Awhile back I blogged about the pinky out test when it comes to multi-touch devices. In case you’re too lazy to follow the link, essentially the passing pinky out test means that when you’re sitting at a restaurant eating some greasy food you can extend your pinky and scroll up and down the screen effortlessly. [...]
On the one hand Peter Rojas should be applauded for proposing that the broadband carriers adopt a multi-device plan instead of having each device tied to a contract. On the other hand he’s tilting at windmills even though he’s proposing what many have proposed before. And much like Don Quixote, he’s on a fool’s errand [...]
Given that the supposed release today of iOS 4.2 wasn’t exactly an official thing, the fact that the Internets are going crazy saying Apple is delaying the release is interesting news. This has grown from one site saying the new OS would be released next Tuesday, to a possible two week delay. Speculation centers on [...]
About two weeks ago we posted that FusionGarage, the makers of the JooJoo Tablet, was moving ahead on its next version using Android as the OS. If that wasn’t a hint, or if the fact that by all reports FusionGarage didn’t do well at all with sales of the original JooJoo, then this news should [...]
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In recent weeks, speculation was building up on the Internet across various blogs that Samsung will create a stock Android phone, sans any customizations, and would receive updates directly from Google. That handset, would probably be the next developer phone, and would succeed the original Nexus One in Google’s lineup, which is a Google-branded Android [...]
Research in Motion is rumored to be expanding its BlackBerry Torch franchise with a slimmer entry level model. While the Torch is basically a high-end model now that takes design cues from its high-end BlackBerry Bold franchise, an entry-level torch could more closely resemble a consumer-oriented BlackBerry Curve or Pearl. Details on the model are [...]
Rumors of a BlackBerry Storm 3 have been on-again, off-again as the future of the Storm franchise, at least in the U.S. under the helm of carrier Verizon Wireless, has been uncertain. The latest Storm 3 rumor has it that the 3.6-inch AMOLED Storm 3 will get some updated specs bringing it on-par with many [...]
Microsoft has received a lot of publicity and positive review of its Windows Phone 7 platform, and our very own Chris Leckness has been playing with his HTC HD7 on T-Mobile since a few days before launch and has been overall satisfied with that experience. Despite the glowingly positive reviews over the user interface and [...]
It seems that the Streak has just barely launched for the U.S. market and the late-coming Android OS-powered tablet from Dell may soon get a successor by the name of the Opus One. The Dell Streak, with its 5-inch Gorilla Glass display, had straddled the market between large touchscreen smartphone and diminutive tablet, and I [...]
There are many competitive tech sectors these days. One of those is Cloud Storage. Most services offer a free amount of storage (the typical has been 2GB) and then offer plans that allow you to buy more. Recently, Box.net upped its free offering to 5GB and now SugarSync looks to be following along. One of [...]
So, yesterday Apple dropped the Mac OSX 10.6.5 update and many thought that would clear up the rumors and mystery about whether or not AirPrint was going to be pulled or not. Apparently, at least for the moment, the mystery remains. Steve Jobs reportedly emailed a user yesterday saying “don’t believe everything you read” about [...]
This past Friday, I headed out to T-Mobile to grab the HTC HD7 if they would sell me one. T-Mobile wouldn’t sell and I ended up playing with the myTouch 4G instead. I headed back to work and called around. I found a store willing to sell me an HD7 a few days early. I [...]
The simple answer is all of them, but they can’t be swapped out on the fly like most of us are used to. The memory cards on Windows Phone 7 devices are dedicated storage that is configured during the initial setup of the device. If you want to upgrade a card, you have to totally [...]
Interesting. Given that we’ve just seen the US release on one carrier of the Samsung Galaxy Tab with others to follow this month, the Wall St. Journal has released the first Android Tablet only App. That’s right, if you’ve got an Android phone this supposedly won’t work on that platform. There are phone editions for [...]
BGR is running some leaked photos of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X12. This super thin Android phone is running Android 2.3 and get this, there is no search button on the hardware. Does Android 2.3 do away with a search button or did Sony Ericsson act on their own here? After SE dumped the Android [...]
OK, we’re entering into a new wave of testing new gadgets I think. This enterprising user decided to test out the strength of the Gorilla Glass on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. To do so, he takes a CO2 powered pistol and fires three metal pellets into the screen. Yeah, I think that beats tossing a [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is being released now in the US, at least on T-Mobile. Those wanting to choose the other carriers will have to wait a few days or so. So, the reviews from the major US media are coming out. Here’s a quick roundup of the ones I found of interest. As expected [...]
There might be more, but I counted 76. Yes, 76 of the 1658 apps that Bing Visual Search shows in the Window Phone Marketplace are single currency converters from the same Author. There are 132 finance apps listed and 76 are the apps mentioned above, all by Jonathan Brooke. Jonathan Brooke has published 76 conversion apps [...]
The Motorola Dogz may be a codename for an upcoming Motorola Droid device on Verizon Wireless. The device may be among the first smartphones to launch on Verizon Wireless’s 4G network and should appear early next year. Not a lot of information is known about the Motorola Dogz right now, but it appears that the [...]
It looks like quite a few GottaBeMobile readers had ordered the HP Slate 500 and had offered comments on the delay of the device’s shipment in our blog post yesterday. The good news is that my friend from the Genghis Khent blog had pinged me to give me some updates to the situation–you can also [...]
Verizon Wireless is supposed to get its own version of the T-Mobile G2 and HTC Desire Z in the form of the HTC Merge, but a tweet, from a source of unconfirmed reliability, has said that the keyboarded-Android smartphone may be delayed for launch on the U.S. carrier as HTC may want to swap out [...]
Apple’s iPad consumer tablet rounds out the top three most wished for item this holiday season according to a survey that made by the Consumer Electronics Association, the group behind the annual CES trade show of consumer electronics. Following peace and happiness at number one, and laptops in second place, the iPad with its third [...]
ARM, which is behind many of the smartphone CPU designs, including those in Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and Apple, has released its next-generation Mali embedded graphics processor design. The Mali-T604 will bring support for DirectX, OpenCL, and is designed for general purpose computing. According to the company, the T604 will deliver “up to 5x performance improvement [...]
Hector Gomez is a great “man on the street” kind of guy when it comes to all things mobile. He tests out a lot of gadgets and thankfully keeps me updated on a number of things he’s checking out. I’m always grateful. Recently, Hector checked out his local Best Buy to see what Tablet/Slates were [...]
The Motorola Citrus Android smartphone will launch on Verizon Wireless for an affordable $50 on contract price after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Android-operated device won’t get the Droid branding on the U.S. CDMA carrier and instead will be targeted at the low-end smartphone segment. It does come with Android 2.1, a 528 MHz Qualcomm [...]
We had reported about the ZTE Peel case before, which is a hard-case that adds mobile broadband and gives the iPod Touch a data connection to Sprint’s Now Network, and it looks like Sprint has finally come clean and announced that the device will be coming on November 14th. Beginning on Nov. 14, Sprint (NYSE: [...]
What’s reported as a prototype for an electronic book reader looks like a 10.1-inch Android tablet from Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung. The design looks to be a larger edition of the current generation Samsung Galaxy Tab. The unique thing about the 10-inch slate that’s being demoed is that unlike the current generation Tab, this demo [...]
Samsung really is bringing more tablets to the market. After the company has shown off a larger 7-inch Super AMOLED panel display, Samsung is now showing off prototypes of tablets with the mentioned screen. The new 7-inch Galaxy Tab Super AMOLED display has a slightly higher resolution than the current crop of Galaxy Tabs with [...]
I posted about AGloves a week or so ago. Although I don’t think they are actually for me, AGloves actually do work quite well with capacitive touch screens. I got sent a pair for review and so last night my lovely wife, Thomasin and I gave them a try. You can check that out in [...]
So, at some point in the near future, possibly Friday, Apple will release its next update to its iOS devices, iOS 4. This is supposed to be a unifying update bringing the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod Touch all together, in what many anticipate as a road that leads to some sort of merging [...]
Those Euro Tablet Guys get all the luck. Steve “Chippy” Paine has his hands on the Viewsonic ViewPad 7 Tablet/Slate and has put up an unboxing video for all to see. He’s also announcing that there will be a live demonstration of the ViewPad 7 today at 10pm CET. Check it out here and check [...]
Speculation about when Apple will release iOS 4.2 for the iPad (and other iOS devices) is about to end soon I hope. Word is running around that the iOS update will come this Friday at 10am PST. But that’s not official yet. Before that happens it appears Apple will be releasing Mac OSX 10.6.5 and [...]
Bloomberg is reporting that RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie has teased a comment indicating that the Playbook Tablet will debut under $500. Of course that means Bloomberg is positioning that statement to mean head-to-head competition with the iPad. The fun part of the game is that the actual quote from Balsillie is “the product will be [...]
Inexpensive Android Tablet/Slates are everywhere (at least announcements of them are.) Best Buy is supposedly stocking a variety of models. KMart, Wal-Mart, and other retailers are as well. KMart started the rampage with the Augen GenTouch78 and continued it with Tablets from Viewsonic, Velocity Cruz, and depending on where you are located, others as well. [...]
A recent study released by SquareTrade says that the current crop of smartphones are the most reliable ever, with iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry all having resolved many of the manufacturing glitches that had plagued the platform and their respective devices a few years prior. Fast forward to 2010 and in just two years, Square Trade [...]
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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 [...]
