Yesterday we saw the first MOTO-made Android phone being unveiled in South Korea. If you recall (and you should, it happened yesterday), MOTOROI is an all-touchscreen device that relies on Android 2.0, and comes with a huge 3.7-inch capacitive display paired with an 8-megapixel camera with Xenon flash. The news is that this baby will find its away outside of the Korean peninsula, as Moto Korea’s Rick Wolochatiuk said the MOTOROI “will be launched in other markets around the world.” More specifically, he said the U.S. will get it in March, which is

The browser wars are heating up. Just in the last quarter, Chrome, Safari and Opera have all set new records for browser market share with 4.63, 4.46 and 2.4 percent. The period is also significant because it is the first time Chrome has beaten Safari to third place, and all of the numbers come at the expense of IE, which is losing users at a rate of 0.92 percentage points a month. Sure, Microsoft’s 62.7 percent slice still looks nice, but projections from Net Applications suggest that it could shrink to below 50 percent by May of 2010. Net Applications monitors

If you’ve been loving the pictures and videos we’ve been bringing you of the lusciously slim BL40 Chocolate Touch, but holding your breath since a certain blurry photo a few weeks ago showed a rather different Chocolate Touch, we have some bad news. According to Phone Arena News, a Verizon “focus group” (with a questionable sense of aesthetics) decided that the BL40 was crap, and so the somewhat unfortunate looking and decidedly asymmetrical VX8575 has been blessed for domestic release as “Chocolate Touch.” It looks to be standard fare

We kid, we kid. We’re sure it was totally necessary to put SuperSpeed USB 3.0 into this new desktop video camera to push uncompressed 1080p, 60 fps video to a computer. According to Point Grey, that unbridled bandwidth allows the camera to offload compression duties to the computer and allows for spiffy applications like face recognition and a general level of uncompressedness. At the heart of this camera is a 3 megapixel Sony IMX036 CMOS sensor, but we’ll have to wait until IDF next week to get the lowdown on the rest of this camera’s crazy ways — and

The first thing I thought of when I saw Sungale’s new desk lamp was that it reminded me of some prop on The Prisoner. That, or some other weird sixties British science-fiction show where the set designers thought they were being futuristic, but it ends up looking completely ridiculous by today’s standards. In other words, I can just see agent John Steed sitting at his desk, turn on the two-way communication screen with his umbrella, and utter “Miss Peel, we’re needed”. I realize that some of you might not get The Avengers reference, and

So were poring through the Zune HD’s various manuals and documentation, like you do, and we noticed this little line in the A/V dock’s quick start guide: An HDMI cable (included) and a high-definition TV are required for high-definition viewing. Zune HD and other touch-screen Zune players also work with the composite A/V cable (included). Now, that’s pretty interesting, since, you know, there aren’t any other touchscreen Zunes out there. We’d say that’s either solid evidence the boys in Redmond are planning to give the Zune HD the family

There are quite a lot of posts on the Apple support forums discussing whether nor not the upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 and later releases has trashed the GPS functionality of the device. At last count there were 24 pages, a high percentage from users in Europe who claim that moving to 3.0 eliminated GPS functions, and all they get is Wi-Fi geolocation or cellular network triangulation. As often happens, the passion devolves to nasty comments going back and forth, but clearly, some people are having a GPS problem which Apple is not acknowledging as a bug. They are giving some people

Ken Goldman makes jewelry. Weird, dangerous jewelry that is functional, but if you used it you would probably cause yourself some irreparable damage. Above right you see his Tenderizer Ring which, if used to hammer a sheet of meat into succulent submission would likely do the same for the knuckle within. It is actually built from a spare tenderizing hammer he had at home. Thankfully he has never made a Ring Tenderizer. The Ring It Up is equally dangerous, putting a scary paper-spike onto your finger. Useful, we guess, when you are explaining to your accountant that that $2000

3 has responded to reports it is in talks with Spotify over putting the application on its handsets by saying it believes it isn’t the only one. New Media Age claimed that the two companies are discussing the possibility of premium Spotify account holders being able to use the service, with both new and legacy 3 customers being allowed access. 3 declined to confirm to TechRadar it is in talks with Spotify, but didn’t refute claims that it is in talks: "We’re constantly looking for innovative ways to give our customers access to the internet services they

The iPhone is a strangely attractive beast. On the one hand it’s clearly one of the market-leading smartphones, offering the power of the App Store and the smooth elegance of the industry’s best touchscreen. On the other, it carries a huge price tag (as well as contract) and can barely compete with other phones in the market on some features. So why is it that the sheer notion of it being carried on other networks should warrant pages and pages of media coverage? Simply: it’s desirable, and especially here in the UK, customers still are reticent to change their