A whisper-thin laptop with enough juice to last all day: it’s a promise that even the vaunted MacBook Air, with its five to seven-ish hours of battery life, can’t quite deliver. Now comes HP with its new Folio 13, a svelte, flyweight Windows laptop with a...
At just $200, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is less than half the price of the cheapest iPad—and to an extent, early reviewers of the Fire say, you get what you pay for. Then again, you’re still getting a lot of entertaining bang for your two-hundred bucks. Update:...
Apple began selling an “unlocked,” contract-free version of the new iPhone 4S on Friday that will work with any GSM-based carrier, including AT&T or T-Mobile. But it won’t be cheap. The cheapest 16GB iPhone 4S costs a whopping $649, or a full...
Annoyed by the poor battery life on your new iPhone 4S or on your older iOS 5-enabled iPhone? Well, good news: Apple just unleashed an update that (supposedly, at least) includes a fix for the iPhone’s recent battery problems. The update, dubbed iOS 5.0.1.,...
Don’t be alarmed Wednesday afternoon (or morning, on the West Coast) if your favorite show is abruptly interrupted by a blaring tone and a crawl at the bottom of the screen that reads, “A Primary Entry Point station has issued an Emergency Action...
Looks like Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire tablet will have some stiff competition during the holiday shopping season. Get ready for the Barnes & Noble Nook tablet, which boasts a color screen, a massive book store, HD video playback, and a souped-up processor...
Stymied by a tricky-to-use interface, blocked by uncooperative television networks and pretty much ignored by couch potatoes, Google TV has proved a rare misfire for the search giant. Indeed, when Logitech slashed the price of its Google TV-enabled Revue setup box...
Letting little ones armed with felt-tip pens loose on your iPad sounds like a recipe for disaster—that is, unless you’ve got Crayola’s new iPad case handy. Made of “shatter-resistant” plastic (fingers crossed), the Crayola “Trace &...
Shoot first, focus later: that’s the idea behind the Lytro, a potentially groundbreaking new camera that promises to change the way we take—and view—pictures. Enticing stuff, but is the Lytro camera for real, and will it live up to the hype? Read on for 6...
Apple’s big iOS 5 software update arrived barely a week ago, and now we have Google trumpeting the next version of its own mobile platform: Android 4.0, a.k.a. “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Just like iOS 5, version 4.0 of Android packs in hundreds of new...
