Up to this point, our experiences with AMD’s Phenom II mobile line haven’t been very favorable. In the desktop world AMD’s chips can compete and succeed based on price, but in notebooks thermal properties get added to the mix. Intel’s been very aggressive about controlling the mobile market, but is AMD’s “we’ll sell you more [...]

Last week Apple introduced its first significant upgrade to the MacBook Air since it was introduced two years ago. The announcement was met with the arrival of a new form factor for Apple: the 11.6-inch MacBook Air starting at just 9. The 13.3-inch model got an update and a price drop as well. It starts at [...]

If you’re like me, SureType and BlackBerry Pearl keyboard was at best a desperate way to enter text. Give me a full QWERTY. And us Americans are supposed to love clamshell phones, so RIM decided to make a full QWERTY BlackBerry flip phone. The BlackBerry Style is indeed a stylish, well made smartphone, despite the [...]

The segment of entry level Android smartphones was nonexistent until recently. HTC Wildfire became the first model offered and Motorola Quench is its direct rival. Other competing handsets are Samsung Galaxy 550/580, but Motorola has a better screen with higher resolution, which is the strongest point of Quench.In the segment of accessible Android phones low [...]

The new 11.6-inch MacBook Air isn’t the only contender for the high-end ultraportable crown. The $899 Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T-68U118 looks like a Netbook from the outside, but inside, its specs are utterly upscale. An Intel Core i7-680UM dual-core ULV processor, 500GB hard drive, and 4GB of DDR3 RAM match what we’ve seen in midrange [...]

The front houses the speaker, the LED status light flashing different colors to communicate that something is happening, i.e. there is an email in the inbox, or lit solid when the phone is charging, AT&T and HTC logos and the main Android controls – Home, Menu, Return and Search sensors, and an optical touchpad with [...]