HP buys Palm, acquires key smartphone technology
HP has announced that it will purchase Palm for about $1.2B in cash, which is about a 30% premium on the company’s market value when it was announced. For Palm, it simply means “survival”, but for HP, that could mean having a shot at controlling its own fate in a very competitive market. In some [...]
Ezy Ebook 7-inch Android Reader
If you’re looking for a low-cost eBook reader, check out the Ezy EBook, as it’s priced at just $199. With that price point, you can’t expect any iPad-crushing specifications; rather you’ll get a device with a 7-inch 800 x 480 color touchscreen display, 128MB RAM, 2GB (or 4GB) of internal memory, Wi-Fi and SD card [...]
Mobile World Congress 2010 in a nutshell
If you have not followed the detailed (or even live) coverage of Mobile World Congress, that post will give you a quick overview of things that we found particularly interesting. New handsets: “mini” is fashionable again! Although there were surprisingly few new handset announced by major handset manufacturers, a good chunk of those that were [...]
Apple Takes A Chunk Of LCD And OLED Supply
It’s still an unconfirmed rumor, but word is going around that Apple has snapped up the available supply of 10.1 inch multi-touch display LCD and OLED screens for its upcoming tablet. Folks have been speculating as to whether Apple will be using OLED screens for its upcoming tablet, and whether that rumor is true, we [...]
PSPgo sees lower £149 price point
Entertainment retailer HMV has recently slashed the price of the Sony PSPgo to £149, which is a huge chunk off the initial £224.99 back when the device was rolled out earlier that October. Could that be a prelude of (good) things to come for the consumer, seeing that the original asking price for the PSPgo [...]
ARM loves Google OS
I just read an upbeat post about Chrome OS from Bob Morris, the director of Mobile computing at ARM. Here’s an excerpt: It truly levels the playing field for platforms. For the most part today, the OS and HW are closely connected and that drove platforms that slowly innovated. Chrome OS blows that apart, the [...]
Worst USB gadget yet: ‘Burger Hand Warmer and Massager’
This big chunk of useless plastic looks vaguely like a hamburger, but functions as a USB-powered massager and hand-warmer. considering, really, there's nothing we'd rather rub all by our bodies than hamburgers. Orginal post by Mike