Friday
Sep282012

Meet Supr Slim, it's like the MacBook Air of wallets

Slim - The Thinnest Wallet Ever. from Supr Good Co. on Vimeo.

It is a simple concept, really. An elastic wallet just  for  credit, debit and coupon cards that can take as few as 2 and as many as 10 cards and still stay unobtrusive. The Supr Slim wallet is designed by the Melander brothers on Kickstarter yielding around $204,000 in pledges so a lot of people are into this idea.

Source: Core 77.com

Friday
Sep282012

The Apple Beat: Ecosystem of Inheritance

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

There's some real genius to Apple's iOS hardware strategy and how they manage to come up with new devices each year while still benefiting heavily from iPhone models that are two-years-old.

Once could think of it as the ecosystem of inheritance or smart trickle-down logic. By keeping one to two-year-old products current through iOS software updates, Apple makes it possible to extend its user base and keep their products desirable far beyond anyone else in the mobile industry.

Click to read more ...

Thursday
Sep272012

Are these RIM's new BlackBerry 10 smartphones?

One of the biggest questions that RIM watchers have asked is whether there will be a QWERTY keyboard BB10 smartphone and the answer from RIM has always been yes even if they showed off the new OS on a multi-touch smartphone, the Dev Alpha device.

The image above, a screenshot from a video (Update: Original Vimeo video has been taken down) shows both an multi-touch display BlackBerry and a QWERTY keyboard and a large touchscreen smartphone that's similar to the BlackBerry Bold. There's no telling if this is final hardware but whatever will be released in 2013 will likely look very similar. These devices represent the L Series (full touchscreen) which will come to market first, while the N series the anticipated BlackBerry 10 phone that features a full qwerty keyboard and familiar styling.

Thursday
Sep272012

SiriusXM enhances of satellite radio offerings through apps and devices

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

SiriusXM is looking to apps, advanced functionality and updated devices to keep ahead of the curve in providing its satellite radio content to more users. With innovative apps that can turn recent Android and iOS smartphones and tablets into WiFi satellite radios for home and office,  plus a new Lynx device that takes the best of satellite and WiFi radio slated for release in October.

 

Click to read more ...