Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Microsoft answered nearly all of the questions we had about Windows Phone 7 Series after Mobile World Congress at this year’s MIX. 7 series is quickly shaping up to be one of the more impressive things we’ve seen from Microsoft in a while….

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THX Certified HDTVs - Useful or Just Marketing?

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

THX is well known for its audio standards. But when you see THX on an HDTV panel, what does that mean? Loyd digs in to find out….

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Windows Phone 7 Series Takeaway

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Microsoft has finally unveiled its platform to return to feature competition in the smartphone space. Is it enough to hang with the likes of Android, iPhone OS and webOS?…

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The Patriot Box Office Review: A Portent of Great Things to Come

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Patriot sent us its first foray into the streaming media market. This tiny little box will let you stream everything from ripped movies to full blown Blu-ray images to your TV. We took it for a spin….

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The Apple iPad - Anand’s Analysis

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

For not actually shipping a product, there’s a lot to take in based on today’s iPad announcement. We wrestle with available information to figure out where this thing will compete and whether or not it even makes sense. To answer that we have to go back about a decade….

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NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

NVIDIA’s new SoC has a pair of ARM Cortex A9s on a single die. If you thought the A8 was fast, this is going to blow your mind….

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XBMC & Broadcom Bring 1080p Decode Upgrade to ill-equipped netbooks, nettops, Apple TVs

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Have $30? Thanks to the XBMC team and Broadcom you now have a way of upgrading your anemic netbook, nettop, AppleTV or Mac Mini to a HTPC capable of playing back 1080p video. Open source rocks….

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Epic Demonstrates Unreal Engine 3 for the iPod Touch/iPhone 3GS

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Preparing for the ultra mobile future, Epic Games showed us an exclusive demo of Unreal Engine 3 running on a 3rd generation iPod touch. …

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Anand’s Thoughts on the Kindle 2 and Marvell Making Affordable eBook Readers

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

A couple of weeks ago Marvell announced its ARMADA line of custom ARM based SoCs. We have a little more detail on one of its members: the 166E. Marvell hopes that the 166E will pave the way for affordable ebook readers in 2010….

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Understanding the iPhone 3GS

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The iPhone 3GS improves performance by leaps and bounds over its predecessor. Today, we go through its architecture and understand how….

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