Category: gadgets
The iPad is not a computer
What’s the difference between a computer and an appliance? Which one is the iPad, and what is it good for?
Motorola Droid
The Motorola Droid officially dropped yesterday. It’s the first of several Android-powered devices coming to the Verizon network. Here’s a quick list of relevant phone features. 3.7″ capacitive touchscreen, 480×854 resolution 5 mega-pixel camera with flash, zoom and focus 16 GB storage card, 256 MB of system RAM Horizontal slider with on-screen and physical keyboards…
LiveAuctioneers releases BlackBerry application
In July, Internet bidding provider LiveAuctioneers announced the release of an iPhone application that allows its users to view auction inventories as well as to participate in auctions by placing pre-auction Internet bids. Yesterday, LiveAuctioneers announced the release of an application for BlackBerry devices that has similar functionality but, unlike the iPhone application, is free…
Palm to release Pre on June 6
Image by renaissancechambara via Flickr We’ve mentioned sporadically that Palm would be releasing the closest thing we’ve seen to an iPhone killer in the last two years. We just didn’t know when it would happen, though we knew it would be exclusively on the Sprint network for at least a while. Today, Palm finally announced…
Skybook Facebook client for Windows Mobile
Even though our enjoyment of Twitter has caused Facebook to go the way of MySpace for us at AuctioneerTech – something checked infrequently, usually at the behest of the automated emails sent any time something happens – we still recognize the importance of contact lists. The hundreds – some have thousands – of friends on…