the very Best smartphones on every Carrier

Brandon Davenport Nov 27, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile, Okay Geek, iPhone

There has been constant noise on which smartphone is the best, and most people are tired of it, or they are just confused beyond repair. The true thing that makes a smartphone good is not just the hardware, but the thing that connects it to the world, your carrier.

All of the phones have specific pros and cons based, again, not upon the phone itself, but lots of the issues lie on the carriers -- AT&T's poor 3G performance, Verizons huge early termination fee -- and also lots of the good stuff is because of the carriers; price drops because of competition, and good service. But what it all boils down to is the fact that there are only a handful of "good" phones on each carrier. Gizmodo took the time to sift through the good, bad, and the ugly to bring you a list of what phones are the best.

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Nick Mahar - Google Wave Diary: Day 1

We all have seen our very our Ricardo Trejo's Google Wave Diaries over the past few weeks. I recently received my invite and i just wanted to write a little thing about it myself. For starters, even when i asked my friend's for an invite I had no clue what in the world it was but i knew since it was Google, it must be good. After watching some of Google's videos I understood the layout of the page but I was still like why in the world would i use this thing, what's the difference between this, email, and a Facebook status with comments?

Emblaze First Else - an amazing Video demo

Brandon Davenport Nov 25, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Design, Gadgets, Hardware, Videos

This is the First Else smartphone from a Israeli company called Emblaze Mobile. It honestly looks like it came from the future, and it is all exposed in the interface. The UI consists of a main menu which you can access 100% of your apps and all of their functions without letting your finger leave the screen. It is a very unique experience, with the look made up of mostly blues, whites, and blacks to give a sense of bold simplicity.

The device houses a TI OMAP 3430 processor, a big 854×480 pixel, 3.5-inch capacitive LCD touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1450mAh battery, while the operating system is Access Linux Platform, which was announced back in 2006, but has never appeared on any actual device on the market.

[via Mashable]

Black Friday Guide - Sales on Apple stuff start early!

Ohmigosh! It is too good to be true, as was the case last year, several Apple authorized resellers are getting a leg-up on the 2009 holiday shopping season by launching early Black Friday sales that offer up to $220 off Mac desktops and $250 off Mac notebooks. The stores should be teeming with shoppers (dollar signs in their eyes) so plan a sick day at work, its gunna get ugly.

Read whats on sale after the break!

OS Xbox Pro: Get Use Out of Your Old Xbox

Nick Mahar Nov 25, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Applications, Design, Gadgets, Hacks, Hardware, Humor, Industry News, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Mobile, Movies, Music, Videos, Websites

Everyone has seen a Hackintosh, but this one is just too cool to miss. With the case of an old Xbox console, and as much power as a $4,500 Mac Pro, the specs on this thing are crazy: 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550s paired with an NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT card, 8GB of RAM, a 16GB SSD, and four traditional hard disk drives (one each to boot Windows 7 and OS X) plus two 500GB 7,200rpm drives in a RAID0 array for video editing.

It took Will Urbina only $1,500 to build his OS Xbox Pro - this of course does not include manual labor, which for this project is plenty expensive. I must say I'm amazed and would love to get my hands on one of these!

-NM

[Engadget]

iPhoto 8.1.1 Update

Nick Mahar Nov 24, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Design, Gadgets, Hardware, How to, Internet, Websites, breaking

 

A new update for iPhoto '09 was released today. It contains fixes for face recognition performance and accuracy, and also resolves minor issues with book ordering. The update can be installed via Software Update or through a standalone installer. It is recommended for all users of iPhoto '09.


WARNING:
If you imported photos of people while using iPhoto 8.1, there's an extra step you should take after installing the 8.1.1 update. Select all those photos, Control-click to open the contextual menu, and then choose Detect Missing Faces. This will re-detect the faces in those photos and correct any face recognition issues introduced in iPhoto 8.1. You should not quit iPhoto during the Detect Missing Faces process.

So far the update hasn't had any problems and is helping on performance stats a lot.


-NM

Apple Hits Back at Verizon With The iPhone

I recently saw this ad on TV and it seemed to me that Apple was directly attacking Verizon after they attacks them and AT&T. Verizon was only really attacking AT&T until they created the "Misfit Toys" ad that unclouded the iPhone. The commercial shows off how the iPhone is the only phone that allows you to check movie times, send an MMS message of a map, all while making a phone call.  Each of the two new TV spots ends with the line "Can your phone and your network do that?"

Videos after the break