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We don’t have a formal unveiling for Motorola’s Verizon-bound A4500 world phone just yet, but an operation manual and some snapshots of its dress rehearsal from the FCC should suffice in the interim. From what we glean, it supports CDMA for VZW’s network and quad-band GSM for SIM-packing Vodafone customers and other overseas roaming needs.  [ Read More ]

Whispers of a new or revised PSP have been growing decidedly louder as of late, and now 1UP’s gotten a ton of new details from what it claims are “sources directly involved with the new system” — our favorite kind of people, actually. Here’s what they were told: UMD is out, replaced instead with options  [ Read More ]

When the New York Times sent one of its ace reporters to Shenzhen to check out the KIRF scene, they came to a startling conclusion: these things are really quite popular. And why not? Your iPhone might be a terrific device, but is it really $400 better than the Hi-Phone, or the iorgane? Well, it’s  [ Read More ]

We like how you’re thinking, AMD, and we don’t say that everyday — or ever, really. During a time when even hardcore gamers are having to rethink whether or not that next-gen GPU is a necessity, AMD has pushed out a remarkably potent new graphics card for under a Benjamin, and the whole world has  [ Read More ]

While white seems to have been the color of choice for most official demos of the HTC Magic, there’s also a black version headed to Vodafone (and other carriers, eventually), and the folks at Netbooknews.de got their hands on one of those once mythical handsets for a video unboxing. As you can see above (and  [ Read More ]

We know what you’re thinking: you’d love to see some video of Samsung‘s very first Android device — the I7500 — but you don’t want to watch it unless the soundtrack for the clip is foreign hair metal. Well, we aim to please at Tech, so without further ado, we present this totally bitchin’ flick  [ Read More ]

You might think that everything that could possibly be said or done with USB missile launchers had already been said and done, but you’d be wrong — dead wrong. The next (final?) frontier for these staples of modern cube warfare has arrived in the form of an iPhone app, iLauncher, that’ll allow you to control  [ Read More ]

Following in the footsteps of past Eee PC’s like the 901, ASUS’ Japanese-bound 1003HAG boasts an internal wireless WAN module and supports NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA network with 7.2Mbps on the downlink. For a more local connection, there’s 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. As for the rest of the hardware, it’s pretty much netbook status quo: a  [ Read More ]

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s reports of Apple and Verizon dealings comes some tantalizing, but still unconfirmed, new details from BusinessWeek. According to the publication, the gang in Cupertino has prototyped two devices for the carrier. The first one is a smaller, less expensive device that’s been dubbed as “iPhone lite” by someone who’s  [ Read More ]

HP’s adding a little bit of freshness to its portable lineup this evening with the new ProBook s-series, designed as affordable business-centric laptops but should be capable of pulling off a decent game or two for those long flights. The 14-inch 4410s and 4415s pack Intel / AMD processors, respectively, optional Blu-ray drive, HDMI port,  [ Read More ]