http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/ We rank the latest and greatest news about gadgets en-us 5/28/2012 5:04:08 AM © 2012 Raw Signal. All rights reserved. 60 RawSignalGadgetshttp://feedburner.google.com http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73310367&aId=12827652&d=120528 Facebook is drawing upon former Apple engineers who worked on the iPhone and the iPad to develop its own phone, according to a new report. 5/27/2012 7:22:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73310367&aId=12827652&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73249294&aId=12828726&d=120528 Samsung's sub-$200 Galaxy Player offers up PMP-stylings inside a smartphone shell. When our reviewer put it through its paces, we couldn't find much to commend it -- with poor sound quality and battery life that wouldn't manage a long-haul flight. The expandable storage and removable battery made it more desirable than the equivalent iPod touch, but given that it was retailing for $20 more (at the time), we'd have said go for a GoGear or D3 instead. But we suspect that despite our advice, some Daniel Cooper 5/27/2012 6:36:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73249294&aId=12828726&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73286734&aId=12827435&d=120528 Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don't escape without notice, we've gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. I Zachary Lutz 5/27/2012 2:02:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73286734&aId=12827435&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73319124&aId=12823535&d=120528 If there’s such a thing as heritage in the relatively fledgling world of smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S III has it. Seldom does a phone – at least, one not wearing an Apple logo – arrive to so many expectations, and this time around Samsung even managed to match its Cupertino rival for pre-launch hype, Read The Full Story Chris Davies 5/27/2012 7:01:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73319124&aId=12823535&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73340419&aId=12827474&d=120528 One of the great things about the JB loving community is that it is made up of a wide and diverse range of individuals. Users and developers, young and old, male and female and everything in between. Cydia contains a range of packages to suit everyone's tastes and the same can be said for jailbreak tools, with a number of options being available to satisfy us all. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com Paul Morris 5/27/2012 9:40:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73340419&aId=12827474&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73338240&aId=12828736&d=120528 The sexy Motorola RAZR is expected to receive its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update by Q2 2012. While it has yet to be rolled out, Motorola has released several videos to get you prepared for the latest changes that come with its ICS update. First thing you’ll notice is the unlock screen which now [...] 5/27/2012 9:21:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73338240&aId=12828736&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73319125&aId=12824706&d=120528 At the end of last year, Nokia introduced a Dark Knight Edition of the Lumia 800 (pictured below), and it looks like it’s doing a similar thing with the Lumia 900 now. According to Pocket-lint, Nokia’s current Windows Phone flagship device has a Batman edition, too, and that’s coming soon. There’s no word if the [...] 5/27/2012 7:01:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73319125&aId=12824706&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73303223&aId=12825748&d=120528 Regardless of whether it is current CEO Tim Cook, or the late Steve Jobs, whenever Apple take to the stage in front of the media they never miss an opportunity to tell us how many iOS devices are currently in circulation. After all, it isn't really a secret that we all love a few facts, figures and statistics being thrown at us. Continue reading this article at RedmondPie.com Paul Morris 5/27/2012 5:02:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73303223&aId=12825748&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324792&aId=12827425&d=120528 Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Despite amassing something close to a billion users, Facebook has mainly stayed true to the startup mantra of staying focused on a few core things. In this case, that has been promoting openness and sharing among friends and, increasingly, the world at large. Such was the case for its rival Google at the launch of the search company's IPO. Since then, however, the company has launched a pair of operating systems Ross Rubin 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324792&aId=12827425&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324795&aId=12827427&d=120528 Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. This week Inhabitat has been reporting live from New York Design Week, where we've witnessed countless innovative green designs from around the world. To kick things off, we were pretty impressed with this desk lamp designed by Jake Dyson (son of the vacuum god) that extends the life of its LED bulbs by a whopping 37 years. Also in the category of "brigh 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324795&aId=12827427&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324801&aId=12827422&d=120528 Smartphone displays are becoming larger in size, and along with that, we're seeing a nice trend that's bringing greater pixel density. While LG Display's newly-announced 1080p HD mobile display isn't the most pixel dense that we've seen -- a distinction that belongs to Toshiba -- the five-inch panel is more appropriate for consumer applications and boasts an impressive pixel density of 440ppi. Its 16:9 aspect ratio was designed with HD content in mind, and the LCD technology isn't anything to Zachary Lutz 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324801&aId=12827422&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324805&aId=12827551&d=120528 Capcom’s high-definition compilation of its two critically acclaimed Wii Resident Evil titles will be making its way to the PS3 in the US on June 26. The publisher announced that the price will be $26.99 and it will be distributed digitally through the PlayStation Store. Chronicles HD contains Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Read The Full Story Mark Raby 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324805&aId=12827551&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73165561&aId=12810250&d=120528 #wishyouwerehere A Japanese dentist, of all people, has invented a sculpted pot that will automatically stir its contents as they heat up. It promises to completely revolutionize cooking, at least for the world's laziest chefs. More » Andrew Liszewski 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73165561&aId=12810250&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73241683&aId=12824744&d=120528 We’re big fans of attractive wallpapers around here, and this time around we have 9 more gorgeous high resolution images to beautify your desktop background. All images are very high res, ranging from 2500×1400 up to 5000×4000 pixels, so regardless of the screen resolution of your Mac, iPhone, iPad, you will find each of them [...] Paul Horowitz 5/27/2012 3:21:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73241683&aId=12824744&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73314924&aId=12828733&d=120528 Steve Jobs fans already know by now that there are two distinct movies based on his life in production. Sony, which purchased movie rights for Walter Isaacson’s official Jobs biography and hired Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay, produces one, while the other one is an independent project starring Ashton [...] Chris Smith 5/27/2012 6:22:00 PM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73314924&aId=12828733&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73296176&aId=12824699&d=120528 Pretty much the only place you see vacuum tubes any more is inside a quality audio amp. But, once upon a time, they were the primary ingredient in any piece of electronic equipment, including computers. The glass tubes have since been replaced with the smaller, less fragile and cheaper to manufacture silicon transistor. There are, however, disadvantages, to transistors. For one, electrons tend to move more slowly though the semiconductors, and two, they're highly susceptible to radiation. The Terrence O'Brien 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73296176&aId=12824699&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73270205&aId=12821511&d=120528 We can be completely honest here, right? With all the phones that tend to come across our desks, things can, on occasion, become a bit of a grind, especially when you've reviewed the fifth or sixth version of a manufacturer's flagship model. Specs change a little, but it's largely the same experience. That's when this job can become work. "Oh, shut up, Phil. I'd kill for your job." And I wouldn't blame you. Indeed, it's why I travel in unmarked sedans with no fewer than two Bulgarian bodyguards Phil Nickinson 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73270205&aId=12821511&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324836&aId=12827518&d=120528 Struggling smartphone maker RIM is said to be planning a restructuring that will cause 2000 employees to be laid off.The company has only 16,500 employees around the globe so the layoffs will be significant, says the report from Globe and Mail.If accurate, the layoffs "will sweep across departments, ranging from senior positions in RIM's legal division to human resources, finance, sales, and marketing" and hit before June 1st.RIM reported horrible earnings in the first quarter, including an 80 p 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324836&aId=12827518&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324803&aId=12827521&d=120528 Bharti Airtel, the top mobile carrier in India, says it added 2.01 million new mobile subscribers in April, strong growth for the company and the nation.Airtel has 183.3 million total subscribers.Reliance Communications, the second largest carrier, does not disclose its figures through Industry body Cellular Operators Association of India. Vodafone, number three in the nation, added 820,000 new subscribers to bring its total to 151.3 million.In fourth, Idea Cellular added 1.49 million mobile cus 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324803&aId=12827521&d=120528 http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324804&aId=12827523&d=120528 Ericsson, the world's largest mobile network equipment maker, has been fined by the U.S. Department of Commerce for violating export restrictions by shipping equipment to Cuba.The company's Panamanian subsidiary was fined $1.75 million for the violation and the two groups reached an agreement earlier this week.According to sources, Ericsson had been operating a "scheme" in which broken equipment was shipped from Cuba to the U.S. for repair after employees masked the origin of the shipment. The 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://gadgets.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=73324804&aId=12827523&d=120528