RIM’s PlayBook hasn’t exactly been a raging success like the company (and many BlackBerry enthusiasts) had hoped. Still, the company is slaving away on the upcoming PlayBook OS 2.1 update. The latest feature to be revealed is something that sounds pretty essential, and frankly we’re surprised it wasn’t included from the get-go — multi-tasking/multi-window Android apps in the Android Player Runtime. With the new OS, Android apps will act much…

Love searching for rare and elusive gadgets? Chalk up Apple’s iPad 2 on your list of must haves, specifically the newer model introduced alongside the iPad 3. (What?!) The iPad model number of 2,4 (as seen above) is the newer, more affordable $399 iPad released alongside the new iPad 3, and is lust worthy for the fact that it sports a smaller, more efficient A5 processor based off of Samsung’s 32nm process instead of the original iPad 2′s 45nm variant….

Apple’s attempts to expunge as much Google-based products and services as possible took a larger turn back when iPhoto for iOS back in early March. It was then that Apple officially dumped Google Maps mapping data for location based picture information, and in its place using OpenStreetMap’s data. While the open source nature of OpenStreetMap makes it free to use, Apple had thus far failed to give any credit to the company or the many people that provide mapping…

Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy S III is perhaps one of the most hyped phones leading up to its announcement event yesterday. Ever. For months people have speculated as to what technology would ship on Sammy’s latest flagship device. Well, the Galaxy S III is finally here bringing with it a new level of mobile performance compliments of the Exynos quad-core processor and Mali-400 GUP. Tech site Anandtech has already run several benchmarks on the Galaxy S III…

Heya! My iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1 is now untethered — pod2g (@pod2g) May 3, 2012 An official iOS 5.1 unether is a little bit closer today after a new tweet by infamous iOS hacker/jailbreaker, @pod2g. The hacker claims to have an iPhone 4 untether jailbreak up and running. Success! So how soon until you can slap it on your iPhone 4? A while(ish). Going from a usable untether that a hacker uses to an end user package/program that is mostly seamless and generally free…

So Samsung announced their (yawner) Galaxy S III. That’s great and all. But Lg had their own announcement. And it’s far better. The Optimus LTE 2 is a powerhouse with a “True HD” IPS display, dual-core processor (almost certainly a Qualcomm S4), and 2 GB of RAM. Android 4.x and a 2,150 mAh battery tag along too. We have to say. We’re glad Android manufacturers are finally getting their heads out of the sand and putting some respectable…

The day that many a Android faithful (and mobile junkies) have been waiting for, the Galaxy S III launch event, is here. But even before the live show got started, our fellow gadget junkies over at Engadget got an early hands on complete with pictures and video (pretty much negating the need to watch the live unveil. So what does the Android-ized Jesus Phone pack under the hood? Well, it’s mostly all good: Processor: 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos processor Display:…

Facebook’s “Facebook for Every Phone” featurephone app appears to beginning some Instagram-esque inspiration by way of two new photo filters — Black & White and Sepia — that can be applied to uploaded photos. Though, how reliant the featurephone app was on Instagram’s recent $1 billion acquisition by the social networking giant is uncertain as a spokesperson speaking with InsiderFacebook stated that “no one from the Instagram…

Rumors circulating about the next iPhone begin not too long after the previous generation’s official release. The last few months have been full of speculation, renders and alleged claims of “inside sources” more or less “confirming” features for Apple’s next-gen iPhone. Of the many rumors we’ve heard, the biggest features that keep popping back up include that of 1) a larger display 2) a smaller dock connector/port and 3) a…

The rate at which malware has been popping up on Android as of late is certainly worrisome. The move from desktop to mobile was relatively clean and malware-free for at least a short run. But now that hackers have turned their focus to the smaller screen, we’re beginning to see more and more advanced forms of mobile malware. And it’s Android’s latest problem. While Android users have had to deal with malicious .apks and stand alone apps for some time now,…