If you’re looking to pick up a Verizon iPhone today you’ll probably be able to waltz into your nearest Apple store and just buy one without standing in lines for hours like many AT&T customers did last June. Verizon reportedly sold more than 500,000 iPhone 4 units on February 3, the first day it allowed [...]
As if we needed more reasons for people to talk on their mobile phones all the time, AT&T is pushing out unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling regardless of network. So talking to your friends who use Verizon Wireless won’t use up your minutes. Best part is folks who already have unlimited calls have an opportunity to save [...]
While Android, unlike Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft, is a free operating system for manufacturers to use, customize, and implement on devices such as smartphone, the free OS is still generating quite a bit of revenue for Google, the OS’s maker. The operating system currently generates approximately $130 annually for Google, as [...]
For those lamenting the lack of a physical button to snap photos from your iPhone or iPod touch, Camera Mic might be the next best thing. It doesn’t add a button, but rather uses sound as a trigger to snap a photo. Anything from a tap on the microphone to the click from your mouth [...]
AT&T is justifying the price of its Motorola Atrix 4G flagship Android smartphone with the optional companion laptop dock as a tablet-equivalent product. The bundle, when purchased together along with a two-year contract and accompanying data plan and tethering option through AT&T, will cost $500. However, separately acquired, the phone will cost $200 on contract [...]
If you asked me last week which tablet user experience was the best, I wouldn’t have had a solid answer for you. They all have good points and bad. Whether one is “best” depends greatly on the user. Well, I’m chucking some of that out the window because I have seen the light and it [...]
HP’s launching a new global marketing campaign that highlights passionate people and how they use technology. Famous musicians, race car drivers and other successful people will talk about their experiences in TV ads and on an online hub. Mobility and entertainment will be big parts of the campaign, which will presumably include the company’s newly introduced WebOS [...]
While Nokia is struggling to define itself and its smartphone platforms moving forward, Reuters is reporting that the company had cancelled its first MeeGo smartphone device. There were a number of leaks in the past for Nokia’s MeeGo device, which many have referred to as the Nokia N9. MeeGo is the jointly developed scalable operating [...]
If you have a couple of hours to kill and didn’t get enough of all of yesterday’s WebOS device news, feel free to watch the below video. Otherwise, you can check out our coverage from the event, including hands on video of the HP TouchPad, HP Veer and HP Pre 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnjwG7Z8AM8&feature=player_embedded As we reported [...]
About 13 years ago I got my first Palm Pilot and it was magical. It could recognize my shorthand thanks to Graffiti, keep my contacts organized and schedule appointments. There was a seemingly endless supply of third party apps that could do things like turn my Palm Pilot into a universal remote control. I could beam [...]
While the Dell Streak, which was launched with Android 1.6 at a time when Android 2.2 was starting to become en vogue, was hindered by a dated OS at the time of its release, enterprising developers and hackers have figured out how to port and hack Android 3.0 Honeycomb to the 5-inch slate device. The [...]
Along with the webOS TouchPad tablet announced today, HP had also announced two smartphones to extend its webOS family. The company announced the HP Veer, a smartphone that is about the size of a credit card while still accommodating a full-size portrait-oriented sliding keyboard in the style of the Palm Pre, and the HP Pre [...]
Earlier today HP had unveiled its webOS tablet, called the TouchPad, along with a few webOS-powered smartphone. The lineup announced today, according to HP, marks the beginning of the next-generation of webOS devices. The company is promising that the mobile operating system will make its way over to Internet-connected printers along with desktop and notebook [...]
Clearwire, the company building out an enourmous WiMax network in the U.S., is canning its retail strategy. The company will focus on selling its high speed mobile service on a wholesale basis, as it does to Sprint. Clear is strapped for cash, which is not the position you want to be in when you’re not [...]
Crackberry is reporting that the BlackBerry Playbook will go on sale at Office Depot for $499.99 in late April. According to a photo of Office Depot’s system, the 16GB Wi-Fi only Playbook will retail for a hair under $500 starting on the 17th week of the year. The PlayBook was first shown back at DevCon [...]
Yesterday I attended the Dell Means Business event in San Francisco along with a few other dozen geeks. I sat next to Engadget’s Sean Hollister, who was sporting an LG LV600 modem plugged into his laptop. I had my Sprint Overdrive and I challenged him to a 4G duel. Myriam (@tnkgrl) poked a little fun at [...]
Walmart announced that it will be selling the Apple iPhone 4 with Verizon Wireless service starting tomorrow. The Verizon version of the iPhone 4 will be available at almost 600 Walmart stores across the country. Walmart is not offering any discounts or deals on the iPhone 4 and will be offering the 16GB model model for [...]
HP has at long last announced a slate device with a mobile operating system. The Palm TouchPad is the WebOS slate we’ve been waiting for and it looks pretty interesting at first glance. The mobile landscape has sure changed a lot since I bought my first Palm Pilot though and I’m not sure if the [...]
I can’t remember the last time I walked into an Apple store and didn’t hear someone referring to AppleCare as insurance. The Verizon iPhone will likely bring millions of users into the Apple camp for the first time and I think a lot of people overrate and misunderstand AppleCare. While AppleCare might be a good choice for some [...]
Ahead of today’s big HP Palm event, PreCentral.net scooped everyone by learning the name of the star product, the HP Palm TouchPad, a slate running WebOS, at the event rehearsal. They also learned it will be 1.5 pounds and 13mm thick. However, contrary to some reports, that’s all they learned.
Last week’s dueling tablet news brought to mind an old Tablet PC argument. On one side, there’s The Daily, the digital newspaper designed for the iPad which retains the vertical orientation of print. On the other was Android 3.0 Honeycomb which demonstrated a distinct horizontal orientation. Makes me wonder how the old “portrait or landscape” [...]
Been trying to decide if a note-taking slate device called the (wait for it) NoteSlate is cool or not. On one hand, it’s a slate with an active digitizer that looks pretty slick. On the other hand, its only use is to write or draw notes on the screen. Even at $99, it strikes me [...]
Momentum for the phone + tablet combo keeps building, and this time it’s not just matter of mixing and matching your own pair of devices. Rather, tablet maker ARCHOS is partnering with phone maker ALCATEL ONE TOUCH to offer bundles of their respective wares.
Verizon may have sold more than 500,000 iPhones on day one, but the latest iPhone launch is deja-vu all over again. When the iPhone 4 launched on AT&T’s network last year, customers complained of activation problems and reception issues. Apple redesigned the iPhone 4′s antennas before unleashing it on Verizon’s network, but the exposed antennas [...]
While most of the Dell’s presentation in San Francisco today focused on its Latitude, Precision and Vostro notebooks, there were a couple of slides highlighting Streak and Venue devices. A Dell executive even flashed the Streak 10…sort of. The Dell Streak 10 you see in the photo above is nothing more than a block of [...]
Today Dell was showing off its new line of Latitude business notebooks and the Vostro V130 ultraportable notebook for small businesses. Towards the end of the presentation, a Dell spokesperson glossed over the new Latitude XT3, a convertible Tablet PC. Remember those? The Latitude XT3 is a lot different than the XT2, which came before it. [...]
CNN reports that Verizon is readying to transmit voice calls, text messages, and video calls over IP on their 4G LTE system, a move that should greatly improve call clarity. The system, dubbed VoLTE for “Voice over LTE” is set to debut next week in Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress. The test phone [...]
Could an Android smartphone made by Motorola that has wireless charging capabilities integrated be coming your way soon? Hopefully, yes, as Motorola has joined rivals HTC, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson in coming together with the Wireless Power Consortium, which has in the past agreed to a universal wireless charging standard called Qi. Like wired [...]
HTC’s most recent investment of $40 million in Onlive will help the Taiwan-based smartphone-maker deliver rich games and content to the mobile platform. The move will help HTC remain competitive against Apple’s iOS platform, which has attracted a large number of games from developers, and also rival Sony Ericsson in the Android space with the [...]
As a nearly lifelong Green Bay Packer fan I was glued to my seat watching the Super Bowl with 40 people in my church at our party after evening services. I’m an avid football fan and watch every year, but it is never as sweet as when your team is in the game. The problem [...]
A leaked advertisement for the forthcoming Galaxy S/Vibrant refresh from T-Mobile USA known as the Galaxy S 4G has been leaked showing Walmart’s price for the 4G HSPA+ Android smartphone to be $148.88 with a two-year service agreement. The contract-free option for the phone will be priced at $650. These prices may be specific to [...]
Verizon Wireless may have sold over 500,000 iPhone 4 smartphones in the device’s first day of becoming available for pre-order, according to JPMorgan analyst Phil Cusick. The carrier, along with Apple, offered the CDMA iPhone 4 for sale for 15 hours before announcing that pre-orders were sold out later that evening on the first day [...]
T-Mobile wants users to know that love is in the air this weekend, tempting users to give the gift of gab to their loved ones for Valentine’s Day with a free smartphone offer provided that subscribers sign up for a two-year service agreement with the carrier. The promotion will be running this weekend from February [...]
This is a quick review of the Nikon D7000, highlighting a real world usage scenario. It’s not an exhaustive look at the D7000, but I hope it gives you a good idea of what it’s like to use this camera if were thinking of buying it to take pictures at sporting events. Last night I [...]
Verizon’s CDMA Apple-made iPhone 4 may look nearly identical to its GSM cousin on AT&T and other carriers across the world, but the internal design and innards may be different from its globe-trotting counterpart on GSM/UMTS/EDGE/HSPA networks. For one, it’s curious that Apple used a global chipset from Qualcomm in the CDMA iPhone, similar to [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
