While I had incorrectly predicted the arrival of the HTC Arrive for Sprint, the carrier did manage to bring–as advertised–an industry first with the Kyocera Echo, the world’s first dual-screen Android smartphone, which brings with it not only increased screen real estate to browse your favorite webpages and view your favorite photos, but also much [...]
I’ve been absent from these pages for the last week or so as I’ve been auditioning in Washington DC and now wrapping up auditions at the Unified Professional Theatre Auditions (UPTA) conference in Memphis, Tennessee. At this conference we see over 800 actors in a period of 4 days. Most of those 4 days are [...]
Google’s mixed up the layout of the mobile version of Gmail.com so you can now view your Priority Inbox messages first. Gmail users need to setup Priority Inbox through a desktop browser before accessing the mobile version. Google’s Priority Inbox is a fantastic tool for those who receive more messages than they can comfortably sort [...]
According to Pocket-Lint, Viewsonic is pushing out their ViewPad 4 smartphone with Android 2.4. The claimed reason they’re skipping ahead of the latest release, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, is to “ensure compatibility with dual-core apps”. Furthermore, they claim this version will retain the “Gingerbread” name, as dual-core compatibility will be the only change.
Last week, rumors were circulating on the Internet about an HTC Pyramid smartphone, which would bring much improved specs to the HTC Android experience to T-Mobile USA. The leaked specs for the Pyramid indicate that the Android smartphone would have a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, a 4.3-inch display that is becoming [...]
When it comes to touchscreen all-in-ones, one thing all of us seem to agree on is that they need to be tilt-adjustable. Upright is great for watching video and standard desktop operation, but for extensive touchscreen operation, most people prefer a leaned-back screen. Well, HP’s got that well-covered with their new TouchSmart610 and TouchSmart 9300 [...]
Nokia may be poised to introduce its next generation messaging and emailing Symbian smartphone with enhanced specs. The device’s picture, which was leaked to Engadget, shows a form factor that could challenge Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Motorola’s Droid Pro. As part of Nokia’s E-series smartphone lineup, the E6 would be targeted at business and [...]
Are tablets ready for some football? According to CNET, NFL teams are asking that question and looking at the iPad and other tablets to replace paper playbooks.
Sprint is scheduled to have a New York City unveiling of what the company calls an ‘industry first’ later today, which we’re assuming to be a smartphone as the U.S.-based CDMA and 4G WiMax carrier is making a big deal in its press invitation. The announcement is slated to bring in a Kyocera handset called [...]
There were a lot of bad commercials during Super Bowl XLV, but the worse one was the one I was looking forward to the most. My wife and I had a couple of friends over for the big game and they both happen to work for Salesforce.com. They came over pretty early and told us [...]
Friday, in a small hospital in Northwest Ohio something amazing happened. It’s not a new treatment for some illness, but it is something that just 2 years ago would have been impossible — I grabbed the charger for my Motorola Droid to charge up my mom’s LG feature phone. Rather than use the proprietary connectors [...]
Motorola has posted the company’s Super Bowl ad for the Android 3.0 Honeycomb Xoom tablet. The ad debuted on Super Bowl XLV this past Sunday. According to Motorola, the Xoom will free people from restrictive platforms, which could be taken as a subtle jab against Apple’s iOS-powered iPad and its limitations when it comes to [...]
After months of leaks and sightings of Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone, the company has finally announced the XPERIA Play, which will be the official name to the device. Not a lot of details were announced today, but the company is promising more information at Mobile World Congress, where the device will make its first official [...]
It looks like big box retailer is setting aside shelf space to accommodate the arrival of the white iPhone 4, which has been delayed numerous times since the device was announced. It’s unclear why the white iPhone has been delayed, but Best Buy‘s shelf label hints that the device can be expected soon. From the [...]
The Motorola Xoom may be priced on the high side with an $800 price tag for launch on February 24th according to an advertisement from Best Buy. The Android 3.0 Honeycomb capacitive touchscreen tablet will initially launch with Verizon Wireless’s 3G CDMA/EV-DO support and will have the radio be upgradeable to 4G at a later [...]
Patently Apple has dug up a new Apple patent (*shocker*) for a capacitive stylus that uses a ball and disc system to establish a contact point with adequate surface area for a capacitive touchscreen to detect that will remain flush with the screen when used at an angle. Smart design, but still just another capacitive [...]
While there is a lot of talk about Verizon Wireless switching over to a metered data plan like AT&T, Droid-Life is reporting that the carrier may initially offer unlimited 4G data–and possible grandfather those plans in for those who subscribe when the plan is still available–at least initially. Droid-Life is saying that 4G LTE smartphone [...]
Our own Kevin Purcell received an offer for a free Microcell from AT&T, less than a week before Verizon begins selling the iPhone 4 to new customers. As he wrote over at Notebooks.com, Kevin finds the timing ‘interesting.’ While AT&T has drastically improved reception in some areas since the launch of the iPhone 4, it’s [...]
There has been some confusion following Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb launch event where various media outlets have been reporting that Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS, which was described as the first version of the Android operating system designed for the tablet user experience, will not be making its way to smartphones. Google spokesperson Andrew Kovacs [...]
Apple is rumored to make an announcement for iOS 4.3 by February 13th, which would bring along with it news of a successor to the first generation iPad tablet as well as the coveted mobile hotspot tethering app that will debut on Verizon’s CDMA iPhone on February 10th. The date for the 13th would coincide [...]
In a Facebook posting that has since been pulled, the Grand Rapids South Best Buy announced four products to be released in February, among them the Motorola Xoom tablet on the 24th.
Despite being more than half a year old, the iPhone 4 has brought Verizon Wireless what they claim is their “most successful first day sales in the history of the company”. And that was in only two hours of pre-orders! What the what?
The Motorola Cliq XT was launched on T-Mobile USA with Android 1.5 and Motorola’s proprietary user interface overlay on top of Android known as MOTO BLUR. According to Motorola, the company was not able to achieve the performance that it hope it can deliver with an Android 2.1 update. Instead, the company is scrapping plans [...]
The biggest loser in Verizon getting the iPhone 4 may not be rival AT&T, but Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry smartphone and soon to launch PlayBook, along with device manufacturers, like HTC and Motorola, of Android’s operating system. The latest research released from uSamp took a survey of 700 smartphone users in January [...]
At a BlackBerry event in San Francisco, Engadget had spent some time with the BlackBerry PlayBook where Research in Motion (RIM) is demoing some new features of the device that the company had not talked about at CES or prior. Among the new features is an attractive portrait-oriented software keyboard, which like the Galaxy Tab, [...]
A major congratulations to Verizon Wireless for rolling out a fix so promptly. After we had reported that there was a bug with the current firmware of the Samsung Fascinate, a variant of the Galaxy S for Verizon’s network, the carrier has been hard at work and is now pushing a firmware update to rectify [...]
With AT&T having unveiled the pricing for both the Atrix 4G and the accompanying laptop dock, there has been a lot of chatter on the Internet about the high cost of the laptop dock solution, making what many saw as a revolutionary, mobile-changing accessory device at CES seem not as accessible to many consumers due [...]
Great news for 95% of folks signing up for Verizon’s returning unlimited wireless data plan is you can download all the data you want… until you reach the top 5% of data usage at which point your usage is deemed “excessive” and your throughput may be throttled. Hooray for unlimited (within certain limits) data!
The Verizon iPhone is now available for pre orders and early Verizon iPhone reviews are already in with loads of praise being piled on the iPhone now that it has a network which actually allows users to make phone calls, but even with the positive reviews not everyone should run out and buy a Verizon iPhone just [...]
It looks like those who attempted to pre-order the iPhone 4 for Verizon Wireless’s CDMA network in the U.S. are experiencing the same website time-out and error messages that plagued AT&T customers this past summer when the GSM iPhone 4 debuted in the States. According to Business Insider, customers say they were returned with an [...]
U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless had sent out a massive text message campaign to users of its Samsung Fascinate, a Galaxy S variant for the carrier, warning users that the Android smartphone’s emergency dialer may not work when using a pattern lock screen. According to the carrier, the bug is present for users of the DL09 [...]
In a refresh to its Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone, Samsung is said to be adding an L to the moniker, making the refreshed device a Galaxy SL Android smartphone that will bring a Super LCD panel and Texas Instruments OMAP3 chipset to the smartphone. The refresh would eschew the company’s Super AMOLED display and [...]
A new hack will now enable expanded voice control through Apple’s iOS iPhone Voice Control feature, which will give users better system-wide access of the iPhone through spoken commands. The hack, called VoiceActivator, will augment Voice Control’s capabilities, but does require jailbreaking and is available in the jailbreak app store called Cydia. Voice Control was [...]
WSJ has updated an earlier report that Apple was forcing publishers to switch to their in-app payment system. Despite dire warnings, this is not a switch but an addition. Publishers that already conduct sales outside the app can continue to do so, but must also offer the option to make the purchase in-app, a policy [...]
Many of the Windows Phone 7 features that are teased as part of a forthcoming over-the-air (OTA) update from Microsoft are expected, but it is nice to see the company taking a pro-active position in promoting its new mobile operating system. The company did not give an exact timeline for when the new features will [...]
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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 [...]
