Samsung today has announced a range of new series to their notebook and netbook lineup in New Zealand, amongst them the world's lightest and slimmest. Weighing in at only 1.31kg and ultra-slim 16mm, the 9 Series provides all the performance and usability in a highly portable notebook. Also included in ... Continue Reading

Anaheim Union School District and Family Justice Center police officials have collaborated to trial a diversionary program to counter rising truancy rates amongst its student population. Grades 7 and 8 students with four or more unexcused absences, with parental consent, are assigned a handheld GPS device. Required to check-in five ... Continue Reading

A natural evolution of the soon to be available Volt solar powered battery pack for the iPhone 4, China-based UMEOX Mobile recently announced their upcoming Apollo, a solar powered Android device. Two different versions are reportedly in production, one capable of running on the AT&T network (MTK6573) and the other targeting ... Continue Reading

Industry standard Twitter application Twidroyd has teamed up with world leading Skyhook to integrate its location positioning technology. The popular feature allows users of the cross-platform Twidroyd to geotag tweets and photos allowing users to "more closely connect and share with one another." Skyhook's technology in Twidroyd has now replaced ... Continue Reading

The first honeycomb tablet to be conceived was at first gladly welcomed, but then shunned for it's ridiculously high initial price point of around $1k. Today Motorola's Chief Executive Sanjay Jha announced that the subsidized price for Verizon Xoom will be $799 while the wifi-only model will start at $600. ... Continue Reading

The HTC Icon and Snap 2 we just posted about were in fact real devices! They are under different names however as you can see from the title. Although both phones sport a dedicated Facebook button they were not labeled as "Facebook Phones." The HTC Salsa is the traditional touchscreen ... Continue Reading

Whispers of the "Facebook Phone" has taken a likeness of sightings of sasquatch and unicorns. All prior whispers had no substantial backing and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg even came out and said that Facebook was not developing or manufacturing a "Facebook Phone." Well PocketNow has picked up press images of TWO ... Continue Reading

If you didnt think this was coming, well it is now official. It was a well-known secret a LTE version will be coming after Sprint announced their own WiMax version a couple months back. Sprint is pegging the release date of their version of the Playbook in the summer. In ... Continue Reading

That beautiful slab of glass you see is the now announced Samsung Galaxy S II; and by the looks of it, it exceeds the expectations that consumers now have on the Galaxy S line. Not only does it now have a dual-core processor (which seems to be all the rage ... Continue Reading