George Hotz — better known as GeoHot — might be the most famous hardware hacker in the world. He unlocked the iPhone so people could use it with any carrier and hacked the PS3 so it would play bootlegged games. Some of GeoHot’s hacks are clearly illegal, but are they wrong?
The Blackberry Playbook has some excellent hardware, but to date it’s been hampered by a lack of really good apps. The same could be said for Sony’s PlayStation phone initiatives; so far it’s been a lot of promise with little delivery. A PlayStation emulator for Playbook might just bridge the gap between the two.
The few… the proud… the incredibly obsessed with that Spider-Man font. Sony Australia is opening up applications for its exclusive Facebook-based fan community, Sony X.
Sony is still a technological powerhouse with a massive R&D department, but as Sohrab Vossoughi explains at Harvard Business Review, everything has changed. Today it’s not enough to build a killer technology — you’ve got to carefully design how people use the final product.
When Nokia launched the N-Gage, gamers revolted at the idea that you’d hold a taco-shaped thing up to your head to talk. Will we all look any more dignified shouting into a PS Vita? We’ll all get the chance to find out, as the official Skype app is now available.
Smart TVs haven’t exactly set the premium TV market on fire, but the one area where they have grabbed telly watchers’ attention has been in providing catch-up TV opportunities. Sony’s just announced that by mid-year it’ll add Channel 10 to its lineup on compatible Bravia TVs.
Two premium Android smartphones eye each other off nervously before entering into the Battlemodo arena. One sells itself on its insanely high resolution screen; the other on its insanely fast camera. Only one of them can be our preferred Android superphone — which one will it be?
Tablets are a hot property right now, but which tablet should you buy? We’ve assembled the specifications for 31 different tablets so you can compare. Update: Now with Toshiba’s newly announced tablets.
