The day that Motorola Droid X owners have been waiting for has arrived. As promised, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update is finally available to all Droid X owners, not just those involved in the “soak test.” For those of you that have not seen the update, all it takes is a couple of steps before [...]
It looks like that June 8th launch date for the HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile was a little premature as the carrier has announced that the dual-core smartphone will be out on June 15th at retail stores and through T-Mobile. It had been rumored that the Sensation 4G might be headed to shelves in early [...]
In case you missed out on T-Mobile’s offer last week, the Magenta carrier has you covered as it is currently offering up the HTC-made G2 smartphone for the low price of free to new customers signing a new contract. There are a few caveats, other than the contract, that you should know about as well. [...]
Twitter just turned on a new feature that will email you every time someone retweets or favorites a tweet of yours on the service. If you don’t want to get an email every time someone interacts with you on Twitter we are going to show you how to turn off Twitter reply, retweet and favorite [...]
Whoops, looks like Motorola’s redesign of its Motorola Mobility webpage has revealed a bunch of unannounced devices including the new Xoom, two extremely thin smartphones, what appears to be the upcoming Targa smartphone, and a Dick Tracy style watchphone. The site redesign, which was prompted by Motorola’s split into two separate companies earlier this year, [...]
The Washington Post tells us that the Federal Government is going Apple pointing to agencies such as the Army, Congress and even the President himself using iPads now. They also mention that tech upgrades are moving more quickly, driven by the desire of their users to have technology at work as good as what they [...]
If you were looking forward to that HTC-made Nexus phone that leaked out last week, it’s time to move on, because the photos of the button-less device are apparently fakes with the source of the photos admitting that they were likely duped. TechHog made waves last week when it posted photos of what was said [...]
T-Mobile USA, which is expected to land the HTC Sensation 4G Android handset with a 4.3-inch qHD display on its HSPA+ network, has turned to Twitter to pre-announced that it has more news coming about the handset. The company tweeted, “We have some “sensational” news coming later tonight. Keep an eye on the @TMobile Twitter stream,” [...]
So, you’re looking for a new Android smartphone. One of the big decisions you’re going to have to make is how big you want the display to be. You can go compact at 3.8 inches, you can grab a medium sized one at 4 inches or you may want a smartphone with a big screen. [...]
Ahead of Apple’s annual congregation of developers at WWDC 2011 in San Francisco, California, a destination where the company is expected to showcase the latest features of iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion, rumors of the next-generation iPhone hardware are picking up momentum. The next iPhone to succeed the current generation iPhone 4, whether [...]
We already knew that June 8th was shaping up to be a big day for T-Mobile but it looks like it might have just gotten even bigger. Phandroid has pulled up a job listing for an event on June 8th where T-Mobile will apparently be showing off three new HTC devices. June 8th has been [...]
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The iHome iDM12 Rechargeable Bluetooth Speaker System is a small portable Bluetooth speaker system that works with any iOS device as well as Bluetooth enabled notebooks or smart phones. It offers portable audio with decent sound quality that is truly wireless – as in you don’t even have to plug it into a power socket if you [...]
Over the weekend, some lucky Motorola Droid Pro owners began to see the Android 2.3.3 update available for installation on their device. And while it doesn’t appear to be a full-blown roll out, it’s reminiscent of the Droid X’s current Gingerbread “soak test” which means that an update to the masses should be coming at [...]
After weeks and weeks of waiting, O2 UK has finally launched the PlayStation Phone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, on its network. It took nearly two months but it seems that O2 and Sony have finally worked out the bugs that prevented the device from being released on its original launch date which was, if [...]
Over the weekend, it became apparent that Sprint’s HTC EVO 3D might not be arriving until after that presumed June 4th launch date. And now, there is even more evidence to back that up as it appears that the highly anticipated smartphone might not be launching until the fourth week of June. On Sunday, Sprint’s [...]
Apple, in addition to its iWork for iPhone announcement, has confirmed that it will be introducing the next version of its mobile software, iOS 5, at this year’s WWDC. Not only that but the company will also be unveiling its next-generation OS X software dubbed Lion. An iOS 5 announcement at WWDC had been assumed [...]
Apple has announced that its iWork suite of applications is now available on the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Before today, iWork was available only to Mac OS X and iPad users but Keynote, Pages and Numbers have now arrived for the company’s smaller devices with a redesign that takes advantage of [...]
Go ahead and run your eyes Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 owners on AT&T but it won’t change the fact that Android 2.1 was just released for your device, an update that was thought to never be coming at all. Sony Ericsson has surprised X10 owners on AT&T with a manual update to Éclair aka Android [...]
Attention, Android device owners and more specifically, Android device owners that love good free applications. Plants vs. Zombies has launched today for Android and it is exclusively available through Amazon’s App Store for free. Unfortunately, the game is only free today, so you probably want to download it right now, even if you don’t consider [...]
You may not be able to save thousands like I did when I got my iPad, but using a smartphone to find good prices and the best deals is a smart way to save money, a precious commodity anytime, but especially in today’s economic environment. Here are seven money saving apps you iPhone and Android. Using all [...]
Tablets that double as netbooks? Phones that dock into a tablet? Asus has masterfully found its niche in the all-t0o-important mobile category that’s dominated by smartphone players like Apple, Motorola, and Samsung. However, there’s still yet another area for huge growth in the automobile industry that mobile computing companies have so far not leveraged, a [...]
Though Verizon and Motorola have not announced availability for the Droid 3, the successor to the keyboarded Droid and Droid 2 (Droid 2, Droid 2 R2D2 Special Edition, and Droid 2 Global) franchises, the device had been leaked numerous times in the past. It seems that the 3G Android smartphone is now starting to appear [...]
Verizon Wireless may be following rival AT&T in making it difficult for users who do not subscribe to an official tethering plan, valued at $20 per month for 2 GB of data, to unofficially connect their WiFi-enabled laptop to share their Android smartphone’s mobile broadband connection. One user noted that his data connection was blocked [...]
Just after Microsoft had demonstrated some of the key features to the Windows Phone Mango update, dubbed as Windows Phone 7.1 or 7.5 by many blogs, rumors on the Internet are turning to what will succeed Mango. It is now believed that the next version, codenamed Apollo, will debut a whole new era of Windows [...]
At the Computex trade show, ViewSonic announced a 7-inch Android tablet in the form of the ViewPad 7x, which runs Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS on an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core ARM-based processor. This would make the ViewPad 7x the world’s first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet as other manufacturers have decided to delay their 7-inch Honeycomb [...]
There’s a lot of news, or rather leaks, on the webOS front with HP’s debut consumer tablet since the computer giant had acquired Palm. The company’s webOS TouchPad tablet is expected to launch in June at WalMart while office retailer OfficeMax will be selling the tablet in July, according to the latest leaked computer screenshots [...]
At the Computex trade show, manufacturer Quanta was showing off a reference Android Honeycomb tablet design that it is hoping to license to other brand names to quickly take to market. The design itself looks stylish and attractive, with a two-toned rear finish that combines a smooth soft touch rubberized strip that surrounds the rear [...]
Though neither of the company’s latest Galaxy smartphones nor tablets have begun to go on sale in the U.S. as of yet, the success of the Galaxy S II overseas is pushing Samsung to be a bit more aggressive with its product offerings. Company exec JK Shin told the Wall Street Journal that the company [...]
As part of the CommunicAsia 2011 event, Nokia will also be hosting its own Nokia Connection 2011 summit, which is described to be “Nokia’s biggest event of the year,” perhaps launching the summit as a new name for the historic Nokia World event. The June 21st event may be host to an unveiling of Nokia’s Windows [...]
Nokia has revealed that its Symbian^3 Nokia E6 and X7 are now shipping, and both devices will ship pre-loaded with the Symbian software update called Anna, formally known as PR 2.0. Unfortunately, though the news is somewhat bittersweet for early adopters of Nokia’s Symbian^3 products like the Nokia E7, a handset with a landscape-oriented QWERTY [...]
ASUS has confirmed that the Android 3.1 Honeycomb update for its Eee Pad Transformer tablet will be rolling out starting tomorrow, just as we suspected it would be. Just to recap, the Android 3.1 update includes numerous upgrades and will be bringing Movies from the Android Marketplace, re-sizable widgets, USB host support, full flash support [...]
Samsung announced today that its Android superphone, the Samsung Galaxy S II, has already surpassed 1 million units sold in Korea saying that the phone has been “selling like hotcakes.” The company also revealed that the Galaxy S II has sold faster than any of its previous devices even surpassing the fast start of the [...]
It appears that HTC is possibly developing two Windows Phone 7 devices with high megapixel cameras as another mysterious device has been outed by Elder Murtazin who posted an image and gave his impression of a device said to be rocking a 12 megapixel camera. You might recall the news about the HTC Bresson a [...]
Having conquered the smartphone market and emerging consumer tablet market with its reference chip designs, ARM is looking towards the mobile PC market for growth and the company’s ambitious goal is to have its chips inside half of all mobile PCs sold by 2015. ARM’s reference chip designs are found in many popular consumer products, [...]
While Samsung and Acer have both signed on as early OEM partners with Google to deliver the Chromebook, a netbook running Chrome OS, at Google I/O, Asus is taking on the lightweight computing category with its own smartbook running the MeeGo operating system. The slim MeeGo smartbook hardware was shown off at the Computex trade [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
