Articles in the bB Category
RIM’s signing up with 7Digital to bring a 6 million track library to BlackBerry phones starting September. The service will hit in “UK, US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain,” and will be priced at the standard $0.99 track and $9.99 album model. [ TGDaily via Electronista ]
In our Hackintosh guide , we called our OS X-powered Dell Mini 9 the ultimate Mac netbook. We were wrong. This Hackintoshed Dell Mini 9 , autographed by one Steve “Quick Step” Wozniak, is the actual pinnacle. Matthew Smith caught Woz doing some press for Dancing With the Stars. He writes: I showed him my Dell Mini 9 with OS X Leopard installed on it (and an Apple sticker sloppily applied over the Dell logo.
According to rumors, next week at CTIA Research In Motion (RIM) might launch a mobile TV service that would feature full episodes of content. Other than that, there’s not much to go on at this point. The possible release would coincide with the release of its app store . [ NewTeeVee via StreetInsider via IntoMobile ]
The folks at HDGuru have scored a price list for upcoming Samsung HDTVs. This includes details for 3-7 and the 6000-8000 series. Hit the following link for the full details. [ HDGuru ]
Hey, we started a Gizmodo Flickr pool , to make it easier for you to send us photos you think could make for an interesting post. All you have to do is be registered on Flickr, go here , join our group, and start hitting “send to group” on your individual photos you want to add to the pool. What kind of photos would we like to see in our Flickr pool , you may ask? • Gadget/product shots. Obviously, a gadget blog is nothing without its gadgets
Mark your calendars, BlackBerry fans: BusinessWeek says RIM’s going to launch the BlackBerry App World April 1 at CTIA. What’s more, the company is apparently planning on going after Apple by courting developers with higher profit margins and the relative sophistication of the average corporate BlackBerry user, which explains that minimum $2.99 paid app price we saw a few weeks ago. An interesting move to position the new service, but we’ll see if it takes hold with users — anyone ready to blow their budget on ‘berry software? [Via Boy Genius Report ] Filed under: Cellphones BlackBerry App World to launch April 1, says BusinessWeek originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
If you are a thrifty consumer, you probably already know that using price comparison sites are a great way to save money on gadgets. But I am tired of shopping around for shopping sites. When it comes right down to it, I want to visit one site with a simple selection of core features that are focused on one thing and one thing only—helping me save money. Vendors: Naturally, every good comparison engine needs to establish relationships with as many reputable vendors as possible. Giants like PriceGrabber , Shopzilla , Shopping.com , and Yahoo Shopping generally meet this requirement.
If you are a thrifty consumer, you probably already know that using price comparison sites are a great way to save money on gadgets. But I am tired of shopping around for shopping sites. When it comes right down to it, I want to visit one site with a simple selection of core features that are focused on one thing and one thing only—helping me save money. Vendors: Naturally, every good comparison engine needs to establish relationships with as many reputable vendors as possible. Giants like PriceGrabber , Shopzilla , Shopping.com , and Yahoo Shopping generally meet this requirement. Coupons: Sites like RetailMeNot and MyCoupons.com are great, but that data should not be singled out in a standalone site.
It may cost around half the price of the machine itself, but Apple now offers an official 8GB RAM upgrade, mysteriously only for 2.93GHz and 2.66GHz MacBook Pros. Wait, we thought the max was 4GB? As we confirmed a while back , the new MacBook Pros technically support up to 8GB, but OS X starts to choke on anything above 6GB. This is almost certainly a software issue, as the hardware on the newer MBPs has not, to our knowledge, changed aside from the boosted processors.
Lots of us have been using the iPhone 3.0 beta full-time. Now we’re rolling back, because it is decidedly NOT ready. Here’s how to downgrade back to 2.2.1 if you are in a similar predicament. Now, we’re not saying we’re surprised, or angry, or anything. It’s beta software, and beta software is by definition not ready for everyday use. But in the pursuit of the latest and greatest thing, we all have learned that a little bit of inconsistency or crashiness is often a fair price to pay for being on the cutting edge

