The HTC EVO Shift 4G has gone official on Sprint’s Now Network after numerous leaks leading up to the carrier’s third 4G Android smartphone announcement at CES 2011. The device utilizes a more compact form factor complete with landscape-oriented keyboard slider and comes with HTC Sense, the manufacturer’s proprietary UI layer, on top of Android [...]
Best Buy wants you to buy from them. No surprise, right? Well, it looks like Best Buy might be working hard to entice you to continue to do so with the announcement of a new gadget Buy Back program. Essentially if you’re looking for a new smartphone, tablet, some TVs, or portable computer, Best Buy [...]
Like most people, I started the new year in lazy fashion concerned only with waking up in the general time frame of “morning” vs. any particular time. Alas, that was not the case for everyone and some of those folks got a rude unawakening when their iPhones failed to perform basic alarm and appointment duties, [...]
Freescale is raising the bar in the mobile processor game by offering its i.MX6 mobile CPU in configurations from one to four cores. The i.MX6 processors uses ARM technology to deliver low-power consumption while offering high performance. Each of the one, two, or four ARM Cortex A9 core can run at 1.2 GHz. Potential applications [...]
LG, which is manufacturing smartphones and tablets under the company’s Optimus brand, is planning to deliver customers who purchase its home appliances added value by offering integration with smartphones. Under the company’s Thinq brand for appliances, customers will be able to control their home appliances using smartphones and tablets. Thinq appliances will be Internet connected [...]
Thai phone-maker Spriiing is debuting its Smile Android smartphone with a front-facing QWERTY keyboard layout as a challenger to RIM’s BlackBerry phones and also Motorola’s Android handsets. As a more budget device, the Smile phone only packs in a QVGA screen, making it a direct challenger to the Motorola Charm, which has the same resolution [...]
Today at CES 2011 in Las Vegas Iomega announced the SuperHero Backup and Charger for the iPhone, a new iPhone accessory that backs up your pictures and contacts every time you charge your iPhone. While iTunes will back up this information when you sync to your computer, many users don’t connect to iTunes on a [...]
Vizio, which has made a name for itself creating affordable television sets, is looking to expand its consumer electronics portfolio with smartphones and tablets using the same low cost strategy. To tackle the growing smartphone and tablet market, Vizio will be using Google’s Android operating system to power the company’s products. Although pricing was not [...]
It looks like Opera is teasing a tablet-optimized version of its browser for Android, which the company is boasting for its smooth panning and zooming features. For now, the preview video is short, but hopefully we’ll be getting a more detailed peak at CES. Via: Engadget
Reports from tablet manufacturers wishing to implement Google’s tablet-optimized version of the Android operating system, also known as Honeycomb, indicate that Google may have minimum requirements to create the optimal tablet user experience. According to Phandroid, those requirements may include a dual-core processor and a screen resolution of 1280 X 720, making the tablet display [...]
Google Chrome isn’t quite ready for prime time, but I count Google’s new OS as a genuine Christmas miracle. My in-laws came to visit for a couple of weeks and needed a laptop during their stay. As I’ve mentioned before, they’re not the most computer savvy people and can be extremely frustrating to support them [...]
I only wish I could claim this as a New Year’s Eve hangover. At least there would have been some gain for all of this pain. Problem is I got sick the day of New Year’s Eve and had to cancel all of our plans for the big night. You know the kind of sick [...]
2010 is gone and so is its hyped up characterization as The Year of the Tablet. As I’ve said many times, 2010 could be better described as The Year of the iPad than any generic Year of the Tablet. But now 2011 is here and with it there seems to be a collective memory loss [...]
Liliputing is linking to information that Verizon is dropping the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab by $100 to $499. If you purchased one within the last two weeks of the price change you can get a $100 refund, but early shoppers I guess might be out of luck. Verizon is also tacking on 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 [...]
