Tag: Gizmodo
Kindle Fire HD Ad Slams Apple’s New iPad Mini
Although a lot of the iPad Mini models have already sold out, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD sales have skyrocketed soon after the announcement of the iPad Mini. With Amazon’s sales tripling, they continue to push their fight against Apple by bemoaning the newly announced on the front page of their website. It’s not surprising that [...]
Mystery HTC Device Left Behind At A Bar
We tend to agree with a commentor over at Droid-Life, didn’t Apple patent leaving a prototype around at a bar? The commentor received a reply saying, Yes Apple is now suing HTC in Germany… What are we talking about here? Well apparently someone has left what looks to be an HTC prototype device behind at [...]
Motorola Forgot To Wipe The Data On Some Refurbed Xooms
Motorola has made a mistake and wants to rectify it as soon as possible. We learned from a press release sent out on Friday that an allotment of Xoom tablets that were sent to Woot to be sold as “refurbished” were not properly wiped. The tablets in question were sold by Woot between October and [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II Beats iPhone 4S In Full Scale Drop Test
Those crazy guys at Gizmodo are back at it again. They went out and got a brand new Samsung Galaxy S II and a brand new iPhone 4S just to drop them on concrete outside their offices. While iPhone Fan Boys across the world are thinking that surely the new magical iPhone 4S is going [...]
All Honeycomb Features Coming To Phones?
According to Google’s Open Source and Compatibility Tech Lead, Dan Morrill, all of the features of Android 3.0, Honeycomb, are headed to phones at some point. There has been a lot of debate about Google continually saying that Honeycomb was only for tablets. What they never said was if they would take all of the [...]
HTC Sends Another Shot This Time Revealing It Is A Verizon 4G LTE Device
Last night we reported on the 10 shots of an HTC device that were mysteriously “leaked” out. Apparently the leaker had time to stage the photos in near perfect light, almost like a studio, and shoot the photos before sending them out to 5 of the major industry websites… right…. The pictures yesterday were really [...]
HTC Planned Leaks Result in 10 Pictures of Nothing
Some of the major websites in our industry received some non-blurry-cam pictures late Tuesday from an unofficial, or maybe it was an official, HTC leaker. Tech Crunch did a great job of editorializing this whole escapade, but if you don’t read Techcrunch here’s the lowdown. Taylor Wimberly over at Androidandme.com is always talking about “planned [...]
BREAKING: Gizmodo/Gawker Media Accounts Hacked! Lifehacker Has Been Hacked
We have just received an email from Gawker Media, owners of popular tech sites Gizmodo, Lifehacker and many others stating that they discovered over the weekend their servers have been comprimised. The data compromised includes both usernames and passwords for anyone who has registered for any of their sites, which is a lot of us [...]
Verizon Speed Test Results Are In MSNBC Sees Best, Engadget Sees Worst
Verizon announced the rollout of their 4G LTE network this week with a launch date of Sunday. Select major media and tech sites have been testing the LTE network with a mixed bag of results. The Good: Verizon’s Tony Melone said that Verizon’s 4G LTE would offer 5-12mbs download speeds and upload speeds around 2mbps. [...]
Samsung’s Omar Khan on GalaxyTab, Continuum and ringing the bell
We attended the Samsung Continuum event on Monday in New York City. During this event we had the chance to speak with Samsung’s CSO, Omar Khan on The Galaxy Tab, The Continuum and ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ.
