NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang has been outspoken about the life and times of the superphone/smartphone/tablet market for awhile now, and at a recent press conference for Taiwan media, he went on to describe what he believes a superphone really is. Interestingly enough, he points out that the Motorola Droid X is the first of these [...]
CEATEC is still going on in Japan, so announcements are still managing to trickle out of the event. This time around, it’s Toshiba’s turn to make an announcement about the tablet market, and how the company will be a part of it in the coming months. Despite the fact that the Folio 100 was just [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. I hope your week was a good one, there was a lot going on in the tech world. We learned early in the week that Nokia had a touchscreen alternative to the iPhone that was axed in 2004. That device could have made for [...]
Like it or not, the capacitive touchscreen just isn’t cut out for use with a stylus. We’ve seen foam-tipped pens and meat-injected tubes have a go at it, but we’ve yet to really find an option that we were truly satisfied with. It’s not hard to imagine why having a legitimate capacitive stylus would be [...]
We’re just about into the third quarter of 2010, which means that wireless carriers are getting ready to release one last salvo at the consumer. With the holiday shopping season upon us, there’s no surprise here that Verizon would be gearing up to release a plethora of handsets before the end of the year. And, [...]
We thought about calling this podcast “Unchained Melody” or “The Engadget Podcast: RAW” but our COO got a little concerned about violating some sort of intellectual property laws, so you just get the plain vanilla name. Regardless, it is quite a monster, complete with a radio play set in an AT&T store and 3-D versions [...]
It’s been well over three years since we saw OS X hacked onto Sony’s VAIO UX, meaning that it’s just about time for yet another of yesteryear’s best tablets to receive the OS that Apple refuses to place on its own tablet. Thanks to dedicated code junkies over at xda developers, HTC’s ill-fated Shift is [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Week in Review! Early in the week Fujifilm unveiled a cool new hybrid viewfinder digital camera called the X100. The little digital camera has a 13.2-megapixel sensor and retro style that looks really nice. Some details on HTC’s Android tablet surfaced early in the week. Those details point [...]
Motorola’s been thinking about tablets for a while now, but according to Sanjay Jha, it won’t be entering that flourishing new market segment until it’s absolutely certain it’ll have a product that’s “competitive in the marketplace.” Depending on how you perceive the Droid X, Moto might arguably be said to already have a tablet out [...]
HTC’s event today may be all about smartphones, but the company’s simmering tablet plans are also getting some press. According to DigiTimes‘ sources at Taiwanese component makers, HTC is ramping up to release an Android tablet – potentially running 3.0 Gingerbread – in Q1 next year. It’s unclear whether this slate is a different model [...]