Sonastand Aluminium iPhone Amplifier Dock (video)

Sonastand is a new amplifier dock which has been created for the iPhone that uses no batteries or electronics to amplify the smartphones audio. Instead the Sonastand aluminium amplifier captures the sound from the speaker, and re-directs it outwards with enhanced clarity and volume. The Sonastand has even been especially shaped to allow you to plug …

Altair Semiconductor finds a place among mobile innovators

BARCELONA — Altair Semiconductor, based in Israel, is a smaller company that showed off its LTE radio chips — and the tablets and routers they’re being installed in — at a small booth at Mobile World Congress this week. Among the thousands of companies exhibiting at the event here, Altair is a prime example of …

Ask LH: What iPad Apps Does A Student Need?

Dear Lifehacker, With the university semester fast approaching, I’d like to invest in some iPad apps. In particular, I need a good word processor and an app to annotate and edit PDFs. the selection on the app store is pretty overwhelming, and I don’t exactly have the cash or time to try them all. So …

Logitech Wireless Boombox

Logitech’s $150 Wireless Boombox looks quite like some of its siblings, especially the Rechargeable Speaker S715i. I really liked the S715i, and I really like the Wireless Boombox, too. The primary difference between the two is that the Wireless Boombox—the focus of this review—gets audio from Bluetooth or an auxiliary-input jack, whereas the S715i employs …

Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

What a difference a year makes. a year ago, I was intrigued by Motorola Mobility’s Lapdock, a laptop without a brain into which you plugged a Motorola Android smartphone to run it on a full-size screen, with full-size keyboard, trackpad, SD card slot, and USB and HDMI ports for access to USB peripherals and mirrored …

iPad 3 Rumors: New Leaked Photos Give Away Specs, Features

Like us on Facebook The pictures show a camera, which the blog claims is an 8-megapixel camera to match the iPhone 4S and better the 0.8MP camera of the iPad 2. If difficult to tell if the photos are legitimate, but all will be unveiled by Apple on March.7. in the meantime here is a round- …

Apple iPhone 4S (Verizon Wireless)

Apple just reported all-time record iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales. Surely the availability of the iPhone 4S on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon had something to do with that. but of those three carriers, how does Verizon’s phone stack up? Well, if you’re looking for speed, AT&T’s model ($199.99-$849.99, 4 stars) is the best of the three, thanks …

Reviews: Case-Mate Phantom for iPhone 4/4S

The first piece looks like a reversed simple plastic shell. instead of fitting around the back the of the iPhone though, it snaps on to protect the bezel around the screen as well as the sides. There’s a layer of soft rubber over the top and bottom portions, with Home button coverage and a cutout …

What Can You Save With Refurb Apple Gear?

As we’ve noted before, Apple keeps a tight rein on its pricing. one of the best tried-and-tested ways to get cheaper Apple gear is to use its refurbished gear outlet, which offers Apple-guaranteed geals on gear that has been factory-refreshed. Just how much can you save that way? Gear sold through Apple’s refurb store isn’t …

How Important Is Product Pricing, Really? – SlashGear

Whenever I review a software product or gadget, one of the key elements I must consider is price. Time and again, I need to determine if the value a product delivers is enough to justify its price tag. And in far too many cases, it doesn’t. But I’m starting to wonder how much price really …