Archive for November, 2011

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The LandingZone: a portable MacBook Air dock for $140   landingzoneHere’s a quick and easy way to add extra ports on your MacBook Air: InfiniWing’s LandingZone is a simple strip that adds power, monitor, Ethernet and four USB ports to Apple’s ultraslim. But the genius is in the design: the accessory features two “clamps” on each side that locks both the 11- or 13-inch Macbook Air into place with a push of the lever, while the dock itself keeps the Mac’s rear-end raised for more effective cooling.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

AT&T intros LG Nitro HD with 720p screen, 4G LTE support   ATT LG Nitro HD 2

AT&T has added another high-end phone to their 4G LTE lineup by introducing the LG Nitro HD. It’s basically AT&T’s version of LG’s flagship Optimus LTE, so it packs in the same premium bits that include a 4.5-inch 720p display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and (again) 4G LTE support.

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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Android on a budget: Acer outs Liquid Express smartphone with NFC tech   Acer Liquid Express

Acer has introduced the Liquid Express, an entry level smartphone that rocks a 3.5-inch touchscreen and Android 2.3. The phone runs on an 800MHz Snapdragon processor and features a relatively average five-megapixel camera, but gets a little modern with NFC tech that can be used for short-range e-payments.

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Monday, November 28th, 2011

Watch the Droid Razr cut through a birthday cake in new Rogers ad   Rogers droid razr ad

This is a new Rogers ad for the Droid Razr, showing the 7.1mm-slim smartphone being blasted from an air cannon before it rips into an egg and a birthday cake. Now, we’re pretty sure that you could get the same results (blasted egg, ruined cake) with an air-cannoned Nokia 5110, but we’re guessing that the high-speed take is all about the cleanliness of the cut, so we’re going to call “awesome” on this one as long as we’re taking that into account  (we also have to admit that we’ll call “awesome” on any video featuring anything shot out of an air-cannon and shown in slow-mo though). Oh, and the Razr was shown to have survived the whole ordeal, so no smartphones were harmed in the shooting of this ad.

Check out Rogers’ “Motorola Razr vs The Bakers Dozen” video after the break.

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Monday, November 28th, 2011

Colorware outs “indestructible” Wedge iPad stand   Colorware Wedge 1

For something that’s basically a static chunk of billet aluminum with no built-in electronic bells and whistles, this is pretty interesting. Called the Wedge, ColorWare’s accessory is basically an iPad stand and nothing else. What makes it so interesting? Unlike a number of available fixed stands, the Wedge offers four different lean angles (40, 60, 70, 80 degrees) for your iPad – or any other tablet, really – thanks to the four different slots cut all around the base.

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