Making a continued resurgence from obscurity, Motorola looks to steal some of the blogosphere chatter with the announcement of its Droid X smartphone on Verizon’s network today. The Droid X lands on July 15 and will come with Android 2.1 with a promised upgrade to 2.2 and Flash 10.1 support when Froyo is finalized in [...]
As you may have read once or thrice, I was on the early list to get an iPhone 4 today. What you probably don’t know are the series of coincidences that set me off on a brief adventure where I seek the key to activation, meet up with an Evernoter, and discover the fang pit. [...]
Road warriors have long touted the benefits of MiFi products from Sprint and Verizon since their inception. The ability to have 3G data speeds wirelessly routed to 5 different devices have allowed for an unprecedented level of productivity as Team GBM demonstrated at CES 2010. One of the main reasons I haven’t jumped onto the [...]
Some folks are getting their iPhones early, and the big media reviews are already out. Apple’s next gen operating system iOS4 is out as well. Based on what I’m reading I’m wondering if battery life isn’t going to be the story or at least one of the big stories. Several folks who have installed iOS4 [...]
The guys at repair (and teardown) site iFixit got their hands on an iPhone 4 and promptly tore it down to its bare components. The teardown is well documented and photographed (if you’re into that), but the big attention-getter is their claim that the front display is made of Corning’s super-strong Gorilla Glass.
The first volley of iPhone 4 reviews are hitting the Internet tonight and will show up on newsstands tomorrow. The reviews are overwhelming positive as Apple, which isn’t a huge surprise. Josh’s put together a nice roundup of the first few iPhone 4 reviews over at Notebobooks.com and will be adding to the list over the next couple of [...]
Google Voice is now open to anyone with a U.S. phone number. The free service was previously offered as an open viral beta. While the service isn’t perfect, it’s an indispensable tool that makes my mobile lifestyle much easier. If you don’t already have a Google Voice number I highly recommend heading over to Google.com/voice. The service [...]
Wacky and crazy. If you’ve ever followed the adventures of a new Apple gadget to delivery day, you know how trying to decipher the UPS or FEDEX messages can make you batty. Early this morning word popped out that some who pre-ordered the new iPhone (including Sumocat) would be receiving their new iPhones a day [...]
Scifi blog i09 put together a list of must-haves for your digital art toolbox according to professional artists of the scifi persuasion. Despite their other disagreements, they seem unanimous on their top tip: get a Wacom tablet.
Ina Fried of CNET, who’s been following the Tablet PC and UMPC scene for years, has posted her take on “How Microsoft foresaw–and still missed–the iPad.” Worth a read if only for a refresher on the situation. She’s spot-on in describing the business side of the problems, but I don’t think she quite hits the [...]
Very nice. Motion has released the J3500 Slate Tablet PC, a ruggedized entry into their lineup that in review testing seems to be not only a reliable performer but one that will give users an excellent touch and pen experience. I was fortunate enough to spend a few days with the J3500 Slate, and I’m [...]
If have an iPhone 3GS and you were caught in the craziness that was iPhone 4 ordering day and didn’t find yourself among the 600,000 who managed to get an order placed, I don’t think you need to feel rushed into trading up on the hardware. That’s after a quick look at iOS4, the new [...]
Hey, did I mention I got to evaluate T-Mobile’s upgraded HSPA+ network via their WebConnect rocket laptop stick, a.k.a. USB modem? Yeah, shot some video on location while testing it too. But let’s say you just want to read how and see where it works. This write-up’s for you.
T-Mobile recently began upgrading their mobile network to HSPA+, offering speeds up to 21Mbps. Of course, “up to” is such a relative term. Does their faster network really deliver? That’s a question I sought to answer in evaluating their WebConnect Rocket laptop stick, a.k.a. USB modem.
Well, at least Adobe is trying to fight back and make some noise amidst iPhone release week. They’ve just announced that they are shipping Flash 10.1 for mobile phones. Supposedly they’ve got 35 companies lined up and ready to go running the following platforms: Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone 7 Series, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian. [...]
Everybody wants a piece of the eBook action. Yesterday we saw the great price drop for the Amazon Kindle and the Nook. Today we’re seeing Borders announce the availability of its eBook reading app for the iPad and the iPhone. From what I’m reading the Borders app doesn’t come with the syncing function that we [...]
I recently met up with Chris Casper of Toshiba in San Francisco to see some new PCs. While I’m always up for a look at new PCs, the most interesting thing at the meeting for me was the lineup of old Toshiba devices that Chris brought along as part of the company’s 25th anniversary of [...]
Amazon’s chopped $70 off the Kindle’s price tag to compete to come in $10 cheaper than the Barnes and Noble Nook 3G + Wi-Fi‘s new $199 price tag. A Wi-Fi only version of the Nook is available for $149. This may be just the beginning of an eReader price war. While the iPad has taken much of [...]
San Francisco International is finally getting free Wi-Fi, which should make traveling a little easier for me and the millions of others that pass through the airport every year. I think free (and account free) Wi-Fi should be offered at all airports in this day and age. Being able to grab an Internet connection at [...]
Toshiba is the first company out of the gate to announce the release of an Android-based Smartbook (albeit not in North America) by Q3 2010. Powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 250 chipset running at 1GHz, the device is capable of 8 hours run time and 7 days standby. Other niceties include up to 32GB SSD, integrated [...]
We’ve seen reports of this before, but here’s a demo of it on video captured by Robert Scoble. Called the Libretto W100, the small dual screen machine is only a prototype or concept, but a limited number of the devices will be put on sale. According to the rep, that will enable Toshiba to get [...]
I’m spending the day at Infineon Raceway in Somona, a short drive from my hometown of San Francisco. I’m working on a number of videos and articles about how NASCAR teams use technology, which I’ll share here and over at Notebooks.com in the coming days. Infineon Raceway, formerly known as Sears Point, is a very [...]
Syncing data from device to device via the Cloud is certainly one of the hot mobile topics these days. There are quite a few services available, some free, some not so free, some that charge by the amount of data you wish to store, etc.. Given that I bounce from device to device, having my [...]
Trying to figure out what is what at Microsoft is sometimes nigh on near impossible. That’s certainly been true when it comes to figuring out where things are going on the mobile front, where Microsoft is decidedly behind the curve at the moment. Mary Jo Foley takes a look at how all the pieces fit [...]
Harry McCracken at Technologizer ran into Phil McKinney, CTO of HP, at The Big Money’s Untethered conference, a meeting about “profitable media in the tablet era.” You’d think that McKinney, one of the speakers at this event about tablets would be eager to speak about HP’s tablets, specifically the Slate, but not so much.
We seemed to have missed any previous coverage of the Boogie Board, but it is now available for order from Amazon and other retailers. What is it? Well, at first glance it looks like a chalkboard. But it is a slate device that you can write on with the included stylus or your finger. Think [...]
Forrester Research has published some forecasting that says Tablets will outsell Netbooks by 2012. To many that will come as no surprise as we’re still eagerly awaiting the supposed “Year of the Tablet” to kick in here in 2010. But many GBM readers know we think it will be more like 2011. Regardless of when [...]
Sony is offering to give you more use out of their embedded WLAN services with built-in Wi-Fi hotspot functionality on their VAIO Z and VAIO Y series laptops.
Microsoft’s Windows 7 team has provided a white paper for OEMs to guide them in designing slate PCs for Windows 7, posted in HTML form at WindowsForDevices.com. In addition to hardware specifications and recommendations, it includes a rundown of the touch features in Windows 7, both in the OS and pre-installed applications.
PhatWare, makers of a variety of note-taking applications for tablets, smartphones, and platforms in-between, has announced a couple of new releases: PhatNotes for Outlook 5.4.1 (Windows Mobile) and WritePad for iPad 4.0.
It’s time for some conversation. Yesterday some tensions that we on the GBM team think have been bubbling for awhile boiled over in the comments to this post. So, I’d like to address them. It’s not just addressing the comments, it is more about addressing the mission of GBM, how I see that mission, clearing [...]
It wasn’t pretty, but the iPhone 4 pre-order event has yielded a colossal number of units pre-sold: more than 600,000. To put that in perspective, the 3Gs sold one million units in three days of actual sales. Meanwhile, we’re still a week away from the iPhone 4′s first in-store sale day. Completely staggering.
Strange, amazing, and well, strange. Given the total breakdown of the online ordering system for Apple and AT&T’s ordering system for the new iPhone, I didn’t expect to see this news. Apparently the first allotment of the new iPhone sold out by about 4:30 ET yesterday. AT&T was out of stock earlier according to reports [...]
A leaked video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablet is floating around on the Intertubes. But yet, those paying close attention are pointing out that the device in the video looks a bit different than the pictures we’ve seen so far. The device in the video is called the Galaxy Tab P1000 and it appears [...]
Masters of the obvious. Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that because Microsoft has been slow out of the chute coming up with Tablet friendly OS beyond or different than Windows 7 that OEMs like Dell and HP are looking elsewhere for software to run their tablets. Let’s see, that’s been old news for, well for some [...]
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If you’re looking for a great bluetooth headset, but you don’t want to spend $100 on a high-end headset, the Plantronics Marque M-155 bluetooth headset. Plantronics makes a number of headsets, including the Plantronics Voyager HD, which we gave a Best of 2011 Award, but not everyone is willing to wear the larger headset out [...]
