This week the folks at IDC have released their quarterly tracking numbers for shipments of smartphones as listed by operating system. Alongside these numbers, IDC shows an smartphone average selling price (ASP) chart which shows a relatively clear trend: downward. Though many publishers today have chosen to follow the “Phablet” headline opportunity in this most […]
All the way back in 2011 we had our first look at the Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera – well before it was ready to be manufactured as a consumer product. Here at the tail end of 2013, taking full advantage of the current craze that is crowd-funding, the same fellow who headed the project two […]
Kickstarter has been home to a decent number of runaway successes, with Pebble being one of the first and The Mighty No.9 being one of the most recent. We wrote about the EX1 circuit printer earlier today, and at the time it was nearing in on its goal quickly, having already raised over half of […]
Supposing you’re in a situation where you’d love to work with Apple’s OS X desktop operating system, but for whatever reason you’d rather not – or cannot – work with an Apple-made piece of hardware. If you’re the alternate-solutions type, there may be hope for you with the Linux Ubuntu-based system called Pear OS. The […]
This week the folks at Motorola have pushed the first cross-carrier availability of the customization-included Moto X, and following up rather quick they’ll push a machine called Moto G. This slightly smaller device will be the “budget-friendly” Motorola device expected to have been launched when the Moto X was first teased, and here just before […]
Today Microsoft gets serious about SkyDrive for cross-platform access to media of all types. Not that they didn’t plan on the service being taken seriously before, but here in integrating SkyDrive with the Xbox One, Microsoft makes a big play for the gamers and living room media players of the world. Here gamers galore will […]
The NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 line of Android tablets is set to see the light of day just in time for the end of the year here in 2013, bringing with them a mix of graphics processing finesse and software-based stylus technology. Today a couple of videos have surfaced with NVIDIA speaking on the abilities […]
For each of the four major carriers in the United States, the Moto X is able to be ordered custom-colored and configured through the Moto Maker engine. This update comes to the system just this week – finally – after AT&T had been the one and only carrier this system worked with since launch. The […]
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This afternoon the folks at T-Mobile have made clear their intent to push forth their own unique – however that may be – Nexus 5 to the public. This version of the device should by all means be essentially identical to the version users will be able to purchase from Google Play online, but here […]
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