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CES 2012 With RadioShack And Gizmodo

// January 9th, 2012 // No Comments » // blogging, technology

I’ve followed the tech industry for years, and this is always a huge time of the year. That’s right, it’s CES time – the Consumer Electronics Show takes place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is a HUGE gathering with all things tech. I’m incredibly excited to be attending the show this year with RadioShack as we partner with Gizmodo!

We’ll be hitting the show floor every day with a video crew to bring you videos of the coolest new phones, tablets, TV, laptops, and any other gadget we can find. We’ll have a daily recap up on Gizmodo every afternoon, so if you want to get a snapshot of what’s going down in Vegas, that’s the best place to watch. We’ll also have all of our videos posted to The Shack Blog throughout the day, so you can check there, as well.

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If you just think I’m awesome and want to follow along all day long, you should follow @RadioShackLIVE on Twitter – that’s where most of my CES-related tweets will be, live from the show floor with photos and such. It’s going to be a CRAZY week, so you won’t want to miss it.

This is also poised to be a pretty significant CES this year as Nokia prepares to unleash what it’s calling ‘Operation Rolling Thunder‘ in the U.S. Now, if I had a dollar for every time I’d heard a Nokia executive say they were going to focus on the U.S. market, I would probably be relaxing on a beach somewhere.

Thus far, in 2011, Nokia finally gave up on the aging Symbian platform and switched to using Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. You already know my thoughts on Windows Phone (spoiler: I like it), and I’m pretty impressed that Nokia is already launching a Windows Phone device on a U.S. carrier – the Lumia 710 on T-Mobile. However, T-Mobile is the smallest of the top 4 carriers in the U.S., so it’ll be a much bigger deal if Nokia can convince AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint to launch a device.

The rumor (pretty much confirmed by the NYTimes) is that Nokia and AT&T will announce a high-end Windows Phone device, the Lumia 900. The last smartphone that Nokia was able to convince AT&T to carry was the disastrous ‘Surge‘, so it’s entirely likely AT&T was a little bit gun-shy with Nokia. We’ll have to see what the Lumia 900 amounts to.

So, with that, I’m off – don’t forget to follow @RadioShackLIVE on Twitter so you can keep up with the latest CES news from the show floor, and keep up on The Shack Blog so you can see all my awesome videos, too.

Gizmodo Wants The iPhone Pro, AKA The Nokia N97

// December 29th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // Mobile, stupid

I came upon this post from Gizmodo, one of the leading technology blogs out there. They’re unabashedly huge fans of the iPhone, but thought of a few features/aspects that the current iPhone lacks, that they would like to see, and so they created the iPhone Pro.

Features of this desired ‘iPhone Pro’ include a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a high-resolution camera with flash and video capture, and a high-resolution widescreen (16:9) touchscreen display. They also want a front-facing secondary camera for vide0 chatting, and gobs of internal storage. Sounds great, right?

So great, in fact, that Nokia already designed it, and announced it a few weeks ago. It’s called the Nokia N97. It features a 3.5″ 16:9 widescreen display (bigger than the current iPhone’s, actually), stereo speakers, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It also packs a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and Carl Zeiss optics. The N97 can capture video at 640×360 resolution, which is somewhere between VGA and HD quality, I believe. It’s also got 32GB of internal storage, with a microSD card slot, so you can load up even more.

However, because they’re a leading publication, they can’t, not for a minute, admit that perhaps they desire a Nokia product over an Apple one. That would just be dorky, right?

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Everything You Never Cared To Know About Lego

// June 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // cool

I’ve had this in my starred items for a while now and finally sat down to read the full on interview that Gizmodo had with the fine folks at Lego. If you’re, well, anyways, as you know, Lego is a brand of toy blocks that you can build stuff with. You can get just a big bucket full of blocks, or you can buy pre-made sets that have the exact pieces you need to build a specific item, such as an Indiana Jones adventure set or a Pirate Ship or something.

Gizmodo took a break from typical gadget posting to visit with Lego and got some really cool coverage. If you’ve ever touched a Lego brick in your life, I’d recommend you check it out. You can read it here, and get all of their Lego coverage here.

A few fun facts:

1. Lego is the world’s largest producer of vehicle tires

2.  Approximately 7 Lego sets are sold every SECOND around the world

3.  More than 400 BILLION Lego bricks have been produced since 1958 – roughly 62 for each person of the Earth’s population.

Fascinating, and kudos to Gizmodo for thinking outside of the brick….er……box.