Category: Gadgets

  • Googles Blocking Android Market Movie Rentals On Rooted Devices

    Googles Blocking Android Market Movie Rentals On Rooted Devices

    Android Central points out Google support document that details the Failed to fetch license for (movie title) error 49 message users will see when they try to play on a rooted device. Only Xooms with Android 3.1 have the access to the service right now, but support rolls out to all Android 2.2 or higher…

  • Hulu Plus On TiVo Promos, Launch Soon

    Hulu Plus On TiVo Promos, Launch Soon

    TiVo announced it would offer Hulu Plus in Spetember we are still waiting for it to arrive on those Premiere DVRs. Twitter user dlayphoto spotted these materials in local Best Buy promising six months for the $7.99/month service for free with purchase of a new box with a new price tag. The URL on the…

  • HP TouchSmart 610 With Sandy Bridge CPU Options

    HP TouchSmart 610 With Sandy Bridge CPU Options

    HP may have announced its TouchSmart 610 all-in-one just too soon for it to ship with Core 2011 processors, the company is pushing out a refresh a just a few months later. The 23-inch device is on sale with a variety of quad-core Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge CPUs. The special in the…

  • HTC EVO 3D, View 4G Now Available For Pre-Order At Sprint

    HTC EVO 3D, View 4G Now Available For Pre-Order At Sprint

    Sprint customers can now pre-order their HTC EVO 3D and EVO View 4G tablet. The carrier has confirmed that you can reserve WiMAX device by visiting Sprint owned retail store and plucking down $50. No words yet on when you will be getting the device in your hands. It is also taking the names for…

  • Bookens Real Time Web Browsing On E Ink Screen

    Bookens Real Time Web Browsing On E Ink Screen

    Booken has an E Ink Pearl display hacked to playback clips of bunnies without so much as a hiccup, now it is showing web browsing and scrolling on the same screen. It is stutter, as you see the video below, but the same tech found in Kindle is quite comfortable. The trick is done with…

  • Sharp Aquos Android Calmshell

    Sharp Aquos Android Calmshell

    Sharp, one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in its native country Japan rolled out a retro-future Gingerbread-packing Aquos Phone Hybrid 007SH, an Android 2.3 flip phone with 180- degree swivelling touchscreen above the hinge the numerical dial pad and below there is a cool kids in Shibuya crave. The pretty good spec in this phone…

  • iRivers T9 All Purpose MP3 Player

    iRivers T9 All Purpose MP3 Player

    The MP3 Player that can do it all, including whisper sweet nothings in your ear. iRiver T9, slim, Barbie Pink with screen savers say I love you and Enjoy your life. This device actually offers a healthy feature set, includes FM radio, voice recorder, step and calorie counters, a USB connector, and the ability to…

  • Windows Phone 7-Style Music Player For Android From LauncherPro

    Windows Phone 7-Style Music Player For Android From LauncherPro

    Windows Phone 7s Metro UI Style can have it for their media player. Now the app has been released by the developer of LauncherPro homescreen replacement. As you can see from the video below next to a real WP 7 device, the look and functionality of Zune Player is present in a full featured interface…

  • Stream Hulu On Your Nook Color

    Stream Hulu On Your Nook Color

    Now you can have your Hulus extensive video library at your fingertips. Replacing the standard Adobe Flash Player with a modified version seems to work for the Nook and some other devices; users at Android Central have reported success on Epic 4G, Thnderbolt, and Droid Incredible. Check out the video for more details and how…

  • Android Honeycomb Has Hidden Gingerbread Interface

    Android Honeycomb Has Hidden Gingerbread Interface

    Googles indicated that tablet and smartphones will not be sharing the same Android build until Ice Cream Sandwich in Q4 this year, it turns out that the tablet friendly Honeycomb actually has Gingerbreads interface tucked underneath. According to modder Graffixo214, you need to making the jump is one simple system file: you already have the…

  • Orange And Barclaycard Launch Quick Tap

    Orange And Barclaycard Launch Quick Tap

    Mobile carrier is today launching the UKs first mobile phone contactless payment service, called as Quick Tap for purchase up to 15. It works on MasterCards PayPass System and requires a Barclays debit or credit card or, alternatively, a credit card from Orange itself. Gemalto is providing the SIM-based NFC compatibility, with Samsungs entirely un…

  • Nokias Windows Phone Getting Dual-Core ST-Ericsson U8500

    Nokias Windows Phone Getting Dual-Core ST-Ericsson U8500

    ST Microelectronics Carlo Bozotti is cited by Forbes as saying that Nokia will use ST-Ericsson hardware to power some of the Windows Phones. The dual-core U8500, a long time Nokia favorite is the first such system on the chip to appear, which the successors helping to populate Nokias expansive Windows Phone line up in 2012.

  • Google To Buy Modu Patents

    Google To Buy Modu Patents

    The Modu founder Dov Morgan found that new source of capital he went for last November. To pay back to creditors and unpaid wages, the firms patent portfolio is slated to be snatched up by Google for $4.8 million. Israeli news Calcalist reports that he is already invested three million smackers in mysterious new start…

  • HTC Flyer Lands On Best Buy From May 22nd At $500

    HTC Flyer Lands On Best Buy From May 22nd At $500

    The Best Buy gets the launching of HTC Flyer Android tablet in US, and has revealed Sunday as the official first day of availability of Flyer at $500. The 16GB equipped 7-inch Wi-Fi only tablet will be available with a magic pen that can be bought separately. You can buy yours online at Best Buy…

  • NEC Dual-Screen Life Touch W Tablet

    NEC Dual-Screen Life Touch W Tablet

    NEC got the attention in CES with dual-screen Android Tablet/e-reader, calls it as LT-W Cloud Communicator. Now its been re-branded as Life Touch W and officially hits on Japan this June. It features 7-inch, 800*600 resistive touchscreens, 384MB of RAM and Cortex A8 CPU. It got same out-dated Android2.2 OS and a five hour battery.…

  • Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate USB3.0 Flash Drive

    Kingston Data Traveler Ultimate USB3.0 Flash Drive

    Kingston announces its new data traveler flash drive has been up for second generation offering up 100MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write speeds when plugged into USB 3.0 port plugging into USB 2.0 ports gives you 30MB/sec for both read and write. The 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB drives will costs you $77, $116, and $213 respectively.…

  • Xperia Play, Arc Getting Android 2.3.4 Next Week

    Xperia Play, Arc Getting Android 2.3.4 Next Week

    Recombu reporting that some iterations of the phone Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and Arc will be getting upgraded to Android 2.3.4 next week. They are the first non-Nexus phones to get the update. In addition to various Android related updates Sony Ericsson So called Facebook inside Xperia update, to more deeply integrate your phone with…

  • Phone Oximeter Saves Life

    Phone Oximeter Saves Life

    The University of British Columbias Electrical & Computer Engineering in Medicine Team managed to bring its Phone Oximeter to our attention, a handy little device for monitoring vitals outside a hospital setting. The meter hooks up to a smartphone iPhone for trials (works with Androids, Windows and Others) displaying wearers blood oxygen level and heart…

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