Oh R2-D2, you little harlot. Just when we were thinking that the R2-D2 edition Droid 2 was the most clever pairing in the history of everything, you go and make it a liiiittle less special. iPhone-toting Star Wars geeks, rejoice: you, too, can theme your handset like the galaxy’s bravest toaster. Alas, Apple seems to have strayed away from their themed partnerships since the days of [...]

While Apple is good at keeping many things secret, they find it impossible to keep those secrets, secret. In a recent find, the code names for three new Apple products are revealed. In a recent article on BoyGeniusReport.com, the code names of three new Apple devices are revealed in a line of code from the iOS. The code specifies that devices that identify themselves as “iProd2,1″, [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion sold right around 150,000 Torch handsets during its opening weekend. The sales estimates come courtesy of RBC Capital Markets and Stifel Nicolaus. Curiously, the launch numbers keep being compared to the first weekend sales figures of the iPhone 4; which launched on June 24th of this year in five countries and on multiple [...]

As soon as we saw the page go up on ElementCASE’s site, we knew we had to have one. The Vapor case for the iPhone 4 is perhaps the meanest, most bad ass-looking bumper / case we’ve seen so far. It’s made from a solid block of “aircraft grade aluminum” and features a non-conductive coating on the inside to do away with that pesky antenna issue. We’ve been playing with two different Vapor [...]

Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, may be losing market share, but it still has the profits, according to a research note issued last night from Deutsche Bank. The bank took a look at the profits for the major smartphone makers and concluded that Apple and RIM were still sucking up two thirds of the industry’s profits while selling only 10 percent of the overall handsets [...]