We still believe the launch of the HP Pre 3 is on track for late August. In breaking news this weekend it was revealed that Sprint, the exclusive carrier of the original Palm Pre in the US, would not be releasing the Pre 3 and that HP has no plans of offering any future devices on the Now Network. While the news was undoubtedly a major disappointment for Sprint webOS users, this might be the first sign that Palm finally understands the recipe for smartphone success.
July, 2011
The latest concept from Renault features a special guest passenger – that’s right, the BlackBerry PlayBook is hitching a ride. But it’s no freeloader, it’ll add a host of abilities, turning this concept into a veritable computer on wheels.
Find out more, and see it in action in a Tron-style video after the break.
This is the first picture you’ll see of the Mi Suny iPowerTab – the solar charger for your iPad that doubles as a stand. And what better time to find out about it than in the middle of summer.
Click through to see when you can be charging your iPad outdoors while propping it up at the same time.
Apple’s OS X Lion launch and 2011 MacBook Air refresh are not the only major headlines coming out of the Cupertino camp this week. Word on the street is Apple is preparing to release an iPod 3G, complete with a data-only SIM option like the iPad, and the iPhone 5, but without a 4G LTE radio. Here’s why.
One of our favorite features in iOS 5 is iMessage. The iOS-only messaging solution makes text and multimedia messaging between iPhones and iPads as simple as pie. While iPods will also gain this functionality, the inherent limitation of WiFi-only communications makes for a far less compelling solution.
Well that’s the hardest part of the week over with, time to take five and grab a sarnie. And while you do, why not check out our bundle of tech goodies we’ve collected from the morning’s news. There’s a Steve Jobs look-a-like hawking tea, Apple losing $8m in a patent war, a hacked HTC HD2, videogames movies round-up, and more. Read more
A Steve Jobs look-a-like is using the Apple CEO’s pitching style to hawk ice tea drinks in Taiwan. The ad from Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, one of the country’s largest food companies, is for an iPad 2 giveaway encouraging customers to buy the Tong Yi Cha drink.
To be honest, it’s mainly the glasses and black polo-neck that make the actor’s Steve Jobs schtick work. As dopplegangers go, he’s a little bit dodgy and with Apple’s strict rules on iPad giveaways and its previous prickly attitude to people using the big boss’ image, as with the Steve Jobs action figure, we can see it lasting long. See the ad after the jump…
Long before Windows Phone 7 Mango bore fruit, Windows Mobile 6.5 phones like the HTC HD2 were left behind. But backslashsid, a member of the XDA-Developers forum, thought that was unfair and has managed to port the Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta 1 to the device.
Keeping up its recent more lenient attitude to hardware hackers, Microsoft spokesman Bill Cox told AllThingsD: “We say tinker away with Mango and enjoy the juice. But beware the fine print – unlocking phones may void your warranty.”
Click through to see the HTC HD2 running Windows Phone 7 Mango. It’s surprisingly speedy and suggests the poor old HTC HD2 was ditched a little to early…
Space Invaders is being made into a movie. Yes, really. Apparently the studio is looking for a scriptwriter right now, and we wish them good luck with that.
Given this bizarre turn of events, what other classic games could do with the movie treatment? We can think of a few…
Incidentally, one of these is actually being made already – see if you can spot which without scrolling to the end.