| Toshiba Regza Tablet AT200 - The Thinnest |
| You see, the AT200 is, at the moment, the thinnest and lightest 10.1-inch Android tablet, and you just need to see it to know it. Just about 7.7mm thick, the AT200 is also light enough for us to Frisbee it across the room, but that doesn't mean that it isn't well built. |
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| ASUS Transformer Pad - Transforming Value to Quality |
| At first glance, the Tab closely resembles the original Eee Pad Transformer, with the only noticeable difference is that the Tab's chassis is fully plastic. The body of the tablet itself only features a micro HDMI port and a 3.5mm headphone port. |
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| Sony Xperia S - A Fresh Xperience |
| The Sony Xperia S is a fresh start. You can feel it by looking at it, and like a new car smell it teases you with all that's new and nice. The Xperia S is the first Xperia phone without the "Ericsson", and the first of the first Xperia NXT devices to hit the stage. |
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| Targus Travel Chill Mat - Chillin' On-The-Go |
| So here's the Targus Travel Chill Mat, which you can clearly tell is made to be the travelling notebook's companion. Quite literally half the size of conventional coolers, the Travel Chill Mat rather slim and comfortably light. |
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| Kingston Wi-Drive - Rekindling The Wi-Drive |
| The Kingston Wi-Drive, released last year, can turn itself into a portable storage cloud which your i-Device can stream content from. It's not without its shortcomings though, such as an inability to support Android devices, as well as some limitations to its app. |
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| Bootleg Unzipped (Part 2) - An industry of fakes |
| Phones made by companies with a mobile phone license, with the license being purchased from a legal holder. The phones go through official testing, and are usually legally sold and exhibited. |
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| Bootleg Unzipped (Part 1) |
| The phone to the left is not an iPhone 3G. In fact, it's not an Apple product at all. This is just one of the countless Apple smartphone knock-offs that are sold in the market today — a business (legal or otherwise) that has been thriving since smartphones began to dominate the cellular industry. |
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| Seagate GoFlex Satellite - Pocket Satellite |
| The GoFlex Satellite works over USB3.0 for pretty much everything (it charges on USB, too), which means you can get your content speedily transferred. The battery life, in our test, lasted a good 5 hours of continuous streaming . The device only comes in 500GB, but that's more than enough space that you need. |
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| Exploring New Galaxies |
| The GALAXY Nexus has a micro-USB port, a 3.5mm audio port and also pins for external docks. Opening the back cover reveals the NFC-capable Lit-lon battery and a SIM card slot. Oddly enough, the manufacturers didn't add in expandable storage space via MicroSD. |
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| Never Run Out Of Power (Part 1) - Charging Batteries in Seconds |
| Today's batteries are weak, expensive and explosive. Researchers are working on new power packs that will change our mobile world. The future will bring us batteries that charge in seconds and offer 20 times more performance than anything available today. |
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| The Android Army invades! (Part 3) : Disaster recovery |
| For example we have an HTC WildFire officially released with version Android 2.1 and eventually updated to Android 2.2, and we don’t expect any more updates. CyanogenMod offers a customised build of the latest Gingerbread 2.3.7 release with all the bells and whistles. |
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| The Android Army invades! (Part 2) : Wipe out WebOS |
| Boot the HP TouchPad into WebOS as normal. Attach it to your PC via the USB and mount it as a drive. Open My Computer, locate the HP TouchPad and in the root create a cminstall folder. In to this copy the three unextracted ZIP files: moboot, update-cwm, and update-cm-7.1. |
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| The Android Army invades! (Part 1) : Robot spares |
| HP announced it was dumping its WebOS division and there was a fire sale on its only tablet the HP TouchPad. This runs WebOS, which, while in itself is a fine OS, has very limited third-party app support. |
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| Manage iOS with iCloud (Part 2) |
| Part of the joy of using iCloud with your iOS device, whichever one you have, is the ability to keep all your data in sync without ever having to physically connect your device to your computer again. |
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| Manage iOS with iCloud (Part 1) |
| iCloud is the new service for owners of iPhone, iPads or iPod touches. It’s a back-up and sync service that’s designed to ensure you can access your files anywhere and at any time. |
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| Touchy Curve : BlackBerry Curve 9380 |
| The display is on par with those found on the Torch series. It’s bright and clear while text looks pretty crisp. The touch operation is pretty straight forward and unlike the Bold 9790 we reviewed this month, the 3.2-inch screen gives us ample amount of screen estate for multi-touch gestures. |
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| TomTom’s Via 260 - Getting Lost No More |
| Performance wise, the Via 260 is pretty accurate. With only 70% signal strength (we tested this on a car with tinted windows), our speed and location was only about 2km/h and 5 – 10 meters off. On a fully charged battery, it took us about 2 hours to deplete it. |
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| Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus - Tablet reloaded |
| Most Android-based smartphone users would agree that they would prefer testing an app before downloading it to their phones. The reason behind this need is usually to avoid unnecessary space hogging apps and possibly the smaller screen size. |
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| Run Android Apps on Windows |
| Most Android-based smartphone users would agree that they would prefer testing an app before downloading it to their phones. The reason behind this need is usually to avoid unnecessary space hogging apps and possibly the smaller screen size. |
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| The Second BlackBerry Developers Conference Asia (Part 3) |
| There are two new BlackBerry Jam Community programs, namely the BlackBerry Open Source Initiative, and BlackBerry Jam Sessions. RIM has added plenty of open source platforms to the BlackBerry Open Source Initiative to aid developers in developing applications rapidly. |
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| The other side of A Galaxy |
| GALAXY Note sports a 5.3-inch WXGA (1280x800, 285ppi) HD Super AMOLED display, the largest screen possible while still ensuring smartphone portability. At 5.3-inches, the HD Super AMOLED high-definition display is large but still allows the Note to be a pocket-sized device which measures only 9.6mm thick and weights a very light 175g. |
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| The 10 most interesting facts about the telephone |
| Our world may have been a very different place if Johann Philipp Reis never invented the forerunner of telephone in 1861 (but well, we would’ve still had Graham Bell). On his 150th birthday, we congratulate Reis with ten of the most curious facts about the telephone |
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| Sony Ericsson Xperia Active - Your android-powered training buddy |
| The Sony Ericsson Xperia Active ships with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) out of the box with a custom user interface. Users will also be glad to know that the Xperia Active is among the various Xperia devices that will get the Android 4.0 update from end April 2012 onwards. |
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| Kid developers (Part 2) |
| Since the initial release Michael has put out a couple of updates, one fixing an issue with a ball that didn’t drop all the way through the screen and the other say upgraded and improved graphics and sounds, also accepted by Apple on his first attempt. |
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| Kid developers (Part 1) |
| People of all ages the world over are now instantly becoming developers with the vast resource section provided by Apple and a little known information resource called the internet! It has been reported that kids as young as 9 have been creating apps and there is a growing contingent of kid developers getting their game on. |
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| Worthy of the Hype? |
| The best asset of the new iPad has to be the Retina Display. Right out of the box, I noticed the difference and was quite impressed with the screen quality. And this is with eyes that are starting to fail me in my slightly advanced age. |
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| Apple speaks out about "battery charging" issue |
| Apple has already been trounced over complaints about an overheating issue that the new iPad HD seems to have. Users were upset because they felt that their devices were becoming uncomfortably warm to the touch. |
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| Touch and Go (Part 2) : iPad effects |
| This April, Apple released iPad. This new tablet was obviously inspired by iPhone, even using the same operating system, but with a larger screen of traditional tablets. Once iPad proved what tablet could do, suddenly it was easy to convince people that tablets were useful at home. |
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| Touch and Go (Part 1) |
| Most computers invented in last 40 years required you to operate them in a similar way: typing on the keyboard or using the mouse recently. Now another choice is popular: tablets without keyboard or mouse, and there is only a touch screen. |
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| WebOS open source challenges Android |
| Just a few months ago, webOS mobile operating system seemed to be outdated after its owner, HP, abolished it together with TouchPad tablet and Pre 3 mobile phone. At this time, in an absolute move, the company claims that the operating system will be freely available for all by making it become an open source. |
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| Sony Tablet P: Unusual Android tablet |
| Tablet P is the most unusual Android tablet we have ever seen so far. With folded body and two 5.5-inch screens, it is easy to be taken with than many typical tablets since you can easily put it into your coat’s pocket or small handbag when folding its lid. |
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| Samsung Galaxy Note: Draw in a scrawly way |
| Galaxy Note is the biggest smartphone we have ever seen - 5.3-inch AMOLED HD screen is larger than Dell Streak’s screen. It looks like a super-large Samsung Galaxy S2, has faster 1.4GHz dual core processor, and point pen to take notes on screen and draw in a scrawly way. |
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