We had heard back in February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that the BlackBerry PlayBook would indeed be able to run Android applications. Until today though, that notion had been only mere speculation. Just a short time ago, RIM ended all the speculation and confirmed that the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook, which just went [...]
It looks like Apple’s Smart Cover for the iPad 2 might have some fierce competition from a product made by a company in Holland called Miniot. Miniot’s iPad 2 cover (via TUAW) is carved from a single piece of wood and not only does it look gorgeous but it’s also extremely useful. The cover acts [...]
Like the HTC EVO View 4G, the HTC EVO 3D was rumored to be one of the products that Sprint would announce at CTIA. Sure enough, one of Tuesday’s announcements was the successor to Sprint’s original HTC EVO 4G and boy, is it an impressive device, so impressive that we awarded it with our Best [...]
Before Motorola Droid X owners get too excited, remember, this is only a rumor and a rumor about a software update which generally means there is a very good chance that it won’t happen. You never know though, stranger things have definitely happened in the world of smartphones. Droid-Life is reporting that the Droid X [...]
Sprint’s HTC EVO View 4G had been heavily rumored to be arriving at CTIA this week and so it was no surprise when the carrier announced their version of the HTC Flyer with 4G WiMax capabilities. The EVO View 4G will be an Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered tablet as opposed to Android 3.0 Honeycomb with [...]
If you’ve downloaded Firefox 4 to your multitouch Windows tablet and wondered why pinch-to-zoom wasn’t working, it’s not just you. The update has that disabled by default, but a little configuration magic can get it up and running again, as well as a twist gesture to roll between tabs.
T-Mobile is rebooting the Sidekick franchise with an Android powered, 4G rocking device called the Samsung Sidekick 4G. It’ll be the first Sidekick device that runs Google’s operating system which means it will be the first Sidekick device with a touchscreen. It’ll also be the first Sidekick with 4G capabilities and the first one made [...]
T-Mobile and LG announced their Android Honeycomb and 3D powered tablet, the G-Slate, all the way back in January at CES. However, they weren’t able to give anyone an up close and personal look at the goods. CTIA’s a different story though and T-Mobile was glad to show off their new tablet to us, a [...]
If you own a Windows Phone 7 device and got excited when you heard that Microsoft’s NoDo, aka copy and paste, update was rolling out, then you probably want to take a seat because what we’re about to break to you might be a little difficult to swallow. Two days ago, the update began to [...]
Sprint’s Kyocera Echo is an ambitious dual-screened Android device that was announced all the way back at an event in New York City, complete with an appearance by David Blaine. It’s going to be available starting April 17th and will cost $200 with a new two-year contract. At first, the Echo doesn’t look like much. [...]
CTIA Wireless 2011 is taking place in Orlando this week and our own Chuong Nguyen has been running around the convention floor to find the best smartphones and tablets of CTIA 2011. These new smartphones and tablets are on the way to carriers and retailers near you, some as soon as April, bringing you the [...]
Today is not a good day to be a Samsung Fascinate owner over on Verizon, but a good day to be a Samsung Mesmerize owner on U.S. Cellular. A couple of days ago, Sprint rolled out the Android 2.2 Froyo update to its Galaxy S device, the Samsung Epic 4G. Only this wasn’t the first time [...]
For a video demo of Opera Mobile 11 for Windows in action, check out my GBM shortcut. For my impressions of how well it works on a slate like the TEGA v2, read on. Opera Mobile 11 may be the best cross-platform tablet web browser around.
The recently released Opera Mobile 11 is burning up the web on Android and Symbian devices, but did you know Opera Labs has a version for Windows-based tablets? It’s fast. It’s smooth. But does it work well on Windows? Find out in this GBM Shortcut.
Shortly after the HTC ThunderBolt launched on March 17th, developers were able to achieve root. However, that root method was a difficult road for those with only a tiny bit of rooting experience and downright impossible for those who made the HTC ThunderBolt their first Android device. Well, XDA Developers (via Android Central) has thankfully [...]
Taking a page out of Old Spice’s book, Sony has released some pretty strange but funny advertisements for their latest Android phone, the Sony Xperia PLAY. Thankfully they aren’t as creepy as the original thumb ads. Featuring comedian and actress Kristen Schaal of Flight of the Conchords fame, the new promos focus on the gaming [...]
While Motorola reps had told me previously at the Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid Bionic unveiling earlier this year that the device would be utilizing a dual-core chipset solution from Texas Instruments, it turns out that information is not correct. I had caught up to both NVIDIA and Motorola at the CTIA Wireless trade show yesterday, [...]
At the end of February, HTC introduced the HTC Merge, a Froyo powered global device that has some hints of T-Mobile’s G2 and Sprint’s HTC EVO Shift 4G. Unfortunately, the company neglected to give any sort of information on which U.S. carriers it would arrive on and the only thing interested parties had to go [...]
The Lenovo ThinkPad x220 is a new 12.5″ ultraportable notebook that will be available for purchase in April. We’ve had a chance to use the ThinkPad x220 as our primary notebook for the past several weeks and we have been blown away by what this 2nd Gen Core i5 powered ultraportable can do all while [...]
Evernote was updated today with at least one new feature aimed at the iPad 2 – the ability to take note snapshots with the iPad 2′s camera. This is the killer application for the iPad 2. While sitting in a meeting just today I was using Evernote to keep track of our discussion. One of [...]
If this next tidbit is true, it should definitely win over the favor of those considering BlackBerry’s upcoming tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook. Yesterday, several retailers put the PlayBook up for pre-order giving consumers another option amongst the iPad 2’s and Motorola Xoom’s of the world. There has been one feature though that has been a [...]
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There are a lot of rumors swirling around about Apple’s next-generation iPhone. Just yesterday, a report claimed that the iPhone 5 or whatever it’s going to be called would feature a metal chassis instead of the glass backing that the iPhone 4 employs, a bump up to a 4-inch display, an A5 processor, and an [...]
There have been questions about the iPhone 4’s fragile design, so much so that it appears that Apple will likely be changing some of the design features on the upcoming iPhone 5, specifically, replacing the glass backing with a metal chassis similar to the original iPhone. However, if there was one tale to put those [...]
If there ever was a day to buy Verizon’s HTC ThunderBolt, today might be it. The price of the HTC ThunderBolt is well documented. It’s expensive just about everywhere but Amazon and Verizon itself offers it up for $250 on a new two-year contract. Well, it seems that Big Red is showing some mercy to [...]
Yesterday at CTIA, Nokia and T-Mobile announced the United States version of the Finnish companies C7 handset, a device called the Nokia Astound, which offers great price points both at the hardware and data plan levels. T-Mobile is going to be offering up the device for a mere $80 when it hits shelves on April [...]
Samsung is “unleashing” an Android iPod Touch. What they are calling the Galaxy Player is a 4″ or 5″ Android device that looks a lot like one of the dozens of smart phones out their running Google’s mobile operating system. But it’s not a phone. Sound familiar? After Apple released the iPhone customers started clamouring [...]
Inkling is one of those companies that is working on bringing textbooks to Tablets, specifically the iPad. Textbooks on tablets just make sense in so many ways that you’d think it was a no brainer. But of course existing business models for publishers get in the way. Inkling just pulled down some major publisher support [...]
When the iPhone 4 was about to be announced on Verizon, rumors swirled that the Verizon iPhone 4 would really shake things up and deliver a 4G iPhone 4 on Verizon’s network. While that didn’t happen, some are still holding out hope for a 4G iPhone this summer, but I wouldn’t count a 4G iPhone . It would be [...]
Everyone loves robots and dancing is pretty popular nowadays, so it makes sense that Sony Ericsson would pimp out Android using this amazing dancing robot. It’s unclear where the amateur video originates from but it appears to be filmed in front a shopping center as part of promotion for the Xperia Arc. All we need now is a dancing apple [...]
Back on March 14th, a document leaked out that accurately predicted the launch date of the HTC ThunderBolt and also pointed to a March 24th release of the HTC Trophy and thus, Windows Phone 7 on Verizon. Unfortunately, the HTC Trophy and WP7 won’t be hitting Big Red on Thursday, at least, according to a [...]
Yesterday, word got out that the Samsung Stealth would be hitting Verizon’s 4G LTE work in the near future, specifically, April 7th. For those unfamiliar with the Samsung Stealth, it’s that unnamed Samsung 4G LTE device that the company introduced all the way back at CES in January. Well, it looks like the Stealth will [...]
Yesterday at CTIA, Sprint introduced the HTC EVO View 4G tablet, their WiMax compatible version of HTC’s Flyer tablet that was launched back at the Mobile World Congress in February. Now that that smoke has cleared, Best Buy has some more Flyer news, this in the form of a Wi-Fi only version of the device [...]
According to an unconfirmed report from DigiTimes (via BGR), Motorola is apparently going to start slowing down production of their Android 3.0 Honeycomb powered Motorola Xoom tablet in April and cease production of the tablet beginning on June. The sources of the report are apparently component suppliers who claim that Xoom production met first quarter [...]
I’ve long felt that using voice controls is both a big part of the future and also one of the big hurdles in mobile computing. The advances that the folks behind Dragon software certainly see that the same way, and those who use Android on their mobile phones have voice commands as one of the [...]
Amidst the many announcements about new phone releases and platform updates from CTIA, the LG WCP-700 Wireless Charging Pad is easy to miss. The new phone charging product from LG promises to help users lose the wires with a variety of innovative features. The device looks like sleek addition to any mobile set-up and comes [...]
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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 [...]
