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He likes it:Samsung sweated the details on this thing. The screen is gorgeous. The touch response is immediate and reliable. The whole thing is superfast and a pleasure to use. […]But the Galaxy doesn’t feel like a cramped iPad. It feel...

Positive review overall, but:I found the Web browser to be a bit jerky in zooming into text and scrolling through long pages. I tested several Adobe Flash videos and websites written in Flash. Sometimes they played and sometimes they didn’t. In...

Fabulous collection of prototype Apple hardware designs. Be prepared for a wave of powerful nostalgia for things that never were but could have been. ★ 

The headline: “Samsung’s Galaxy Tab: iPad’s First Solid Contender”.The conclusion: “The Tab ultimately reveals itself not as a competitor to the iPad but as a new class of mobile devices: a minitablet that is designed to go eve...

Worth reading just hear the algorithm Marco devised for the new “automatically switch to dark mode” feature.Also, Apple is promoting Instapaper with a nice video in their iPhone Quick Tips podcast. ★ 

Release notes for what’s new; security update info here. ★ 

Apple did hire company co-founder Michael Kim, and the Wi-Gear company has ceased operations, but Apple didn’t buy the company or its IP. It wasn’t a bad guess, but alas, 9to5 Mac’s Seth Weintraub didn’t report it as a guess &#...

Paul Thurrott, today, on the news that RIM is going to sell the BlackBerry PlayBook for “under $500”:It looks like RIM is going to try and undercut iPad pricing with its upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook. This is very wise: The iPad is ove...

$79 slider case for the iPod Touch from Sprint, including a 3G hotspot. $29 per month for service. Interesting, but why not just buy an iPhone?Update: My thinking on the “why not just buy an iPhone?” is that almost everyone is going to w...

Scathing review overall (“a pocketable train wreck”, “this thing is just a mess”), but he does say battery life was good. ★ 

Jun Yang, reporting for Bloomberg:Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, said it will begin selling a tablet computer in North America in the first quarter for “under” $500 as it takes on Apple Inc.’s iPad.&nbs...

Another game that lets you play on an iPad using an iPhone as the controller — including the ability to use a TV as the output device for the iPad. Check out the demo video. ★