Taking the iPhone to a whole new level of functionality, Dynamic Controls has just announced they’ll be releasing an iPhone app soon that will allow disabled individuals the freedom to control their power wheelchairs via the iPhone or iPod Touch. It works via Bluetooth and as you can see with the screenshots above, is a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
Motorola may not have been very competitive in the past couple of years, but they did manage to come out with a hit product this year in the form of the Motorola Droid which I personally believe is the best smartphone for 2009. With a decently-sized 3.7-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, WiFi, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
We never thought we could get one this cheap. The Meizu M8 for only 199 euros? The original iPhone clone and erstwhile iPhone killer for only $295 unlocked. Why, that’s at least $100 cheaper than the original price. This is the same 3.2-inch touchscreen phone with a 720 x 480 screen resolution. The same Meizu [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 19, 2009
What you’re looking at folks is the Sony Ericsson Kurara, the company’s second Symbian powered handset following the Satio. It doesn’t come with a 12-megapixel camera but surely won’t disappoint with its 8.1-megapixel camera, 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, and 720p video recording and playback. The Kurara also features a Cortex A8 processor (yup, that’s the same type [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Following its release in the US, the BlackBerry Storm 9550 aka BlackBerry Storm 2 has just crossed the Northern border and is now also available in Canada via Telus. Given that the BlackBerry Strom 2 hands-on experience of Engadget wasn’t as positive as we hoped it to would be, don’t set your expectations too high with [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
According to this rather enlightening CNET article, netbooks are not to be compared with laptops. Rather, think of netbooks as smartphone with a bigger screen and a QWERTY keypad you can actually speed type on. … students in K through 12 are accustomed to iPhone-size screens and performance. So moving to a Netbook is a big [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 15, 2009
Still don’t know what the Zii Egg is? Here’s the official description: The Zii EGG is an energy efficient handheld StemCell Computer based on the powerful ZiiLABS ZMS-05 media-rich applications processor. Besides its multi-touch 3.5-inch LCD screen, it can also output HD video at up to 1080p. The ZMS-05’s 24 floating-point processors deliver up to 8 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 15, 2009
SciPhone brings us one of the first Android dual-SIM phones available at the moment. (For a real quick unboxing video in French, scroll to the end of this post.) The SciPhone N21 has been available for a month now but we have yet to come across a video of the Android-based SciPhone. Beareyes, has an [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
It’s not surprising to see Nokia dominating the global smartphone market scene, but what is interesting to see is how both RIM and Apple posted huge growth this past quarter. Aside from HTC, they are the only two other phone makers who managed to improve on their performance last year and by a significant margin at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Motorola Droid may be making the iPhone sweat in the U.S., but in China OPhone is the name Apple will be most wary about. So when Moto has recently announced its liking for OPhone, the mobile world better listen. Introducing the Motorola MT710, the company’s first OPhone mobile. In case you haven’t heard, OPhone [...]
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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