight movie series to be presented in 3D.
Stewart was promoting the current release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in an interview with UK celeb site DailyStar, when she said that [...]
Chemists at the University of York have discovered a way of recycling waste from LCD televisions to make a substance that combats hospital infections.
Researchers at the University’s Department of Chemistry have discovered a way of transforming the chemical compound polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) – a key element of LCD televisions – into [...]
