Sony NEX-C3 hands-on (video)

Sony announced the successor to its NEX-3 digital camera earlier this week, so we decided to take a post-E3 road trip down to the electronics maker's US headquarters in San Diego to check out the $599 NEX-C3 for ourselves. We'll analyze the new sensor's image quality in a full...

Google Confirms Barometer Intent: Faster GPS Locks

Yesterday we dove-in to the new sensor coming to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, its barometer. Though there's been one on the Motorola Xoom tablet since its release, the sensor will be new to Android smartphones. We speculated about all sorts of ways we might get some use out of it, but now we have...

Google Maps Updates With NFC Support; Did It Just Get Beam?

Google quietly released an update for Google Maps on Android today, and while the one noted change isn't the most exciting we've heard of, additional changes under the hood suggest this could be the beginning of seeing apps arrive with support for Google's Android Beam NFC tech. The official change...

RIM May Have To Fight For BBX Operating System Name

RIM recently confirmed that the operating system, based on the QNX OS from the PlayBook, which will power the future of its BlackBerry lineup will be called BBX. The surprise had been ruined thanks to mention of the OS in a slide from an earlier QNX event, but it was still good to hear...

Is Your Keyboard Disappearing Because of Background Agents?

After updating to Windows Phone 7.5, have you noticed the on-screen keyboard randomly collapsing itself as if you had pressed the back button? Some users (such as Branislav Hupka) believe that this is due to a specific line of code that may have made it into certain apps by accident. The code: "ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest"...