So far, Apple has consciously stayed out of the budget market segment and marketed the iPhone, or in fact, all its products as premium high-end devices. Lately, however, the internet has been abuzz with multiple analysts and sources claiming Apple’s strategy might just have changed. Apple is expected to launch TWO versions of the iPhone…
Can we talk about how awesome this season of “Game of Thrones” is? I don’t want to count my dragons before they’re hatched, but episode 5 “Kissed By Fire” had a very healthy amount of action and plot development in it. Plus the pace is crazy. I stand by my point that there are too…
All of our handsets allow us to lock our device with a system-wide password. In the case of Android, there’s slightly more customizability – we get patterns and even facial recognition. But a common problem across all platforms is that we can’t lock specific apps on our device. Many times, the purpose of a lock-code…
The announcement of a brand new Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo 3DS was one of many big reveals made in Nintendo’s PR video Nintendo Direct a few weeks ago. But it wasn’t just the fact that a new Zelda game is on the way that got fans excited, it was the fact that…
Gardening With BitPonics About two years ago, I got the chance to check out MoMA’s Talk To Me exhibit, a really interesting show playing with everyday objects and communication. The entire show was engaging, but I was most struck by Botanicalls. (Excuse the quality of the cell phone snap — if I had know…
Not only is May 4th 2013 Star Wars Day, but it’s the annually occurring, international Free Comic Book Day. That’s right, for one day only you’ll be able to pick up a stack of comic books from your local comic book shop for absolutely free. But today’s busy geek might not have the time to…
Android users can no longer claim bragging rights for being the exclusive platform for Google Now. Google has just released an update to its Search app on iOS which brings Google Now to its iOS users. Google Now – Google’s Answer to Siri The update is available on both the iPhone and iPad, with the…
Big budget film reboots are a tricky business. Fans have expectations and, let’s be honest, we’re not always the most accepting when some Hollywood hotshot changes our precious characters. In 2009, JJ Abrams did just that with “Star Trek,” but he was praised for it. With the sequel, “Star Trek Into Darkness” right around the…
Glide, the Video Walkie-Talkie I got the chance to talk with the Glide team here at TechCrunch Disrupt, just before they won Monday’s audience choice for best startup! Glide is a video-chat messaging app for mobile. Users can communicate with short videos, sending them to friends, to be watched immediately or held, like a text,…
I have always been a bit overly obsessed with the summer blockbuster season. Every year, there are multiple films that push epic trailers that make me think they will be the best film of all time. This doesn’t usually happen, but these movies are huge, with the most well known actors and the most popular…
Frankly, this is embarrassing. Maybe the Galaxy S4 is jinxed – no one seems to be able to launch it right. Samsung’s New York launch event was bad, no doubt. It was criticized for being strongly sexist in nature, but it didn’t end there. The Galaxy S4’s Mumbai launch takes bad advertising to a whole…
New Startup ‘InBetweenJobs’ ‘ Like most people my age, I’ve frequently found myself “in between jobs”. As job security becomes a sweet old-fashioned concept like white gloves and monogrammed notepaper, we’re all spending more and more of our time looking for our new project. TechCrunch Disrupt’s startup InBetweenJobs knows this feeling. Their new site is…
Samsung has just announced its latest 7-inch tablet known as the Galaxy Tab 3. Looks like Samsung is getting ready to compete with budget Android tablets like the Nexus 7. According to the press release, the new Galaxy Tab 3 will come with a 1.2GHz Dual-Core processor under the hood, 7-inch WSVGA display with standard…
HP has released it’s own 7-inch Android tablet to rival Google’s Nexus 7 and other budget 7” tablets. The new tablet by HP is dubbed as the HP Slate 7 and comes with a price tag of just $169. The new HP Slate 7 is for users who want a cheap Android tablet that’s even…
Smartphones just seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer. Thickness levels have dipped below the 7mm mark, and now with the launch of the Huawei Ascend P6 U06, we’re almost going to reach 6mm slimness. Huawei’s latest device has just received approval from China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center MIIT. At just 6.18mm thick, it is…