From all of us at GBM, may you have a safe, warm, and wonderful passing of the New Year. Remember this year if you can see the full moon, it is one of those Once in a Blue Moon years, where we have two full moons in one month. So, there’s double cause for celebration.
My mobile computing lifestyle has come a long way over the past decade. A lot of the gadget changes and upgrades were gradual, which meant I eased into what I and other geeks consider normal at the dawn of 2010. But during my trip to India this month I realized something – I live in [...]
As you may know, we’ve had some real challenges with the GBM Forums over the past several days. Rather than slap band-aids on the problems and hope they don’t arise again, we’ve decided to move to a new, more stable system. Matt Faulkner is working tirelessly to transition all of the forum users and content [...]
Dell Small Business is offering the Dell Vostro v13 13-inch 1.3GHz ULV notebook for $449 and including free shipping. The Vostro V13 is similar to the thin Dell Adamo notebooks sharing the design of the ultra sleek series. The Dell Vostro v13has a 13″ screen, 1.3 GHz ULV Intel Celeron processor, 2GB RAM, a 250GB [...]
2009 is almost in the books, which means the New Year will bring new gadgets, new innovation, and bigger credit card balances for geeks who suffer from gadget lust like I do. Looking back on this year wasn’t too difficult for me when it came to deciding what the best gadgets I used or acquired [...]
The following is a guest editorial by Rob Bushway, the founder and former owner of GottaBeMobile.com. For the past six months I’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching Tablet dominate the news cycle. From the Crunchpad to the JooJoo, from the Courier to the iSlate, from the Android Tablet to Windows 7 Starter Edition Tablets [...]
A new company called Touchco got some blog love from the New York Times today. They’re touting new technology called Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance or IFSR that looks like a quantum leap forward for resistive digitizers. Developed at New York University’s Media Research Lab, IFSR promises to deliver unlimited multi-touch tracking, high-res pen tracking and fine [...]
There’s no question that we live in a crazy and often dangerous world these days. The recent incident with a terrorist trying to bring down a plane over Detroit served as a reminder of this. It also served as a reminder that no matter what government agencies do to try and protect us, in the [...]
AT&T may have gotten some good news lately, but it still has its self inflicted problems to overcome. As my wife and I made the drive from Northwestern Virginia to Chicago, IL, we took the toll road route through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. We hit some lake effect snow in Ohio, but other than that [...]
Kat Hannaford at Gizmodo asks “At what point does a supposed ereader become a tablet?” It’s a valid question on many levels. And with everyone expecting to see a slew of tablets and eBook readers at CES2010, you will be hard pressed to find one that can’t read eBooks using someone’s software to do so. [...]
You know when the main stream media gets on to a story that blogs have been covering for some time that it is either both a real story or one that is beginning to already shows signs of decline. I think in this case it is a real story. CNBC is planning a special on [...]
Dell Small Business is offering $200 off of the Dell Latitude Z and free shipping. Dell claims that this is the world’s thinnest and lightest 16″ notebook and at half an inch thin and 4.4 pounds they may be right. The Dell Latitude Z will cost $1,799 after savings and includes a 64GB SSD, 2GB [...]
Gizmodo sent a bunch of 3G modems all over the U.S. to see how speedy various networks are. AT&T was the clear champ, with the fastest download times in six of the 12 markets. AT&T had the fastest upload speeds in all 12 markets. If you’re lucky to live and work in places with rock [...]
Snippets of Google Nexus One news have been flying left and right today. First, Boy Genius Report shared a secret screen grab showing the Nexus One will be sold online by Google and will be tied to T-Mobile for service. Next came Google’s announcement of an Android press conference on January 5th, reported by everyone [...]
Got a sad email from Rob today. Actually, the email was pretty straightforward and stoic, but the news was said (and I could tell he was crying when he pasted the link). Anyway, at the end of the year, Agilix is discontinuing their all-encompassing note and scheduling application for Tablet PCs, GoBinder. Per their website: [...]
Judie at Gear Diary received her Camangi WebStation Android-based tablet (her blog buddy Dan wasn’t so lucky) and put together a brief unboxing. I normally don’t care for unboxing videos, but Judie, being a master of the craft, did one that I rather enjoyed. I especially liked the size comparison (seen here). LAPTOP Magazine went [...]
MobileNoter is the app that allows you to sync your OneNote files to an iPhone and also create some quick notes on your iPhone for syncing back to OneNote. The previous edition has focused on a cloud based solution meaning your files synced up to MobileNoter’s cloud and then back up and down to your [...]
Electronista has an update on the Notion Ink smartpad tablet spotted by Slashgear more than a week ago, complete with name, release target and price point. Notion Ink plans to preview the Adam at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show scheduled for January, however the Android OS large-screen optimizations have yet to be finalized. Although the [...]
Evernote snuck in a major update to their iPhone app just before the holidays, loaded with a bevy of sync, cache and search improvements to make note management that much better. First, they put the sync and account management features under one tab called “Sync” so you can sync when you want to sync. On [...]
HP Home is offering the HP TouchSmart 600-1050 23-in Touch-enabled PC complete with 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 1080p and TV Tuner for $1085 after $100 instant discount and $15 coupon code. The TouchSmart 600-1050 comes with 4GB RAM, 750GB hard drive and Windows 7. Visit LogicBuy for more information and coupon code.
As many of you have noticed, GBM forums have been experience intermittent downtime over the past several days. We have calls into Rackspace Cloud and are trying to work out a solution. We’re currently using WebWiz to power our forums and WordPress to run the rest of the site. WordPress is happiest in a Linux [...]
“Google Chrome OS-based netbook tech specs are out,” screamed the headline from IBTimes. Sounds like a scoop, so everyone should jump on board and report it as fact… except that IBTimes didn’t report their story as fact. In reality, they peppered it liberally with such non-commital verbs and adverbs as “rumoured” and “reportedly.” It reads [...]
HP Home is offering the HP Touchsmart 300-1020 2.7GHz Dual-core 20-in Touch-enabled All-in-one PC for $835 after $100 in instant savings and an additional $15 off coupon code. The HP Touchsmart touch enabled PC comes with an AMD Athlon II 2.7GHz Dual-core CPU, 4GB DDR3, Radeon HD 3200 graphics, 500GB Hard Drive and Windows 7. [...]
My wife and I are about to begin our annual pilgrimage to visit her family and our friends in Chicago. Unlike the last few years, I won’t be heading to CES2010 this year, so it’s a different sort of trip. My mother here in Virginia is seriously ill, and while we are planning on spending [...]
Let’s face it, the smartbook will become the inevitable next step in the evolution of our two favorite mobile gadgets: the smartphone and the netbook. As our demand for mobile Internet content continues to grow, smartphones become more powerful, and mainstream consumer adoption of smartphones expand, the smartbook stands at the threshold. What exactly will [...]
One thing I’ll say for my wife (actually I could say many things) she knows how to shop for her geek husband. Maybe I should say she’s learned how to do it. She no longer looks for hints about gadgets and hardware and by and large leaves that to me. But she pays attention to [...]
AT&T’s 3G coverage is pretty horrible in New York City. In what appears to be an attempt to ease congestion, AT&T has ceased online sales of all iPhone models to those living in and around the country’s most populous city. An article over at the Consumerist quotes an AT&T service rep as saying that “…the [...]
Apple Tablet rumors have been with us for quite some time. Gizmodo has done what they call an “exhaustive list” of all of those rumors and put them in one tidy place. On one hand-Bravo. On the other hand-Jumping Jehoshaphat that is one exhausting list to read through. If you’ve got the time and are [...]
In what is to my mind an very predictable outcome, Amazon.com is touting that on this Christmas Day, 2009 they sold more Kindle Books than print books for the first time ever. Well, given the really short life span of the Kindle that’s not too hard of a statement to make, I’m guessing. It is [...]
MacRumors has uncovered what might be evidence that Apple had planned to name their mythic tablet “iSlate” by discovering they were briefly exposed as the owner of the domain “islate.com” in late 2007. TechCrunch followed up by finding several related domains gobbled up in November 2006 and uncovering the owner of the “iSlate” trademark, “Slate [...]
Amazon is offering $100 off of the Toshiba Satellite T135-S1307 Ultrathin notebook with TruBrite 13.3-Inch screen, 9- hour battery life and Windows 7. The Toshiba Satellite T135-S1307 is only 3.9 pounds, has 3GB RAM and a 500 GB hard drive. Visit LogicBuy for more information.
In some places around the world it is already Christmas Day and for some of us it is still to come. The gang at GBM won’t be around much for a day or two as we spend time with our families and loved ones, and we hope you do the same. Oh, sure there might [...]
Dell Home is offering $20 off of the new 9.99mm thin Dell Adamo XPS 13 which drops the price down to $1,978. The Dell Adamo XPS 13 has a Core 2 Duo SU9400 1.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 13.4″ WLED 720p LCD with a 2MP Camera and Windows 7 Home Premium. Visit LogicBuy for [...]
Once again here is my annual Christmas Wish List. The items that comprise the list aren’t gadgets or things, but by and large things I’d like to see happen in the mobile space and the Tablet PC space. Here’s a link to last year’s list, two years ago, and the one from three years ago. [...]
I’m sure you’ve been there. Someone shows up for the Christmas gathering you didn’t expect and they are the only one you didn’t get a gift for. Well, have no fear because even on Christmas Day you can make sure you are the perfect Santa. Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times has put together a [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
