Motorola has announced that owners of the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi will be seeing the Android 3.1 Honeycomb update roll out at some point within the ‘next several weeks.’ Yesterday at Google I/O, Google introduced Android 3.1 Honeycomb and announced that it would start rolling out to the Motorola Xoom 3G version on Verizon that very [...]
There were some speculations that a May 17th event hosted by Nokia in Greece may lend itself to some additional Windows Phone 7 news and a potential for a Windows Phone 7 hardware announcement, but a Twitter message by a Nokia Greece employee discredits those early speculations. According to that employee, the event will be [...]
While analysts have originally predicted that Windows Phone 7 will be the leading smartphone OS, beating out Android, by 2015, recent research from Pyramid is predicting that the Microsoft mobile operating system will beat the original date by two years thanks in large part to the partnership with Nokia. While Android will continue to grow [...]
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Are you looking for some amazing new iPad and iPad 2 apps? We’ve collected our favorite apps for May 2011 which you need to have on your iPad. These apps will help you stay on task, relax, take photos and stay in the know. Some of these apps are new, while others are old favorites [...]
An HP Pre 3 webOS smartphone was seen passing through the FCC with support for CDMA, EV-DO, GSM, and UMTS radios suggesting that the device is a world-phone CDMA model for Verizon Wireless. Though the world-phone CDMA module would be compatible with U.S. carrier Sprint as well, a recent leak on Pre Central shows the [...]
The lack of interest in the MeeGo operating system, created as a joint venture between Intel and Nokia, was probably due to the fact that other phone-makers viewed Nokia had too much of an influence in the mobile operating system prior to its announcement that it would focus its efforts on Windows Phone 7 at [...]
Long rumored as a feature for the second-generation iPad but was missing from the iPad 2′s design, Apple has been granted a patent for its design of a dock connector to dock the tablet horizontally. The patent illustration shows a tablet with dock connector ports in the standard vertical position, just below the home button, [...]
In addition to opening up the HTC Sense experience to third-party developers, HTC will also be allowing developers to tap into its active digitizer pen for the HTC EVO View 4G and the HTC Flyer tablet, the first Android tablet to come pre-bundled with a pen for notes and drawing. When HTC took the HTC [...]
In order to kick-start development for the HTC EVO 3D, a smartphone with a glasses-free 3D qHD display as well as dual rear cameras to capture photos and videos in 3D, HTC and Sprint are now releasing the S3D SDK so that developers can now create and release apps and content for the smartphone. Results [...]
In addition to more substantive features update behind the Mango build for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s forthcoming firmware update for its mobile operating system may also come with support for visual voicemail. The idea behind visual voicemail was first popularized by Apple’s iPhone, which shows voicemail in an app interface where users can tap on [...]
Google’s @ Home initiative announced at Google I/O makes some sense and sounds like a tinker’s delight and yet on the other hand it makes me wonder if this will have the feel of many of Google’s Beta roll outs. I would hope not. Gadget users will put up with Beta vagaries, heck, we’ll even [...]
At a Google I/O 2011 after-party co-hosted by Sprint and HTC for the HTC EVO 3D, HTC PR reps announced that the company will release an SDK to the Android development community to open up HTC Sense 3.0. The newest version of HTC Sense was announced alongside the HTC EVO View 4G and the HTC [...]
Today’s day 2 of the Google I/O conference aimed at developers and Forbes is speculating that Google may announce a Chrome subscription plan geared towards students. We’ll definitely find out soon enough once the keynote begins, but Forbes is reporting that Google will announce a hardware and software plan for students to use the Chrome [...]
Google has posted the video of the entire keynote from day one of Google I/O 2011 just in case you wanted to see the announcements made by actual humans instead of reading about them in blocks of text. The keynote goes on for almost an hour and takes you through every announcement that Google made [...]
While it might be a little late, Yahoo’s Fantasy Baseball application has finally made it to the Android Market and is ready and able to track your team’s rise or fall in the league standings. Back on March 31st, MLB’s opening day this year, Android owners playing fantasy baseball through Yahoo! likely went to the [...]
There is some exciting news afoot for T-Mobile customers as it looks like the carrier will be adding a new feature on May 11th that brings back free Wi-Fi calling for devices that are capable of doing so. TMoNews has uncovered an internal note that not only indicates that T-Mobile will allow unlimited Wi-Fi calling [...]
Sick of waiting for Verizon to release the Samsung Droid Charge? Want to get your hands on a 4G LTE this very moment for a more than affordable price? Well, look no further than the offer that Amazon currently has going on for the 4G LTE equipped HTC ThunderBolt which has dipped to the low [...]
In case you were unaware, Google has been extremely busy during the first day of their Google I/O event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco announcing everything from a new cloud music service to the company’s latest software. Here is a rundown of the major announcements that Google made today: Google Music Beta One [...]
Google’s Andy Rubin has confirmed that a new Nexus device will be announced at some point in the future with speculation pointing toward a launch alongside the freshly announced Android 3.4 Ice Cream Sandwich which will be the first version of Android that combines elements of the smartphone OS with Google’s tablet OS. Rubin didn’t [...]
The Toshiba Satellite E305 is a Blue Label notebook available exclusively at Best Buy which comes with an amazing feature set and a price of just over $900. This metal bodied beauty isn’t perfect, but it does offer a great value and earns our Notebooks.com Editor’s Choice Award. In short, the Satellite E305 is one [...]
Google Music Player 3.0 has hit the Android Market which means that the software that will allow Android users to sync up to Google’s new Music Beta service is now available for download. Earlier today at its Google I/O event in San Francisco, Google announced the beta version of its new Music service which will [...]
When I bought an Android phone my first thought was how good it would be for playing music. I’ve been using iPods for years and my foray into iOS began with the iPod Touch the spring before the iPhone 3GS was released. I assumed that Android would not be as good as iOS for playing [...]
In a sign that a launch could finally be on the horizon, Verizon’s HTC Trophy with Windows Phone 7 has appeared at Best Buy once again only this time it’s not on the retailer’s website, it’s in the flesh. As you can see in the photo, a HTC Trophy dummy handset has appeared at Best [...]
In a bid to make the latest Android software release more accessible to more people in a timely manner so that you don’t have to wait six months after Gingerbread was released to enjoy it on a non-Nexus smartphone, Google is partnering with carriers and hardware partners to ensure that devices will receive timely updates. [...]
Moving beyond smartphones, tablets, and Google TV, Google wants to make Android more ubiquitous in your home with the Android @ Home project. Though Google is laying the framework and is demonstrating the potential of Android @ Home at the Google I/O conference today in San Francisco, California, the company is hoping that it’s eager [...]
Google finally made the official name and launch window of the next major Android update known as the company announced that Android 3.4 Ice Cream Sandwich would be arriving in Q4 of 2011 and it will be a combination of both a tablet and a smartphone OS and it should launch across the board on [...]
Google is following on the heels of Amazon and beating Apple to the cloud music storage arena with its new Google Music Beta service. For now it is in closed beta requiring an invitation. Users can sign up for an invite now. When they finally get an invite, users can begin to sync their audio [...]
Google continued with the Google I/O announcements today and unveiled their movie service for Android devices called Google Movies. Google Movies will allow Android device owners to snag movies straight from the Android Market and prices of those movies will start as low as $1.99. Once downloaded, there is a 30-day rental period and once [...]
Today at Google I/O at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Google unveiled the newest version of their tablet operating system, Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Android 3.1 will be the first major upgrade to the Honeycomb operating system and it will include a bunch of new and welcomed features including the ability to resize widgets, USB [...]
SQUEEGiT is another screen cleaning solution for touch screens and laptops with touch screens from Clean Gear. The company says it is the first in a new category of “portable squeegee cleaning systems” where you don’t just wipe your screen clean with a microfiber cloth but squeegee it like you would your car windows at [...]
While skeptical of the truthfulness of earlier rumors, we reported that Microsoft might be in talks with Skype to buy the company for a reported $7-$8 Billion. Now it is official. Our editor Josh Smith stated that Microsoft needed to take some dramatic steps to get out of its rut and this might be one. [...]
A study from Consumer Reports found that 4 out of 5 smart phone users don’t protect their sensitive date with something even as simple as a passcode or PIN to keep unwanted people from being able to view that data. To help you avoid having this info accessible in the event that your phone falls [...]
A new image has surfaced of the forthcoming BlackBerry Touch 9860 slate-style touchscreen BlackBerry smartphone, rumored to be coming to T-Mobile USA, which reveals that the device has individual navigation hardware buttons. Unlike some recent BlackBerry models, like some of the BlackBerry Curve devices where RIM makes the individual navigation button flush and hides it [...]
Samsung had promoted the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with its sleek, slim form factor and the company’s new Samsung experience (similar to TouchWiz but not quite as dominating and for tablets) on top of Android 3.0 Honeycomb at CTIA, and now Samsung Mobile has confirmed via Twitter that the slim 10.1-inch tablet will be headed to [...]
On the forthcoming Optimus 3D smartphone, LG will be partnering with Wikitude to launch an augmented reality 3D browser, the company has announced in a press release. Wikitude, with which LG is partnering with, already offers an augmented reality app for Android smartphone devices that combines information from YouTube, Foursquare, Twitter, Panoramio, Flickr, and more. [...]
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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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