iPad Mini surfaces in Taiwan in the hands of a race car driver

If not for what he is holding up in his hands, you may never know that the guy in the picture is Jimmy Lin, a Taiwanese race car driver.  While Steve Jobs is busy building the iPad 2, Jimmy decided to reveal what Apple might be fabricating behind closed doors, […]

Android 2.3 Gingerbread ported on to N900

While many of you Android users may be wondering if your phone will ever see the Gingerbread on it, some folks have already got it up and running on a Nokia N900.  Not surprising, considering the smartphone has already dabbled with MeeGo and the previous Android version, Froyo 2.2, albeit

Pantech Vega Xpress boasts of DDR2 memory, limited to South Korea

We thought 2011 was gonna be a good year for the mobile tech, but this good, we never imagined.  Pantech’s Vegas Xpress has all the usual bells and whistles worthy of an Android 2.2 smartphone, like a 4-inch multitouch display of 800 x 480 resolution, 5-megapixel camera, 802.11n WiFi, and

Palm Pre 2 hits Rogers at $99

The Verizon Pre 2 is yet to make an appearance after its official announcement but it seems like thing are moving much faster in Canada.  The Pre 2 is now available on Rogers and it goes for a cheap $99.  The two-year agreement remains of course but with its 1GHz

LinkedIn Finally Makes an Android App (Beta)

So after a very long stint of refusing to make an Android app, LinkedIn finally gets at least a beta one together. LinkedIn is a “professional social network” in where users can meet other professionals, look for jobs, make business connections, etc. and one of the big reasons I rarely

HSPA+, LTE, and WiMax Now Officially Called 4G

So after much debate and people constantly having to put 4G in quotation marks whenever it was used (otherwise a bombardment of comments would arise complaining that “4G doesn’t exist” or “[company] doesn’t have 4G, only my company does”), the ITU, or International Telecommunications Union, has declared that HSPA+, LTE,

How To: Load a Custom ROM on the Samsung Nexus S

I. Before You Begin 1. You must have done our How To Root Nexus S procedure. II. Flash a Custom ROM 1. Head over to our Nexus S ROMs section, choose a ROM you want and download it and save it to your computer. 2. Plug your phone in and

How To: Root the Samsung Nexus S (Updated 01.20.11)

I. Before You Begin 1. This will unlock your phone’s bootloader (so you can flash recoveries and ROMs), and can be undone very easily (unlike the Nexus One). 2. This WILL ERASE all your information on the phone. II. Setup ADB 1. Head to our How To Setup ADB procedure,

What a Hacker Can Do With a Kinect…

  One of the hottest gadgets this holiday season is Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox360 (sold out pretty much everywhere). With depth perceiving technology, Kinect scans the scene seamlessly from an infrared light, providing full-body 3D motion capture, along with facial and voice recognition capabilities. Kinect combines with the Xbox 360 to create

Dell Venue Pro with AT&T 3G gets FCC blessings

The QWERTY-toting Dell Venue Pro is already scheduled for a release on T-Mobile’s network before the year is up, but what of those yearning AT&T users craving some WP7 action? Well, they may not get it this holiday season but with the AT&T version of the Venue Pro (with 850

Word Lens app for on the go translation

Word Lens is much more than your run-of-the-mill translation app and if you have watched the above video, you will know why already.  Developed by QuestVisual’s Otavia Good and John DeWeese over two and a half years, the app works by using OCR and instantly translating any text that the

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Feature Overview

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Feature Changes Visible Changes – Black Menu Items (instead of White) Black Status Bar (instead of White) Green Icons (instead of Blue) Phone dialer is black (instead of grey) Voicemail button in dialer (instead of add contact button) Under the contact picture in messages has been turned

Phone Review: Samsung Nexus S

Want to know about Android 2.3, the software on this device? Click here for our video on the Android 2.3 features Specifications: