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Trivia Question: What is the world’s number one camera? According to geekaphone, that award goes to the iPhone. The infographic created by the site, which lists a lot of interesting evidence promoting their claim, actually says the iPhone 4 camera is second, but when combined with the other iPhones, the iPhone jumps ahead. Does the Evidence [...]
Today Google rolled out a new social feature called +1. Essentially it allows you to use behavior we’ve all become accustomed to with a like button by hitting a little +1 button next to a search result. The theory is you’ll be able to see how many of your friends or social circle or graph [...]
More photos of the HTC Pyramid have surfaced over at XDA, a consolation prize for T-Mobile enthusiasts let down after it failed to launch at CTIA. The new captures indicate that T-Mobile’s still unannounced device will not only have a qHD high-resolution display, but the Pyramid will also come loaded with HTC Sense 3.0 over [...]
Remember that HTC Flyer tablet that HTC introduced back in February at the Mobile World Congress and said would be launching in Q2? You know, the one that has been rumored to be hitting T-Mobile at some point in the future? Ring a bell? Well, since Mobile World Congress, it has been available for pre-order [...]
April and May are shaping up to be huge months for both Verizon and its customers as a leaked roadmap obtained by Phandroid indicates that that is when a bunch of new devices are expected to hit shelves. The Samsung Droid Charge, which was confirmed to be a Droid branded device yesterday, should be hitting [...]
It’s a sad day in the smartphone world as it appears that the HTC-made Droid Incredible for Verizon has sadly reached the end of its life (EOL). According to a report from Android Central, Verizon has stopped selling the popular Droid Incredible at its online store and retailers are not going to be receiving new [...]
This morning in Notebooks we have some fun accessory reviews, notebook announcements and a few guides to help you get the most out of Windows 7. New Notebooks and Notebooks Now For Sale: Lenovo ThinkPad W520 Mobile Workstation W/ Quadro Graphics Up For Sale Lenovo ThinkPad T420s Now Available for Purchase w/ Core i5 Sandy [...]
A RadioShack in Montana is offering a free gun with the purchase of a Dish Satellite and subscription. The promotion is a lot different than the promos we see at most electronic retailers, but this controversial deal might be the right fit for Hamilton.
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer and Slate EP121 just got officially official in the UK. Pre-orders for the April 6 launch of the Transformer start today with prices starting at £379, increasing with keyboard, more storage and/or 3G (available later). The Slate EP121, which is already being advertised here, will launch April 10.
With the launch of the Amazon Appstore for Android devices, AT&T may now be more open to third-party app stores and apps. The carrier has in the past limited installation of third-party apps on Android devices only to those that are downloaded from Android Market, meaning that users cannot sideload or directly download apps from [...]
In an interview with CIO Australia, Dell head of enterprise marketing, Andy Lark, described the iPad as being too expensive for the enterprise market due to the closed nature of the platform and the added costs of peripherals, claiming it can run up to $1600. Funny thing is, Dell’s own enterprise tablet started 50% higher.
The Nokia E6, the Symbian^3 challenger to RIM’s BlackBerry, is now leaked in a video. The un-announced handset features a candybar styling consistent with the series prior offerings, such as the Nokia E71, E72, E73,m and E5 with a front-facing QWERTY keyboard and landscape-oriented screen. The video highlights the 8-megapixel camera–similar to that used on [...]
At CTIA last week, SnapKeys was promoting its new virtual keyboard as one that allows you to type blindly. Rather than employing a full-sized keyboard like rival Swype, the SnapKeys concept utilizes only four keys for letters and two additional keys for functions such as backspace, delete, alternate characters, and punctuations along with an intelligent [...]
I received this email from GBM Reader Adam K a few weeks ago. It’s taken me awhile to get this post ready to respond but here it is. First the email: Warner, Thanks again for allowing me to reach out to you for advice. I watched your review of multiple options for inking on an [...]
In a blog post to developers, Google has announced that Android will now get in-app payments and purchases. Google says, “In-app Billing gives you more ways to monetize your apps with try-and-buy, virtual goods, upgrades, and other billing models. If you aren’t yet familiar with In-app Billing, we encourage you to learn more about it.” The [...]
As Amazon had recently registered a domain name for Scratchpad, there has been speculation on the Internet that the Internet retailer may soon launch its own tablet to compete with rival bookseller Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color and Apple’s iPad under the Scratchpad brand. However, that may not be the case as the Scratchpad name [...]
Bloomberg is reporting that two sources have informed them that Microsoft plans to bake in near field communication (NFC) support into the next update for Windows Phone 7. The first handsets that utilize NFC technology from the get-go will apparently be released sometime later this year. This news shouldn’t be too surprising considering two of [...]
If you want to stop interruptions from unwanted callers on your iPhone, we have a quick tip on how to silence and essentially block unwanted callers without paying AT&T $5 to block the call. Why would you need to block unwanted callers? Well, my son got in trouble at school because he left his ringer on and hadn’t [...]
Now that WWDC has been officially announced–and sold out–by Apple, rumors are swirling that the next-generation iPhone 5 will break tradition and won’t be announced this Summer. Instead, the iPhone refresh will jump to Fall and will join the iPod Touch to herald in the next iteration of the iOS software that powers the iPhone, [...]
Paywall discussions and big media trying to figure out how to turn their aging business models into a Tablet revenue stream are big and hot topics these days. Viewing and analyzing these efforts often focus on the fact that the folks doing all the agonizing over this don’t get the new ways of the Internet [...]
Is the Barnes & Noble Nook Color Android-based dedicated color e-reading tablet the best selling tablet in North America outside of Apple’s iPad? This seems to be the case according to a report by DigiTimes, which says that the versatile and easily rooted and hackable tablet has managed to garner “over 50% of the iPad-like [...]
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie is taking some heat for making some comments before the Committee of Economic Development of Australia in Sydney that he’s not sure Tablets (think iPad) are with us for the long haul. Saying he did not know if Tablets “would remain with us or not,” Mundie is talking long term although the [...]
Windows Phone 7 is about to take a leap in market share by 2014 according to the latest predictions by IDC in large part due to Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia, the world’s largest phone maker by volume. In the past, Nokia has primarily relied on Symbian for its smartphone strategy, but the company had announced [...]
A look into the number of Android 3.0 Honeycomb apps on the Android Market by Justin Williams of Carpeaqua reveals that more than a month after Motorola released the Xoom, the number of apps available to Android 3.0 tablet owners has yet to crack the 100 mark. Back at Apple’s iPad 2 event, Steve Jobs [...]
There has been some speculation about whether or not the upcoming Samsung 4G LTE device for Verizon would come with the well known Droid branding. Well, that speculation can be put to rest because a new photo of the device, which will likely be called the Samsung Droid Charge, confirms that it will in fact be [...]
I need to take my hands away from scratching my head on this one before I can type this post. We’d heard back in January that RIM’s tablet, The Playbook would possibly launch without email, calendar, and PIM clients. That was a puzzler then and it still is now. It lead to much speculation that [...]
Reports are coming in from owners of T-Mobile’s HTC HD7 as well as from owners of the Dell Venue Pro that the pre-NoDo update roll out has begun. There also seem to be a few people with HTC HD7’s and Dell Venue Pro’s that are seeing the full NoDo update as well. Yesterday, it was [...]
One of the things Apple got right and that continues to bedevil other mobile device makers is battery life. The original iPad far exceeded my and just about anyone else’s expectations. In regular daily usage I could go a couple of days without having to through the iPad on a charge. In days where I [...]
In addition to the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot device that Verizon just launched, the company has also announced the availability and pricing their Novatel-made Verizon USB551l 4G LTE Modem. The Verizon USB551L 4G LTE modem is an extremely portable device that will offer Verizon customers download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload [...]
It’s not often that a device launches ahead of schedule but that is exactly what Verizon’s Samsung-made 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot device did today. There had been talk of a release on March 31st but Verizon apparently decided to put this thing up for order 2 days earlier than expected. The 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot [...]
USB Fever and their new 5-in-1 Connection Kit for iPad is solving a problem for Apple iPad users. With Apple unwilling to put USB or SD card connectors in the iPad, we have adapters. Apple has one for USB, SD, VGA and now HDMI. But who wants a bunch of dongles? With Fever you actually have [...]
Say what you want about paywalls in general. I’ve said an awful lot about them in the past. Say what you want about the ridiculous pricing structure that the NY Times has put on for its new paywall. I think it is priced, well, to be kind, beyond ridiculous. But don’t tell me that to [...]
Today in Notebooks we have a collection of new notebooks that have been announced, new SSDs from Intel, reviews of MacBook Air cases and a reason why your MacBook Pro fan might be loud. New Notebooks for March 2011: Acer Iconica 6120 Dual Screen Notebook Available for Pre-Order at $1,199 Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E420s Offers [...]
The JBL OnBeat docking station looks like a versitile compact speaker system. The OnBeat docks with any iPod, iPhone or iPad, including the new iPad 2. The JBL OnBeat can dock the iPad or iPad 2 in portrait mode only. iPhones and iPods can be rotated into landscape mode, which is preferable for some apps [...]
Finally, after a wait that to Android owners may have seemed like years (it was actually months), Mozilla’s mobile browser has shed its beta skin and the final build, shockingly called Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android, is now available on the Android Market. Mozilla claims that Firefox 4 for Android is three times faster than [...]
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The Best Way to Beat AT&T’s Data Throttling is to Have Everyone Consume More Data!
We had previously reported that grandfathered unlimited data plan subscribers of AT&T Mobility have begun to receive notices that they are excessively using their data plans with as little as 2 GB of data consumption within the month, and now we’re beginning to hear multiple sources report that they are receiving notices with as little [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note Review: First Impressions and Size Comparisons
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Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
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The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are incredibly popular phones, but one of the biggest complaints for both devices is the lack of a removable battery and poor battery life. While there are tricks you can use to fix bad iPhone 4S battery life, sometimes there’s nothing better than a bigger battery. If you find your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S is running [...]
Galaxy S Pen and Holder Kit Mini-Review
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Plantronics Marque Review: Small, Affordable, Awesome
If you’re looking for a great bluetooth headset, but you don’t want to spend $100 on a high-end headset, the Plantronics Marque M-155 bluetooth headset. Plantronics makes a number of headsets, including the Plantronics Voyager HD, which we gave a Best of 2011 Award, but not everyone is willing to wear the larger headset out [...]
