Digital Tablets and E-Readers

Do you have a Google Voice number? If you have answered in the affirmative, guess who else is deemed on the ‘nice’ list to own his very own Google Voice number? It seems that Santa, the most popular imaginary resident at the North Pole, has gotten his very own Google Voice number as well. In [...]

For those of you on the developer tip, you’re more than likely already working on the update that goes by the number 5.1, but for us lowly peasants, there a new build of 5.0.1 out there today for the iPhone 4S that goes by the name 9A406. This update is only one character away from [...]

Though the differences between the original Galaxy Nexus that’s been released a couple of weeks ago by Samsung internationally and the Verizon 4G LTE version of the handset are few, Verizon has gone above and beyond the call of duty in creating an interactive “this is how you do it” page for the device’s relatively [...]

Amazon’s extra-large Kindle DX is available this weekend (which is to say for the next few hours) for the low, low price of $ 259, down from its normal $ 379. It’s telling that even the lowered price still seems ridiculously high, considering that smaller but more advanced models are selling for under $ 100. [...]

Apple disappointed many iPhone 4 owners with the news that Siri, the digital personal assistant technology, would only be available on the new iPhone 4S, and efforts quickly began to hack Siri onto the older smartphone. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith got the local app running with no problems, but faced Apple’s servers refusing to play ball [...]

Velocity Micro launched the $ 240 8-inch T408 Android 2.2 tablet on September 7th. Amazon announced the $ 199 Kindle Fire two weeks later. But Velocity Micro isn’t going down without a fight. The company just sent over a note indicating that the T408 now costs just $ 199. It’s no doubt a smart move, [...]

I suppose that the game of Operation needs no introduction. That game where players attempt to pluck out plastic things and avoid a buzzer has now been given a Star Wars look. It is appropriate that Hasbro has put this out, as they have the rights to Operation and Star Wars toys. For some odd [...]

In the competitive and cutthroat world of tablets, while sounding cliche, only the strongest survive, and so far (regardless of platform), Apple’s iPad is the tablet to beat with many companies coming out with supposed “iPad killer” tablets. Now the bad news for those who were hoping to get their hands on the Sharp Galapagos [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone, arguably the finest phone of the year, is now finally available in the United States of America after being onsale in most other global territories for a few months now. Ultra thin and ultra fast,… Tech Digest

The iPhone 5 will land with much fanfare come this September or October when plenty of eager fans will line the streets to fork over some serious cash for this next-gen device. But what will they likely be getting in terms of specs? To answer that question, take a look at this “hypothetical” bill of [...]