Like most technologies that finally make it to the mainstream, tablet PCs and the iPad in particular are finding success in large part because they have generated huge amounts of interest from the average consumer. As is often the case, Apple’s first target was the average tech savvy Joe. But, we’re over a year into [...]
RIM has accidentally revealed the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Touch on their website ahead of its announcement that will likely take place in just a few short days at the BlackBerry World Conference in Florida. This of course isn’t the first time we’ve seen the BlackBerry Bold Touch. In fact, the entire spec sheet of the [...]
Today is a good day to be an HTC Inspire 4G owner because AT&T and HTC have begun to roll out the long awaited update that will finally bring HSUPA support to the Inspire 4G, a feature owners have been waiting for since launch back in February. The update is an OTA update and if [...]
A full day after the infamous Nook Color 1.2 software update and a few people are still having some issues. Fortunately, most are like me – fully updated and back to normal. But for those who are not, it is quite frustrating, especially if you have gotten used to using and loving the Nook Color [...]
It’s no secret that the HP Veer 4G is coming to shelves here in the United States. However, it is, or should we say, it was a mystery as to whom it might be headed to. Well, Pocketnow has stumbled upon an image of a white variant of the HP Veer 4G and it’s going [...]
It was reported that Apple bought the domain iCloud.com from a Swedish company called Xcerion and now we learned from Apple Insider that Apple is using the name internally as it preps the newest versions of iOS and Mac OS X. When you type the domain icloud.com you get a page redirect to cloudme.com and [...]
This week we saw a Verizon 4G LTE outage push back the Samsung Droid Charge, the release of new Dell Precision mobile workstations, release of the Droid Incredible 2 and much more. We also have a great roundup of Mother’s Day Tech Gifts that includes eReaders, smartphones and notebooks. This list includes Mother approved gifts [...]
We had heard yesterday that Windows Phone 7 might soon be arriving on Verizon and sure enough WPCentral is reporting that they are hearing May 12th as the possible date that the last of the four major U.S. mobile carriers gets their hands on Microsoft’s software. The news comes a day after Verizon put up [...]
The LG Revolution recently appeared in a new press shot and the phone in that image is apparently from the future as the date on the display reads 5/25/2011 which is a Wednesday. Now, this is a long shot, but there have been instances where the dates on press shots matched up with the launch [...]
Best Buy, as expected, has announced that it is holding a free smartphone promotion that begins today and lasts through Saturday. Unfortunately though, the HTC Inspire 4G is not the phone that is available on AT&T as was anticipated. Best Buy’s promotion includes three phones from AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. For AT&T it’s the Samsung [...]
After a long wait, HBO has finally released its much anticipated HBO Go application that is available for Android users, iPhone owners and yes, iPad owners as well. Of course, the application is only good if you are an HBO subscriber so those of you that ditched cable are going to be out of luck. [...]
For those of you waiting for more details on the HTC Doubleshot, you just hit the jackpot, because 911Sniper has released a full specification sheet for the upcoming device that will be called the myTouch 4G Slide. Previously, we had found out that the Doubleshot was a QWERTY slide running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. There were [...]
For those of you with a Motorola Atrix 4G that don’t want to wait for the 4.1.8.3 update with HSUPA support to roll out OTA, well, you’re in luck because there is a way to snag it from Motorola right this instant if you so choose. If you head over to Motorola’s support page, you [...]
Ever since the discovery of the hidden file on iPhones and iPhone backups prompted an uproar from those concerned about privacy issues, the story seems to keep building. Google and Apple have both been summoned to give answers to Congress, and if you’ve been following the news, you also know that Google and Apple aren’t [...]
Don’t forget to enter the WritePad for the iPad Contest this morning. You’ve got until 12 noon EDT to enter. And you can find out all the details in this post. We’re giving away five copies to five winners. Winners will be announced Monday.
Adobe has recently announced that Adobe Flash 10.2 Player for Android is now available through Android Market as a final release. The new Adobe Flash 10.2 Player that’s being released will address security concerns and bring the capability for hardware-accelerated Flash video rendering on devices, though the feature will require Android Honeycomb 3.1. Today we [...]
Several former Apple employees along with current Apple board member Al Gore have teamed together to launch a new dynamic e-book format. Rather than repackaging digital books as text-based files with simple media files, like those on Amazon’s Kindle platform or through the EPUB format, the new standard that the former Apple team is creating [...]
In a push to become more competitive with other mobile operating systems and to deliver more new features to its smartphone, Research in Motion will be re-badging its forthcoming BlackBerry 6.1 operating system as the new BlackBerry 7.0 OS. News of the new OS naming convention arrives out of DevCon Asia and co-CEO Jim Balsillie [...]
This weekend in Winchester, Virginia where I live is weekend of The Apple Blossom Festival. Although festivities have been going on since last weekend it all culminates with a weekend of activities that include two parades (one of Friday night, one on Saturday afternoon), a circus, a carnival, parties, food, princesses, and lots of drinking. [...]
With the Sprint MiFi 3G/4G mobile hotspot from Novatel, gone are the days of searching out for free or paid hotspots at cafes and bookstores.Users of Sprint’s MiFi 3G/4G mobile hotspot can connect and share the same mobile broadband data access plan with up to 5 other devices over WiFi with speeds of between 3-6 [...]
Earlier today, Google announced that it was bringing Android 2.3.4 and video chat capabilities through Google Talk to the Nexus S in the next couple of weeks. Well, Nexus S owners, good news. You don’t have to wait for the update because there is a way to get it right now. Android Central has discovered [...]
Yesterday there was a nationwide 4G outage that left many HTC ThunderBolt owners without both 4G and 3G connections. While we still don’t know what has caused the widespread failure, Verizon has confirmed to GottaBeMobile that the Nationwide 4G LTE network is back up and running. Several of our writers found their ThunderBolts had connected [...]
Earlier today, Google announced that it would be releasing Android 2.3.4 to the Nexus S and the Nexus One bringing video chatting via Google Talk to the former and bug fixes to the latter. And while we pretty much know what to expect from the Nexus S’ new video chat feature, Nexus One owners were [...]
During Motorola’s Q1 earnings call today, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha not only dished out some more details on the new Droid Bionic but stated that the new device would be launching at the same time as 4G LTE for the Xoom. Yesterday we learned that the Motorola Droid Bionic we saw at CES is dead. [...]
In just a little under two hours, the NFL Draft will take place in New York. Many of you out there will not be able to plop down in front of a TV so that means that you’ll probably want to check in on the draft using a device, say, one using iOS or Android. [...]
On Apple’s website, they list the white iPhone 4 and the black iPhone 4 as being the exact same size. However, that doesn’t appear to be the case as some photos posted by a guy named Ryan Cash seem to show a small size difference between the newly released white iPhone 4 and the black [...]
Google’s Nexus Twitter account just announced that Android 2.3.4 will be rolling out to Nexus S and Nexus One owners in the next few weeks and lo and behold it will be bringing video chat along with it. The video chat feature will be baked into Google Talk which will be rolling out to Nexus [...]
We had heard yesterday that the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi might be hitting Sprint on May 8th for $600 and sure enough, Sprint has dropped a press release today making all of those rumored details official. This marks the first carrier not called Verizon that will play host to Motorola’s Honeycomb Android 3.0 powered tablet and [...]
Yesterday it was a rumor and today, Verizon made it official. The release date of the Samsung Droid Charge has been pushed back to an unknown date due to what Big Red is calling “unexpected delays” aka its entire 4G LTE network crashed and burned yesterday. In a statement to us, Verizon confirmed that the [...]
Google’s Nexus Twitter account has tweeted that it has a surprise in store for Nexus owners today. Unfortunately the tweet is light on the details and heavy on the tease so right now we can only wonder what they have in store for us. An easy guess would be something to do with the Sprint [...]
If you love your mother and she loves technology, or gadgets like eReaders, then you owe it to your mom to check out the Mother’s Day 2011 Tech Gift Guide over at Notebooks.com where you can find a collection of the hottest gifts ranging from $3.99 up to $829. These gifts have passed our mother [...]
It looks like that Motorola Atrix 4G update, you know the one that’s bringing HSUPA support, is going to be rolling out starting tomorrow, April 29th, at least according to an internal document that has risen to the surface. The internal document plainly states, as you can see above, that Motorola will be releasing the [...]
AT&T promised official HSUPA support for the Motorola Atrix 4G would come at some point during April and it looks like the update will in fact be hitting devices at some point during the next three days as beta testers are in the process of testing and Motorola has posted the changelog for all to [...]
According to some evidence pulled by TMoNews, it looks like the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S II will indeed be heading to the shores of the United States with T-Mobile being one of its hosts. Back in February, T-Mobile USA spilled the beans on the Samsung Galaxy II. Since then, nothing, well, that is until [...]
In a report published by DigiTimes, suppliers indicated that Pegatron, responsible for manufacturing the CDMA version of the Apple iPhone 4 for Verizon Wireless, may be scaling back production of the flagship smartphone by as much as 50 percent. If true, the 10 million production number may now only be 5 million. Details were not [...]
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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 [...]
