Creative is selling two versions of the Zen X-Fi: a Wi-Fi model in 16GB and 32GB version, and an 8GB version without the Wi-Fi. All of the models are extremely competitively priced, given all of the out-of-the-box features available. The 8GB sells for $149.99, while the 16GB and 32GB sell for $199 and $279, respectively. [...]
Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it’s using an official carrier. While this is not the software unlock being developed by the usual suspects, the [...]
Move over Psystar – the EFiX development team claims to have created a USB device that allows the installation and use of Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs. What’s more, it is supposed to enable users to to install Mac OS X straight out of the box!
According to the EFiX website, “It allows its user [...]
Apple seems certain to unveil a new iPhone at a developer conference in San Francisco on June 9 – but how will it differ from its predecessor?
It seems, at times, as though Steve Jobs has an impossible job. Within days of the iPhone going on sale, technology fans and gadget geeks were already speculating what [...]
Even with the price of what used to be known as the “$100 laptop” still hovering closer to the $200 mark, the organization behind the XO laptop design is at work on a next-generation device with an even lower target price: $75. To get there, it’s counting on advances in software technologies and in hardware [...]
Apple has released an iPod software update, version 1.2.2 for its fifth generation iPods. This update is supposed to have some ‘bug fixes’. How important these fixes are to the enjoyment of your iPod is still undetermined.
Many users have experienced an issue after installing the update where all the iPod menus are now blank even [...]
Nintendo’s Wii continues to dominate the Japanese console market, according to latest sales figures.
Nintendo sold nearly a quarter of a million machines during August, whilst Sony sold just over 80,000 PlayStation 3s and Microsoft just 11,000 Xbox 360s.
The sales figures, released by Japanese game magazine publisher Enterbrain, confirm a trend seen in other [...]
Combination of soldering and software hacking allows Apple’s smartphone to be used on any network, but software tampering and reselling the unlocked phones may be breaking US law.
A teenage boy has successfully hacked Apple’s iPhone smartphone, unlocking the device to allow its full use on networks other than the US AT&T service.
George Hotz, a 17-year-old [...]
Rockin’ Out with iPhone
As groovy as the iPhone is, it is missing a lot of stuff. In response to this a cottage industry of sorts has popped up in response. Whether you have a iPhone today or plan to get one some time in the future, here is a list of super cool links that [...]
