Mobile

HTC Holiday Shows Up Bearing 4.5-Inch QHD Screen

The Vigor isn’t the only phone HTC seems to have in the pipeline, with the Holiday showing up sporting a California case/licence-plate over its 4.5-inch qHD screen.


August 12, 2011
Mobile

HTC Vigor To Be First Beats By Dre Phone?

I really like this rumour: Apparently the HTC Vigor will be the first handset HTC’s new acquisition, Beats by Dre, will show up on, but apart from that it’s tipped to have a 4.3-inch screen with 1280×720 resolution.


August 9, 2011
Mobile

First BlackBerry Running QNX Sounds Like The Same Old Story

Codenamed BlackBerry Colt, RIM’s first BlackBerry to run the new PlayBook tablet-like QNX software has been leaked to BGR, and from what they’ve reported it sounds like same old RIM: a single-core chipset, and lacking BES support, too.


August 8, 2011
Computing

Cheap, Scaled-Down iMac Being Readied For Students?

Apple failed to introduce a new educational discount for iPads, but that doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten about students altogether. 9to5Mac has heard that a new, more affordable iMac aimed at students will be released this month, maybe on August 16th.


August 2, 2011
Mobile

Is 4.7 Inches Too Big For A Sony Ericsson 3D Gaming Phone?

Phone sizes keep creeping up, to the point where I worry using a 10.1-inch tablet will soon become the norm. If rumours are correct, Sony Ericsson’s thinking big with their first glasses-free 3D phone — a possible PlayStation phone, perhaps?


July 30, 2011
Mobile

iPhone 5 Launch? AT&T Bans Staff Holidays For End Of September

An AT&T employee says that any holidays for the last two weeks of September would be denied “due to an event blackout”. According to him, the only times this has been done in the past has been when an iPhone was released:


July 19, 2011
Mobile

Nokia’s Sea Ray Phone Caught Running Windows Phone 7

Looking exactly like the phone Nokia CEO Stephen Elop showed off recently, this Sea Ray prototype has been filmed in what’s presumably the factory, running a near-final version of Mango. What a lithe little beauty we can look forward to.


July 13, 2011
Computing

MacBook Airs, White MacBooks, Mac Minis But No Mac Pros This Month?

New Apple products are expected to drop soon, but according to 9to5Mac’s sources, the bundle of presents won’t actually include Mac Pros after all. Turns out the part numbers they intercepted earlier this week referred to a white MacBook and Mac Mini.


July 12, 2011
Computing

Will Mac Pro Join MacBook Air In Rumoured Spec Bump Party?

Rumours of a MacBook Air update this week have reached such a froth that it’d be more of a surprise if they didn’t show up. More unexpected? Speculation from 9to5Mac that a Mac Pro bump is in the hopper too.


July 8, 2011
Computing

Apple Patent Shows Visual Content Sharing Between iPad And iPhone

From the looks of things, Apple has been working on a content sharing feature between iOS devices, much like HP is doing on WebOS with the TouchPad and Pre 3. But taking things one step further, they’ve animated it all.