Daily Crunch: Rectangle
18 Feb 2012 9:00am GMT Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But That’s About It Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony’s Portable Powerhouse More Backpedaling: Netflix Brings Back the $7.99 DVD-Only Plan ProView Is Suing Apple Over The Rights To An iMac Clone Foxconn Increases Wages, Raises Pay By 16-25% For Chinese Workers
Purported Next-Gen iPad Display Caught And Examined; 2048×1536 Resolution Confirmed
18 Feb 2012 12:10am GMT MacRumors has done something very bad - they went and got themselves an iPad 3 display module. Actually, it's not so bad when you can apparently just order one online. Normally this part even being online and available ahead of launch would suggest it was a scam, but what matters isn't the name of the part (could easily be a scam) but the part itself. They took a microscope to it, see — and it appears to have exactly four times the pixels of an ordinary iPad screen. It's really just the...
Rumor Roundup: What To Expect From HTC At Mobile World Congress
17 Feb 2012 8:20pm GMT With the end of February nearly in sight, the tech community is all abuzz with talk about Mobile World Congress, the huge mobile conference set to take place in beautiful Barcelona in just over a week. All the big players will be there (though some will be less conspicuous than before), and of course among them will be Taiwan-based phone giant HTC.
Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony’s Portable Powerhouse
17 Feb 2012 6:52pm GMT Like a line of hard-marching Lemmings (or a swarm of Patapons), Sony's countless, niggling enemies would like nothing better than to distract and steal the company's hard-won fan base. The Playstation has long been the gold standard in console gaming, despite the Xbox's recent challenges to the throne. And Sony does a good job. Graphics are better, gameplay is or can be more immersive, and in the battle for RPG dominance the PS3's library is peerless. But now Sony is fighting against lots of...
Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But That’s About It
17 Feb 2012 3:32pm GMT The Droid 4 doesn't look much like its other Droid siblings, but it does promise the same stellar keyboard and a solid construction. At $199 it won't break your wallet, but it will offer most of the same specs we're seeing go for $300, including a 4G LTE radio. If thin and light is important to you, the Droid 4 probably isn't what you're looking for, but keyboard purists should start getting excited... right... now.