Google’s New Android Wear Smartwatches Make Every Other Wearable Look Ugly and Dumb

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Mar 20, 2014 If Google and its hardware partners can deliver on the promise of their new wearable devices, then the war for the hottest new market in technology is already won. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Don’t Believe Everything You Read About the Nexus 5

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Nov 16, 2013 The Nexus 5 is Google's new flagship phone. Despite being superior in some ways to the iPhone, and costing only half the price, the Nexus has taken a bit of a beating in reviews. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Review of the iPhone on T-Mobile: No Bullshit

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Apr 23, 2013 Not so long ago, T-Mobile was suicidal. Now it wants to be the first pro-consumer cellular network. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Happy Birthday: Apple Is Making a Watch

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Mar 5, 2013 Apple reportedly has 100 designers trying to figure out the most profitable and elegant way to colonize your wrist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New iPhone: Don’t Judge the 4S by Its Cover

Staff / Truthdig Oct 5, 2011 Apple announced Tuesday the first new iPhone in 16 months. It says the 4S is twice as fast, has a better camera and can communicate with you like a virtual manservant. But it looks just like the old version and that seems to have disappointed those of us who spent months fantasizing about a mythical "iPhone 5." (more) Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Uncensored Playboy Is (Not) Coming to the iPad

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2011 According to a tweeting Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine, "both old & new" is coming to the iPad, and it "will be uncensored." That's somewhat surprising, considering that Apple CEO Steve Jobs once claimed that the iPad was designed to offer "freedom from porn." (Update) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

And Steve Jobs Said, ‘Let There Be a Verizon iPhone’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2011 From the dawn of time, or somewhere around there, everyone from Uncle Mike to that friend of a friend of someone in accounting has been certain that next month Verizon will get the iPhone For the first time ever, they're right (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Aspiring iPad Killers Crash CES (Update)

Staff / Truthdig Jan 5, 2011 The iPad was the little tablet that could. Now the rush to crash Apple's party is on. Here's a look at some of the upstarts turning heads at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Save Us From Our Devices

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Dec 29, 2010 Mr. Speaker, please don't. Go ahead, if you must, and cut taxes. Slash spending. Repeal health care. I understand. Elections have consequences. But BlackBerrys and iPads and laptops on the House floor? Reconsider, before it's too late. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Attack of the Monster Phones

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 13, 2010 The smart-phone boom has produced a new breed of giant phone that makes Apple's offering seem tiny by comparison. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Falling in Love With the Kindle

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 7, 2010 I hated Amazon's first Kindle as much as my dad, an avid reader, writer and collector of books, loved it. For him, it was delivery on a very old promise. For me, its monochrome screen, beige plastic body and single-mindedness represented a technological regression. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Apple Announces iPhone 4

Staff / Truthdig Jun 7, 2010 Apple has unveiled its latest magical device built by suicidal Chinese workers -- the iPhone 4 It squeezes four times as many pixels into the same-sized screen It's made out of glass and steel, with antennas wrapping around the sides of the phone The phone runs on the iPad's A4 processor It has a front-facing (continued). Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )