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My HP TouchPad arrived on my doorstep last Tuesday and it's been an interesting week since I opened the box. Here are a few thoughts on the first WebOS tablet. First impressions do count and the box itself started well. It has an almost airtight sliding drawer construction that makes it impossible to open quickly. This slowly reveals the TouchPad as it pulls
Add Pad by Dragongears is one of those little apps that you never knew you needed, but now that it's on your smartphone, it's indispensable. Add Pad can simply be described as a notebook that adds up. Any number encountered in the text is added to a running total shown in the bottom right of each note. The top level
Even in the absence of any real musical ability, sometimes it's fun to bash away on a drum kit. Most of the various application catalogues for smartphones have little virtual drum kits so you can drum away whenever the urge to jam comes on. The HP App Catalog for WebOS (that's the Palm Pre series, the Pixi and the Veer) has a
HP and AT&T today announced that the brand new Veer 4G smartphone would be available from 15th May for $99 on a 2 year contract. The Veer is the first of three new devices coming from HP Palm, the others being the TouchPad and the Pre 3. Running WebOS 2.1, the Veer is a tiny smartphone "the size of a
As regular listeners to the podcast will know, the Geek News Central website is powered by Wordpress. Until now, I've always used the web interface to write posts. "It works" is about the kindest thing you can say about it. Browsing the Palm App Catalog, I came across Poster for Wordpress, an app that allows blogging from the Palm Pre
Emerald Brooke of Bigstar.TV (www.bigstar.tv) presents the Bigstar.TV streaming service, which has a lot of independent films and older TV shows available to stream to many different devices including iPhone, iPad, Roku, Palm Pre and Android devices. Interview by Jeffry Powers of Geekazine and Esby Larsen of MrNetCast.com Please Support our CES 2011 Sponsors Get your 14 day Free Trial
With a reported 150,000 units sold in the first week, and a nearly instant price cut, the Blackberry Torch doesn't appear to have met RIM's expectations. But I'm unsure how it could have been any other way. To start with, 150,000 units is a good opening figure for any company with the single exception of Apple. Compare it with the