The recently announced Samsung Infuse 4G may be the first Android smartphone for AT&T to support the sideloading of apps. According to IntoMobile, the Android-based smartphone with its massive 4.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display will allow apps not purchased or downloaded through Android Market, the official Google app store for Android, to load on the device, [...]
Adam had delivered the unfortunate news that the HTC Flyer Android tablet digital pen will be retailing for $80 at Best Buy yesterday and HTC has confirmed that its tablets that are being sold at Best Buy will be shipping without the pen. This may suggest that HTC may have several different SKUs for the [...]
According to Motorola guru P3Droid, Verizon has signed off on the Motorola Droid X Android 2.3 Gingerbread update which means the update could start officially rolling out in just a few days. This news comes on the heels of a rumor that stated that the Droid X Gingerbread update would be rolling out on May [...]
Apple is speculated to be moving its entire computing lineup with its laptops and desktops to the ARM chipset and away from Intel’s architecture. The recent rumor being reported by SemiAccurate would mark Apple’s second transition to a newer chipset in its desktops and laptops, first from PowerPC to Intel, and now if true from [...]
The Verizon 4G Mobile Hotspot feature on the HTC ThunderBolt is currently free, but the promotion will end on May 15th when it will be available for a yet to be announced price. We just heard from a source close to Verizon that the Mobile Hotspot Feature will cost $29.99 for an Unlimited amount of [...]
So, here’s a question for you. What can’t you do that you want to do with your mobile gadget scenario? What’s missing? What do you want to do, that you can’t do right now with whatever gaggle of gadgets you use daily? OK, that’s several questions, but hopefully you get the point. As the focus [...]
The iPad 2 may be great for many things, but when it comes to taking notes even the best note taking apps like Note Taker HD, can’t compare to the experience you get from a traditional tablet or from pen and paper. I haven’t found a way to hack a Wacom digitizer into the iPad [...]
Nothing in life is free. Didn’t your parents always tell you that? If a deal seems to good to be true, I bet they told you to look at it very closely as well. It is an unfortunate reality that when you’re dealing with any sort of transaction that involves money or gain, you do [...]
Named for its creator and not an old-fashioned hot drink, The Toddy is a simple microfiber cleaning cloth for touch screens and other special surfaces that don’t do well when wiped with typical cloths that could scratch. There isn’t too much to a microfiber cleaning cloth. If it cleans it’s a win and if it doesn’t it’s [...]
Other World Computing (OWC) announced that its Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD is now available in sizes up to 480GB. That’s a hair under 500GB, the standard offering on Apple’s MacBook Pros. The MacBook Air is the best notebook I’ve ever owned, but I don’t consider it my primary computer. It’s quick enough for most of [...]
Nokia is running a national TV commercial promoting the Astound phone. It’s certainly one of the more creative smartphone ads I’ve seen recently and I think it’ll draw a lot of people in to learn more about the Nokia Astound, a device that’s available from T-Mobile. The Nokia ad is set to a modern rendition [...]
The Android 2.3 Gingerbread powered HTC Flyer Wi-Fi tablet is currently up for pre-order at Best Buy and while we knew that the device was $499.99, we didn’t know been how much its stylus aka digital pen would cost here in the United States. Today, Best Buy cleared that up for us as its website [...]
Sometimes I hate my office. No strike that. Most times I hate my office. It’s not the office per se, it’s the fact that at the office I am constantly interrupted by other employees who need my assistance. I’m on a deadline for a writing project and sometimes I just need to get away and [...]
It’s well known that the U.S. military has an amazing catalog of technology at its disposal, but I had no idea that our nation’s K-9 defenders were mobile tech geeks. The SEAL team that raided Osama bin Laden brought along a four-legged friend that was likely equipped with some nice mobile gear. According to an [...]
News flash! “Service launched for publishers to evade Apple cut!” That was the headline as digital publishing service YUDU announced a way for publishers to sell subscriptions for content in iOS apps without paying Apple a 30% cut. Which is great news if you didn’t know that was already possible.
Well, it’s not exactly that May 12th date that we thought it would be but it’s pretty darn close. Samsung has announced that the upcoming Samsung Infuse 4G will be hitting AT&T’s network on May 15th and will run for $200 in exchange for two years of your life. We had known since April that [...]
The Samsung Droid Charge is released as the second 4G LTE Android smartphone on Verizon Wireless and has many similar features to the HTC Thunderbolt, and is in many ways a direct competitor to large 4.3-inch smartphones with blazing fast 4G data speeds. And while there are many similarities between the Droid Charge and the [...]
A new HTC smartphone for Sprint, dubbed the HTC Kingdom, has been revealed and it is not the HTC EVO 3D as many reports had speculated. The Kingdom has not only appeared in an image but a near complete list of its specifications have leaked out as well giving us a pretty good picture as [...]
We’ve seen a number of cloud security related issues of late. Today’s company dealing with the issues is LastPass. Recently it was Amazon and Sony. Actually Sony still is dealing with the issues. LastPass, as we posted this morning, is dealing with a potential hack that might have compromised users passwords. I say might have, [...]
It looks like AT&T and Samsung are finally going to cough up the goods on the Samsung Infuse 4G, a phone that was originally announced back at CES and was just featured as one of our five best Android smartphones arriving this summer. According to This is My Next, today’s Samsung event will in fact [...]
Research firm research2guidence is reporting that if Google’s Android Market keeps growing at the rate its currently at, it will likely outgrow Apple’s App Store by August of this year. The report comes just about a week after Distimo, an app store analytics company, claimed that the App Store would outpace Apple’s by July. Research2guidence [...]
Pocketnow has gotten a hold of the Motorola Droid Bionic red eye boot animation and while it’s probably not enough to hold you over until summer, it’s certainly something to marvel at, especially if you were planning or are still planning on picking one up. As you might know, the Motorola Droid Bionic as we [...]
The HTC EVO 3D is expected to arrive son on Sprint with a glasses free 3D display and dual 5MP cameras capable of shooting 3D video. The phone is building a lot of Buzz due to the ability to experience 3D on your phone instead of being limited to your HDTV with a pair of glasses. Given [...]
A day after the HTC ThunderBolt update was said to be delayed, Verizon has gone ahead confirmed this by updating the ThunderBolt’s support page with the words “Coming Soon.” We had thought that the HTC ThunderBolt update would start rolling out and bring owners of the 4G LTE device a host of improvements and bug [...]
Sony Ericsson has announced its next-generation models of the Xperia Mini and its little brother, the Xperia Mini Pro, both of which come with sporting Android 2.3 Gingerbread and 3-inch displays with 320 x 480 resolution. The new Xperia Mini is going to have a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor on board, Sony’s Bravia Engine, a [...]
Don’t look now AT&T faithful but it looks like one of the best Android phones on the market, the Samsung Galaxy S II, might be headed your way at some point as the device just passed through the FCC with AT&T bands. The recently released Samsung Galaxy S II (in Korea and the UK) has [...]
When the HTC ThunderBolt launched back in March, it came with free wireless tethering as one of the perks. The free 4G tethering ends on May 15th, which means you’ll no longer be able to use the mobile hotspot app without paying up. We’ve been wondering if the promotion will automatically charge customers until they [...]
We’ve already seen the Motorola Droid X Android 2.3 Gingerbread update leak out three different times (you can find the second one here) and now it looks like we have a possible date to circle in pencil on the calendar for when the official, finalized version rolls out to Droid X owners. Apparently, Motorola has [...]
Google is asking attendees of its Google I/O conference to bring in old unlocked Android smartphones in working conditions to donate to the Android for Good program, which will clean up your phone and send it to someone in a developing country. As I/O is geared towards geeky developers–who may constantly upgrade to the newest [...]
The latest update to Google Maps for Android, bringing the app to version 5.4.0, comes with several new features and bug fixes; most notable is the service’s use of crowd-sourced information to let Google’s map team know when maps are incorrect. According to the version history, Google says of the feature, “Report “destination not here” [...]
Verizon Wireless will be targeting its female subscribers with a special Android smartphone geared at women in the form of the HTC Bliss. In the early days of its Droid marketing campaign, the carrier had targeted its Droid brand towards male users and the Pre Plus with webOS towards female users in its television commercials [...]
The LG Genesis will bring a dual-screen form factor to Android, but unlike the dual-screen form factor of the Sony tablet and the Kyocera Echo, the screens on the LG Genesis will be a bit different as they cannot be merged to form a singular larger display. Rather, the LG Genesis takes on the form [...]
The Samsung Droid Charge is a hot new 4G LTE Android smartphone, one of the best Android smartphones according to us, that is on the way from Verizon, but unfortunately the phone has been delayed due to the recent 4G outage. While the most recent Droid Charge commercial told us the phone was coming soon and Amazon is [...]
The HTC Sensation, one of the most powerful phones, is sitting at U.S. regulatory agency FCC for approval. The device features a dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU, high resolution qHD display, an array of wireless radios and sensors, and can be seen as an HTC EVO 3D for Sprint without the 3D screen or dual rear [...]
According to a Twitter message, Apple may have hired Tomlinson Holman, a University of Southern California audio professor and the brains behind sound-house THX. The move would help Apple compete better against other computing and mobile computing brands that have better acoustics integration, like HTC and Nokia smartphones with Dolby sound, Lenovo computers with Dolby [...]
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The Best Way to Beat AT&T’s Data Throttling is to Have Everyone Consume More Data!
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Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
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The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are incredibly popular phones, but one of the biggest complaints for both devices is the lack of a removable battery and poor battery life. While there are tricks you can use to fix bad iPhone 4S battery life, sometimes there’s nothing better than a bigger battery. If you find your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S is running [...]
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Plantronics Marque Review: Small, Affordable, Awesome
If you’re looking for a great bluetooth headset, but you don’t want to spend $100 on a high-end headset, the Plantronics Marque M-155 bluetooth headset. Plantronics makes a number of headsets, including the Plantronics Voyager HD, which we gave a Best of 2011 Award, but not everyone is willing to wear the larger headset out [...]
