One thing that has been as regular as rain these last few years is that Apple and what is about to announce hangs over CES like a cloud. This year is no different with folks searching for any tidbit they can find about what is assumed to be the iPad 2 or a Verizon iPhone. [...]
According to the Comcast blog, the big cable cabal is getting ready to bring in home streaming to Tablets if you’re a part of the Xfinity clan. Comcast is also getting ready to roll out over 3000 hours of On Demand video that can be watched anywhere and anytime as well. Of course you’ve got [...]
At CES, and really any mobile environment, one of the biggest challenges is keeping your gear charged. While the iPhone users have Mophie Air Juice packs and other cases those of us with other devices like a MiFi, Android smart phone or BlackBerry devices need something else. That’s where the Technocel PowerPak portable battery and [...]
According to PhoneArena, HP may soon be laying the Palm brand to rest. The company is expected to debut the Palm Pre 2 on Verizon Wireless in the U.S., but that device may be discontinued after two months for HP-branded webOS 2.0 hardware. The blog, however, does caution that this information must be taken with [...]
U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless may be making some amendments to its devices upgrade policy, phasing out the new every two year program and some other popular upgrade deals in anticipation for launching the iPhone. The stricter upgrade policy perhaps is designed so that the carrier won’t lose money while subsidizing the Apple flagship smartphone to [...]
Lenovo demoed its IdeaPad Windows 7 slate, which is as of yet un-named. The company wasn’t specific on launch or pricing at this point, and the early build we saw looked good with its orange backing. As a consumer-oriented Windows slate–based on its placement in the IdeaPad lineup–the Windows 7 slate offers a balance between [...]
As Google is looking to tackling the mobile payment market with near-field communication (NFC) technology on Android starting with its own Nexus S smartphone, the company may be looking to partner with others to make the technology a reality that would aim to replace credit cards and your wallet with your smartphone as a payment [...]
Droid-Life has published some photos of an unannounced Samsung SGH-i520 smartphone with four buttons on the bottom that matches those used on Android with a case made by OffWire. The top portion of this device, along with the triangular ear-piece speaker grill, front-facing camera or potentially ambient light sensor, and display has been spotted in [...]
We’ve heard quite a bit about APUs over the past couple of years, so it’s nice to finally see living, breathing products that are built around AMD’s Fusion technology. We’ve seen a handful of 11.6″ notebooks featuring Fusion in the days and weeks leading up to CES 2011, but we had no idea exactly how [...]
It looks like the latest advertisement in Rolling Stone magazine reveals two HTC LTE 4G devices for the two largest wireless carriers in the U.S., AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Both carriers have signed on to LTE as the technology to power their LTE network and the latter carrier is further along than the former. For [...]
While Sony Ericsson is slated to use February’s Mobile World Congress held in Europe to announce some of the company’s XPERIA handsets, a mystery high-end touchscreen phone or smartphone has recently graced some banners that are being hung at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV this week. According to the photos captured by [...]
Notebooks.com was able to get some hands-on time with the latest S100 notebook from Lenovo, and they came away impressed with the product. As a successor to the Lenovo S10-3, the S100 comes with a retail price point starting at $329 and comes with color configurations. Lenovo has extended the lid color now to the [...]
Mophie had a couple of iPad accessories at CES Unveiled here in Las Vegas. As its name suggests, the Mophie PowerStand charges your iPad when docked.The PowerStand adjusts smoothly and you don’t have to deal with a white cord hanging from your iPad while it’s docked. I like the clean look and it’s something I’ll [...]
Lenovo took the wraps off of its S205 AMD laptop, which utilizes the latter company’s AMD Fusion APU, combining graphics and processing units on a single die to increase efficiency while consuming less power. Josh Smith and Xavier got a chance to sit down with the company at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, [...]
The Motion CL900 is a Windows 7 tablet with a rugged design that’s powered by an Intel Atom Oak Trail CPU clocked at 1.5 GHz. The tablet can be configured with either a Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Home Premium OS. It’s rubberized aluminum-alloy internal frame offers rugged durability while meeting military specs for [...]
The Sasmung SH100 is Samsung’s flagship fully connected camera that will pair with your Android smartphone–mainly with the company’s Galaxy S series Android phone–to extend your live viewing capabilities. Essentially, rather than using the rear digital viewfinder on the device, you can now preview the image that you’re about to take on the Galaxy S’s [...]
It looks like LG is getting ready to announce two new Android smartphones at CES–the company’s press conference is scheduled for 8 AM Pacific Time in Las Vegas on Tuesday, January 5th, 2011. According to Engadget, the LG Revolution is a 4G Android smartphone that seems to resemble the LG Optimus 2X. With a 4G [...]
Amazon’s Kindle e-reader app has just gone live for owners of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. The digital reader software will allow users to read books purchased through the Amazon Kindle store and can synchronize where you last left off on your book so you can pick up another device and continue reading. Kindle is [...]
While there has been some recent confusion and speculation to what the final numerical designation will be for Android Honeycomb, Google’s first tablet-optimized version of the Android operating system, it seems that Asus has announced that Honeycomb will come with the 3.0 designation. During the company’s press announcement for the Asus Eee Pad Slider, the [...]
In addition to the video demo we had posted of the Asus Eee Pad Slate, Transformer, and MeMO, we also have Asus announcing and demoing the Eee Pad Slider, a tablet with a sliding form factor and integrated keyboard to help you get some work done while on the go. The Asus Eee Pad Slider [...]
If you want mobile digital TV while on the go, Valups’s Tivizen receiver aims to deliver with a tiny dock connector dongle and flexible antenna that will be able to pick up live, local broadcast digital TV signals. The Tivizen receiver itself comes with a rechargeable battery that delivers 2.5 hours of mobile digital TV [...]
We had reported that Asus had announced a slew of tablets at CES earlier today, and we have some video captured at the press conference to show those tablets in action. The video below highlights Asus’s announcement and demo of the Eee Pad Slate, MeMO, and Transformer tablets; we’ll also have video of the Eee [...]
Asus might be waiting a bit (like everyone else) for the next Tablet friendly version of Android, but at least the company known for being the Netbook disrupter is sliding into CES 2011 with what it hopes will be some transformative Tablets, as well as a new alphabet designation for its Windows Tablet. I already [...]
Asus is kicking off the first big pre CES 2011 press conference and I’m sure we’ll hear tons more from them as well as others over the next few days. But this looks like an interesting and potentially innovative entry into the Tablet race. The Eee Pad MeMO has a 7 inch screen, a smart [...]
Last week I visited a Sprint store and upgraded from a 3G MiFi to an Overdrive. I was very excited to try out WiMax in my hometown of San Francisco and in Las Vegas during CES 2011. Unfortunately, my excitement for Sprint’s 4G service has fizzled. On Sunday I tried running Speedtests all over downtown San [...]
We got an early preview of the Lenovo LePad U1 Hybrid, which runs both Android and Windows 7 depending if the tablet is docked in its keyboard case or not. The device will be released in China initially, and Lenovo is still waiting for Google to announce and release Android Honeycomb before shipping the device [...]
Hmmm? Interesting. It looks like HP wants to make some noise all on its own and try and steal a little CES upstaging magic from Apple. Just about everyone has been expecting HP to unveil its WebOS Tablet at CES 2011. But an invitation to an event on February 9 that just came out is [...]
Word out of NVIDIA is their processors will be powering infotainment and navigation systems in certain car models from BMW and electric car specialist Tesla Motors. Also revealed is the location at CES 2011 where you are most likely to find Xavier waffling on whether to stick with Mercedes for his next car.
Given the number of kids I’ve seen doodling on iPads during the Great Chicago Holiday Pilgrimage, I’m sure this will make a few parents eyes light up. Crayola and Griffin Technologies have teamed up to offer ColorStudio HD, a stylus/App combo, that offers kids a chance to color pages on the iPad. It will debut [...]
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Lenovo has taken the wraps off the LePad tablet, an Android 2.2-based slate with a 10.1-inch display and weighing in at less than two pounds. The half-inch thick tablet will be available in a variety of different colors: scarlet, white, and brown and black textured leather. In Android mode, the [...]
AHX Global and X2 Computing have unveiled their Windows 7 Home Premium itablet slate with a 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen. Makers of the itablet are still looking to establish retail partnerships to deliver itablet to the North and South American markets. itablet utilizes a 10.1-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 X 600 pixels. The device [...]
In our hotel room at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is commencing this week in Las Vegas, NV, Notebooks.com editor Josh Smith and I had a discussion on tech accessories for hot technology items, such as smartphones, tablets, and computers. For us, it seems that having the available options for accessories help to sweeten the [...]
File this one under CES 2011 Tablet Tease. As expected Toshiba is announcing its 10.1 inch Android Tablet slightly ahead of all the fun and games at CES 2011. And why not announce early since it the new Tablet is going to be running Android 2.4 (Honeycomb) which won’t be out for a while yet. [...]
Amazon is letting all of those salivating over a rash of new Tablets to be introduced this year that they needn’t worry about reading their Kindle books on the new devices. Amazon will be unveiling new Kindle Apps tailored for Android and Windows Tablets. The new Apps will have all of the same functionality those [...]
As was previously leaked, Sprint has unveiled its MiFi 3G/4G personal hotspot router, which allows up to 5 devices to share the device’s Sprint Now Network mobile broadband connection over WiFi in a router device that’s about the size of a credit card. The device will allow laptops, tablets, gaming devices, and other WiFi-connected device [...]
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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 [...]
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