9 posts and columns on accessory

Atrix 4G: Faux Laptop With a Phone For Brains

in Personal Technology on February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT

Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
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It’s Hard to Cut the Charging Cords

in The Digital Solution on February 15, 2011 at 4:24 pm PT

A pad to charge all your mobile devices sounds like a great idea, and yet most people are still fumbling with jumbles of power cords. Katie looks at the different technologies involved and why charging pads aren’t more commonplace.
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News Byte

THQ Exceeds Guidance After Selling 1.2 Million uDraw GameTablets

in Commerce on February 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm PT

THQ reported third-quarter earnings today, exceeding internal guidance because of strong sales of its own uDraw GameTablet, a $70 art accessory for the Nintendo Wii. It shipped 1.2 million units in the quarter. Still, the videogame developer and publisher reported a loss of $14.9 million, or 22 cents a share, compared with a year-ago profit. THQ’s revenues totaled $314.6 million, falling 11 percent from 2009. In after-hours trading, THQ’s stock dropped nearly 13 percent to $5.60 a share.

Exploring iStuff at CES With Mobilized (Video)

in Mobile on January 10, 2011 at 5:14 pm PT

Apple may not have been in Vegas, but its legions of followers were. The maker of the Mac and iPhone prefers having the stage to itself, but an entire section of CES was devoted to iStuff. Mobilized toured the show floor and has a video report.

Kno Prices Its Student Tablets at $599 and $899 to Ship by End of the Year

in News on November 8, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jump-start a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for sale at prices of $599 and $899. The lower price is for its single-screen device, while the clamshell double-screen version is more expensive. Kno would not say exactly how many it has ordered for its first tablet production run–the device is being built by China’s Foxconn–but co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid said in an interview earlier today that units would number “in the thousands.”

Smartphone Price Cuts Ruining Long-Term Price Potential?

in News on November 23, 2009 at 7:32 am PT

As we head into the holidays, smartphone prices are dropping to points that belie their advanced feature sets. While this is great news for consumers, it may well be problematic for smartphone manufacturers.
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Second Chances: T-Mobile Tries Again

in The Mossberg Solution on July 21, 2009 at 5:08 pm PT

A review of T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google, the second “Google phone” to be released.
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Two New Devices Give Presentations Some Portability

in Personal Technology on December 10, 2008 at 6:08 pm PT

By Nick Wingfield

Digital projectors are the best way to get the biggest possible image for a PowerPoint presentation or a movie. But the projectors are often pretty big themselves, with even most “pocket projectors” too big to stuff into the typical pocket or laptop bag. That is changing.

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