This morning we launched a brand new Retrevo (project name "Retrevolution"). This was a project we undertook in second half of last year, went through extensive consumer behavior analysis in the real-world, brainstorming, arguing, thinking about the information architecture, designing...throwing designs out the window...redoing them, prioritizing, sweating (don't think it was easy work :)) and focusing on the core pieces that would make electronics shopping simple and fun for the masses - that's you and me. We had made good p  read more »

There’s nothing more frustrating than returning home with your latest gadget only to discover a newer version was released the week before. In the consumer electronics world where new products are introduced at a blinding pace, this scenario is all too common.

Retrevo has a brand new feature to help consumers avoid this problem. Retrevo’s “real-time,” reviews include a graph representing a product’s lifecycle. The lifecycle indicates whether a product is a hot new gadget, “over the hill,” or somewhere in between. Retrevo can tell you if a product is receiving a lot of  read more »

Retrevo takes its job of helping consumers buy and use the right electronics products seriously. Our team of computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts, web experts, editorial experts, and the whole Retrevo gang of passionate gadget enthusiasts has been working away on “Retrevolution,” for over six months and are pleased to announce the grand opening of a brand new Retrevo. The popular site has been upgraded and improved to make the whole process of buying and using electronics simple and fun.  read more »

A Glimpse Into the Future Courtesy of Intel

I had been looking forward to this event all year when Intel puts on a show and tell of what their best and brightest in their research groups have been working on. This year was as exciting as ever.

Walk Softly and Carry a Big Gadget

"Carry Small, Live Large," was a big theme at the event. The idea is that the device you have i.e. cell phone, although physically small, can be made virtually huge when it is connected to external computing power and information sources. One de  read more »

Looking for an easy way to research electronics on the go? Meet RetrevoQ, the consumer electronics shopping service that uses Twitter to put buying information in the palm of your hand. Designed for busy people, RetrevoQ tells you whether or not an electronics product is a good buy, and how much you can expect to pay for it. This is perfect for those times when you’re in an electronics store armed with only your cell phone and  read more »

The last time you went shopping for a new TV, digital camera, or other consumer electronics products did you find the experience enjoyable? Did you feel overwhelmed by the number of choices and technical jargon? Did you have a nagging doubt that you might have overpaid? Retrevo wondered the same thing and commissioned their latest Gadgetology™ study to find out if consumers are having  read more »

Now that all that analog TV bandwidth has been freed up we can't wait to start seeing all the new services taking advantage of it. One service that has been waiting in the wings is FLO TV also known as MediaFLO. It's a broadcast system the uses some of the UHF spectrum to send video and other data to mobile (and stationary devices). In other words, it can broadcast TV to your cell phone without using the cellular networks. For that reason we'll probably only see it in cities but the video is high quality and it is less susceptible to interruptions. This technology has been around for a while.  read more »

Dad works hard all year to provide you with the good things in life. Now it’s your turn to show him how much you appreciate everything he’s done for you and the family. Here are some gadgets that any Dad would be happy to  read more »

The Palm Pre is getting very positive reviews and the new iPhone 3G S looks like a product in its prime but no product is perfect so we put together this list of things neither one of these  read more »

Eight Differences That Separate the Palm Pre and Apple iPhone
In case you just got back from a 6 month wilderness trip and missed the smartphone news, Palm has bet the farm on an iPhone competitor and Apple has responded with some attractive improvements to the iPhone 3G. It’s pretty well known what both phones can do. They can make phone calls (most of the time), manage a calendar and contacts, provide access to the Internet, and run third party apps but here’s a list of things that one phone does or has and the other  read more »