TMS Tech Blog

As expected, Windows Phone 7 sales estimates for the US launch earlier this week are already prompting controversy, with one analyst telling TheStreet that a mere 40,000 of the handsets were sold. Microsoft has declined to comment on the numbers, but if true it would put the Windows Phone 7 launch significantly behind Android and iPhone sales. Analysts are suggesting [...]

The Palm Pre 2 is apparently set to hit the UK on Friday, November 12 – the end of this week – with Palm expecting to sell the 1GHz smartphone SIM-free initially. The company let slip the date to Pocket-lint, but failed to mention any potential carriers for the webOS 2.0 handset; in France, where the Pre 2 has been on [...]

Samsung seems determined to stir up some tablet controversy discussion in Japan this week; after showing what looks like a prototype Galaxy Tab using a 7-inch Super AMOLED panel, the company has now wheeled out a 10.1-inch tablet mock-up using their new super-thin LCD. The 10.1-inch LCD measures a mere 1.8mm thick, thanks to a new manufacturing process using a [...]

DARPA's Transformer – sometimes referred to as the flying Humvee – seems to be moving right along, even if only on paper at this point. The DoD's out-there tech incubator has awarded Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute $988,000 to develop an autonomous flight system for the vehicle, which would go a long way toward helping the proposed military vehicle get [...]

Peeing on your phone seems like an all-around pretty bad idea, but British researchers have managed to find an upside. They claim that by urinating on a computer chip and plugging it into a phone or computer, people will soon be able to easily self-diagnose sexually transmitted diseases. While it's still too early for the technology to really have taken [...]