Blackberry Tour 9630 Review: World-Roaming, Full-Featured, No Wi-Fi
The Blackberry Tour 9630 is RIM’s version of a global handset, combining the line’s well-known business talents along with international roaming capabilities. Supporting voice coverage in 220 countries and data connectivity in 175, it’s likely the only phone you’ll need to carry throughout all your travels. Multi-country support, of course, is a double-edged sword. While [...]
Google Announces ChromeOS, Their Upcoming PC Platform
Talks of a PC-based Google OS has been going on for literally years now. It looks like 2010 is the year we finally see it in actual form, with today’s formal announcement of ChromeOS, an open-source, lightweight PC platform for machines running on X86 and ARM processors. According to Google, the operating system will be [...]
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Review: Massively Multiplayer Robot Battles To Die For
The first Transformers movie’s game tie-in from Traveller’s Tales was a disappointing mess. That’s why for the second movie, Activision handed development duties to LuxoFlux to mixed results. Just like you expect from a Michael Bay movie, the game version of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has a retardedly weak story, with some pretty illogical [...]
Canon Powershot A2100 IS: Great Image Quality And 6X Zoom, Albeit A Little Slow
If you’ve been using a point-and-shoot, you’ve probably experienced the lack of usable results a 3x or 4x camera can get you. While those features are appreciated, they seldom help a great deal in real-world images you want to photograph. As such, trading in your zoom-stingy camera for a 6X compact like the Canon Powershot [...]
Firefox 3.5 Review: The Need For Speed
I had high hopes for the release of Firefox 3.5. Easily the most extensible browser with an innumerable number of add-ons available, it’s the one browser I always want to be using but often don’t simply because it’s not fast enough. For this latest iteration, the browser’s TraceMonkey JavaScript engine does make some inroads in [...]
iPhone 3GS Jailbreak Outed Prematurely, Available Now
George Hotz, the same man credited with first unlocking the original iPhone, has broken rank and proceeded to release the much-awaited iPhone 3GS jailbreak. A joint creation of the iPhone Dev Team, the tool was being held as the group waited for Apple to release the OS 3.1 software. According to reports, the idea was [...]
Sony Vaio FW480J/T Review: A Solid, Multimedia Notebook
Sony’s line of Vaio laptops, especially those at the higher end of the price range, offer some of the most capable media playback you can find on portable computers. The Sony Vaio FW480J/T is one of the best machines in the FW line, offering Blu-ray playback, mid-range graphics and a sleek chassis. As a multimedia-centered [...]
Fight Night Round 4 Review: Excellent Game, Same Rapid Punching Problem
I’ve never been a fan of the Fight Night series. For some reason, I always thought the game always encouraged a “rock ‘em, sock ‘em” approach that took strategy out the window during competitive mode. Fight Night Round 4 somewhat remedies the propensity for wild, armalite-style punching by implementing a new recovery system that rewards [...]