While there are certain inherent risks to jailbreaking–bricking your device and voiding your Apple warranty as a result of device tampering are two top reasons that come to mind–there are also lots of benefits to becoming an Apple “hacker” and jailbreaking an iOS device, like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad of any generation. We’re [...]
Sprint may have already begun to migrate its network resources from the aging iDEN system to rolling out a next-generation 4G network based on the LTE protocol, which is being used by rivals Verizon Wireless and to be used by AT&T later this year. Currently, Sprint is offering fast mobile broadband through a rival WiMax [...]
An Asian group of grey market iPad resellers is wiping out inventory of iPad 2 stock at a New York Apple retail store, preventing ordinary consumers from having the chance to get their hands on the coveted second-generation tablet. The highly orchestrated operation is managed by a leader who pays out money to his team [...]
Welcome 4G LTE to a smartphone, and hello HTC Thunderbolt! Verizon Wireless has finally made the Thunderbolt available for online order to eager Android users who are awaiting to taste 4G LTE download speeds. The device can be seen as a rival to the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint’s network, and features many of the [...]
Update 3/23/2011: Despite Motorola reps telling us at CES 2011 that the Droid Bionic for Verizon Wireless will be utilizing a Texas Instruments–that information was used and referenced in this article–NVIDIA reps at CTIA 2011 had informed us that the device actually uses the dual-core Tegra 2 mobile applications processor. As such, the Droid Bionic [...]
Push-to-talk has been a gold standard on Nextel’s network, which Sprint had acquired. However, as Sprint is winding down the iDEN network used by the Nextel side of the business, the carrier is adopting a new push-to-talk gold standard in trying to migrate its iDEN Nextel customers over to CDMA. That freed spectrum from the [...]
Nokia may soon be launching its Nokia C7 smartphone as the Nokia Astound on T-Mobile USA according to a leak obtained by TmoNews. The C7 smartphone was previously rumored to be coming to the nation’s fourth largest network as the Nokia Tiger, but Tiger may be an internal codename. I’ve had some hands-on time with [...]
We have a good roundup of notebook news and guides form Notebooks.com this afternoon and the details on how using Internet Explorer 9 could score you a free month of Hulu or an Xbox 360 with Kinect. This week we have seen several new notebooks finally go up for sale including the Dell Latitude E [...]
RIM is luring third-party developers to creating apps for the BlackBerry ecosystem with its emerging Social Platform strategy, which will open up BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, to third-party apps. Unfortunately, though, BBM is still limited to BlackBerry devices and won’t be opened up to other platforms, at least not at this time. RIM is making [...]
Chinese website XDA.cn is once again the source for the HTC Pyramid leak, which is said to be coming to T-Mobile USA with its dual-core CPU. According to the website, the phone will be sporting a very high resolution–Retina Display comparable–4.3-inch qHD display, which is a 960-540 touchscreen of the same variety used on the [...]
Google has re-named its mobile search app for the iPhone and iOS platform from Google Mobile App to Google Search. With the name change, Google has also implemented a number of new features and functionality to the mobile app, including better gesture support to filter your search result between Web searches, photos, videos, and other [...]
Images for an un-released HTC Ignite have surfaced showing a Windows Phone 7 device that has similar design cues to the HTC Desire HD and the Inspire 4G. The image was provided from Chinese-based website xda.cn and shows a slate-style smartphone with a large touchscreen and three touch buttons on the bottom of the screen [...]
In promoting its digital books sales, publisher HarperCollins hopes that its restrictive policies towards libraries for digital book lending will stymy growth of the digital book loans in favor of a digital purchase model. The new policy, targeted at libraries that loan out e-books, would have the title’s license expire after 26 checkouts. Assuming a [...]
A leaked image of a forthcoming Motorola Droid 3 Android smartphone appeared on Howard Forums depicting another addition to the carrier’s Droid lineup, though it seems unlikely that the Droid 3 will be a 4G LTE smartphone. At the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, the carrier had announced 4 4G LTE smartphones, one each [...]
A leaked image of the Motorola Targa has appeared over at Howard Forums, showing an Android smartphone with 4G Verizon Wireless branding on a Motorola-made handset. Though there aren’t much in the way of specs at this time, the device looks like an evolved Motorola Droid X, which has a large front touchscreen and a [...]
After having been an AT&T customer for 12 years–it started with PacBell Wireless in San Jose, California, which evolved to Cingular, which then became the ‘new’ AT&T–I am finally ready to leave the AT&T family to say hello to Verizon Wireless with the HTC Thunderbolt, the carrier’s first 4G LTE smartphone, on March 17. Unlike [...]
Verizon has decided that all Tablets should be created equally. Well, not created actually, but activated. Turns out that in the wake of the iPad 2 release, for which Verizon was not charging its typical $35 activation fee, Verizon is going to no longer charge those fees for Android Tablets. Well, at least for the [...]
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you gotta respect Google’s willingness to spend money to fix a problem without needing a direct benefit in return. In this case, there’s talk they might be tackling the “chicken or the egg” problem of NFC payment via smartphones by providing their own NFC payment terminals.
Now that Nokia, led by new CEO Stephen Elop who’s a Microsoft alum, has committed itself to Windows Phone 7 moving forward, it is unlikely that we’ll see an extensive spread of tablet devices from Nokia since Microsoft has stated in the past that Windows Phone 7, as the platform name suggests, is for phones [...]
A leaked image of the HTC Prime smartphone from Chinese-based XDA.cn shows a Windows Phone 7 device that bears a more compact form factor and appearance than the HTC 7 Pro or HTC Arrive for Sprint. This Windows Phone 7 device seems to resemble the form factor of devices like the HTC Merge, the EVO [...]
Verizon will be offering unlimited data with the HTC Thunderbolt, the first 4G LTE phone on its network, for $29.99 per month. Verizon insiders have indicated that new tier plans would replace the carrier’s unlimited data plans with the introduction of 4G LTE phones, but those plans are being put on hold…for now. The HTC [...]
There’s been a ton of interest in the Verizon Thunderbolt by HTC since it was announced, but relatively few people have actually voted for Verizon’s first 4G phone with their wallets. As I wrote a few days ago, I put my name on the HTC Thunderbolt waiting list at a San Francisco Best Buy store. [...]
In addition to HTC bringing a 10-inch slate and the HP webOS TouchPad pricing leak, it looks like a slew of tablets will be getting released this summer for under $500 from Acer and Toshiba, according to a leaked document obtained by PreCentral. In April, Acer will release a 7-inch Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet with [...]
In the short month of February, analysts estimate that nearly 1 million devices were sold running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform, which will soon be implemented by Nokia, the world’s largest phone-maker by volume. The Next Web is saying that 877,000 Windows Phone 7 devices were sold in February. The site has been accurate in [...]
Time Warner Cable has launched a new iPad app that lets users watch live TV on the iPad and iPad 2 over a WiFi connection. The new app is available free in the iTunes app store and delivers 32 live HDTV channels to the iPad when connected to your home WiFi Connection. Check out our iPad 2 Review [...]
Verizon officially announced that the HTC Thunderbolt will be available starting Thursday March 17 at retail stores and online beginning March 17. That’s right, no more rumors, but a solid Thunderbolt release date! With an official price tag of $249.99, the HTC Thunderbolt will be the first Verizon 4G LTE phone. There have been HTC Thunderbolt’s price [...]
In addition to the 7-inch HTC Flyer, which runs on Android 2.4 Gingerbread, HTC may soon be launching a 10-inch slate that will put it in the same league as the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. A leaked document for a major U.S. retailer was obtained by PreCentral and reveals that the [...]
4G connectivity is destined to be something we all have sooner or later. Probably about the time that we start hearing about 5G. The major US carriers have all rolled out their versions in some markets and unfortunately they’ve all rolled out their own definitions about what 4G actually delivers. Or not. Sascha Segan at [...]
MacWorld puts the cameras on three popular tablets head-to-head for a showdown, and finds that the iPad 2‘s camera for video is good, but digital still image quality left a lot to be desired. Scoring consistently high in both image and video quality is the Motorola Xoom, which ha a 5-megapixel still rear-facing camera that’s [...]
Amazon has scored a major win for its yet to be launched Amazon Appstore, which the company hopes will go head to head with Google’s native Android Market offering for Android smartphones and tablets. Amazon has managed to nab an exclusive launch for Angry Birds Rio, a sequel to the wildly popular smartphone game title. [...]
Now that the iPad 2 has launched, we’re taking a break from covering Apple tablet rumors to cover Apple smartphone rumors. A new rumor being circulated by Chinese smartphone parts reseller iDealsChina posits that the next-generation iPhone 5 will have not one, but two SIM card trays to support dual-SIM cards. iDealsChina says that the [...]
The Apple iPad 2 is selling by the truck load, beating many analysts’a estimates. Meanwhile, there’s rumors that Motorola is already cutting production of the Xoom Honeycomb tablet. While fanboys debate the merits of competing tablet hardware and software, the simple fact of the matter is that that Apple’s iPad 2 is cheaper than the [...]
Now that Verizon Wireless is not assessing any activation fees on Apple’s iPad 2, it seems appropriate that the carrier will be following suit for Android tablets. Dubbed a ‘limited time’ promotion, Verizon is now waiving activation fees on Android tablets as well. Owners of the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab on a [...]
Sprint will be making its dual-screen Android smartphone called the Kyocera Echo available for purchase on April 17th, a month after Verizon debuts its hyped HTC Thunderbolt 4G smartphone. The Kyocera will retail for $199.99 on a two-year service agreement. Eager customers who want to be among the first to take advantage of the dual-screen [...]
In Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, Nokia has announced IdeaProject, which is an Internet portal that will help connect entrepreneurs, idea-generators, developers, and other partners to help spur innovation and creativity in the mobile space. The idea behind IdeaProject, like Nokia’s motto, is to connect people. If you’ve got a great [...]
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