On Friday my wife and I went out with some very good friends to celebrate a birthday. As usual, we started talking about tech. One of my friends recently got a promotion at Google and is overseeing part of the company’s business apps offerings and talk turned to Google’s paid email service. We use Google [...]
It looks like Verizon Wireless may be enabling simultaneous voice and data transmissions over 3G in addition to 4G on the carrier’s HTC Thunderbolt. According to a leaked screenshot obtained by Engadget, the carrier is telling retail employees not to advertise this feature as it may not be up to par for the network’s high [...]
Research in Motion’s roadmap for its CDMA-based BlackBerry smartphones were leaked to CrackBerry, which shows a similar progression towards touch-based UIs, higher resolution displays, and improved specs that mirror the GSM-based leaks on the BlackBerry Dakota (Bold), BlackBerry Curve, and Torch 2. In the leaked slide deck, we also glimpse of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, [...]
Industry analyst Canalys announced today that more smartphones shipped with Google’s Android OS last quarter than did smartphones of any other OS, including long-time leader Nokia’s Symbian. While it turned out to be a fantastic quarter for Google, the surging smartphone market grew for everyone… well, almost everyone.
It looks like chip-maker Intel may have flashed a smartphone prototype sporting the company’s forthcoming Medfield mobile processor chipset on stage at a company sales conference last week. The prototype hardware may even be running the MeeGo operating system, which is jointly developed by Intel and Nokia as the two fight the smartphone war against [...]
T-Mobile USA has gone on to set the record with its pricing for the Dell Streak 7 tablet. The U.S. carrier will be offering the NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered HSPA+ tablet for a low $200 on a two-year contract and $450 without any contracts. The Dell Streak 7, like the Galaxy Tab that it hopes to [...]
Canadians are seeing their unlimited data plans replaced with 25GB monthly caps. No we’re not talking about wireless data providers, but plain old home broadband providers here. The Canadaian Radio-Telecommunications Commission has approved Bell Canada’s plans for usage based billing and now smaller Canadian ISPs, which ride on Bell Canada’s copper, will also have to [...]
Following on the news that we had previously reported that carrier T-Mobile USA will be reviving its Sidekick brand as the Sidekick 4G with a new device, TmoNews has now published a series of leaked photos showing the device. While the original Sidekicks were mostly made by Sharp–Motorola had made one device with the Danger [...]
Throwing numbers around is easy. Knowing what those numbers mean can be tricky. For example, when word came around that Samsung had sold two million Galaxy Tabs, it sounded good but only meant that Samsung shipped that many to carriers and retailers. The number that reached end-users was unknown, but apparently it’s not high.
We’ve heard of Pixel Qi’s displays in the past, and the screen is being used on the Adam tablet by Notion Ink. Another application for displays that offer sunlight readability would be for netbooks for those who either work in the field or would rather do their computing in an outdoors space such as a [...]
According to Best Buy sources to blog Streak Smart, the AT&T-locked version of Dell’s 5-inch tablet/smartphone hybrid will be getting its upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo on February 1st, the day before Dell will be launching its 7-inch tablet for carrier T-Mobile USA. Though there was a lot of initial enthusiasm behind Dell’s entry into [...]
Gizmodo has received leaked images from an un-named mystery Android smartphone made by HTC. The tipster that had leaked the images to Gizmodo calls the handset the “Saga,” though it’s unclear if the HTC-made smartphone will get that name upon launch. The device appears to have a front-facing camera and capacitive touch buttons on the [...]
Motorola released a teaser for its Xoom tablet Super Bowl ad on YouTube today. This one-minute ad teaser is an attack on the iPad and Apple’s famous 1984 Superbowl ad. The Motorola Xoom ad starts off with a shot of earth from space and a countdown from 2011 to 1984. Some text that reads “One way [...]
It looks like Motorola may be making deeper pushes into the space led by RIM. After Motorola had released the Motorola Droid Pro (review forthcoming) for Verizon Wireless late last year with a front-facing keyboard and enterprise enhancements targeted at business BlackBerry-toting customers, the company may be releasing a rugged follow-up to Sprint Nextel’s iDEN [...]
Motorola released a promo video that does a decent job of explaining the pros of this 4G smartphone that can be plugged into a laptop-style dock. The video runs through a scenario of a couple of friends planning dinner via SMS. Instead of researching the restaurant on a mobile app, the user launches Firefox, a [...]
Motorola is expected to enable full 1080p HD video recording on the its upcoming Atrix 4G Android smartphone for AT&T’s HSPA+ network. The phone will launch with 720p HD video encoding capabilities, but will get upgraded to 1080p video encoding via a software update sometime in the future. Exact timing of when that software update [...]
Recent pricing leaks from Amazon.com and Costco warehouses suggest that Motorola’s Tegra 2-powered Atrix 4G smartphone may be priced at $150 on a two-year service agreement through an initial exclusive arrangement with U.S. carrier AT&T. Without a contract, Amazon’s pricing reveals that the device would cost $600. The 4.3-inch slate with dual-core 1 GHz processor [...]
Need to use your iPad while on the go but don’t want to look awkward whipping out a near-10-inch slate? In moments where a 3- or 4-inch smartphone touchscreen won’t suffice and you really need the display real estate of an iPad, Alphyn Industries hope to have you covered with its PADX-1 LEDGE Wearcom iPad [...]
At first glance, the sight of Meinolf Althaus holding a hammer over a slate brings me back to Fujitsu’s earlier claim of “slate-beating”, but it’s all part of a presentation explaining the philosophy that guides their slate-making decisions with the upcoming Stylistic Q550 being the target. Of the lesson, not the beating.
OtterBox has added a few eReader cases to its Commuter Series of rugged cases. The Amazon Kindle 3, Kindle DX, B&N Nook and Sony Reader Touch Edition can now all get the three-layers of protection treatment. The first layer of protection is an adhesive screen protector, the second layer is soft silicone and the third [...]
Motorola’s Sanjay Jha has confirmed the company’s launch schedule for the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone as well as the Xoom tablet. The company says that the Atrix 4G and the 3G edition of the Xoom tablet will arrive at the end of February. In the Q&A follow-up, despite his confidence in the company achieving its [...]
The next-generation successors to Samsung’s flagship Android smartphone and tablet may make a debut at Mobile World Coongress according to a leaked document showing that a Galaxy S 2 and Tab 2 presentations are scheduled for the trade show in February. According to Android Central, the Samsung Galaxy S 2 would essentially replace the popular [...]
Rumors of Facebook entering the smartphone market to compete with industry titans such as Apple, Google, and RIM are persisting, but this time the news of some features of this phone come from users who were part of a focus group centered around social media and where the questions of interest surrounded “Facebook” behavior, usage, [...]
Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry PlayBook, may be toying with the idea of allowing Android applications to run on its PlayBook tablet. While the idea may seem unlikely, it could be a winning strategy for Canadian-based RIM who is fighting a battle against both Apple’s iOS platform and Google’s Android platform. The seemingly [...]
Samsung has introduced four new smartphones to its Galaxy family, which has the Galaxy S as its flagship smartphone. The four phones are the Ace, Gio, Fit and Mini. The Ace is priced at 349 euros, the Gio at 249 euros, and the Mini at 199 euros in the Netherlands according to Samsung Hub. These [...]
As the world looks on to the future of mobile processing beyond dual-core CPUs that are starting to make their way into products such as the Motorola Atrix 4G and the Xoom tablet, Sony has just announced that its next-generation PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming platform will be sporting a quad-core processor along with powerful quad-core [...]
Taking a hardware-neutral approach, Sony will be making PlayStation games available on Android 2.3 Gingerbread (a minimum requirement to play) smartphones, tablets, and handsets. Available via the PlayStation Suite, Sony is saying that initially PlayStation One (PS One) games will be available through emulation and the company will be creating a PlayStation Certified label to [...]
In a move to comfort potential switchers who would leave AT&T for Verizon Wireless as the iPhone 4 is scheduled to arrive early next month to AT&T’s rival CDMA carrier, AT&T is bringing back its unlimited data plans, which the carrier had stopped offering to new customers, to retain its subscribers and hope to avert [...]
I’m heading to MacWorld Expo 2011 tomorrow and one app I’m looking forward to seeing first hand is Jammit App. The app allows aspiring musicians to play along with the famous artists and dissect the original recordings. As users play along, they can strip out vocals, drums, guitar, keyboard and bass parts if they want to stand [...]
Depending on who you ask, last quarter, either more than two million Windows Phones shipped to carriers OR more than two million Windows Phone 7 licenses were sold to OEMs. Either way, there’s no way more than two million Windows Phones reached end users last quarter. Engadget claims the elephant room is how that compared [...]
Despite the carrier’s commitment, at least for a limited time, to unlimited 3G iPhone data plans, Verizon Wireless, like its rival AT&T, will be charging users who need to extend their smartphone’s data connection to other devices. Verizon’s CDMA iPhone is anticipated to launch with a new Mobile Hotspot app for tethering and sharing the [...]
After an update was released for Verizon’s LG VL600 4G LTE USB modem, which brought with it improved performance, the carrier told Phonescoop that support for Mac users is forthcoming. Despite an aggressive roll-out to 38 metropolitan areas of its 4G LTE network and robust speeds, many users have complained that Verizon’s initial releases of [...]
We had reported previously that Google had green-lighted number porting into Google Voice for a select number of users, and now it seems that the feature is enabled for all existing users. According to Google’s official Google Voice blog, the feature is now available for existing users and the feature will slowly start appearing for [...]
While some of you were (and perhaps still are) waiting for your HP Slate 500 to arrive, one made an appearance in a custom GMC Yukon Denali by West Coast Customs at the opening of the HP Store in Vancouver, Canada on December 3rd 2010.
LG is speculated to be introducing a 3D version of its Optimus line of smartphones. In addition to the powerful LG Optimus 2X, which was shown at CES, the company may introduce a glasses-free 3D smartphone at February’s Mobile World Congress if details from the company’s invitation for an event at the trade show is [...]
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